Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the...
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American Populist: Huey Long of LouisianaThomas E. Patterson's monumental biography of Huey Long is a profound reevaluation of his life and legacy, recognizing him as an inspirational progressive thinker, populist hero, and radical influence on the New Deal before an assassin's bullet ended his life in 1935. First as...
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American Mother: A Life ReclaimedAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Featured on MSNBC's Morning JoeWith National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, Diane Foley courageously returns to the story of her son, American journalist James Foley, who went abroad and never came home. In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at...
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American HeroesIn this instant #1 national bestseller from the authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, "American Heroes is a gripping collection of firsthand accounts...capturing the indomitable spirit of our nation's finest" (Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series)....
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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia EarhartFeatured in the upcoming National Geographic documentary, Expedition Amelia! This is a critically acclaimed look at the life, disappearance, and search for the legendary aviatrix, Amelia Earhart. On May 21, 1937, the most famous female pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, set out to...
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Alterations"In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads--one by one by hand in their spare time."A collective of women gathers to painstakingly turn...
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All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family OdysseyFrom the author of Dear Scarlet comes a graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parentsBeginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to...
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A Legend Hunter's Search for Ogopogo the Elusive Creature of Okanagan LakeKelowna resident Bill Steciuk didn't believe in Ogopogo. But that was about to change. In October of 1978, while driving across the bridge from the west side of Lake Okanagan, he saw something in the water that made him stop his car. All the...
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A Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down--And Save the Planet"A Kind Life takes readers on a personal journey, laying a pathway of how to live more kindly on the earth"--Keegan Kuhn, co-director of Cowspiracy What does it mean to live a kind life? In this inspiring book, a mother-of-two provides a blueprint for...
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Akim Aliu: Dreamer (Original Graphic Memoir)This honest, engrossing graphic memoir tells the story of professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu's incredible life as a hockey prodigy in Canada.Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world...
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A.J. Foyt - Volume 1: Survivor, Champion, LegendThis limited edition two-volume set chronicles the life of racing superstar A.J. Foyt--and is signed and endorsed by the legend himself.With fine leather binding and a beautifully crafted case, this set relays Foyt's journey from a cocky five-year-old to a brash competitor and offers...
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Airless Spaces, New EditionShort stories set among the disappeared and darkened sectors of New York City, about characters who fall prey to an increasingly bureaucratized poverty. After they raised her dose to 42 mg. of Trilafon, Lucy very nearly fainted. She felt a rush of bad sensation...
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival"Urgently required reading." --People"Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." --The New Yorker"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." --Newsweek The stunning story of a young woman, an...
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A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia ButlerA Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and "MacArthur Genius" Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to look,...
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A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon SyndromeA Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens"Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." -Scott Westerfeld, #1 New...
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1974: A Personal History"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism--uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony--give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s--the...
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You're Telling My Kids They Can't Read This Book?: Our Hundred-Year Children's-Literature Revolution and How We'll Keep Fighting to Support Our FamiliPASSIONATELY FIGHTING BOOK-BANNING AND CENSORSHIP: HOW & WHYIn this timely broadside against censorship, Laties weaves together stories from his fifty years as a bookseller, activist, and parent, while sharing tales from authors, librarians, publishers, journalists, and customers. Discussing events as recent as the May...
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our TimesIf you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness" (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make...
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You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr.Make way for Martin Luther King, Jr.!It's Martin Luther King, Jr., like you've never seen him before!Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to a trailblazer of the civil rights movement. The fourth...
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World History EncyclopediaA comprehensive introduction to world history from prehistoric times to the start of the 21st century, including information on dinosaurs, the first humans, Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, the World Wars and other major events in history. - Magnificently illustrated with a...
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