Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Before There Was An AfterA powerful and emotional mother and son memoir that recounts their seven year journey through his heroin addiction and multiple attempts at recovery. Honest, heartbreaking and revealing they share their very personal experience, mistakes, and search for answers. The book is intended to be...
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Blue Territory: A meditation on the life and work of Joan MitchellBlue Territory is a poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painter. A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning, she is not as well known as her male counterparts because she was a woman...
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Wounded Survivor: A Personal Memoir on Surviving Loss of Loved Ones, Sexual Abuse, and Illnesses (Mental and Physical)Wounded Survivor is a highly personal memoir about surviving sexual abuse, dealing with the loss of loved ones, and living through mental and physical illnesses. By the time readers finish this book, they will have gained deep insight into the author's life and her...
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The Complications: On Going Insane in AmericaAn unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it's like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well...
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Louise Nevelson: Light and ShadowIn 1929, Louise Nevelson was a disappointed housewife with a young son, surrounded by New York's vibrant artistic community but unable to fully engage with it. By 1950, she was an artist living on her own, financially dependent on her family, but she had...
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Quest for HopeMark's heart-wrenching and inspirational story is one of pursuing hope and persevering through the agony of excruciating and debilitating pain from an illness with an undiagnosed source. While struggling through his mysterious life-threatening medical condition, he discovered the true meaning of hope found through...
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Almost a Chela"The story of my amazing teacher Vitvan "One Who Knows" and his life's work needs to be better known. What I have learned through my association with Vitvan and his teaching has given my life meaning and purpose. Perhaps that may prove true for...
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Making Music with The Wellingtons A 1960s Rock'n'Roll Garage BandThe 1960s were an amazing sliver of time that occurred after the sock hops burned out and before disco, house music, and rap came onto the scene. Making Music With The Wellingtons revisits that era and its burgeoning rock-and-roll scene, when a garage cover...
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Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark ObsessionBestselling author of Capote's Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty...
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A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon SyndromeA Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens"Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." -Scott Westerfeld, #1 New...
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Son of Southern Illinois: Glenn Poshard's Life in Politics and EducationA life of principles, service, and faith This first biography of Glenn Poshard traces the life of a young man who rose from rural poverty in Southern Illinois to become a United States congressman and president of the Southern Illinois University system. This profound...
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End Credits: How I Broke Up with HollywoodThe only script you can really write in life is your own. What if achieving your professional dreams comes at too high a personal cost? That's what screenwriter Patty Lin started to ask herself after years in the cutthroat TV industry. One minute she...
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Super Bowl Comeback!Going into Super Bowl LI, few had doubts that Tom Brady would take the Patriots to victory yet again. But deep into the game, the course seemed to have been set the other way. That is, until one of the greatest comebacks in Superbowl...
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The Last Garden: A MemoirEmbark on a writer's personal garden journey! Liza Ketchum's story begins and ends in Vermont, with settings as varied as the Adirondacks, a New York suburb, an urban yard, coastal Florida, and Oxfordshire, England. With detailed, monochrome drawings by botanical illustrator Bobbi Angell, The...
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A Quiet Voice: One Man's Journey from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Through Addiction, Prison and Homelessness to a Dignified Life aThe year is 1968. Eugene (Tree) Hairston, an eighteen year old from the ghetto in Portsmouth VA, joins the service to get away from his abusive family. Serving in Vietnam, Hairston runs headlong into blatant racial discrimination and angers his superiors by reporting it....
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Strength, Resilience, Growth: How I Defied Physical and Mental Limitations and Took Control of My FutureStrength, Resilience, Growth is one woman's story of defeating the odds and refusing to listen to the words, "You can't."When she was first born, Sophia was diagnosed with an incurable brain disorder, Hydrocephalus ("water on the brain"), and had her first surgery at three...
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Take a Stand!: An Inspirational Fill-In Book about Your Heroes and YouDon't just read about rebels--with this journal, you can chart your own life and become the hero YOU want to be!Time for you to stand out! Find your inner hero with this gloriously illustrated journal, featuring quotes, stories, and advice from 25 legendary figures...
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Hillback to Boggy: A Family Struggles for Survival, During the Great Depression, in a Tent in the Hills of OklahomaAuthor: Bonnie S. SpeerPublisher: Reliance PressPublished: 08/01/1999Pages: 212Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48dISBN: 9781889683140Audience: Ages 9-12This title is not returnable
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African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black ExcellenceCourage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history! African Americans helped build the United States. Their contributions, deeds, and influence are interwoven into the fabric of the country. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the...
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Pocahontas: The Making of a MythDo you know the story of Pocahontas? The history stories you think you know may not be what they seem. In this deep-diving series, readers of How FACT Became FICTION are invited into the truth beyond the stories people tell about history. It includes...
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