Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
-
I Am Sally RideThe first American woman to fly in space is the 35th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 9. From childhood, Sally Ride was a daring adventurer, and her parents encouraged her to pursue the things...
- $25.76 AUD
- $25.76 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
I Am Sacagawea (I Am #1)A brand-new biography series featuring some of the most important people from history and today.I am only sixteen years old as I trek across the country with my infant son strapped to my back. I have a river, two lakes, and four mountain peaks...
- $9.08 AUD
- $9.08 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free"Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the magnitude of the impact of racism and violence."--Library Journal (starred review)"Gripping, thought-provoking, and personal, I Am...
- $43.96 AUD
- $43.96 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
I Am John LewisThe late Civil Rights activist and Congressman John Lewis is the 29th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 9. This book spotlights John Lewis, known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement, having helped...
- $25.76 AUD
- $25.76 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the TableA witty and lively memoir from food writer and New York Times contributor Besha Rodell, (formerly) one of the world's last anonymous restaurant critics When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in...
- $43.96 AUD
- $43.96 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius"This is a wonderful and important book that anyone interested in Stoicism or in being a better leader should read." --Ryan Holiday Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this...
- $28.81 AUD
- $28.81 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and DoomFrom one of the most influential voices in disability activism comes an essay collection that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a vibrant part of life. In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots,...
- $42.46 AUD
- $42.46 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Be a Living Thing: Meditations on Intuitive Oysters, Hopeful Doves, and Being Human in the WorldA luminous collection of essays exploring the lessons we can incorporate from the animal world in order to live more fully as humans A shelter cat teaches us that our damaged parts, too, are worthy of love... a captive orca shows us that inconvenience...
- $43.98 AUD
- $43.98 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen AnimalsA New York Times bestseller!National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be...
- $36.39 AUD
- $36.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Hopeful Heroes: More Poems about Amazing LatinosIn this companion to Bravo!, Margarita Engle's beautiful poetry introduces young readers to lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have all shown tremendous resilience. Prepare to be inspired by this empowering collection of poetry that tells a larger story about fortitude and community across...
- $28.80 AUD
- $28.80 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Homage to CataloniaA National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New Yorker In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as...
- $30.31 AUD
- $30.31 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third ReichNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Air Mail "A fascinating and instructive book . . . elegantly written and perceptive." --Wall Street Journal "Kaleidoscopic . . . A fascinating exploration of individual agency that never loses sight of the...
- $53.07 AUD
- $53.07 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of AmericaInstant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bound Bestseller Bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema-gogue possible.The story...
- $28.80 AUD
- $28.80 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt's HeartIn this riveting YA non-fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, trace Lorena Hickok--or Hick's-- rise from devastating childhood to renowned journalist, and watch as she forms the most significant friendship and romantic relationship of her life with first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt....
- $31.83 AUD
- $31.83 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-DiscoveryA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American,...
- $27.28 AUD
- $27.28 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: Baby's First Book of Extraordinary WomenThis board book adaptation of the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces your little reader to the lives of extraordinary Rebel women, past and present, from around the world. Welcoming new Rebels into the fold, Good Night Stories for...
- $15.15 AUD
- $15.15 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional RecoveryAs seen on Good Morning America's SEPTEMBER 2020 READING LIST and FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2020!"We need to read stories about folks who have been through hell and kept going... Fascinating." --Glennon Doyle, A Favorite Book of 2020 on Good Morning America "Gildiner is nothing...
- $30.31 AUD
- $30.31 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner PeaceINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Multi-platinum artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Big Sean shares his five key practices for- inner work and self-acceptance in this interactive guidebook on maintaining daily mental wellness. Sean Anderson, better known as Big Sean, has reached incredible levels of success in his...
- $43.96 AUD
- $43.96 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called QuestA New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's...
- $25.70 AUD
- $25.70 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a TrailStand back, the girls are coming through: Learn about forty amazing Asian American women who have changed the course of history!From the big stage to the US Navy, from laboratories to the boardroom, from the Olympics to the pages in books, these girls and...
- $30.31 AUD
- $30.31 AUD
- Unit price
- per
