Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success"Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson's polymathy." --The New York Times Book Review "Part sports memoir, part New Age spirit quest, part...
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eating pizza backwards, and other adventures: a mom, a daughter, a life unexpectedParenting brings a world of joy and challenge. Raising a special needs child only magnifies the highs and lows that all parents experience. This beautiful collection of essays spotlights and celebrates the unique perspective differently abled children offer all who love and care for...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Martin Luther King, JrHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Martin Luther King, Jr offers a sensitive account of...
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DK Super History George Washington and the American RevolutionThis series explores history through modern topic books that enhance literacy and background knowledge while aligning with the curriculum. DK Super History: George Washington and the American Revolution is part of the new DK Super History series designed for children aged 7-11 to explore...
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness"Rough, tough, combative . . . a passionately felt, deeply poetic book."--Edwin Way Teale, The New York Times Book Review "This is not primarily a book about the desert," writes Edward Abbey in his introduction. "In recording my impressions of the natural scene I...
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Crazy BraveIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding...
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's UnderworldThis is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was...
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Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of SeparationIn Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing. As...
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure in this multi-award winning, mega-selling biography from the incomparable Phillip Hoose. "When it...
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Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!Civil rights icon Claudette Colvin teams up with Phillip Hoose--author of the Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning blockbuster biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice--to tell her groundbreaking story in this unforgettable picture book illustrated by New York Times-bestselling artist Bea Jackson. Montgomery, Alabama...
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Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a GenerationExcavating a sometimes wacky, and equally harmful, part of white Evangelical culture Roasted marshmallows, campfire stories, shaving cream battles--for some of us, Christian summer camp is where we felt most at home, where we could be the most authentic versions of ourselves. But for...
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Cher: Part One: The Memoir***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller******The Global #1 Bestseller***The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her...
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart GardnerThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum, and the art she collected.Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior...
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of BaseballNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures--baseball immortal Pete Rose--and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century - "Comprehensive,...
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Carry on: Reflections for a New Generation*National Bestseller* A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his remarkable life. Congressman John Lewis was a paragon of the Civil Rights Movement and political...
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Carole King: She Made the Earth MoveJane Eisner traces the professional accomplishments and personal challenges of pop icon Carole King, exploring her unique contribution to American music Carole King's extraordinary career has defined American popular music for more than half a century. Born in New York City in 1942, she...
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Caitlin Clark: Shooting Star, a BiographyA slam-dunk picture book biography featuring the WNBA Rookie of the Year and one of the biggest names in basketball--Caitlin Clark!Caitlin's love for the game is evident every time she steps foot on a court, whether for a pickup game with her brothers as...
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Breathtaking: A Field Guide to Living Your Epic Life"This book is a breath of wild, clear air in a world drowning in distraction. Read it and learn how to live again." -Alexia Brown, Attorney (Ret.)/School Board TrusteeShelli didn't set out to write a book. She set out to examine her life.A longtime...
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Brain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition): My Month of MadnessAn anniversary edition of the award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity--with a new note to readers by the author....
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Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood"A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young, gifted, Black, and female." --The Philadelphia InquirerIn this memoir of perceptions and ideas, renowned feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a stirringly intimate account of growing up in the South. Stitching together the gossamer threads...
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