Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Out of the Wilderness: Escaping My Father's Prison and My Journey to Forgiveness"Elishaba Doerksen was the oldest of fifteen children born to ex-hippies Robert and Kurina Hale, also known as Papa Pilgrim and Country Rose. Elishaba grew up in a dilapidated 340-square-foot log cabin in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico, isolated from civilization...
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Out of AfricaSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the...
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Once I Was You: A MemoirNPR's Best Books of 2020 BookPage's Best Books of 2020 Real Simple's Best Books of 2020 Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020 "Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story." --Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on...
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Oh No, Not the Home: Observations and Confessions of a Grandmother in TransitionPeggy Rowe is at it again, proving once more that great content is all around us, even in the retirement community she now calls "The Home." In Oh No, Not "The Home," eighty-three-year-old Peggy decides the time has finally come to move into a...
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the WestFrom the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to "rough it" as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916. In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood,...
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No Forgiveness: Family, Polygamy, Murder, and Justice among Idaho's pioneering MormonsOn the morning of July 5, 1911, D.S. Neal left his house south of Sorensen Creek in Idaho's Teton Valley to irrigate his field. His neighbor, Ellington Smith, mounted his bay horse and rode the short distance to where Neal was working. Shouldering his...
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Nobody Knows My NameFrom one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The Atlantic) on topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society.Told with Baldwin's characteristically...
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NKJV, Outreach Bible, Study Edition, PaperbackA Bible that is affordable, easy-to-share, and has enough study content and helpful features to help those who are new to Scripture. The NKJV Outreach Bible, Study Edition meets those needs, making it the perfect study Bible for outreach and discipleship settings alike. With...
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Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s FranceThe moving, poignant true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II, as the Holocaust approaches. This is the heart-wrenching true story of a young Jewish girl coming of age in France during World War II. Ninette...
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NakedWelcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable....
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My Struggle: Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein KampfMein Kampf ("My Struggle") is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it...
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My Bondage and My FreedomEx-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed and slave. Written during his...
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Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American WestIn 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier....
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Motherhood and Its GhostsContinuing her investigation into the archive, Iman Mersal sifts through representations of one of history's most elusive figures--the hidden mother.No one excluded my mother from our joint portrait. It is before me now and I can see for myself that I was with her,...
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Monochromatic Heart: on grief and love and still being hereJessica Latshaw puts skin on grief. Introducing grief as a thing that happens to all of us who are both lucky enough to be here and love someone, Jessica chronicles the problem grief presents to her when her son Luca is stillborn.Frustrated that nobody...
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Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden GeniusFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2024Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America's greatest comic geniuses. May began her career as one-half of the legendary comedy...
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Messi: A Boy Who Became A Star. Inspiring children book about Lionel Messi - one of the best soccer players in history. (Soccer Book For Kids)Messi: A Boy Who Became a StarThis is the inspiring children story of Lionel Messi, a boy who became a star.Born in a poor family, the small boy faced many obstacles in life, including a medical condition that prevented him from growing... But he...
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Make Life Beautiful Extended EditionUPDATED & EXPANDED EDITION of the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, including A full-color, sixteen-page insert with photos that capture Syd & Shea's journey An epilogue about life and business post-pandemic and the success of the hit Netflix show Dream Home Makeover Make Life Beautiful...
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Madness: A Bipolar LifePulitzer Prize-nominated author of Wasted, Marya Hornbacher's astonishing New York Times best-selling memoir from the belly of bipolar disorder. Marya Hornbacher tells the story that until recently she had no idea was hers to tell: that of her life with Type I ultra-rapid-cycle bipolar...
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Lou Reed: The King of New York"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." --The Washington PostA Rolling Stone best music book of 2023 One of Pitchfork's ten best music books of 2023 A Variety best music book of the year A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023...
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