Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Albert Einstein and Sir Arthur EddingtonBritish scientist Arthur Eddington was once more famous than Albert Einstein! Informed scientists understand how intertwined the two are. Einstein's theories are well known, but it was Eddington who proved and endorsed many of them. This book describes the rise of these two men...
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Never Love a Feral Cat: A Tale of Compassion and CoexistenceIn this time of technological complexity, real connections seem more difficult but more important than ever. In this memoir, author Alwyn Moss describes the unexpected relationships of her and her neighbors in a rural retirement settlement with a colony of feral cats. With the...
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The Path to PowerThe Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. Here is the perfect joining of subject and writer: Johnson, the man of awesome complexity, energy, ambition, and power--obsessed with secrecy, obscuring (often "rewriting") the facts of his personal and political life;...
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Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain established the first French colony in Quebec. He also mapped unknown territories, such as the coast of Canada and Lake Champlain in current day Vermont. Readers will follow along as Champlain meets Native American groups, builds Quebec City, and much more...
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Legendary Locals of Forest Hills and Rego ParkIn 1906, Cord Meyer Development Company purchased 600 acres in Whitepot and renamed it Forest Hills after its high elevation of rolling hills and proximity to Forest Park.After the Russell Sage Foundation acquired 142 acres and Grosvenor Atterbury and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. partnered,...
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Legendary Locals of DecaturA working-class city of 75,000 people on the banks of the Sangamon River and its largest lake, Decatur has a reputation for outstanding individuals with a strong community spirit and an unashamed sense of patriotism. To borrow a phrase from Adm. Chester Nimitz, in...
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Falling for London: A Cautionary TaleWhen Sean Mallen finally landed his dream job, it fell on him like a ton of bricks. Not unlike the plaster in his crappy, overpriced London flat. The veteran journalist was ecstatic when he unexpectedly got the chance he'd always craved: to be a...
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Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, SonThe authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor. Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the...
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If My Heart Could Talk: A Story of Family, Faith, and MiraclesDodie Osteen, mother of Joel Osteen, gives readers a personal account of her extraordinary life and shares what she has learned about love, faith, and family. As the wife of forty-four years to the late Pastor John Osteen, founder of Lakewood Church, Dodie Osteen...
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BalanceNik Wallenda, King of the High Wire, doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Wallenda family, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance. When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978...
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The Welsh the BiographyThe Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain's four oldest cathedrals, and how after one...
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Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume One: 1897-1948One of Canada's most dynamic prime ministers, Lester B. Pearson lived a life which took him from a childhood in rural Ontario to the apex of international politics. The first volume of his memoirs follows him from his youth as the son of a...
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and FoundA superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of The Killer himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed. The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee...
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Lemmy: The Definitive Biography'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK 'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most...
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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle FrontierThe second in Richmond Hobson's beloved a trilogy, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, continues the adventure of cattle ranchers Rich and Pan. It is a story of hardship and endurance--of cattle drives, frozen faces, and marauding wolf packs. It is the story of...
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Charlotte Brontë Before Jane EyreDo you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong --I have as much soul as you, --and full as much heart Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers...
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Houdini: The Handcuff King"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living." Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of...
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Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisHistory remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the tycoon's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, tend to skip over an equally important stage in her life: her almost two-decade-long career as...
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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me HomeA national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking...
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James Meredith: Warrior and the America that created himIn the last century, on September 30, 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi, until then a segregated establishment--a watershed event in the American Civil Rights movement. Less than one year later, Meredith graduated with a degree...
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