Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Cucumbers in HeavenIn this intimate, enormously personal memoir, the author, Melissa McKay, guides the reader through a lovingly crafted tale over twenty years in the making: the story of her life. A woman who married her high school sweetheart and raised two children, all while involving...
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Crystal's Butterfly Effect: A Mother's Journey From Loss to TransformationVickie Menendez, a mother, entrepreneur, and transformational coach, faced an unimaginable reality: the loss of all four children from her first marriage, with the devastating misfortune of losing two just twelve days apart in 2023. This heart-wrenching journey tested her resilience in unimaginable ways....
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Crossing the DitchAuthor: James CastrissionPublisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pty LtdPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.79dISBN: 9780732288600This title is not returnable
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore LeonardDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bestsellers like Get Shorty and Raylan.Over the course of his sixty-year career, Elmore Leonard,...
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Conversations with the Conroys: Interviews with Pat Conroy and His FamilyA New York Times best-selling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy's writings have been rooted in...
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Conversations with Percival EverettFor the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But...
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Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and LaughterFrom Peabody, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning writer/producer/director Larry Charles, a one-of-a-kind hilariously serious and seriously funny saga of modern American comedy and culture, from his work on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Borat, and with Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Sacha Baron...
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Coloring Outside the Lines: Beyond the Break, Reclaiming My Story, One Shade at a TimeHow do you redefine yourself when the world insists on fitting you into a mold?In Coloring Outside the Lines, Dr. B.T. McGuire invite readers into his deeply personal journey of resilience, self-discovery, and reclaiming his narrative. From navigating childhood expectations to breaking professional and...
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Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the DinosaursNobel Prize-winning experimental physicist Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988) began his storied career developing the atomic bomb and went on to conduct groundbreaking work on the building of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the assassination of JFK, and the extinction of the dinosaurs. One of the...
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Clam Down: A MetamorphosisIn this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life--a transformation fable from an acclaimed 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree. We've all...
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City Builders: The Maleks, the Olympics, and a Historic Gift to VancouverVancouver developers Peter and Shahram Malek have lost two great fortunes, both times at the hands of a hostile government. First, as young men in the flush of success, they were forced from Revolutionary Iran, leaving behind the massive construction and development business built...
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Child of the JungleIn 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler and her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu - a tribe untouched by modern civilisation. Her childhood was spent hunting, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows and chewing on...
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Child of Earth and Starry HeavenWhen L. Annette Binder's mother starts to forget things she's always known, Annette researches ways to keep her from losing touch with the world. They try supplements and exercise routines, light therapy and sound tracks with 40-Hertz clicks. Annette begins to speak German with...
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Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida Nation of Indians of WisconsinChief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians' presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New York, yet no monument commemorates his deeds as the community's founder. Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester, III, redress that historical oversight,...
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Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent's Search for Hope and JusticeHow a skeptical FBI agent reached out to a famous psychic for help on a baffling case - and the twenty-five-year crime-solving journey that followedIn the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John...
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Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a MarriageCarol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor and the inspiration for his great works of the 1930s, which culminated with the publication of The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. When Carol and John met at Lake Tahoe in 1928,...
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Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2Milo Manara's Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 2, the second half of Manara's epic two-volume biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter, depicts the tragedy of his years on the run for killing a man in a duel in Rome. With a...
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Call Me Commander: A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece AmericaWhen Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as...
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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's PrisonsCullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and excitement beyond a nine-to-five routine, so he set off for Seoul, South Korea, to teach English and look for adventure. What he...
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Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet PolandA moving graphic memoir in the vein of Almost All American Girl and Persepolis, Breadcrumbs is a coming-of-age story set in Poland as the country transitions from communism to capitalism. In the late 1980s, Poland faces debilitating food shortages, worker discontent, and astronomical inflation....
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