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  • Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked
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    Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked

    What is it about Elena Ferrante's writing, especially her masterwork Neapolitan Novels, that resonates so deeply with millions of readers, making this Italian author who writes under a pseudonym with absolutely no "platform" an international...
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    The Longest Climb

    An inspiring, moving, and unblinking view of a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains.Born in Bolton, England, Paul Pritchard started climbing when he was 16 years old. In time, he became one of the foremost British climbers of...
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    A Life for Liberty
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    A Life for Liberty

    A law professor's memoir of his own ascendancy from prosecutor to influential legal thinker.From prosecuting murderers in Chicago, to arguing before the Supreme Court, to authoring more than a dozen books, Georgetown University law professor Randy...
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  • Hot, Wet, and Shaking
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    Hot, Wet, and Shaking

    Winner of the 2015 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction AwardRevised and expanded tenth anniversary edition, featuring new essays and an introduction by Christa Couture.This is a sex book. It's a book about fucking yourself, fucking someone you love, fucking...
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    On the Trail of the JFK Assassins
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    On the Trail of the JFK Assassins

    Updated with an Epilogue examining new evidence about the actual perpetrators.Using newly declassified information, Dick Russell builds on four decades of painstaking research inOn the Trail of the JFK Assassins, offering one of the most comprehensive...
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  • Through The Crack In The Wall
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    Through The Crack In The Wall

    'Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back so many memories, so many ghosts and characters from...
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  • Chopping Wood
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    Chopping Wood

    Chopping Wood is Pete Seeger up close and personal like never before. Derived from years of conversations between Seeger and his close friend and collaborator David Bernz, it takes readers on a uniquely personal journey through this legendary folksinger...
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    The Beach Boys
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    The Beach Boys

    'There's love in the music and people can relate to the love, regardless of whether you're two years old or 92 years old. For me, music is about love. Love is the message I want to share. I hope people feel that in my music. That makes the hard...
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    In My Own Process
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    In My Own Process

    'Many of you know that I am a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, and, by daily actualizing my potentiality through soulful discoveries and daily exercising, I hope to become also an artist of life.' - Bruce Lee'I venture that 95%...
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    C.S. Lewis's Oxford
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    C.S. Lewis's Oxford

    The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C. S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the...
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    Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografa
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    Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografa

    A landmark survey of one of the most significant American photographers of the twentieth centuryBest known for his intimate portrayals of barrio communities of the Southwest United States, Louis Carlos Bernal made photographs in the late 1970s and 1980s...
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  • Polly
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    Polly

    Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, the 8,000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in the beautiful but treacherous seas of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Among its cargo were 260,000 bottles of whisky destined for the American market -...
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  • The Shochet
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    The Shochet

    This book is conceivably the first time that a halachically-informed Jew offers a full picture of his life with the trials, tribulations, and difficulties that he encountered. It also describes the difficulties that rabbis and other Jewish religious...
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  • Brave Girl
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    Brave Girl

    "Brave Girl: A Story on the Wind" paints the vivid picture of LaRayne Woster's journey through life, set against the backdrop of central South Dakota. Born to a mixed heritage of Lakota and Irish, LaRayne grapples with her cultural identity while...
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  • In the Garden Behind the Moon
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    In the Garden Behind the Moon

    Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father-her last parent-brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter,...
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    Life as a Cabaret
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    Life as a Cabaret

    Cabaret has historically existed on the fringes, populated by those who find themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, falling outside of conventional society. It pushes the boundaries of gender, politics, identity, power, and social norms. It's live and...
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  • My Life with Sea Turtles
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    My Life with Sea Turtles

    'A WONDERFUL READ...Christine's deep love for turtles comes through on each page.' CRAIG FOSTER, MY OCTOPUS TEACHER 'Will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.' DR. JANE GOODALLFilled with...
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    How to Become Famous
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    How to Become Famous

    Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey - all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the Beatles...
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  • When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance
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    When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance

    An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez.Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts,...
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    Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies
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    Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies

    'Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades - he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies...better than anyone...
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  • Legal Briefs
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    Legal Briefs

    In Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, editor Roger Witten takes us behind the scenes of some of the most fascinating court cases of the last few decades, while introducing us to the sometimes strange, and sometimes comical situations...
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    Hardly Harmless Drudgery
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    Hardly Harmless Drudgery

    At last! Godine found a use for the word "sciolist" in a subtitle! This is a throwback to Godine's core of erudition on obscure but fascinating subjects.Unique history of lexicographers and the dictionaries they created. Abundantly illustrated.Author,...
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    Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition
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    Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition

    Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. He is renowned for his fighting prowess and famous for having never having been defeated. Then he mysteriously disappeared at the relatively young age of 29 to meditate and study.This book tells...
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  • Counterfeit Worlds
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    Counterfeit Worlds

