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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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  • Gaytheist
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    Gaytheist

    Starred Review from Kirkus Reviews. "The animated evolution of a queer boy from his strict religious upbringing to a liberated adolescence. . . . Tokyo-based couple Mann and Gatts integrate their illustrative and authorial talents in this debut graphic...
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  • Welcome to the club
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    Welcome to the club

    Featuring a foreword from Annie MacIn Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends.One of the Hacienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the...
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    Clay and Bones
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    Clay and Bones

    Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic...
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  • If You See Them
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    If You See Them

    A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth-told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order...
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  • Fighting Retreat
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    Fighting Retreat

    Winston Churchill was closely connected with India from 1896, when he landed in Bombay with his regiment, until 1947, when independence was finally achieved. No other British statesman had such a long association with the sub-continent-or interfered in...
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  • Let This Radicalize You Workbook
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    Let This Radicalize You Workbook

    This workbook is intended as an extension of our book Let This Radicalize You. It was created to feature resources that we couldn't fit in the book, including other helpful books, essays, wisdom from veteran organizers, and more.Educator and activist...
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  • Bethel Daze
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    Bethel Daze

    Gary tells his true story of how he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) at the age of fifteen, and how he became a member of the JW Headquarters "family" in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. The stories in Bethel Daze have mainly to do with his...
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  • Absolute Beginner
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    Absolute Beginner

    'Kevin does what I pretend to do. Kevin's a proper musician.' David Bowie'Kevin Armstrong has been around, and around.' Iggy PopGrowing up in a world of punk squats and the London pub-rock scene, suburban rookie guitarist Kevin Armstrong found himself...
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    Handwritten
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    Handwritten

    A celebration of the art of handwriting, introducing famous writers, scientists and historical figures through documents written by their own hands.The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection...
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  • Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper
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    Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper

    On December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments in New York to interview her longtime idol John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give- just hours later, outside that same...
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  • Maggie Alphonsi: My Autobiography
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    Maggie Alphonsi: My Autobiography

    Maggie Alphonsi is not only a national sporting icon, the face of international women's rugby and star player of the England side that won the World Cup in 2014. She is also an inspirational and totemic figure who transcends sport.The compelling story of...
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  • LeBron James: In His Own Words
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    LeBron James: In His Own Words

    Get inside the head of LeBron James: basketball star, activist, philanthropist, and one of the most influential athletes in the world.This collection of quotes has been curated from LeBron James's numerous public statements-interviews, social media...
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  • The End of the Hour
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    The End of the Hour

    'A frank chronicle of healing.' - Kirkus ReviewsWhat happens when a trauma therapist is traumatised by loss?Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Meghan...
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  • A Wild Path
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    A Wild Path

    A soul-satisfying journey through the wilderness that uncovers hope, healing, and the abiding grace of wild things A Wild Path is author Douglas Wood's highly anticipated followup to the critically acclaimed memoir Deep Woods, Wild Waters. He again leads...
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  • Failure to Launch
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    Failure to Launch

    Not all dreams come true! While history is written by the winners, the full story of humanity is built on the moments when things went completely sideways; the spectacular screw-ups, monumental mistakes, and explosive errors that paved the way for the...
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  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
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    David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

    In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music...
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  • The Plant Thieves
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    The Plant Thieves

    ** Longlisted, 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award **The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales - its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them,...
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    Fugitive of Empire
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    Fugitive of Empire

    In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the British Viceroy during a public procession in Delhi. Forced to flee his homeland, Bose settled in Japan,...
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  • The Iconoclast
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    The Iconoclast

    Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in...
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  • The Girl Prince
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    The Girl Prince

    In February 1910, the young woman who would become Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an African prince, with friends she conned her way onto the Dreadnought, the...
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  • Cast Mates
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    Cast Mates

    Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history - starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of...
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    Jack Ruby
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    Jack Ruby

    Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby-and how did he come to be in that...
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    Sisters in Art
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    Sisters in Art

    With color photographs and artwork, Sisters in Art is the first biography to capture the lives and works of Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton, three exceptionally talented sisters whose mark on the California modernist art scene still impacts our world...
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  • A Fade of Light
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    A Fade of Light

    An intimate and moving graphic memoir by cartoonist Nate Fakes, dedicated to his stepdad Ron, a larger-than-life personality who gradually becomes affected by a rare form of dementia.Editor's Picks, Honorable Mention at Publishers Weekly's US Book Show"A...
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  • The Last Supper Club
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    The Last Supper Club

    A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tablesDuring a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money-fast-and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries...
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    Fool
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    Fool

    The first biography of Henry VIII's court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age.In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figure - a gaunt and morose-looking man with a...
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    On Czeslaw Milosz
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    On Czeslaw Milosz

    Czesaw Miosz (19112004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the most extreme events of that extreme century, from the world wars and the Holocaust to the Cold War. Over a seven-decade...
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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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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.