Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Reasons to RebelThe 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples' livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination.There was no shortage of reasons to rebel. Along with thousands upon thousands of others I opposed not just...
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Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous MistressBarbara Villiers was a woman so beautiful, so magnetic and so sexually attractive that she captured the hearts of many in Stuart-era Britain. Her beauty is legendary: she became the muse of artists such as Peter Lely, the inspiration of writers such as John...
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Racing Legends: Max VerstappenRace through fun facts, stats and stories about your favourite drivers with F1 expert, Maurice Hamilton. Find out how Max Verstappen went from go-karting to becoming one of the world's best RACING LEGENDS! Detailing his super-fast rise to fame this book shows just how...
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Quiet Counsel: Looking Back on a Life of Service to the Law"We all should heed the lessons I've learned and what I continue to believe: the law, properly applied, is a powerful force for good in our society." In this thoughtful and candid memoir, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry D. Thompson explores the big...
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Protecting Whitney: The Memoir of Her BodyguardDavid Roberts was Whitney Houston's bodyguard, the real one. Roberts was hired in 1988 for Houston's UK portion of the Moment of Truth world tour. Accustomed to working for diplomats and Fortune 500 clients, Roberts had reservations about working with a pop star. But...
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Portrait of a Marriage: A Memoir"A powerful true story of two lovers...A tour-de-force memoir"-Kirkus ReviewsIn this moving memoir, Judy Crichton brings to life her turbulent marriage to novelist Robert Crichton and the exhilarating creative world of New York of the 1950s and 60s. He was a hard-drinking writer knocking...
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Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass MurderA chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the...
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Politics Unseen: Group F.64 Photography and the Problem of PurityIn Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the "pure photographs" of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members' and their prints' alliances across commercial, political, and artistic domains, the book...
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Political Power: Tim WaltzExplore the dynamic journey of Tim Walz in this exciting 22-page biography comic book. From his modest beginnings to his influential roles in Congress and as Governor, experience Walz's story through vivid illustrations and compelling narrative. Each page brings to life his significant achievements...
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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty CatsAn intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken-- and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats. When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets...
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Playing the Hand You are DealtA fun, heartwarming and inspiring book with extraordinary tales of magic, hope and wondrous possibilities.John Kippen is the CEO of a successful I.T. company, a professional magician, motivational speaker and life coach. His life story of triumph over tragedy is the subject of the...
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Philosophy: 100 Essential ThinkersPonder life's biggest questions with this spectacular hardback guide to philosophy through its 100 key thinkers, beautifully illustrated in full-color throughout. From the metaphysics of Plato to the nihilism of Nietzsche, this engaging and accessible book invites readers to contemplate the ideas of 100...
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Performance AnxietyHe is sixteen in 1964. He has friends. He has fun. He smokes unfiltered Luckies. He loses his virginity. He gets his first car and drives with abandon. He is growing up as fast as he can, if not as fast as he wants....
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Peque?as Rebeldes / Little Rebel GirlsUn libro infantil (a partir de 6 a?os) que inspira a los j?venes lectores a so?ar en grande a trav?s de breves biograf?as y magn?ficas ilustraciones de mujeres que han cambiado el mundo.Cien mujeres que se atravieron a cambiar el mundo. Cien historias de...
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Patton's Shadow: The Making of a Hero in Modern MemoryAn engrossing account of the myth and legend of George S. Patton and what his reputation illuminates about American culture and hero worshipPatton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the...
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Paradise Under GlassParadise Under Glass is a witty and absorbing memoir about one woman's unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home. Ruth Kassinger's wonderful story of the unique way she chose to cope with the profound changes in...
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Painting Wonder: How Pauline Baynes Illustrated the Worlds of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. TolkienYoung Pauline Baynes lives in India, a land of towering mountains, sparkling lakes, and bright flowers. She even has a pet monkey that joins her for tea. Then her life takes a turn, and Pauline is sent to dreary England. Books bring light and...
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Our Incredible JourneyExperience an extraordinary story of faith that brought a family together across continents and rejoice with them as God leads them through obstacle after obstacle according to His perfect plan.Sylvia and Al Tuberville first met by chance at a dance. The two had been...
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OuidaThis new study of Marie Louise de la Ram?e (1839-1908), who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida, considers the best-selling Victorian author's vivid, evocative work and especially the complex, even complicated ways in which she envisions and portrays gender.Author: Helena EsserPublisher: Edward Everett RootPublished: 09/30/2024Pages:...
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Orangutan: A MemoirFew people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism--from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts--to...
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