Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Yellow Cab: A French Filmmaker's American Dream- This book is the journal of French filmmaker Benoit Cohen's pursuit of his "American dream" by becoming a New York taxi driver French filmmaker Benoit Cohen decided, while doing research for the screenplay of his new movie, to become a taxi driver. After...
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A Sukkah Is Burning: Remembering Williamsburg's Hasidic TransformationPHILIP FISHMAN grew up in the Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg during the 1950s, when the community experienced a large influx of Hasidic Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and the neighborhood evolved from a multi-ethnic Jewishly heterodox community similar to "Jewish" areas in other...
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The Winged Seed: A RemembranceIt has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature.--Edward HirschUpon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's extraordinary story begins in the 1950s...
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Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind the MoviesRandy Skretvedt's seminal LAUREL & HARDY: THE MAGIC BEHIND THE MOVIES is generally acknowledged as the gold standard in writing about the work of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Since the book's original release in 1987, it has been updated several times through the...
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Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. WellsWarrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells is the story of a young Black woman who decided to fight and protect Black people her entire life, and did so admirably. Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist, activist, and suffragist who lived...
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Lady Gaga - Born to Be Free: An Unauthorized BiographyThis is the true, fascinating and fairytale story of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, from childhood, to her ascension to the top of the music charts as an international phenomenon known as Lady Gaga, with an African American recording, production and management team, led by...
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The Story of Saint Elizabeth of HungaryT hose who delight in Canton's other well-loved children's books, A Child's Book of Saints and A Child's Book of Warriors, will find much to satisfy in his Story of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Canton has consulted some of the earliest sources to assemble...
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Around the World in 80 DaysJules Verne's all-time bestseller "Around the world in 80 Days"Author: Jules VernePublisher: Tribeca BooksPublished: 05/10/2011Pages: 154Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36dISBN: 9781936594610Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorJules Verne (1828-1905) helped pioneer the science fiction genre. His most famous works include "Journey to...
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The High Road: Memories from a Long TripWhat drives a man to spend 26 years performing night after night? To persevere through a stifling tour bus, bad food, strange women, flared tempers, a plane nearly blown from the sky? Just how did that troubled military brat with a dream claw his...
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Finding BalanceOver 10 million adults in the United States have chronic problems with dizziness and imbalance - vestibular problems. This compares to 400,000 with multiple sclerosis or 1.5 million with autism for example, both chronic illnesses with much greater name recognition. Vestibular problems are difficult...
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Nearly Orthodox: On Being a Modern Woman in an Ancient TraditionFrom Catholic schoolgirl to punk rocker to emergent church planter, Angela Doll Carlson traveled a spiritual path that in many ways mirrors that of a whole generation. She takes us with her on a deep and revealing exploration of the forces that drove her...
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Going to ExtremesWhen construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline created an oil boom in the late 1970s, journalist Joe McGinniss headed north to find out what if anything was left of the "last frontier." He discovered, as one reader put it, "mind-bending contradictions"-greed, waste, addictions, and racism,...
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Kateri Tekakwitha, the Iroquois SaintThree hundred and thirty-two years after her death, Kateri Tekakwitha has become recognized as a saint of the Catholic Church. Read about her extraordinary life through the eyes of someone who actually knew her: Fr. Pierre Cholonec, one of the two main biographers of...
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Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and LifeDeep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a structural feature...
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Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939a-1945" Dr. Reicher] lived through the Second World War in Poland, dodging bullets, uprisings and deportations--not to mention betrayal, starvation and airless hideouts--in a manner more reminiscent of a talented outlaw than a mild-mannered dermatologist . . . It is the impressive simplicity of...
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Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a DisabilityThis three-part book is a series of award-winning essays from the first Helen Keller Foundation International Memoir Writing Competition. They give voice to writers with ongoing disabilities, those who have overcome their disabilities, and from those dealing with another's disability. Their stories are real...
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Growing Up Latino: Teens Write about Hispanic-American IdentityTeens from all Hispanic cultures and experiences write to send one clear message: they define themselves and do not have to fit into anyone else's ideas of what it means to be Latino.Author: Keith HefnerPublisher: Youth Communication, New York CenterPublished: 05/01/2009Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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A Spirit of Tolerance: The Inspiring Life of Tierno BokarTierno Bokar (1875-1939), African mystic and Muslim spiritual teacher, was remarkable for the drama of his life story (which was made into a recent play directed by Peter Brook). His message of religious tolerance and universal love is profoundly important in a world where...
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Nothing Short of a Miracle: God's Healing Power in Modern SaintsHoly healings and countless cures: Miracles wrought daily through God's beloved saints in our lifetimeAuthor: Patricia TreecePublisher: Sophia Institute PressPublished: 11/05/2013Pages: 294Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.11w x 0.97dISBN: 9781933184586
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The Snow-Shoe Itinerant - An AutobiographyWestern Reflections is reprinting an engaging, historical autobiography for the general public -- "The Snow-Shoe Itinerant." Reverend John Dyer, an intrepid Methodist minister, came to Colorado in 1861 at the ripe old-age of forty-nine, but soon fit in as one of the "boys" in...
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