Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Gourd GirlsGourd Girls is a memoir detailing the story of a young lesbian couple who start an unlikely business that becomes not only their livelihood, but also their means of finding their voices, their values, and their beloved community of family and friends.Author: Priscilla WilsonPublisher:...
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Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs"Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs," a long-unavailable Aperture classic, is one of the most comprehensive surveys of the power and force of a major photographic figure of our time. Before his death in 1976 at age eighty-five, Strand combed his photographic prints and...
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River Song: Naxiyamtáma (Snake River-Palouse) Oral Traditions from Mary Jim, Andrew George, Gordon Fisher, and Emily PeoneFor generations, the original Snake River-Palouse people lived a free, open life on the Columbia Plateau, moving on horseback from the Snake River to Badger Mountain to Oregon's Blue Mountains. They interacted and intermarried within a vast region, and their stories are rich in...
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Johannes Kepler Life and LettersJohannes Kepler: Life and Letters was written as a biography of Johannes Kepler using his own letters. The letters extend over a period of time from 1596 to 1631 bringing to the reader Keplers' personality rather than his scientific achievements. The book represents his...
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Pig in a Taxi and Other African AdventuresYou can't be a good missionary without a good snake story," jokes Suzanne Crocker. And as a missionary to Africa, she has plenty Crocker's stories are current, funny, and sure to hit close to home. Each fascinating vignette is accompanied by Scripture, practical application,...
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Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-Ish and BeyondWith iconic imagery and engrossing text, Black TV is the first book of its kind to celebrate the groundbreaking, influential, and often under-appreciated shows centered on Black people and their experiences from the last fifty years. Over the past decade, television has seen an...
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Voices of a Dream: Stories from A Touch of UnderstandingDo you remember when you were a child? Can you picture that one student in your school who was always teased or bullied because he or she seemed "different?" It may have been the way she walked, or the way he struggled to read....
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A Place Like This: A MemoirOnce you've won a car on a game show, been an actor, owned a phone sex company, been infected with HIV, slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction, you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing. In this true, first-person account of...
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Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over FiftyAn unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired collection of photographs and profiles celebrating the style of African Americans age 50+Long inspired by mature adults daring to express their creativity and individuality through their style choices, New York Times bestselling novelist Connie Briscoe shines a light...
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Oprah Winfrey: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about talk show host, producer, and actor Oprah Winfrey. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers! This Little Golden Book about Oprah Winfrey--host of the highest-rated...
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A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's CastleA Charmed Life tells the story of Liza Campbell, the last child to be born at the impressive and renowned Cawdor Castle, the same locale featured in Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was at the historical ancestral home that Liza's seemingly idyllic fairytale childhood began to...
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Honeymoon with My Brother: A MemoirThis is the true story of Franz Wisner, a man who thought he had it all- a high profile career and the fiancée of his dreams- when suddenly, his life turned upside down. Just days before they were to be married, his fiancée called...
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Verse, Chorus, Monster!Along-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist GrahamCoxon.Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but...
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Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton's PoliticsMethodism in the public and private lives of the politician After more than forty contentious years in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the best-known political figures in the nation. Yet many of her admirers would be surprised to hear Clinton...
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The Light in the WindowIn Ireland, 1951, the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years. It was a place of secrets,...
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On the Rocks: The Primadonna StoryOn the Rocks chronicles the real-life journey of restaurateur Joseph Costanzo Jr., from his rise to success in the 1990s as a owner of the highly acclaimed Primadonna Restaurant, radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending...
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All Mixed Up: Discovering the Beauty in Racial AmbiguityWe are no longer in a world where people can be defined by one or two syllables. We are increasingly more unique and more complex humans. This is the beauty of America, and it should be shared and acknowledged.Growing up in a multicultural household...
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Courage to Lead: In business and in life with grace at the heart of allCourage to Lead is a simple and unvarnished perspective of a businessman and poultry farmer who truly believed in building a house on God's sure foundation, a solid rock. In business, in politics, and in life, I am happy to have lived through every...
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The Girl from Tompkins ProjectsThis story is about the life of a girl who grew up in the Tompkins projects in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She enjoyed life with her family, joining her family for holiday fun, going on picnics, and enjoying the summer fun. Her teenage years were...
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All Mixed Up: Discovering the Beauty in Racial AmbiguityWe are no longer in a world where people can be defined by one or two syllables. We are increasingly more unique and more complex humans. This is the beauty of America, and it should be shared and acknowledged.Growing up in a multicultural household...
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