Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks: A Filmmaker's Creative Journey"A master class of the masterworks of Paul Thomas Anderson" (Variety Magazine), Adam Nayman's full-color coffee-table gift book explores the creative journey of the multiple Academy Award-nominated writer and director. Foreword by the Safdie Brothers "Full of lavish photographs from his best-loved films." ―A....
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Painting with Bob Ross for Kids: With These Simple-To-Follow Lessons, in No Time You'll Be Painting Just Like Television's Favorite Painter, Bob Ross!Young artists can learn to paint just like television's favorite painter, Bob Ross, with these simple-to-follow lessons! In the officially licensed Painting with Bob Ross for Kids, children discover how to create stunning natural landscapes such as "Happy Trees Along a Cabin Path," "Surfing...
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Ozzy & Me: Life Lessons, Wild Stories, and Unexpected Epiphanies from Forty Years of Friendship with the Prince of DarknessAn entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author's four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family. Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year "The Troubles" began. Violence was everywhere....
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Ordinary Hazards: A MemoirMichael L. Printz Honor BookRobert F. Sibert Honor BookBoston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor BookArnold Adoff Poetry Award for Teens Six Starred Reviews--★Booklist ★BCCB ★The Horn Book ★Publishers Weekly ★School Library Connection ★Shelf Awareness A Booklist Best Book for Youth * A BCCB Blue Ribbon...
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On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of WarWhen Jens Stoltenberg took office as secretary general of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape the West's shared security. On My Watch takes readers behind closed doors...
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One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the WayFrom her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children... , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding...
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Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International JusticeThe remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver...
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Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North KoreaFor the first time, Kenneth Bae tells the full story surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in North Korea.Not Forgotten is a modern story of intrigue, suspense, and heart. Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China...
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NightFor use in schools and libraries only. The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.Author: Elie WieselPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 01/16/2006Pages: 120Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.65dISBN: 9781417728145Accelerated Reader:Reading Level:...
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My Year of Really Bad Dates: A MemoirFor anyone who's ever gone on terrible date, a vulnerable memoir that explores dating in midlife after divorce, with bad dates--from terrible one-night stands to promising matches who ultimately disappoint--anchoring the theme of every chapter. After two life-shaking events--losing her father and divorcing the...
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My Son, the Priest: A Mother's Crisis of Faith"A beautifully written tale of spiritual growth."-James Martin, SJ, author of the New York Times bestsellers Jesus: A Pilgrimage and Learning to Pray Not every Catholic mother wants her son to be a priest.The true story of a young man's journey to become a...
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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück SurvivorAn international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor "shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift). Selma van de Perre was seventeen when...
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My Memoir: Living for GodHere's an amazing story that will shock and inspire you...starting in Burma. "This amazing testimony of a young boy growing up in Burma in the midst of civil war, poverty, and persecution of Christians. Miraculously, he became an MD and had his life protected...
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My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A MemoirInternational BestsellerA heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their...
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My Life from Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One Cake at a TimeA former Hollywood insider trades the Hollywood Hills for Green Acres--and lives to tell about it in this hilarious, poignant treat of a memoir. As head of her celebrity sister's production company, Gesine Bullock-Prado had a closet full of designer clothes and the ear...
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Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark NagataLion Head charges into Melted Candle Man! GAOO! Chicken Head swoops down and thrashes Lion Head! GUCHYA! The monster battle rages on! GASHAN! These kaiju, Japanese creatures delivered as toys to a nine-year-old boy one Christmas day from relatives in Japan, became the catalyst...
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Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War IIThe untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II. In 1943, the OSS--precursor to the CIA--came up with a plan to...
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MemoryA poet's spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer. A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer's monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky's Memory is a cycle of "poet's essays" stirred by two profound questions. What constitutes personhood and...
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Martin Scorsese: The Iconic Filmmaker and His WorkDiscover the genius of Martin Scorsese - one of cinema's greatest storytellers.For over 50 years, Martin Scorsese has been one of cinema's most celebrated directors. From a Catholic kid in Manhattan to a legendary filmmaker, he's shaped Hollywood with masterpieces such as Taxi Driver,...
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Makeup to Breakup: My Life in and Out of KissFounding drummer Peter "Catman" Criss's New York Times bestselling memoir, "the best--and most honest--account of KISS craziness during the band's heyday in the 1970s" (Publishers Weekly), now in paperback--"KISS fans will love every word" (Rolling Stone).Legendary founding KISS drummer Peter "Catman" Criss has lived...
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