Biography & Autobiography

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year - Hardcover

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by Margaret Renkl (Author)THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART THROUGHOUT * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a "howling love letter to the world" (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces the passing of seasons, personal and natural.In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional...

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by Olive Senior (Author)The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850s who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular migration that would transform the islands economically, socially and politically well into the twentieth century.West Indians ...

Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography - Paperback

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by P. W. Barker (Author)""Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography"" is a comprehensive account of the life and work of Charles Goodyear, a pioneering figure in the rubber industry. Written by P.W. Barker, the book chronicles Goodyear's early life and career, including his experiments with rubber and his development of the vulcanization process. The book also explores Goodyear's personal life, including his family relationships and his struggles with financial diff...

Condi: The Life of a Steel Magnolia - Paperback

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by Mary Beth Brown (Author)"One day I'll be in that house," said ten year old Condoleezza Rice as she gazed across the White House's expansive front lawn.Of course, Condi made good on that promise. With poise and gracefulness?combined with an iron will and determination?rarely seen in Washington, Rice has become one of the most iconic and influential figures on the world stage. This is her story.Condi provides an in-depth study of the life, faith, and achievements of one of America's most fas...

Bastard Husband: A Love Story - Paperback

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by Linda Lou (Author)A week after I arrived in Sin City, I attended a divorce support group I found in the local newspaper listed between Cross-Dressers of Las Vegas and Friends and Family of Incarcerated People. (And I thought I had problems.) As I sat among a circle of strangers waiting for my turn to share, I glanced at the Absolutely No Swearing sign hanging from the ceiling and thought, "This will be a challenge." "I'm Linda," I began, "I have no husband, no job, and you people are my on...

Winston Churchill: La biografía del icono histórico, Winston Churchill - Hardcover

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by Henry Hanson (Author)WINSTON CHURCHILLWinston Churchill fue un hombre poderoso e inspirador, que persiguió activamente los retos y se esforzó por servir bien a su país. Desde combatir en la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta servir como Primer Ministro durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la lucha contra la Alemania nazi, hizo todo lo necesario para lograr la victoria y mantener a salvo a su pueblo. En este libro, además de detallar el tiempo que pasó luchando por su país, también profundizamos ...

Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia - Paperback

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by Natasha Lance Rogoff (Author)Muppets in Moscow is the incredible true story of the author's odyssey to create Sesame Street in Russia. It reveals how--in between bombings and political chaos in 1990s Moscow--a team of Russian and American artists, producers, educators, writers, and puppeteers overcame their many differences to create an unprecedented hit in a post-communist era.Author BiographyNatasha Lance Rogoff is an award-winning American television producer, filmmaker, and journalist ...

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by Paul-Henri Nargeolet (Author), Laura Haydon (Translator)September 1, 1985. The RMS Titanic, which has been missing since April 15, 1912, is found in the North Atlantic where it lies at a depth of 3,821 metres.Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a commander in the French Navy, directed underwater research of part of many expeditions to the wreck, from 1987 until his untimely death in 2023.With hundreds of hours of diving to the liner and more than five thousand objects brought to the surface, including b...

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Hardcover

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by Merlin Sheldrake (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. "Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world."--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE B...

What Jackie Taught Us (Revised and Expanded): Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Introduction by L iz Smith - Paperback

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by Tina Santi Flaherty (Author), Liz Smith (Introduction by)A unique perspective on the influence and enduring fascination of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis What Jackie Taught Us offers insights about how Jackie lived with poise, grace, and zest, including wisdom about image and style, focus, courage and vision, men, marriage, and motherhood. After more than a decade in print, this commemorative edition features fourteen new essays from notable individuals amplifying the ways in which Jackie'...

Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz - Paperback

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by Ron Jeremy (Author)He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and over the last twenty years has become porn's biggest ambassador to the mainstream. He's appeared in 60 regular films, 14 music videos, and VH1's Surreal Life, starred in the critically acclaimed Porn star (a movie about his life), and in Being Ron Jeremy (a take off on Being John Malkovich), co-starring Andy Dick. And...

Paul Hollywood - The Biography - Paperback

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by A. S. Dagnell (Author) Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN Publication Date: September 03, 2015

In My Own Words: Do-It-Yourself Autobiography - Paperback

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by Sheila Raptis (Author)In My Own Words is written in an easy to follow format. This keepsake volume contains hundreds of questions that guide you through the process of recollecting memories on many topics such as family and friends, school days, love life, career, travels, triumphs and tragedies, dreams and wishes, etc etc. There is also a section for an occasional diary, private special messages and a keepsake gallery for all those mementos that hold valuable memories of the past.What's g...

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright - Paperback

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by Brendan Gill (Author)"Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover."--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum--earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earne...

The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship - Paperback

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by Roger Friedland (Author), Harold Zellman (Author)Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary arc...

The Car Is Architecture - A Visual History of Frank Lloyd Wright's 85 Cars and One Motorcycle - Paperback

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by Richie Herink (Author)Cars were one of Frank Lloyd Wright's great obsessions, along with Architecture and Japanese Prints. The last two have been well documented, but the Cars have not been covered at all ... until this book. This unique visual history of Wright's 85 cars and one motorcycle uses original magazine ads to describe the make and model of each vehicle. They are presented in the order in which they were purchased. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x 11 x 8.5 IN Illustrated: Y...

