Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Vera Wang: A Story of a Little Girl Who Became a World-Famous Fashion Designer Biography Book for Kids About Courage and ResilienDiscover the life of Vera Wang, the little girl who grew up to become one of the world's most famous fashion designers!Growing up in bustling New York City, Vera Wang dreamed of becoming an Olympic figure skater. When that dream didn't come true, she...
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Venus and Serena WilliamsThis fascinating book introduces readers to the life and career of Venus and Serena Williams, two tennis greats who paved the way for future Black female athletes in the sport. This book also features an "At-a-Glance Map" special feature, informative sidebars, a table of...
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Up Home: A Family, A Tragedy and the Holly Hill InnUp Home tells the stories of a Midway, Kentucky, house and its oldfangled family that built a legacy of love and laughter ... and endured a heartbreaking loss. Before it was Holly Hill Inn, the hefty house atop Cogartown Hill in Midway, Kentucky, was...
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Unstoppable John: How John Lewis Got His Library Card--And Helped Change HistoryA poignant picture book biography on how John Lewis got his library card and helped change history. All John Lewis wanted was a library card, but in 1956, libraries were only for white people. That didn't seem fair to John, and so he spent...
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Undertow: The Rip Current that Drowned mySELF and Saved mySOULOn the outside it appeared that Nash Hudson, an aspiring cruise director, had his life together. He was overzealous, headstrong, and extremely impatient while fulfilling his desires on his terms first, then demanding that God bless it all. Just as Nash skillfully shaped his...
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Two Sisters: Betrayal, Love, and Resistance in Wartime FranceThis riveting book is an astonishing testimony of what befell two sisters, Whitehouse's own mother-in-law and aunt, who managed to escape the killing fields in Vichy France against all odds. Marion and Huguette M?ller's family was torn apart when the Nazis invaded France in...
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Twisted But True: Book II - Filling in the CracksRetired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch captivates you on another wild police ride-along with outrageously macabre and compelling stories from his thirty-year career as a rookie cop, sex crime detective, and night detective sergeant in the Phoenix Police Department's Homicide Unit in this gut-clinching,...
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Trix: The Other KiplingThis volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portrayed with sympathy or accuracy in biographies of her famous brother Rudyard, Trix was a talented writer and a memorable character in her own right whose fascinating life...
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Trial And Error The AutobiographyChaim Weizmann's autobiography is a compelling account of his life, from his early years in Belarus to his leadership in the Zionist movement and eventual presidency of Israel. In this book, Weizmann reflects on the challenges he faced and the decisions he made, offering...
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Touch the Future: A Manifesto in EssaysBorn Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on...
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To Rob a Bank Is an HonorFor the first time in English, the autobiography of the revolutionary outlaw who brought Citibank to its knees.In 1981, Lucio Urtubia received a suitcase full of cash from Citibank executives, handed over the plates he'd used to forge 20 million dollars in traveler's checks,...
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To My Children's ChildrenThis powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance...
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Tip of the Spear: It's Not What You ThinkThe elite aren't "different." If you have the work ethic, you can do the same great things. Stop looking at these doctors, lawyers, CEOs, Navy SEALs, etc., as the only markers of success. We define our own success.In Tip of the Spear, author and...
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Time with TheaIn this heartfelt memoir, Sharon shares an intimate account of her journey with a best friend battling an unexpected illness. As cancer irrevocably alters her friend's life, she leads us through a poignant narrative that is a vibrant testament to the power of living...
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Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and PowerA radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite--treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show...
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Those Thrilling Yarns of Yesteryear: Some Notable Characters: Volume 3In his third in a series of stimulating stories, which he likes referring to as his yarns, the author paints colorful portraits of real people who have either personally touched his life in some way or simply captured his imagination by the way they...
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They Ain't Gonna Get Any DeaderAfter moving out of the Adirondack park where he grew up, Greg Dorchak attended high school in the Tidewater region of Virginia, and college in Nevada at UNLV. They Ain't Gonna Get Any Deader is his sophomore collection of personal essays, in which he...
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The Wild InsideThe Wild Inside is a gripping memoir that invites you into Sodasia's world, revealing an intimate journey of survival and self-discovery. Through her transformative first year as a counselor at Horizon Pines summer camp, Sodasia intertwines her most defining moments with a raw exploration...
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The Watch's Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara BellAt the age of nineteen, Robert F. Weir of West Point, New York, ran away to sea, where he spent the next ten years of his life. Assuming the pseudonym Robert Wallace, Weir sailed aboard the bark Clara Bell out of New Bedford, Massachusetts,...
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The Wall Builder: Leaving No Stone UnturnedIn the early 1980s, a young man, recently discharged from the United States Navy, experiences a verbal call from God, saying, "Whom shall I send to unite my people!" Eager to obey but unsure how exactly to follow this call, he enrolls in the...
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