Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books...
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Pope Francis: A Little Golden Book BiographyDream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Pope Francis! The perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Pope Francis--the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the first Pope from South...
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Pioneer GirlPioneer Girl follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and...
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love StoryAlexander (better known as "Sasha") and Ann Shulgin's foundational work in the genre was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs that are currently being studied and used to heal trauma and...
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her UpNew York Times Bestseller, Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, The Guardian, New York and more Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered...
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Outer Space Is Closer Than Antarctica: And Other Things I Learned While Falling in Love at the Bottom of the WorldThis beautifully illustrated memoir tells artist Michelle Ott's true story of falling in love and discovering her place in the universe on a remote research station in Antarctica. In 2004, feeling burned out and dissatisfied, Michelle Ott left her high-profile gallery job in New...
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On James BaldwinColm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from...
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One Girl's Voice: How Lucy Stone Helped Change the Law of the LandSuffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone, a pioneer in the 19th century's two greatest movements for equality, finds her voice in this STEAM picture book for budding activists. Lucy Stone grew up in a world where men's voices rang out, but women swallowed their words....
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Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots (Includes Behind-The-Scenes Stories, Personal Photos, Delicious RNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-driven book featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book...
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What MattersWinner of the Hugo Award for Best Related Book and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay"The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them. . . " -- Melissa...
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No Name in the StreetFrom one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century--an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. "It contains truth that cannot be denied." --The Atlantic Monthly In this stunningly personal document,...
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Nobody Ever Told Me AnythingAt 11 years old, Rachael Finley was left alone, squatting in a vacation rental in South Florida. What she wasn't told leads the story, and her reinvention from foster child to internet phenom is as wild as her résumé. In this provocative, deeply personal...
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Night: Memorial EditionA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the...
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Narrative of the LifeAuthor: Frederick DouglassPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 09/17/2013Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.30dISBN: 9781492745860This title is not returnable
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My Own WordsThe New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion" (Harper's Bazaar). My Own...
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My Life as a WhoreMy Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens (1871-1953). An extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam. Includes numerous historical photographs of Laura and her girls. By author Tracy Beach.Author: Tracy BeachPublisher: Johnson BooksPublished: 06/11/2015Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h...
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My Life in FranceNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page." (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her...
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My Father's House: An Ode to America's Longest-Serving Black CongressmanIn this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, the son of iconic African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as his son, he eventually learned to leverage his own voice in...
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My Family and Other AnimalsThe first book in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu.When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the...
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Mountains Beyond MountainsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author - "[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views."--USA Today "If any one person can be given credit...
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