Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
Alan Alda: The 1983 Biography
Best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the award-winning TV series M*A*S*H, Alan Alda has made his way into Hollywood’s spotlight while keeping remarkably free of its whirlwind parties and endless gossip. He remains a private man—an actor...
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60 Stories About 30 Seconds: How I Got Away With Becoming a Pretty Big Commercial Director Without Losing My Soul
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60 Stories About 30 Seconds: How I Got Away With Becoming a Pretty Big Commercial Director Without Losing My Soul
You’ve probably seen more movies made by Bruce Van Dusen than any other director alive.1977. New York City. Cool and crime-ridden, cheap and wild. Bruce Van Dusen shows up in town with a film degree and $150 to his name....
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Alexander Hamilton (Used)
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly...
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The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
In the tradition of The Swerve and How to Live, this vivid biography reveals how a Renaissance scholar reshaped the visual world. Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents―a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar―but he is best known for Lives of...
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Biographic: Rembrandt
Biographic: Rembrandt presents an instant portrait of his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures. Many people know that Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) was a...
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Biographic: Picasso
Biographic: Picasso presents a modern study of his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures. Many people know that Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a Spanish painter,...
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Biographic: Klimt
Biographic: Klimt presents an instant impression of his life, work, and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures. It is published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the artist's...
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Biographic: Degas
Biographic: Degas presents an instant impression of his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures. Many people know that Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French artist...
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
An illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein's most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira KalmanConsidered one of the richest and most irreverent biographies in history, The Autobiography of Alice B....
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Rollergirls: The Story of Flat Track Derby
Flat track roller derby is one of the country’s fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world.Rollergirls captures...
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Si Lewen's Parade: An Artist's Odyssey
This deeply moving version of The Parade allows the reader to explore the art as Si Lewen intended it to be seen, in sequence. As the work unfolds, the reader is taken on an unforgettable journey through the essential nature of all...
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Paul Gauguin (Sirius Great Artists Series)
This beautifully illustrated full-color hardback explores the life and work of one of the leading lights of Post-Impressionism - Paul Gauguin.Gauguin's vision of a tropical arcadia in the South Seas has beguiled generations of gallery goers, but a close look...
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Leonard Bernstein 100: The Masters Photograph the Maestro
Leonard Bernstein is internationally renowned as one of the greatest conductors, composers, musical inspirations, and creative minds of our time. He is also legendary for his extreme passion, raw charisma, and powerful convictions, with a brash, insatiable lust for life...
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Uzo Aduba: The Biography by Yahia Belkherouf
Uzoamaka Nwanneka "Uzo" Aduba was born on February 10, 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Igbo parents from Nigeria. Growing up in Medfield, Massachusetts, Uzo's early life was steeped in a rich cultural heritage that she proudly carried with her. Her...
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Available Light: Exile in Mexico
Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. Living in...
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Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own
Prominent African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traced Oprah’s roots and shares the lessons of her ancestorsthe legacy one generation bequeaths another, how who we are is influenced by the paths our ancestor have trod, and the extraordinary impact...
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Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Esquire Best Book of 2017 Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and...
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Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater
Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem’s legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox’s definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo.Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the...
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Nelson Mandela
The Compact Guide The gripping story of iconic statesmen and activist Nelson Mandela, now told in this succinct, condensed book that’s perfect for a wide audience. Nelson Mandela is perhaps the most iconic statesman and activist in history, and this is the...
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Just Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party
Just Another Nigger is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more militant action. His book tells the story of his...
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Man Called Brown Condor
The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935?
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Chadwick Boseman: Forever Our King 1976-2020
A profound remembrance of an extraordinary life cut short, celebrating Chadwick Boseman’s brilliance on screen as well as his rich existence as a generous friend, family member, and activist. Chadwick Boseman will forever be remembered as a sublime acting talent, infusing films...
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Reflection
In this inspiring collection of original poetry, NFL wide receiver Tyler Lockett deftly weaves words, thoughts, and images as smoothly as he makes remarkable plays on the field.Fueled by faith and powered by a strong work ethic, Tyler Lockett's debut...
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Redemption: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in Memphis six days earlier to support striking garbage workers had turned into a...
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Problem Child
Problem Child is a heart-wrenching story that will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride that makes the Twilight Zone look like Disneyland.Problem Child is the unbelievably true story of Terrell Carter, an American musician and actor who grew up in Buffalo,...
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My Brothers' Keeper: Two Brothers. Loved. And Lost.
My Brothers’ Keeper carries the reader through a deeply personal and intimate journey, as Gloria Reuben explores her love of the life she shared with her brothers, as well as the myriad of emotions and experiences after their sudden deaths.The death...
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Loving You, Thinking of You, Don't Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison
From a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour. Jacqueline Jackson promised her son, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she would write him every day during his...
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Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All
A Word & Way 2022 Book of the YearSojourners' 2022 Book Roundup to Inspire Faith and Justice"Extraordinary. . . . Let this story of family, race, and resistance create anger in your spirit and ultimately inspire your heart to join the work to...
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Building a Million Dollar Side Hustle
The founder and CEO of Slim Girl Shapewear shares her inspirational story of building a million-dollar global e-commerce business.Juliana Richards arrived in the United States from Nigeria with little more than a $100 in her pocket. Ten years later she...
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Black Sheep: A Blue-Eyed Negro Speaks of Abandonment, Belonging, Racism, and Redemption
A captivating memoir of a biracial boy growing up in Washington, D.C., abandoned by his birth parents, and lovingly raised by a woman with deep emotional scars from her upbringing in the segregated South.The unforgettable memoir Black Sheep opens with a middle-aged...
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