Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Understanding PhysicsPart of the best-selling "Understanding" series that brings to life the wide world of physics. Rather than explaining details about how to do physics, this book focuses on explaining what different branches of physics are about, how we know about them, and what mysteries...
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Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our NationIn this eye-opening memoir, Eric Trump relays surprising and gripping moments throughout his life and career as part of America's most powerful family. From his earliest memories of growing up as part of the Trump family to pivotal roles in the 2016 and 2024...
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Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle GangIn 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an...
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Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting OverGetting sober is one thing, staying sober another...With a glorious bang, alcohol freed Mary Stephens from her lonely, self-critical teenage shell and fueled Fun Mary. For three decades, booze had been her best friend, the reliable spark igniting good times and (she thought) good...
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Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math TeacherParent. Math coach. Climate science researcher. Software engineer and manager at Microsoft. Investment analyst, trader, and risk manager at hedge funds. Entrepreneur. A forty-five-year-old new teacher. This is the journey of a first-generation immigrant becoming a math teacher in the United States. This book...
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Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of BiographyA deeply reflective memoir weaving together the personal story of Hester Kaplan's acclaimed biographer father and his fraught effect on her artistic development with a rich portrait of twentieth century intellectual life and a meditation on family intimacy, identity, and the art of writing...
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Try Hard: Creative Work in ProgressINSTANT BESTSELLER! Funny, conversational, and relatable, Try Hard is for anyone looking to make sense of their own creative pursuit or bring more creativity into their life, offering a framework for how to do it and where to begin. Let's say you see a...
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Truth Be Told: The Story of My Life and My Fight for EqualityINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the...
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True WestComedy / 3m 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California...
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter MatthiessenThe first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by award-winning writer Lance Richardson. "A stunning, formidable achievement by a brilliant biographer. Lance Richardson takes his...
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Trieste and the Meaning of NowhereA book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste. This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come...
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Tramp for the LordTramp for the Lord begins where Corrie ten Boom's all-time classic, The Hiding Place, ends. Join Corrie on a worldwide trip that could only have been planned by God. Take, for instance, one of Corrie's moving stories: "It was in a church in Munich...
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Traitor KingDrawing upon newly released archives, bestselling biographer Andrew Lownie tells the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's glittering lives after Edward abdicated the throne-a world that was riddled with treachery and betrayal.A Town & Country "Must Read Book"11 December 1936. The King...
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To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to ForgiveNow a major motion picture starring Robert Carlyle and Kiefer Sutherland "Waking from a dream, I suddenly realized where I was: in the Death House--in a prison camp by the River Kwai. I was a prisoner of war, lying among the dead, waiting for...
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Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo: Bilingual English-Spanish*A Pura Belpré Honor Book!*In this vibrant bilingual picture book biography of musician Tito Puente by award-winning author-illustrator team Monica Brown and Rafael López, readers will dance along to the beat of the mambo king's life.Tito Puente loved banging pots and pans as a...
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Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World WarAn incredibly evocative and action-filled story of one man's fight in the First World War, rich and raw with remarkable detail. As he tended to the chores on his homestead, Lester Harper never imagined that he would turn in his hoe for a Lee-Enfield...
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Tiger, Tiger: His Life, as It's Never Been Told BeforeInstant New York Times Bestseller! "Patterson's account is compelling" (Daily Mail). The only major author to have nine holes-in-one gets inside the mystery of Tiger Woods in a biography that reads like an unputdownable thriller. On April 13, 1986, ten-year-old Tiger Woods watches his...
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This Road I'm on: The Power of Hope in the Face of AdversityBill Lee has experienced success as a Tennessee cattle farmer and businessman, but he has also known his share of tragedy and adversity. This Road I'm On is his story of fostering resilience and developing a heart for helping others by responding to those...
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Thick Thighs, Tattoos & Breaking Taboos: How I Lost My Brother and Found Myself Again Through Running and AdvocacyA Raw, Unflinching Look at Grief, Strength, and Starting OverFor anyone carrying grief, searching for meaning, or trying to keep going when everything has fallen apart.When Jen Hoye lost her brother Teddy to suicide, her world shattered. In the years that followed, she turned...
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights ActivistMeet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like...
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