Biographical Books

We Learn from Others, from watching them, from listening to them speak and by learning about their lives. Whether good or bad, It is from others that we discover our selves as well as our ideas. To this end we envite you to search through the following biographies and autobiographies.

01. Here but not here: A love Story

02. Speaking With Strangers

03. Fighting Fire

04. Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored

05. The Air Down Here: True Tales From a South Bronx Boyhood

07. West With The Night

08. Jane Austen: A Life

09. Walking Out on the Boys

10. The Road From Coorain

11. The Art of Scandal: The Life & Times of Isabella Steward Gardner

12. The Boys of My youth

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14. Adventures of a 19th Century Medic: The Life & Times of Dr. William Hunt 1810-1882

15. Close The Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents

16. 1 Day When I Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's 'The Autobiography of Malcom X

17. 100 Great Africans

Review
Booknews, Inc. , March 1, 1995
Profiles leading Africans from all walks of life, from the Egyptian pharaohs to present times, covering the entire continent. Offers biographies of several pages of kings of the early African empires, early adventurers, the jihadists, great South Africans, heroes of the struggles against colonialism, and modern rulers. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

18. The 14th Dalai Lama: Spiritual Leader of Tibet

Review
From Horn Book
This readable text opens with the Dalai Lama's 1959 escape into exile. Following chapters describe how the fourteenth Dalai Lama had been found and detail his life after being discovered. Woven into the biographical account is information about Tibetan Buddhist history and culture. Some of the black-and-white and color photographs are disappointingly dark or blurry, but most will be of interest. Bib., ind. -- Copyright

19. 15 Years in a Photographer's Life

20. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

21. After The Holocaust: The Long Road to Freedom

22. The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past & Present

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24. 12 + Me by Pat D. Likes

25. Afloat

26. 20 Lines a Day

27. 40 Acres & No Mule

30. 920 O'Farrel Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco

31. A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman

32.Alaskan Aberation: The View From a Harley in the North Country

33. Aids Memoir: Journal of an Hiv-Positive Mother

34. African American Entrepreneurs

36. 100 Authors Who Shaped World History

37. Daughter of The Queen Of Sheba: A Memoir

38.100 Women Who shaped World History

39. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

40. The Queen of Whale Cay

41.1920 Diary

42. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall

Reviews
Science Editor's Recommended Book

Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility."

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