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    Leonor
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    Leonor

    Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC...
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    Maestros & Monsters
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    Maestros & Monsters

    This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status-Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a time in the US...
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    Brooklyn Goes Home
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    Brooklyn Goes Home

    Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner American Book Fest Awards Finalist Book Excellence Awards FinalistBrooklyn Goes Home is the true story of how one greyhound sparked a...
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    Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini

    Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini is a tale of experience through mistakes, learning the hard way. It is a guidebook to help find ourselves, offering a fresh approach to traditional teachings in a non-adulterated way, adapted to modern characters. Presented...
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    The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn
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    The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn

    Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and became a famous writer but always felt like an outsider in Dublin, London, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and French-speaking Martinique. To him,...
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    This Scheming World
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    This Scheming World

    The New Year's Eve is more precious than a thousand pieces of gold. It is the Great Divide between winter and spring, which none can pass over without copper and silver.Ihara Saikaku is regarded as Japan's first popular writer. The...
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  • End Credits
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    End Credits

    A candid and revealing look at life in television, Hollywood, and work in the writer's room, from an insider who wrote for some of the most popular television shows in history - Friends, Desperate Housewives, and Breaking Bad.Ever since Patty...
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    Unended
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    Unended

    IGNATZ AWARD Nomination for OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL What prevents you from finishing your life's work?Josh Bayer finds a manuscript of an unfinished play inside his deceased father's desk. The play tells the story of Josh's mother's early death (age...
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    Pill Hill
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    Pill Hill

    Pill Hill, Nicholas Breutzman's darkly funny and utterly heartbreaking memoir, plunges the reader into a world of horrifying Tinder dates, flea markets, lizard people, child protective services, black holes, time travel, and stress-induced psychosis.Nic...
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    42
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    42

    Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems...Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams.After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old...
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    Gaman Perseverance

    This revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World...
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  • There Is No Blue
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    There Is No Blue

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION THEGLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023THEGLOBE AND MAILBEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023 Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's...
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  • Daddy Lessons
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    Daddy Lessons

    Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Steacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican...
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    Fashioning the Beatles
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    Fashioning the Beatles

    John, Paul, George, and Ringo were more than great musicians: they were the quintessential fashion icons of one of the most exciting and memorable fashion eras of all time. From their starts in black leather through Sergeant Pepper to Nehru collars and...
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  • The Bold, the Brave, and the Breathless
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    The Bold, the Brave, and the Breathless

    After a normal, healthy, full-term pregnancy, Margaret Moore's parents Anne and Terrence were shocked as a prolapsed umbilical cord left their daughter unable to breathe on her own. Margaret, nicknamed Meg, was not expected to live through the night and...
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  • Straitjackets and Lunch Money
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    Straitjackets and Lunch Money

    Katya Cengel became patient number 090 71 51 at the Roth Psychosomatic Unit at Children's Hospital at Stanford in 1986. She was 10 years old. Overwhelmed by feelings of abandonment, worthlessness and anger at having to care for her depressed father, she...
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  • I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive
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    I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive

    'An ode to storytelling itself...A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival.' - Melissa Febos, author of GirlhoodA moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon...
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    Ask Uncle Jack
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    Ask Uncle Jack

    Ask Uncle Jack is a heartwarming book about a centenarian who shares his wisdom about the importance of nature and kindness. Uncle Jack was born in 1923 and reminds us that no matter where we are in the world, nature is always nearby and has the power to...
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  • On This Day In Roger Federer History
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    On This Day In Roger Federer History

    One of the world' s most well-known and respected athletes, Roger Federer has had a career that ranks among the most celebrated and successful in all of tennis history. This entertaining and illuminating chronicle of Federer' s trophy-laden journey is...
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  • Prince in Comics!
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    Prince in Comics!

    Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like " 1999" or " Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life,...
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    Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra
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    Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

    Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music...
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  • A Mic for All Seasons
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    A Mic for All Seasons

    When Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station. There was his father, Marv, whose voice shaped the sound of modern basketball, and there too were his uncles Al and Steve-a trio of...
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  • Owning the Unknown
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    Owning the Unknown

    Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the...
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  • The Swift Dark Tide
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    The Swift Dark Tide

    What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman?The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of careful listening to an ungovernable heart.Part memoir, part love letter, The Swift Dark...
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  • The Mahogany Pod
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    The Mahogany Pod

    The Mahogany Pod is a moving portrayal of a joyful love affair that was cut short by a terminal illness after just one exhilarating year and an inspirational account of vulnerability, reconciliation and learning to live fully after loss."Gorgeous ... her...
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  • Freddie
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    Freddie

    Rescued from a puppy mill in 2010, Freddie was a bright light in lives of his human companions and the ultimate muse for biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies to explore the human-animal bond in his books. As Grant helped Freddie overcome the fears and traumas...
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    Josef Koudelka: Next
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    Josef Koudelka: Next

    An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists. Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects - from his...
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    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae
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    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae

    Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae is a tribute to the leading icon in music, Bob Marley. In 1975, after meeting Marley in London, photographer Kate Simon gained unique access to the Wailers, capturing intensely personal moments and momentous...
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    The Funny Thing About Death
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    The Funny Thing About Death

    Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a nationwide comedy tour. But the tour turns out to be a welcome distraction for both sisters. As Jo reports back from...
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    Tomlin
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    Tomlin

    In 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Replacing Hall of Famer Bill Cowher-and two years removed from the team's Super Bowl XL victory-there was immense pressure on the first-year head...
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    Creative Producing
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    Creative Producing

    Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producerAs former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is...
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    My Beautiful Psychosis
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    My Beautiful Psychosis

    What if psychosis is really a wake up call?Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs...until she decides to give them up...and that's when the insomnia starts. After five nights without sleep she ends up in...
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    A Different Path
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    A Different Path

    "Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?"Neville Symington...
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    Growing Up?
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    Growing Up?

    This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick Casement has put together a fascinating account of his...
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  • The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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    The Life of Charlotte Bronte

    As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her...
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  • The Wrath of Blonde
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    The Wrath of Blonde

    Laura Banks is a triple threat to herself and others as a comedy writer, stand-up and four-time author, with her USA Today Bestseller, "Breaking the Rules" selling a quarter of a million copies. Laura got her first acting break in "Star Trek II: The...
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  • The River You Touch
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    The River You Touch

    "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us...
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  • Happy Forever
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    Happy Forever

    'Mark is one of the most indomitable yet gentle spirits I've ever met. He will always be one of my favorite artists I've ever worked with. And someday when I grow up, I want to be just like him.'Alice Cooper'This book is a puzzle. The outside frame...
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  • The Baby Doctor
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    The Baby Doctor

    Baby Doctor is an inspiring journey of the life of Gregor Alexander, who grew up in Colombia to become a beloved neonatal doctor in Florida. Alexander became close friends with legendary golfer Arnold Palmer and his wife Winnie and together they were...
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  • Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked
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    Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked

    Celebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that"[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century," The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead...
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  • Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost
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    Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost

    A poet who crafted thegreatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. HisParadise Lost is a touchstone of English literature.In the latest entry in...
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  • Blurred Boundaries
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    Blurred Boundaries

    The civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists drove the largest refugee exodus in the modern history of China,across the sea to the southern island of Taiwan. Martial artists of many styles were among this diaspora.In the 1940's areas of...
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    Three Fires
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    Three Fires

    In Three Fires,award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century - inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo Savonarola...
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    People of Indiana University
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    People of Indiana University

    What makes Indiana University one of the best institutions for higher education in the world? After spending a few months pondering on this questions, I realized that it is a multitude of things. From having some of the most immersive and intentional...
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    American Classicist
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    American Classicist

    A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world.Edith Hamilton (18671963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former...
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  • Banneker
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    Banneker

    The brainchild of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Banneker: The Afro-American Astronomerwas first conceived after Murray discovered what he found to be a beautifully written letter to Thomas Jefferson by a then unknown writer of color.Aided in his...
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  • Fag Hag
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    Fag Hag

    'Some girls fancy sailors, others fancy soldiers. But you, my dear, are a fag hag!'Lola Miesseroff's childhood certainly predisposed her to be a rebel. She was born in Marseilles in 1947 to immigrant parents, her mother a...
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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.