Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were...
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A memoir of leadership and success The CEO of Disney shares the ideas and values he embraced while reinventing one of the world's most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. AN NPR...
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The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing--one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for...
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The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook: 100+ Recipes and StoriesNOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TikTok sensation and beloved home cook Nadia Caterina Munno, a.k.a. The Pasta Queen, presents a cookbook of never-before-shared recipes featuring the signature pasta tips and tricks that are 100% authentic to Italian traditions--and...
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The Other GirlWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born. In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she...
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team WarriorThis instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the historic raid that led...
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The Nine Lives of Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was born Cristoforo Colombo, in the autumn of 1451 in the Mediterranean port city of Genoa, and he died in the Spanish city of Valladolid in May 1506, as don Cristóbal Colón. More than five centuries later, we are still arguing over...
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The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/DayThe new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and Day Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in...
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The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind CryptoA "highly entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin's creator and a deep dive into crypto's utopian origin story--from The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinegar "Could be the best mystery story of the past twenty...
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The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of VietnamAn unconventional memoir of conjuring the uncertain past and a long-lost homeland, and a vital document of one family's journey through world history With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only...
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The Meat Teacher Cookbook: The Ultimate Backyard BBQ Guide for an A+ in PitmasteryFrom teacher-turned-grillmaster and TikTok sensation The Meat Teacher comes the ultimate BBQ lesson plan: a fiery cookbook bursting mouthwatering recipes, plus easy-to-follow tips and tricks that will guarantee you graduate with an A+ at the pit."Whoever cooked this knows how to nail meat." -Gordon...
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The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing"Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won't want to stop." --Oprah Winfrey OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback...
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The Manicurist's Daughter: A MemoirAn emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future....
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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and FelonyThe Washington Post's Best Books of 2024 Eater's Best Food Books to Read This Spring This "witty, humorous, and heartfelt" (Cinelle Barnes) memoir navigates the tangled branches of Annabelle Tometich's life, from growing up in Florida as the child of a Filipino mother and...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Chess: A Beginner's Guide with Grandmaster Maurice AshleyExperience The Life-Changing Magic of Chess, a beginner's guide with secrets from Grandmaster Maurice Ashley! After making history as the chess world's first Black Grandmaster, Maurice Ashley went on to become a three-time national championship coach and commentator. Now he's sharing his passion for...
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The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family MemoirOne Hmong family's harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.Author: Kao Kalia YangPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 04/11/2017Pages: 312Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.94dISBN: 9781566894784About the AuthorKao Kalia Yang is a teacher,...
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The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America"T.J. English hits the bullseye again. This is true crime writing at its most gripping and immediate -- a riveting epic about crooked cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and politicians who corrupted a continent and got snow to flow out of the tropics. The Last...
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The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de MontijoThe dramatic, untold story of Eugénie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women's rights, opened France's schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown.Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first century outlook...
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New WorldThe "superbly entertaining and well-researched" (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico--and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a...
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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of GeniusA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024 A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of...
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