Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Call Me Rick: Grace in the MiddleCall Me Rick: Grace in the Middle by Patrick Kelly is more than a memoir-it's a lifeline for the unheard, the unseen, and the uncertain. Blending raw vulnerability with bold faith, Kelly offers a deeply personal yet universally resonant story that invites readers into...
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Simply Magical: North Beach: 1977 - 1982Explore an enchanting journey of a novice teacher navigating Prop 13 and the colorful 70s San Francisco, balancing between teaching and working at the hottest musical revue, BBB.Simply Magical is a captivating memoir of a dreamer who found herself at the heart of San...
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With Nothing Left To Lose: The Memoir of a DreamerA powerful journey of self-discovery and resilience unfolds as one woman confronts her past, battles inner demons, and emerges stronger. This inspiring tale of healing and rebirth speaks to anyone seeking to reclaim their life and embrace their true self. In With Nothing Left...
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Memories Before and After the Sound of Music: An AutobiographyAgathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the Trapp Family Singers, offers readers the real story behind an American classic in her poignant and fascinating autobiography Memories Before and After The Sound of Music. The courageous family and events immortalized in the beloved Broadway...
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived BothSex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person's compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness--a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the...
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Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken StablerThe first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League--the life and times of pro football's first bad boy, famed Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler.Ken "The Snake" Stabler was the embodiment of the original...
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Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's GameEssential World Cup Reading Featured in The New York Times' "What to Read During the World Cup"Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest soccer players of...
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The Letters of Abelard and HeloiseThrough the letters between Abelard and Heloise, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, to their eventual separation. For more than seventy...
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Incest: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934)The continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. "It is [Nin's] posthumously published uncensored diaries that will make her immortal" (Booklist). Introduction by Rupert...
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Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of American (Ameri)CAThe author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.Author: Ivan DoigPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 10/20/1982Pages: 264Binding...
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Urban Republican Mayor: My StoryA midwestern urban Republican mayor reveals the success of his moderate approach to governing.Throughout his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard did what he thought was right, looking out for the long-term health of his city with political implications being the last...
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The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic MountainThe arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak of the First World War. He viewed it as a spiritual necessity, a...
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Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself"Finding Ultra blends Rich Roll's story of superhuman personal transformation with an amazingly practical guide to plant-based living. It's also an enlightened manifesto for anyone wanting to transform their life."--Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and New York Times bestselling author of the Blue Zones...
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Middle School Talksheets: 50 Ready-To-Use Discussions on the Life of ChristIt's not hard to get middle schoolers to talk...unless you're talking about something other than the latest band, movie, or the opposite sex! If you want to get them thinking and talking about Jesus--beyond the flannelgraph, Sunday school Jesus--you have everything you need right...
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the TalibanA MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat...
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Sell It Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales MachineThis national bestseller is a lively and practical guide on how to sell anything and achieve long-term success in business. Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in 2008 at a time the country was on...
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American HeroThe essential, "richly researched"* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who "led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary" (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants...
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After Long Silence: A Memoir"Fascinating . . . A tragic saga, but at the same time it often reads like a thriller filled with acts of extraordinary courage, descriptions of dangerous journeys and a series of secret identities."--Chicago Tribune "To this day, I don't even know what my...
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American WarriorsThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn...
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Who Was Jane Austen?Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television...
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