Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Composed: A Memoir"One of the best accounts of an American life you'll likely ever read." -Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune As moving, disarming, and elusive as one of her classic songs, Composed is Rosanne Cash's testament to the power of art, tradition, and love to transform a...
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education"The Unforgiving Minute is one of the most compelling memoirs yet to emerge from America's 9/11 era. Craig Mullaney has given us an unusually honest, funny, accessible, and vivid account of a soldier's coming of age. This is more than a soldier's story; it...
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The Portable Abraham LincolnCelebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth with this new edition of his greatest speeches and writings Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our...
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Dialogues and LettersIncluded in this volume are the dialogues On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquility of Mind, which are eloquent classic statements of Stoic ideals of fortitude and self-reliance. This selection also features extracts from Natural Questions, Seneca's exploration of such phenomena as the...
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The Civil WarA military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome -...
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A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War IIA searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two...
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table...
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Inside Out: A MemoirINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, Good Morning America, She ReadsFamed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged...
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The Happiness Project, Tenth Anniversary Edition: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle,#1 New York Times Bestseller"An enlightening, laugh-aloud read. . . . Filled with open, honest glimpses into Rubin's] real life, woven together with constant doses of humor." --Christian Science MonitorGretchen Rubin's year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science,...
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The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese HistoryThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day.The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential...
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Magic Is Dead: My Journey Into the World's Most Secretive Society of MagiciansIn the vein of Neil Strauss' The Game and Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man's colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from...
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My Life Among the Underdogs: A MemoirFrom one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her...
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Murphy's Boy"A story rich in reasons for hope." --Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of a boy who refused to speak--until a therapist's love broke through the silence. When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a...
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Only One Year: A Memoir"Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoy's Confession." --Edmund Wilson, The New YorkerAfter the success of her New York Times bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva--subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography Stalin's Daughter--penned this...
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Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma BuiltIn just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was...
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Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood"Thompson captures the ache, fizz, yearning and frustration of being the father of adolescent boys." --Michael Chabon"What a riveting, touching, and painful read " --Maria Semple"Fun, moving, raw, and relatable." --Tony Hawk What makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does...
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Real Artists Have Day Jobs: (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You in School)For readers of Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, and #Girlboss, a hilarious--yet heartfelt--guide to growing up and taking your place in the world by the popular comedian and author of the highly praised Agorafabulous While the practical aspects of new adulthood can be nerve-wracking--dating, job-hunting,...
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The World's Largest Man: A MemoirWinner of the Thurber Prize"How in the hell is this so funny one second and so heartbreaking the next? Harrison Scott Key examines the topic of fatherhood and sonhood with fresh, clear eyes. . . except wait, they're not clear because they filled with...
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You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and TelevisionIn this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television's most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.No sportscaster has covered more major sporting...
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac KillerAn explosive and historic New York Times bestseller of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial...
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