Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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The Man Who Stopped Time: The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge ? Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, MurdererThe photographs of Eadweard Muybridge are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer, now brought to life for the first time in this engaging and thoroughly entertaining biography. His work is iconic:...
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BelieveThe profoundly affecting story of the former Rutgers defensive tackle who was left paralyzed after a devastating football accident, and how his faith, positive outlook, and motto "BELIEVE" inspire legions of fans and guide him in his quest to walk again.On October 16, 2010,...
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50 Lgbtqi+ Who Changed the WorldMarsha P. Johnson, Keith Haring, Harvey Milk, Audre Lorde, Peter Tatchell, RuPaul... the names of pioneers and trailblazers who have advanced the LGBT cause and helped bring about new human rights.This book pays tribute in 50 portraits to the activists, personalities, writers and artists...
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Light in Bandaged Places: Healing in the Wake of Young BetrayalWhen a lonely young girl meets a teacher twice her age, she is seduced into a web of deceit and secrecy-an experience that teaches her that sex in exchange for attention feels like love, even as it destroys her self-worth. Here, Liz Kinchen offers...
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Black Sheep Lib/E: A Blue-Eyed Negro Speaks of Abandonment, Belonging, Racism, and RedemptionRay Studevent grew up between two worlds. Born to a white, heroin-addicted mother and black, violently alcoholic father, the odds were stacked against him from day one. When his parents abandoned him at the age of five, after living in a world no child...
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Bye, Bye, BagsI'm not going to lie, my initial reasons for writing this book were very selfish. It was purely to capitalize on my recent television appearances. But after writing and rewriting many chapters, my reasons changed. I realized someone else is probably managing the same...
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Becoming Dracula (hardback): The Early Years of Bela Lugosi, Volume TwoThe cobwebs of time and space are finally cleared. Drawing on years of researchacross four countries, excavating and analyzing thousands of yellowed documentsin archives as well as every digitized source, Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenbergershine light from their candelabrum onto a long-forgotten past,...
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Living Dead While Being AliveA story based on the true events in the life of a little girl born into a world of abuse, trauma, and chaos. A world where she finds herself not only fighting for her life from the hands of her abusers, who in all...
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Who Me: Two Birds, Fifteen Cats, Two Dogs, One Hamster, Two Turtles and GoldfishWho Me is a story of a life framed and supported by a bevy of pets. From a pigtailed child wishing for her first kitten to finding herself in the cockpit of a spy plane, from a sheltered teen losing a father and then...
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Nina Mae McKinney (hardback): The Black GarboNina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood's first Black movie star, and yet her name is often missing from film histories and encyclopedias. In The Black Garbo Stephen Bourne celebrates the highs and lows of Nina's life and career, and offers an affectionate...
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Dancing with the Enemy Lib/E: My Family's Holocaust SecretThe gripping story of the author's aunt, a Jewish dance instructor who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into...
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The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's AfterlifeIs there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected--a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To...
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Children of Nazis Lib/E: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others-Living with a Father's Monstrous LegacyIn 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at...
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Marx's Das Kapital Lib/E: A BiographyAuthor: Francis WheenPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 12/05/2007Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200143917About the AuthorWheen, Francis: - Francis Wheen, an author and journalist, was named Columnist of the Year for his contributions to the Guardian. He is the author of several books, including How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World...
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Me, the Mob, and the Music Lib/E: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the ShondellsAuthor: Tommy James, Martin FitzpatrickPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 03/03/2010Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200110469About the AuthorJames, Tommy: - Tommy James (born Thomas Gregory Jackson) is the pop-rock star best known as the leader of Tommy James and the Shondells. He began performing locally in Niles, Michigan, when...
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Strange Beautiful Music Lib/E: A Musical MemoirAuthor: Joe Satriani, Jake BrownPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 05/06/2014Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200044580About the AuthorSatriani, Joe: - Joe Satriani, an instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, has sold more ten million albums worldwide. Early in his career, Joe worked as a guitar instructor. Many of his former...
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Navy Seal Dogs Lib/E: My Tale of Training Canines for CombatAuthor: Mike RitlandPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 12/24/2014Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200024186About the AuthorRitland, Mike: - Mike Ritland is the New York Times bestselling author of Trident K9 Warriors: My Tale from the Training Ground to the Battlefield with Elite Navy SEAL Canines. He joined the Navy...
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The Greatest Knight Lib/E: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English ThronesAuthor: Thomas AsbridgePublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 03/10/2015Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200019564About the AuthorAsbridge, Thomas: - Thomas Asbridge is the author of The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land and The First Crusade: A New History. He earned a BA in ancient and medieval history at...
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Boyd Lib/E: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of WarAuthor: Robert CoramPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 07/26/2016Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781799976660About the AuthorCoram, Robert: - Robert Coram was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his work as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the author of several novels and nonfiction books, including American...
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Scarlet Fields Lib/E: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor HeroAuthor: John Lewis BarkleyPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 05/16/2017Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665264778About the AuthorBarkley, John Lewis: - John Lewis Barkley was given the title of the most decorated soldier in the midwest. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on October 7, 1918 for single...
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