Biography New Releases

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is a non-fictional account of a person's life. Biographies are written by an author who is not the subject/focus of the book.

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Autobiography
Memoir ...more

New Releases Tagged "Biography"

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Last to Eat, Last to Learn: My Life in Afghanistan Fighting to Educate Women

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs

Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life's Other Unexpected Curveballs

Johnson at 10: The Inside Story: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World

The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

The Windsors at War: The King, His Brother, and a Family Divided

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

Life Sentence The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

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Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and Some Very Famous Ducklings

Edward VI: Henry VIII's Overshadowed Son

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Quotes Tagged “Biography”

“ Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general. ...more ”
― Germany Kent

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“ When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be. ”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

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