Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Ayo Gorkhali: The True Story of the Gurkhas"Ayo Gorkhali " - "The Gurkhas are upon you " - is the battle cry of one of the world's most famous fighting forces. Yet the Gurkha story is not only about bravery in combat. It is also a story of tragedy.In WWI alone,...
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Do No Harm: A Personal Memoir"Do No Harm" is a revealing memoir by an imminent physician. It is educational as he reflects on his youthful athletics and the sexual abuse of others by a volunteer coach. But it is also entertaining as he chronicles his experiences on his grandparent's...
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The Story of Rosa ParksTeach little learners about Rosa Parks' brave stand for civil rights with this 200-word board book.This little book introduces Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement. Simple, toddler-friendly text tells the story of her courageous decision to remain on a bus in...
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Earned: My Journey to becoming a Hunter of ManFrom a misguided childhood and the loss of a father battling cancer, to a hunter of man. Former US army sniper deployed to Afghanistan, now Youtube and social media influencer Robert Terkla takes his readers on his path to becoming a sniper and what...
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human RaceA 2022 Audie Award Finalist A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and...
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Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost JapanAn inspirational journey into the heart of Japan and the search for a meaningful life.Out of work, out of love, drowning in debt, and lost in Japan. In an attempt to be happy, Todd Wassel sets out to walk the 750-mile, 88-temple Shikoku Henro...
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Invisible Me: One Woman's Life with Reactive Attachment DisorderPage's story can be an invaluable resource for people who struggle with these same burdens and may never have known how to label them, how to come to terms with them; have the courage to face their own demons, to express their sorrows and...
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Unabashed Women: The Fascinating Biographies of Bad Girls, Seductresses, Rebels and One-of-a-Kind WomenFrom the author of Women of Means, Unabashed Women consists of vignettes of the women who defied the mores of conventional society to live the lives they chose, regardless of cost. They are the embodiment of the quotation, "Well behaved women seldom make history."Author:...
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Moms Who Hike: Walking with America's Most Inspiring AdventurersMoms Who Hike celebrates the athleticism, wisdom, and skill of over twenty of America's most inspiring adventurer mothers ranging from legends to rising stars of today. The book is both inspirational and aspirational as each adventurer tells her story in her own words through...
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive EditionFor use in schools and libraries only. An uncut edition of Anne Frank's diary includes entries originally omitted by her father and provides insight into Anne's relationship with her mother.Author: Anne FrankPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 02/01/1997Pages: 335Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 6.60h x 4.00w x 1.20dISBN:...
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Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A MemoirWinner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties,...
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Something Awesome: A Life in NeurosurgeryIn this medical memoir, Dr. Friedman recounts the humorous, tragic, and always intense relationships of neurosurgeons to their colleagues and patients. He details what it takes to become a leading neurosurgeon and deal with deadly brain diseases and their devastating complications. He weighs in...
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Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth"Heart-stopping and relentlessly gripping. Tabor takes us on an odyssey into unfathomable worlds beneath us, and into the hearts of rare explorers who will do anything to get there first."--Robert Kurson, author of ShadowDivers In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom...
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Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman ParryFrom the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In...
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Bought and SoldA heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years...
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The Life of the Prophet Muhammad: (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)All Praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, the One Who] Sustains the Heavens and Earths, Director of all that is created, who sent the Messengers (may the peace and blessings of Allah beupon all of them) to rational beings, to...
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So You Want to Be a NovelistWhat does it mean to be a novelist in the 21st century? How do you write a novel? What do you do with it once it's finished? And how do you get a career as a novelist off the ground? Most honest novelists will...
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Forever the People: Six Months on the Road with OasisOasis had risen so swiftly, so dramatically, they now faced the question that no band has yet successfully answered. How do you maintain that rush of excitement which accompanies a rise to the top? And while you're at it, where exactly do you perform...
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Loose Woman: my odyssey from lost to foundThe memoir Loose Woman: my odyssey from lost to found tells how a quasi-alcoholic actor came to spend four astonishing months living and working among men with severe disabilities at a L'Arche community in Provence, and how the experience opened her heart and transformed...
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The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of GriefCalled such a sad, tough story, but finally so life-affirming, filled with spirit and love by Anne Lamott, this is a raw and intensely affecting memoir by a young priest about loss of a child, its grief and its aftermath, and the hard-won joy...
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