Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andra? CrouchThe first biography of arguably the most influential gospel artist of the 20th century, brought to life through interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family Gospel singer and seven-time Grammy winner Andra? Crouch (1942-2015) hardly needs introduction. His compositions-"The Blood Will Never Lose Its...
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Son of a BirdSon of a Bird is a provocative encounter of girlhood, farm life and longing, hauntings and huntings, the self's instability, and the place where desire and the strange/unusual/unconventional/ meet. Son of a Bird is a memoir in the tradition of Dorothy Allison and Flannery...
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Sonny Clark - Fragile VirtuosoSonny Clark was a unique jazz pianist. Totally original, he never sounded like any other jazz pianist and no other piano player ever sounded like him.This is his story; the musicians he worked and recorded with included Rollins, Coltrane, Gordon and many others. His...
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Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding FreedomFrom TLC's Sister Wives star Christine Brown Woolley, a groundbreaking and heartfelt memoir about living in a family like no other and finding the strength to leave Mormonism--and the only life she's known--behind. Christine Brown Woolley had always dreamed of having a picture-perfect family--beautiful...
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Sidecardog Riley and His Great AdventuresAuthor: Erin R. FergusonPublisher: Palmetto PublishingPublished: 03/18/2025Pages: 28Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.07dISBN: 9798822957909This title is not returnable
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Sidecardog Riley and His Great AdventuresAuthor: Erin R. FergusonPublisher: Palmetto PublishingPublished: 03/18/2025Pages: 28Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9798822957893This title is not returnable
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Shoebox Dreams & Sunday Stories: Letters from AboveShoebox Dreams and Sunday Stories by Valerie Alexander is a heartfelt collection of reflections, meditations, and family stories inspired by her sister Alecia's handwritten journals. Discovered in shoeboxes, these writings reveal faith, love, and life's simple yet profound moments.Organized by the seasons, the book...
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Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at SeaShipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea provides a rare perspective on performance by staff above and below deck on Caribbean cruise ships, as viewed through the lenses of race, class, and gender. Drawing on her experiences as a destination lecturer on Caribbean...
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She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer MulhollandJoan Trumpauer Mulholland was a white teenager in the South during Segregation who put herself on the front lines of the Civil Rights struggle. This is the first biography about her experiences, published simultaneously in picture book and middle grade editions, detailing the many...
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She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer MulhollandJoan Trumpauer Mulholland was a white teenager in the South during Segregation who put herself on the front lines of the Civil Rights struggle. This is the first biography about her experiences, published simultaneously in picture book and middle grade editions, detailing the many...
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Shane Comes HomeOn March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into combat, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers became the first combat fatality of the Iraq War. In this gripping, beautifully written personal history, award-winning writer Rinker Buck chronicles Shane's death and his life, exploring its meaning...
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Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of America's New Spy WarA thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency--an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a...
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Sex Is No Emergency: Adventures in a Post Punk WonderlandFurther adventures in psychedelic rock, ball room dancing, performance art, and parenting in 1980s Britain. Further adventures in a post punk wonderland from the author of the acclaimed 69 Exhibition Road. In this new volume, focusing on the 1980s, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her...
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Set to Music a WildfireWinner of the 2018 Ohioana Poetry Award In Lebanon during the civil war, a teenage boy and his family witness leveled cities, displaced civilians, the aftermath of massacres. Resources are scarce and uncertainty is everywhere. What does it mean to survive? To leave behind...
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Screaming Into The DarknessJourney through a harrowing medical ordeal in Screaming into the Darkness, where a devastating amputation spirals into a relentless struggle against systemic failures, personal trauma, and bureaucratic battles. This gripping narrative reveals the emotional and physical turmoil faced by a woman confronting the aftermath...
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Scarred: A Memoir of a Childhood Stolen and a Life ReclaimedA memoir of trauma and transformation by a man who was haunted by childhood abuse but who fought his way back--a journey from vengeance and prison to freedom and redemption. For a boy growing up in the 1970s, rural northern New Jersey was a...
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Saving Ellen: A Memoir of Hope and RecoveryA coming-of-age memoir that follows a large, working-class Irish family as it plunges into chaos in the wake of a terminal diagnosis--and the author's own hidden struggle to endure when her sister's disease becomes the dark star around which they all revolve. Financial privation...
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Saving Hawai'i's HonuAuthor: Leslie Ann HayashiPublisher: Reycraft BooksPublished: 06/30/2025Pages: 40Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781478868514Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorLeslie Ann Hayashi is a retired judge and the author of numerous books, including A Fishy Alphabet in Hawai`i, Aloha `Oe: The Song Heard Around the World, His Majesty's Goldfish...
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Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil RightsThis biography of Roy Reuther examines his tumultuous life, including the triumphs and tragedies in the labor and civil rights movements. It also serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers activists may face as they confront entrenched societal powers. As the brother of...
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Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709: A New Perspective on the Scottish Highlands Before CullodenThis book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a...
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