Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Annihilating Anorexia: A MemoirWhat if you looked in the mirror and saw a skeletal version of yourself staring back at you? Would you be proud of your emaciated figure, or would you break down in tears? For Michele Mason, this haunting question became a daily reality when...
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The Classic Autobiography of John D. Rockefeller Random Reminiscences of Men and Events"Random Reminiscences Of Men And Events" gives interesting insights into the life of the richest person in modern history. - Probably in the life of every one there comes a time when he is inclined to go over again the events, great and small,...
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Rita Moreno: A Little Golden Book BiographyHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biographyabout EGOT-winning actor, singer, and dancer, Rita Moreno. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers! This Little Golden Book about Rita Moreno--Puerto Rican-born star of West Side...
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Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A high-octane, no-holds-barred account of a year inside Formula 1 from Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Drive to Survive, one of the most successful Netflix series of all time "People talk about football managers being under pressure....
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Legitimate Kid: A MemoirA poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter.Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a whirlwind life. Her rags to-riches story is mind-blowing: She was kidnapped as a child by...
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The Skinny: My Messy, Hopeful Fight for Full Recovery from AnorexiaThe Skinny challenges our beliefs about diet culture, body image and eating disorders as we follow Sheri in her fight to fully recover from anorexia with her signature wit, wry humour, and unflinching honesty. In this powerful memoir, Sheri Segal Glick explores her rough,...
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ChumsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of this narrowest of talent pools - and the friendships and worldviews...
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Finding Waypoints: A Warrior's Journey Toward Peace and PurposeHe had been through hell--his own and the devil's--and had emerged free of hate, free of encumbrance. If the person who had laid the bomb that took his legs were standing before him, Greg knew he would lay down his own weapon in forgiveness....
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Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as WitchesA moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. 'It's summer. I stand where perhaps Ellen stood, in this ground thick with new thistle and long...
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker"It's shocking to learn that this is McBride's first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more" --Los Angeles Times The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in...
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The Weight of GhostsThe Weight of Ghosts is a circling of grief following the death of the author's older son when he was 21, a horror that was compounded by her younger son's drug use, the country's slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and...
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Daring Women of D-Day: Bold Spies of World War IIAn action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal...
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Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland: A Life in GeopoliticsField marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new...
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The Life and Times of Henry PlummerGuilty or innocent? Historians have devoted much time and effort investigating Henry Plummer, the sheriff of Bannack, Montana, who was hanged by vigilantes on a bitter, cold January night in 1864. Henry's life tells the tale of a lawless West and the untamed, violent...
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Blanche Ames Ames (1878-1969) and Oakes Ames (1874-1950): Cultivating That Mutual GroundBlanche Ames Ames and Oakes Ames advanced women's suffrage, reproductive rights, artistic expression, and scientific knowledge, among other accomplishments, in the first half of the twentieth century. Blanche was part of women's history for nearly seven decades and deserved to be better known for...
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Tough and Competent: Leadership and Team Chemistry"It was as tough a test as could be conceived and put to flight control . . . if there was any weakness, the team would have crumbled. The teams dealt with IT!! There is no way that you could have a team stand...
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Dying To Live: Love StoriesIs getting "unstuck" feeling hard? That's usually when you are being beckoned to dive deeper for your well-being. Great, dive; Dying To Live: Love Stories will be a scaffold for your brave explorations of those stubborn blockages. Within this memoir, which is somewhat academic,...
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Cherish the Challenge2 The book recounts the recollections of the author's experiences and positive perceptions of his thoughts as he worked his way through life. He had a stroke at age nine, which took away the use of his right side and his articulation. While most...
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Surprised by the Call of God: Tales of a Jesus FreakIn 1962, a restless and aimless young man had a brush with God and recognized that God had called him to the ministry. He followed that call even when it looked like he had crawled out on a limb and sawed it off. This...
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Jack StoriesThe story of a boy growing up during the depression in the hills of East Tennessee. Family, faith, and fun make up his life as he learns what is most important. Through his simple life he learns character that will guide him as he...
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