Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Shohei Ohtani: Baseball TrailblazerShohei Ohtani has turned heads as the first professional baseball player since Babe Ruth to both pitch and hit. His speed, skill, and strength has made him a beloved player around the world. Find out more about his journey from growing up in Japan...
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She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her SongsIn this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland "analyzes how Dolly Parton's songs--and success--have embodied feminism for working-class women" (People). Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah...
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ShakiraFrom the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Shakira, the world's most popular Latin American singer. As a child, little Shakira knew she was born to be performer. Even as a little girl, she was full of...
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Samoan Queer LivesSamoan Queer Lives is a collection of personal stories from one of the world's unique indigenous queer cultures. The first of its kind, this book features a collection of autobiographical pieces by fa afafine, transgender, and queer people of Sāmoa, one of the original...
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Sacred Lessons: Teaching My Father How to LoveUSA TODAY BESTSELLER In Sacred Lessons: Teaching My Father How to Love, Mike de la Rocha explores how inherited definitions of manhood profoundly impacted his ability to connect with his father, his family, and ultimately himself, inviting readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery,...
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Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media MogulRobert Maxwell -- ruthless, volatile, defiant; a man of gargantuan appetites, for food, wine, women, power, money -- unabashedly bared his ambition to the world, as he strove to build a publishing empire. But, throughout his career, Robert Maxwell also nurtured another, more driving,...
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Return to CenterTokala Two Elk was born in a chicken coop on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation . . . From his humble beginnings, Tokala became a man whose life would be shaped by Spirit, ceremonies, teachings, and traditions of his...
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Red Heels & Red FlagsDISCLAIMER: All these stories are true.With another failed marriage on her resume, Scarlett Steel finds herself single. Again. The last thing anyone wants to do after divorce is jump into another serious relationship. So she does what any other self-respecting woman (or man) would...
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Prisoner of LoveStarting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner...
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Prairie Man: My Little House Life & BeyondUSA TODAY Bestseller PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Bestseller An illuminating, insider's journey through the world of Little House on the Prairie and beyond, from Dean Butler, who starred as Almanzo Wilder, the man Laura "Half Pint" Ingalls married--on the iconic show still beloved by millions of...
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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura BelpréRECIPIENT OF THE PURA BELPRÉ HONOR * A Today Show's Best Kids' Books of 2019 * Indie Next List Pick * Junior Library Guild Selection * "An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles about the groundbreaking librarian...a must-have for all...
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of CreationFinalist for the National Book Award!In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire...
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Personal Memoirs"The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece." --Ron Chernow, in Grant Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future--and won himself a...
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Pass It On!Pass It On! by Gloria J. McEwen Burgess and illustrated by Gerald Purnell is a children's picture book about the author's father, Earnest McEwen Jr., and his life-changing relationship with Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner.As a young boy, Ernie (Earnest McEwen...
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Passing for Human: A Graphic MemoirNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what's expected of her as a woman, and learning to accept her true self, from an acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist A BEST BOOK OF THE...
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Our Southern Highlanders: A History and Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and a Study of Life Among the MountaineersTravel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of the 20th century. This edition contains all of his original photographs.An honest and eye-opening account of the old Appalachian culture,...
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Our Young Folks' Plutarch: Biographies of the Greatest Leaders, Military Generals and Heroes of Ancient Greece and Rome, Adapted for ChildrenRosalie Kaufman adapted Plutarch's famous biographies for children curious to discover the deeds of the greatest leaders and military heroes of Ancient Greece and Rome.A superb introduction to ancient times for the younger reader, Our Young Folks' Plutarch is presented in a lively, easy-to-read...
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and...
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Operation Ark: the gripping true story which captured global headlines'Pen Farthing is still angry. It's understandable.' -- Private Eye'Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing's actions were nothing short of heroic.' -- Ricky Gervais'Pen Farthing is a man who has the Commando spirit writ through him: he never gives up.'...
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On the Corner of Chocolate Avenue: How Milton Hershey Brought Milk Chocolate to AmericaThe story of sweet success behind the Hershey's Kiss! The invention of America's quintessential milk chocolate bar is brought to vivid, delicious life in this STEAM picture book biography perfect for fans of Mr. Ferris and His Wheel and Snowflake Bentley. Hershey's milk chocolate...
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