Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Who Is Stevie Wonder?Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musicians of our time. Signing his first record deal when he was only eleven, he had...
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Who Was Charlie Chaplin?Who was the real Charlie Chaplin? Kids will learn all about the comic genius who created "The Little Tramp"! Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way...
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Who Was Coretta Scott King?The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s. Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing...
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The Unofficial Super Swiftie Word Search Book (Volume 1): Activities, Trivia & Fun for Taylor Swift FansCelebrate all things Taylor Swift with 34 super Swiftie word search puzzles. The puzzles feature exciting trivia, cool facts, and endless fun! This activity book, which is the perfect alternative to screen time, will capture the attention of young readers and young adults alike....
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I Am George WashingtonChildren will want to read about our first president while discussing the presidential elections. This is the ninth book in the New York Times bestselling biography series that inspires while it informs and entertains. George Washington was never afraid to be the first to...
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American HistoryThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim...
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I Am Marie CurieThe first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits...
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DevotoA National Bestseller Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing "An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship." -- Entertainment Weekly "Julia's inimitable voice shines through . . . These letters offer [a] glimpse of how the truly great...
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World More Beautiful: The Life and Art of Barbara CooneyThis stunning and lyrical picture book biography details the life and art of celebrated children's book creator, Barbara Cooney. For every kid who loves art, here is the inspirational story of beloved illustrator and two-time Caldecott Medalist, Barbara Cooney. Barbara was born in a...
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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by WomenAward-winning duo Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet inspire a new generation of innovators in this fascinating celebration of women inventors from diverse backgrounds. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even...
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Gather Together in My NameIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity. "A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not...
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. MarshalCoretta Scott King Author Award Read about the fascinating life of Bass Reeves, who escaped slavery to become the first African American Deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi. Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on...
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The Bowing of the Stars: A Telling of Moments from the Life of Prophet Yusuf (Pbuh)Allahsays, "Be!" And it is. Amidstthe chaotic symphony of bustling life -- donkeys braying, merchants calling outtheir wares, great carts groaning along laden with clucking hens and crowingroosters, this book invites you to taste the unwavering patience and triumphantvictory of Prophet Yusuf and his...
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches"Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. "Speeches and interviews from the last two years of his life.Author: Malcolm XPublisher: PathfinderPublished: 01/01/1989Pages: 190Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.28w x...
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Blackbeard the PirateEdward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all time, becoming the model for countless blood-and-thunder tales of sea rovers. His daring exploits,...
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My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk about Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in North CarolinaThis volume offers 21 narratives from more than 170 interviews conducted with former slaves in North Carolina.Author: Belinda HurmencePublisher: BlairPublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 103Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9780895870391About the AuthorBelinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at...
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Robert E. Lee: A LifeA WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil...
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Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee BetschThis heartfelt picture book biography illustrated by the Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes, tells the story of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist and the legacy she preserved. MaVynee loved going to the beach. But in the days of Jim Crow, she...
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in NatureIn this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Potter found freedom...
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind ControlThe bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer--the...
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