Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American ExperimentAn intimate study of Abraham Lincoln's powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today--by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize *Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize**Finalist for the 2025...
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Otherwise, I'm Fine: A MemoirA daughter's story of unresolved grief and a family's hard-won healing When her husband Bill died in 1969, Tina Presnell gathered her three children. "We won't talk about this," she said. "It will be easier that way." Thus began, in the Presnell family, a...
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One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary"Feels like reading a love story that doesn't quite know it's a love story yet, and a success story that doesn't know it's made it." --Emma Straub, New York Times-bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow Award-winning, beloved children's book author and illustrator Carson Ellis...
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One Man's WestThe American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers such as David Lavender remembered "not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the...
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the WorldSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book AwardSilver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE AwardFrom the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster's Wife and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the author sheltered in place in his tiny...
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Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway NarrativeWith the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story...
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System--And Pocketed $40 MillionNamed Amazon Editor's Pick and one of the Best Books of the Month for August 2024. A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions--who eventually loses everything that...
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My Two LivesHOLOCAUST SURVIVORBUSINESS BUILDERADVENTURERFAITHFUL HUSBAND, FATHER, AND FRIENDJochen "Jack" Wurfl lived two lives. Jack was born in 1932 in Germany to his Jewish mother and Catholic father, and lived in Austria until 1936. Anticipating Hitler's invasion of Austria, his parents sent Jack and his brother,...
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My StoryThis important collection of anecdotes and reminiscences from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is published to mark the occasion of his fifty years in public service, which began with his appointment as Dubai's Minister of Defence in 1968.These stories tell of the vision...
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My Life As An FBI Special Agent: Murder, Betrayal, and the Tragedy of Officer Bryan HurstThe True Accounts of Relentless Pursuit of JusticeIn the third installment of the Dark Places series, FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas unravels some of the most chilling and complex cases of his career. From an inside look at the idiosyncrasies of the infamous fraudster...
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My Garden (Book)Jamaica Kincaid invites us into her garden in this "irresistible stream of horticultural consciousness" (Michael Pollan). Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a square plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced gardener friends, she planted...
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Music and How It Works: The Complete Guide for KidsTake a visual journey through the world of music and learn the science behind it, too. Budding music fans will love discovering musical geniuses of every era, from Mozart and classical music to Bowie and pop, as well as finding out how music is...
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Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on SyriaTHE TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE BOY DID HIS PART TO END THE SYRIAN REGIME A 2024 YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens - An NPR Best Book of 2023 - A 2023 NCSS Notable Social Studies Book "Inspiring and exciting, powerful...
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Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of CalcuttaThis historic work reveals the inner spiritual life of one of the most beloved and important religious figures in history--Mother Teresa. During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her...
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Moonwalk: A MemoirIn this #1 New York Times bestseller, Michael Jackson tells the story of his life, in his words. In this intimate and often moving personal account of Michael Jackson's public and private life, he recalls a childhood that was both harsh and joyful but...
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Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang MemberWritten in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing best-seller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more than 300,000 copies in print in the United States alone.After pumping eight blasts from...
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Miss Betti, What Is This?: How Detroit's School Lunch Lady Got Good Food on the MenuDiscover the changemaker who transformed the Detroit Public School lunch program--in stunning illustration. Miss Betti knew wholesome, nourishing food. She also knew the kids in Detroit's public schools were not getting wholesome, nourishing lunches. Luckily, as Detroit's school lunch lady, Miss Betti had the...
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Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts RemixedNew York Time's "The Best Cookbooks of 2023" James Beard Award-winner for Emerging Voice 2024James Beard Award-nominee for Baking and Desserts 2024A sweet baking book of fantastically imaginative remixed Filipino American dessert recipes, plus essays on the Filipino American experience by baker-fundraiser Abi Balingit.When...
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Martin Luther King Jr.Discover ten crucial days in the life of activist and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., in this installment of the 10 Days series. Martin Luther King, Jr., lived 14,325 days, but then of them changed his world--and ours. Follow Dr. King's journey...
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed KillsThe explosive true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War. There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock. He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines--on their...
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