Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
A Sucky Love Story: Overcoming Unhappily Ever After
As seen on Shane Dawson's YouTube channel!What if falling in love meant almost losing everything?Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online. Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid—I tried them all. My thirty-one-year-old...
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So, You're Crazy Too?
An in-depth look into Teen Mom star, Amber Portwood’s long history dealing with several severe mental illnesses, and how she survived almost insurmountable odds and unbearable public scrutiny to become the strong, self-assured woman she is today.As a reality TV stalwart and...
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Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years
An intimate look at the legendary Frank Sinatra by one of his closest friends.Not many people were allowed inside Frank Sinatra's inner circle. But Tony Consiglio was a boyhood friend of Sinatra's who remained his friend and confidant for over...
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Shotgun Angels: My Story of Broken Roads and Unshakeable Hope
Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts reveals the untold stories of his journey--from obscurity to becoming one of America's most successful and beloved country music artists--that will rally your own courage to find hope where you least expect it. From his...
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The Secret is YOU: How I Empowered 250,000 Women to Find Their Passion and Change Their Lives
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The Secret is YOU: How I Empowered 250,000 Women to Find Their Passion and Change Their Lives
USA Today and Wall Street Journalbestseller!How a trailblazing business turned the hottest bedroom toy accessories into a $350 million global empire.In 2000, Chris Cicchinelli was twenty-five and at a crossroads. He had just been forced to leave a promising position at...
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Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography
In this ambitious work David T. Byrne analyzes the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan’s political philosophy and policies. Rather than appraising Reagan’s personal and emotional life, Byrne’s intellectual biography goes one step further; it establishes a rationale for the former...
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A Rock between Two Rivers: The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch
A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his family’s ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright he’ll leave for the generations who follow. What began for...
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Resilient by Nature: Reflections from a Life of Winning On and Off the Football Field
This amazing memoir follows the story of Reggie Williams—ex-NFL linebacker, former Disney executive, renaissance man, and the epitome of determination in the face of extreme challenges.In so many ways, Reggie Williams has had the type of life that people dream...
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Real Dirt on America's Frontier Outlaws
Learn the real stories behind the infamous renegades of the West. The rebels and bandits of the American West―like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid―have always made for thrilling tales of gunfights, heists, and...
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Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color
In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker’s Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade. Baker had no idea...
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station the Helped Bring Peace to the Congo; A Memoir
One of Africa's largest radio stations operating in one of the continent's most politically unstable countries sets the stage for a touching and thought-provoking story that illustrates how peace is a process, and how the spectrum between war and peace...
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
“The finest modern introduction to [Wordsworth's] work, life and impact. It shows how and why ‘Wordsworth made a difference.’”—Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times Named a Favorite Book of 2020 by The Progressive Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is...
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Queens of the Crusades: England's Medieval Queens Book Two
Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years.The Plantagenet queens of England played a role...
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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist
The first biography to look at the early feminist and radical Mary Wortley Montagu, who successfully introduced Britain to the inoculation against the smallpox virus.300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley...
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Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays
From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the worlds of some of the most important and...
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My American Life
How Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting Congresswoman from Rifle, Colorado, joined the fight to make sure we never live in a socialist country.Lauren Boebert is the Republican, gun-toting Congresswoman from Rifle, Colorado who overcame difficult life circumstances to be a leading...
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Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood
“Magic Time recounts what I remember about Hawk: someone who never took an opportunity for granted and worked hard to achieve success in his own right. Plus, he was a lot of the fun, and, as the book reflects, we had...
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Macho Time: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of Hector Camacho
Hector Camacho lived fast, and his fists flew even faster in the ring. Handsome, flamboyant, and outspoken, Camacho electrified the boxing scene of the 1980s and, shouting his mantra “Macho Time”, he beat some of the greatest fighters of his...
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Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist
Louis Bamberger (1855–1944) was the epitome of the merchant prince as public benefactor. Born in Baltimore, this son of German immigrants built his business―the great, glamorous L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark, N.J.―into the sixth-largest department store in...
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The Lives of Jack London
Jack London (1876-1916), the author of such classics as Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, was the last great voice of the American frontier and a master of the adventure novel. The Lives of Jack London was published first in France as Les vies...
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Lift Your Voice: How My Nephew George Floyd's Murder Changed The World
Angela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt and closest relative in Minnesota, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George’s family—how he lived and why he died—and how the world can find a solution to racism through his death.Angela Harrelson grew up poor, one...
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The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 1: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964
For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the...
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The Life of John André: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold
A new biography of John André, head of British secret services in the Revolutionary War, who was captured in 1780 and hanged as a spy.John André was head of the British Army’s Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary...
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The Legacy of Anne Frank
From her secret hiding place in wartime Amsterdam, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote heart-wrenchingly about the terrors of a captivity that would ultimately end with her death at the hands of the Nazis. In her world-famous diaries, she described...
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The Kennan Diaries
A landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famous diplomat. On a hot July afternoon in 1953, George F. Kennan descended the steps of the State Department building as...
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Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought"A perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments of the man."—Jonathan Rose, Wall Street JournalKarl Marx (1818–1883)—philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs...
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Irondad Life: A Year of Bad Decisions and Questionable Motives―What I Learned on the Quest to Conquer Ironman Lake Placid
A hilarious look at the world of Ironman triathlons and how one man tries to juggle training with the demands of a busy family.Why do people race in Ironmans—a competition that was dreamed up by a U.S. Navy Officer after a beer-influenced...
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Infidelity: A Memoir
She thought they were the perfect couple. She authored Keep the Home Fires Burning: How to Have an Affair with Your Spouse and appeared on Oprah, Donahue, and Sally Jessy Raphael as an expert on the joys of sexual monogamy. She was...
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Impaired: A Nurse's Story of Addiction and Recovery
On June 28, 1996, Patricia Holloran's life changed forever when Drug Control confronted her for the theft of narcotics from the hospital where she worked. So begins a journey that will change everything about what she knows about herself and...
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The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry
A striking contribution to theconversation that is conservatism Wendell Berry—poet, novelist, essayist, critic, farmer—has won the admiration of Americans from all walks of life and from across the political spectrum. His writings treat an extraordinary range of subjects, including politics,...
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