Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Charles White: The Gordon Gift to the University of TexasCharles White (1918-1979), one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and innovative draftsmen, was also highly regarded as an educator and activist. His life spanned the Great Depression and the WPA era as well as the civil rights movement and the early days of...
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Secret Green Beret Commandos in Cambodia: A Memorial History of MACV-SOG's Command and Control Detachment South (CCS), and Its Air Partners, RepublicWe could call this book "Special Operations Recon Mission Impossible." A small group of highly trained, resourceful US Special Forces (SF) men is asked to go in teams behind the enemy lines to gather intelligence on the North Vietnamese Army units that had infiltrated...
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Surrender: Father Walter Ciszek: Jesuit Priest/Soviet PrisonerAuthor: Seamus DockeryPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 08/03/2012Pages: 58Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14dISBN: 9781477146668This title is not returnable
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Angel in Aisle 3: The True Story of a Mysterious Vagrant, a Convicted Bank Executive, and the Unlikely Friendship That Saved Both TheirIn the tradition of An Invisible Thread and Same Kind of Different as Me, Angel in Aisle 3 is the "heartwrenching yet hopeful" (Publishers Weekly) true story of an unlikely friendship that began with a chance meeting in a grocery store between a bank...
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and JoyceFrom the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest writers--Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father--"Thrilling, wise, and resonant,...
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The Terrorist's Son: A Story of ChoiceAn extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father--the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was...
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Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and FowlThe straight-faced, funny man of Duck Dyanasty has a real story to tell. Not a repeat of the previous Duck Dynasty books, Jase opens up about his personal family life, his childhood days with a drunken father, and how he came to faith. This...
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Yes, My Accent Is Real: And Some Other Things I Haven't Told YouIn the spirit of Mindy Kaling's bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow's Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS's #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all...
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The Undertaker's Daughter"The Undertaker's Daughter is a wonderfully quirky, gem of a book beautifully written by Kate Mayfield....Her compelling, complicated family and cast of characters stay with you long after you close the book" (Monica Holloway, author of Cowboy & Wills and Driving With Dead People).How...
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Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for BookerIn this "beautiful, evocative" (Booklist, starred review) memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the moving, true story of her late grandfather Booker Wright, whose extraordinary act of courage would change his and, later, her life forever. "Have to keep that...
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Where We Belong: Journeys That Show Us the WayFrom New York Times bestselling author and beloved Today show coanchor Hoda Kotb, an "inspirational page-turner" (Daily News, New York) about people who find their life's purpose in unexpected ways, often surprising themselves and their loved ones.Are you where you belong? Many of us...
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The Filthy TruthFrom Andrew Dice Clay, the "Undisputed Heavyweight Comedy King," comes the unapologetic and uncensored autobiography fans have been waiting for. Andrew Dice Clay's raw and uncensored stand-up comedy has shocked and entertained audiences for decades and continues to do so to this day. When...
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Hollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies: 23 Actresses Who Suffered Early Deaths, Accidents, Missteps, Illnesses and TragediesIn the era of Hollywood now considered its Golden Age, there was no shortage of hard-luck stories--movie stars succumbed to mental illness, addiction, accidents, suicide, early death and more. This book profiles 23 actresses who achieved a measure of success before fate dealt them...
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Margaret Sullavan: The Life and Career of a Reluctant StarIn 1933, Margaret Sullavan made her film debut and was an overnight sensation. For the next three decades, she enchanted audiences and critics in any medium she chose--film, theater, television--and was regarded as one of the foremost dramatic actresses. Off screen, she epitomized the...
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Longfellow in Love: Passion and Tragedy in the Life of the PoetAfter four years traveling through Europe and a yearlong romance with Giulia Persiani in Rome, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow came back home in 1829 and fell in love again, this time with Mary Storer Potter, whom he married in 1831. They traveled together to England...
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Rocky Colavito: Cleveland's Iconic Slugger Iconic ballplayer Rocky Colavito captivated fans during the 1950s and 1960s with his movie-star looks, boyish enthusiasm, powerful bat and cannon-like arm. This biography of ""the Rock""--the first in more than half a century--recounts his origins in an Italian immigrant family, his close...
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The Tears of WarThe small village in Pomerania in northern Germany provided a peaceful haven for the childhood years of author Ingeborg E. Ryals. But in 1939 the beginning of World War II irrevocably changed her idyllic life. In this memoir Ryals shares her first hand experiences...
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Beer in the Bilges: Sailing Adventures in the South PacificIn the early 1980s, after the sexual revolution and before the explosion of the electronic age, the remote islands of Polynesia begged to be explored. For three experienced sailors who dreamed of sailing through the idyllic South Pacific, it was a perfect time to...
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The Marilyn Monroe Story: : The Intimate Inside Story of Hollywood's Hottest Glamour Girl.This is a new release of the rare and very collectable first book entirely devoted to Marilyn Monroe. This edition includes all of the original text and photos. "The Marilyn Monroe Story. The Intimate Inside Story of Hollywood's Hottest Glamour Girl" was the first...
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Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied...
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