Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Sweet Oddball - The Story of Alice Pearce (hardback)Alice Pearce, once called "the adenoidal lass with the most beautiful, homely face on Broadway," carved a unique career playing wallflowers, nitwits, nags, and other oddball characters, all of whom contrasted sharply with their portrayer. As the shy daughter of an international banker, she...
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Surgeon Across the Miles from Bombay to BostonAutobiography of a surgeon who migrated from Bombay to Boston at a very young age for specialty post-graduate training in surgery. He established a successful surgical practice and became a recognized figure in the Boston medical community. He had an interesting career spanning over...
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Sunakali the Messi of the HimalayasSunakali, a small Nepalese country girl, keeps goats with her friends in the Himalayas. But the girls have a secret passion--soccer! They play it every afternoon in the pastures. One day, a visitor from Katmandu asks to meet them. "I want to start a...
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Stuck in the Storm: Break free and grow beyond your past to a brighter future.Do you ever feel stuck? Stuck in the past, or living with regret? Stuck in an addiction with hidden secrets of shame? Stuck in abuse, paralyzed by fear and poisoned by unforgiveness? Stuck in anger because things seem unfair, and you are weary of...
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St. Th?r?se of Lisieux: Her Last ConversationsAuthor: Th?r?se of LisieuxPublisher: ICS PublicationsPublished: 12/01/2023Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.71dISBN: 9781939272195
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Strong and Free: My Journey in Alberta PoliticsTed Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the federal Canadian Alliance Party in Ottawa....
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Story of a Communist: A MemoirThe philosopher Antonio Negri was one of the preeminent thinkers of our time: his writings on class, socialism, and empire have had an enormous influence on contemporary political theory. His political activism and outspoken advocacy for the downtrodden also placed him at the centre...
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Stepping on the Cracks: Learning to Live Again After Abuse, Addiction and LossA compelling and powerful mental health memoir of triumph in the face of adversity, set in the tropical islands of the West Indies.How do you find love when all you've known as a child is violence and abuse?How do you find your way back...
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Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni MitchellFrom the celebrated novelist and memoirist, a gorgeous account of how Joni Mitchell's work has shaped his writing throughout his life.From the moment Paul Lisicky heard Joni Mitchell while growing up in New Jersey, he recognized she was that rarity among musicians--a talent whose...
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Some of This World is MineSome of This World is Mine is the remarkable chronicle of one man's "lust for travel" as he lived and traveled abroad for virtually his entire business career. Spanning a time period requiring eleven passports, Ruel Martin's story is one of adventure, interesting observations,...
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Some Lines of Poetry: From the Notebooks of BpnicholCBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"For bpNichol's 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work.One of Canada's most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944-1988), left a huge legacy of poetry, prose, scripts,...
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Sociopath: A MemoirAn engrossing, "completely fascinating" (Cosmopolitan) memoir revealing the author's struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder. Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused...
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Slow ReturnPaul Lieber's "slow return" refers to his slow return to his 20's and perhaps a slow return to sanity from political turmoil of the 1960's, drugs, and a romanticized notion of suicide, all prompted by photos he discovered in "Anarchy, Protest and Rebellion." His...
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Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold onA memoir reflecting on heartbreak, perseverance, and life lessons learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the hosts of the hit podcast Buffering the Vampire Slayer. Kristin and Jenny's marriage started with an ultimatum: to further their relationship, Kristin must watch Jenny's favorite show,...
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Skydiving Without a Parachute and Other Success StoriesSkydiving Without a Parachute and Other Success Stories explores what it means to house multiple identities within a singular body. Through a mixture of prose and poetry, Brooke acknowledges and celebrates the messy. The broken. Even the unredeemable. With a focus on queerness, gender...
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Simone Biles: Gymnastics GoatSimone Biles is the most decorated American gymnast of all time. Between Olympic and World Championship medals, she has 19--and she isn't retired yet! In this colorful volume written especially with reluctant and struggling readers in mind, Simone's major accomplishments are highlighted, accompanied by...
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Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening"A work of stunning erudition by one of our most brilliant chroniclers of the American past. By meticulously detailing how courageous activists sparked an environmental revolution that fueled the legislative imaginations of three very different presidents, Douglas Brinkley also renders a vivid portrait of...
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Shoreline"A dazzling memoir that artfully renders the importance of connection across time and space." --Kirkus starred review Shoreline, a creative-nonfiction memoir, melds tales of intergenerational wandering, the joys and challenges of raising children in multiple countries, historical and literary figures from within their cultural...
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Seven Presidents and One Professor: An Account of 72 Years at Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminarySoutheastern Baptist Theological Seminary, founded in 1951 on the campus of Wake Forest College, has had seven presidents throughout its history. One Southeastern Professor has known them all. This book is the story of that one Professor and his public and private interactions with...
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Service With a Sneer: The Unrepentant Recollections of An Old-School CopAre you ready for a stroll down memory alley?Can you recall a time when cops arrested rioters who were setting fire to buildings and vandalizing historical monuments? Remember when shoplifters actually went to jail? Imagine an era when violent lunatics weren't allowed to wander...
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