    Philip K. Dick struggled to make a living during his lifetime, but his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, John Woo and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of...
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  • My Belly
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    My Belly

    If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman's obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that...
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  • Freedom Shall Prevail
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    Freedom Shall Prevail

    Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah calan, affectionately known as "Apo." Highly regarded around the world, calan led the Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978...
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  • Rottenkid
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    Rottenkid

    A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belongProlific cookbook author Brigit Binns' coming-of-age memoir-co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic...
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  • Finding the Fox
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    Finding the Fox

    'Tjernshaugen writes in an easy-to-read style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior.' - Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8An...
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  • The Pain Project
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    The Pain Project

    'The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.' - NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger'The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane,...
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    Searching for Franklin
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    Searching for Franklin

    Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's...
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  • Bad Indians  (10th Anniversary Edition)
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    Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)

    Now in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine-among others.Bad Indians-part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir-is essential reading for anyone seeking to...
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  • Honeymoons
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    Honeymoons

    Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming.Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence, Byron, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dorothy Parker, A. N. Wilson,...
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  • When My Ghost Sings
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    When My Ghost Sings

    A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she...
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  • Erdoan
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    Erdoan

    **Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize**A comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the authoritarian president of Turkey.One of the world's most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdoan has ruled over Turkey as either...
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    Barbara Comyns
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    Barbara Comyns

    The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...
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  • She played and sang
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    She played and sang

    Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until...
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  • An Unruled Body
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    An Unruled Body

    In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came...
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  • Duty Calls
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    Duty Calls

    Follow the remarkable journey of a trailblazing American leader, Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Antonia Novellois a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring...
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  • Nina Simone in Comics!
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    Nina Simone in Comics!

    This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young black and poor woman living in an America marked by segregation.This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement.This is the story of a long career, that...
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  • Degas & Cassatt
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    Degas & Cassatt

    One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting...
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    A Seat at the Table
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    A Seat at the Table

    When Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her? Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in the land. She was both...
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    Gorilla Tactics
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    Gorilla Tactics

    Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He...
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  • Easywriter, The Flawed Memories of an Easyriders Editor
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    Easywriter, The Flawed Memories of an Easyriders Editor

    Kai Michael Raecke was a journalist for Easyriders Magazine for 32 years, a motorcycle enthusiast, world traveler, and a passionate philanthropist. He was born in Austria, and raised in the town of Freilassing in southern Bavaria by his maternal...
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    Alcatraz Ghost Story
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    Alcatraz Ghost Story

    The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast Historyand the Woman He LovedBefore the 1920s found theirroar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from...
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  • Women and Psychedelics
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    Women and Psychedelics

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history,...
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  • Orwell's Island
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    Orwell's Island

    Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism, and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was anunmatchedpolitical visionary, shining a light on the insidious nature of propaganda. Yet this chronicler of...
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  • The Hands that Crafted the Bomb
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    The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

    Josh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for "soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities" after starting an antifascist club on campus.As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects...
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  • Pep Guardiola: The Evolution
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    Pep Guardiola: The Evolution

    For three extraordinary seasons at Bayern Munich, Martin Perarnau was given total access around the German super club - to its players, its backroom staff, its board members and, above all, to its manager, Pep Guardiola. In the follow-up to his...
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Biography Books – Explore Inspiring True Stories

Step into the extraordinary lives of real people with BookLoop’s rich and diverse collection of biography books. Whether you're searching for heartfelt autobiographies, gripping tales of adventurers and explorers, or intimate portraits of public figures, our General Biography section is your gateway to powerful stories that captivate and inspire.

This category brings together compelling accounts from every walk of life. Dive into the world of arts and entertainment with biographies of musicians, actors and filmmakers, or gain insight into the minds of influential thinkers through our philosophy and social sciences biographies.

If you’re passionate about real-life stories that have shaped history, don’t miss our collection of historical, political and military biographies. For those interested in innovation and progress, our science, technology and medicine biographies highlight incredible journeys of discovery and transformation.

Looking for more specific interests? Discover stories from sporting legends, business pioneers, spiritual leaders and even the lives of royalty. Our collected biographies bring together stories around a shared theme or event, perfect for readers who want a broader perspective.

For modern readers, we’ve included social media influencers and trendsetters who are shaping today's culture. And if you love literature, explore the lives behind the words in our biographies of writers.

At BookLoop, we pride ourselves on curating a wide selection of general biographies for Australian readers who crave meaningful, real-life narratives. With fast, local shipping and secure checkout, it’s easy to find your next great read. Whether you're after famous autobiographies, celebrity memoirs, or non-fiction life stories that move and motivate, you're in the right place.

Browse BookLoop's Biography category today and find a new perspective through someone else's story.