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
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New Releases Tagged "Biography"

Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
Hotshot: A Life on Fire
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar
Frankly
Life Is Fighting
Knocking on Windows: A Memoir
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
No Sense in Wishing
A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures
Gwyneth: The Biography
Will Eisner: A Comics Biography
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
The Hiroshima Men: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb and the Dawning of the Age of Mutually Assured Destruction
Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy
The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future
A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship

Mark Twain
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ...more
Mark Twain

There was no private ownership of land. "You could own a knife, or you could own a horse, but you couldn't own ground any more than you could own the sun or the wind. The Earth was their mother and part of the Cosmos given to all creatures by the Great Spirit. ...more
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