G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep - Paperback

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by Colin Wilson (Author)A presentation of the life and work of one of the most influential psychological theorists of modern times, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.Author BiographyColin Wilson was the author of more than eighty books ranging from fiction and plays to existential psychology, criminology, and the paranormal. Wilson lived in Cornwall, England. He passed away in December of 2013. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2005

White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story about Criminal Mind Control - Paperback

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by Wendy Hoffman (Author)A memoir about how secret high-level mind control, the ways heads of governments and religious organizations participate in this, as well as the healing process and ultimately, how the mind becomes whole again. The memoir begins with the author's childhood in a multi-generational cult family, her ordinary life in the normal world and her simultaneous secret tortuous world. Hoffman describes her world travels as a satanic cult queen and prophet, encountering well-known...

The Enslaved Queen: A Memoir about Electricity and Mind Control - Paperback

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by Wendy Hoffman (Author)A pertinent and crucially important memoir exposing the existence and practices of organised criminal groups who abuse children. Written by a survivor of mind control and ritual abuse, who is also a therapist, this moving memoir will help survivors of abuse, and provide important information for professionals about the dissociative brain. Hoffman's poetic prose contrasts with the horror of the subject matter. The adult journeys back to give voice to infant and child p...

C.G.Jung: Lord of the Underworld - Paperback

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by Colin Wilson (Author)An accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the key figures in analytical psychologyAuthor BiographyColin Wilson was the author of more than eighty books ranging from fiction and plays to existential psychology, criminology, and the paranormal. Wilson lived in Cornwall, England. He passed away in December of 2013. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2005

Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast - Paperback

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by Colin Wilson (Author)An engrossing portrait of this complex and enigmatic figure and his eclectic system of magick.Author BiographyColin Wilson was the author of more than eighty books ranging from fiction and plays to existential psychology, criminology, and the paranormal. Wilson lived in Cornwall, England. He passed away in December of 2013. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2005

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by Malcolm X (Author)Speeches tracing the evolution of Malcolm X's views on political alliances, women's rights, intermarriage, capitalism and socialism, and more. Number of Pages: 227 Dimensions: 0.57 x 8.24 x 5.22 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1992

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Paperback

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by Dava Sobel (Author)The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as ...

My Son Carlo: Carlo Acutis Through the Eyes of His Mother - Paperback

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by Antonia Salzano Acutis (Author), Paolo Rodari (With)Since he was beatified in 2020, Carlo Acutis has been the subject of widespread interest across the globe. The typical Italian teenager who lived a life of extraordinary virtue has captivated countless millions. And yet, even with the worldwide attention on this millennial saint, we're left wondering and wanting more. What was Carlo really like? How did he interact with those closest to him in daily life? What was it like to live in the s...

Padre Pio: The True Story, Revised and Expanded, 3rd Edition - Paperback

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by C. Bernard Ruffin (Author)Before his death in 1968, Padre Pio was known throughout the world as a very holy man -- many even called him a living saint. This humble Italian priest who bore the wounds of Christ received thousands of letters and visitors each year, seeking his spiritual counsel, healing, and prayer. Padre Pio's intense spirituality and holiness remain legendary and life-changing.This is the comprehensive life story of the priest who became world famous for his stigmata, mirac...

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler - Paperback

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by David I. Kertzer (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II."--Daniel Silva "Kertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the most comprehensive account of the Vatican's relations to the Nazi and fascist regimes before and during the war."--The Washington Post"Tolstoyan."--Cynthia Ozick Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive...

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism - Paperback

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by Megan Marshall (Author)PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST: "A stunning work of biography" about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (New York Times). This book is highly recommended for students and reading groups interested in American history, American literature, and women's studies.Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters--and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day--has never b...

Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country - Hardcover

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by Adam Kinzinger (Author), Michael D'Antonio (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in recent political history in a riveting, personal account from inside Congress, including the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol and his vote to impeach Donald Trump. "Kinzinger deemed that silence was not an option, and that it was more important to take a stand than to take a seat in Congress. That made him an endangered species: a...

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by John Howard Griffin (Author), John Howard Griffin (Epilogue by), Robert Bonazzi (Afterword by)THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH "One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question."--Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950's, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medica...

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations - Paperback

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by Bell Hooks (Author)According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a 'powerful site for intervention, challenge and change'. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.Back ...

Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic - Paperback

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by Lorna Byrne (Author)INTERNATIONAL BETSELLER - In this uplifting autobiography, a modern-day Irish mystic shares her vivid encounters and conversations with the angelsand spirits she has known her entire life. With an afterword on angels and America and a bonus chapter on how to connect with your angelLorna Byrne physically sees and talks with angels every day and has done so ever since she was a baby. As a young child, she assumed everyone could see the angels who always accompanied her. A...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Hardcover

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by Maya Angelou (Author), Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother...