Biography & Autobiography
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
$19.99 Add to cart“A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington Post
The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the… [more below]
- Author: Lockley, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1335044981
- Language: English
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Elvis and the Memphis Mafia
$19.99 Add to cartA monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King – the man and the phenomenon – in his full comp
- Author: Nash, Alanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 806
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1845131282
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating, comprehensive biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar.More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped R… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0743289544
- Language: English
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
$18.99 Add to cartFive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before saili… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0156033976
- Language: English
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The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
$19.99 Add to cartA “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the fut… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1982116684
- Language: English
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Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
$20.00 Add to cartThe explosive true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.
There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Ca- Author: Henderson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0425181650
- Language: English
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Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm
$22.95 Add to cartAn inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring.
For years Charli- Author: Tree, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373718
- Language: English
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Damn Lucky: One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Kevin Maurer–the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day–comes the true story of a World War II bomber pilot who survived twenty-five missions in Damn Lucky, “an ep
- Author: Maurer, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250874270
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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Cesar Chavez
$7.99 Add to cartDuring the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive. Cesar Chavez felt this treatment was unfair and worked to secure more rights. He formed a Union
- Series: On My Own Biographies (Hardcover)
- Author: Wadsworth, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 157505826X
- Language: English
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Who Was Milton Hershey?
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the man behind the chocolate bar Milton Hershey’s life was filled with invention and innovation. As a young man, he was not afraid to dream big and work hard. Eventually, he learned the secr
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Buckley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26, 2013
- ISBN10: 0448479362
- Language: English
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Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
$17.00 Add to cartWhat if that person you’ve been trying to avoid is your best shot at grace today?
…And what if that’s the point?
In Accidental Saints, New York Times best-selling author Nadia Bolz-Weber invites- Author: Bolz-Weber, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1601427565
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: November 3, 2004
- ISBN10: 078688746X
- Language: English
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Freedom
$16.99 Read moreA profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe.
Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and fr- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982153423
- Language: English
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
$22.00 Add to cart“The Master Plan is less of a road map and more of a philosophy that we should all take to heart: We are all better than our worst decision, our sense of justice should honor the redemptive possibilit… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0735215596
- Language: English
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Vanya: A True Story
$17.99 Add to cartA Classic That’s Inspired Millions
Out of the dark shadows of Soviet atheism rose a fearless young man whose boldness for Christ would make him a testimony to millions of believers around the world. … [more below]- Series: New Leaf Library
- Author: Grant, Myrna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 12 1996
- ISBN10: 0884190099
- Language: English
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
$20.00 Add to cartThe author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflix’s Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard I… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127888
- Language: English
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present–edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of… [more below]
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593134044
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos–a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History… [more below]
- Author: Hertog, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 5, 2024
- ISBN10: 059312846X
- Language: English
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Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
$8.99 Add to cartA moving, exquisitely illustrated picture book biography of Roberto Clemente, legendary Latino baseball player, pioneer, and humanitarian.
On an island called Puerto Rico, there lived a little boy who- Author: Winter, Jonah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416950826
- Language: English
