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  • River of Memory
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    River of Memory

    The memories, dreams and reflections of a modern lama born in the West who became heir to the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.River of Memory: Dharma Chronicles tells the remarkable story of the scholar and meditation master Lama Jampa Thaye one of the...
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    George Orwell

    A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been hot sellers...
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  • Called to Testify
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    Called to Testify

    How does a secular, non-practising Jew who has lived most of her life outside the Jewish communitysuddenly find herself in the front rows of a Nazi war crimes tribunal?In 2015, the award-winning writer Judith Kalman was invited to Lneburg to testify at...
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  • Miss World 1970
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    Miss World 1970

    Now a film starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Greg Kinnear.Jennifer Hosten went to the 1970 Miss World pageant on a lark, representing the tiny Caribbean Island of Grenada, and came home with the crown and a place in history. What was supposed...
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  • Send Me Into the Woods Alone
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    Send Me Into the Woods Alone

    Dispatches from modern motherhood by a reluctant suburbaniteSend Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often hilarious collection of essays on the joys, struggles, and complexities of motherhood.These essays touch on the major milestones...
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  • Bearded Lady
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    Bearded Lady

    The beard was never far from my mind. Twice daily, I shaved. I blended foundation into my skin with a practiced touch. I hoped for the miracle that never showed its face: smooth skin instead of the prickly surface I felt every time I ran my hand across...
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  • Finding My Way
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    Finding My Way

    IPPY Awards Gold Medal Winner in the memoir categoryColorado Independent Book Publishers Association (CIPA) Gold Medal Winner in the memoir categoryNational Indie Excellence Awards finalist in the new non-fiction categoryA deeply personal memoir about...
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  • Finding Elevation
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    Finding Elevation

    Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue climbing. Her choices were clear: give in to her doubts and descend or push past her own limits and continue up the mountain's steep face...
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    Remembering Shanghai
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    Remembering Shanghai

    True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural Revolution.A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family...
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  • How to Drink Like a Rock Star
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    How to Drink Like a Rock Star

    Pairing history's 100 greatest rock stars with recipes for their iconic drink of choice, How to Drink Like a Rock Star is the perfect guide to summoning the muse for music fans, rock and roll bartenders, and cocktail enthusiasts.Have you longed for a...
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  • Until I Become
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    Until I Become

    From growing up with learning and reading disabilities, to barely passing public high school, to multiple suicide attempts, to living on the streets and on welfare-Darren Jacklin was fated for failure.Throughout his upbringing he was repeatedly told that...
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  • All Else Failed
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    All Else Failed

    Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist Clara Johnson Award FinalistAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.In 2015, increasing...
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  • Your Hearts, Your Scars
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    Your Hearts, Your Scars

    Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a...
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  • Pieces of the Action
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    Pieces of the Action

    An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all.Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded...
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  • Yippie Girl
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    Yippie Girl

    HONORABLE MENTION, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Autobiography & Memoir!Lifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of The Yippies, a 1960s anti-war satirical protest group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvement with the...
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    We Are Bridges

    As necessary conversations about racism, state violence, and the legacy of American slavery continue, it is important to consider the myriad forms of violence that living in a racialized society can take. In We Are Bridges, Cassandra Lane explores the...
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  • The Last Gay Man on Earth
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    The Last Gay Man on Earth

    A delightful graphic memoir told in photographs. Ype is a gay man living in Amsterdam with his boyfriend Nico. When asked by Nico to accompany him on a work trip to America, Ype must confront his deep fear of flying. While doing so, Ype finds he also has...
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  • Diana: My Graphic Obsession
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    Diana: My Graphic Obsession

    A unique perspective on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the beloved icon of many people in the LGBTQ community and beyond. Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth is obsessed with Princess Diana, in the specific, laser-focused way an autistic person can be. This...
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  • Restless
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    Restless

    What would life feel like without fear and oppression? Is it possible to find solace in the power of chosen family, underground art collectives, and ultimately revolution? Set in Beirut, Lebanon, a city once known to be a vibrant cultural center of the...
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  • Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag
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    Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag

    A rough-and-tumble Iraq War veteran is young and in love, and the last thing on his mind is food and the ethics of eating meat. But when his girlfriend becomes a vegetarian and animal rights activist, suddenly food is all he thinks about. A true story of...
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  • Power Born of Dreams
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    Power Born of Dreams

    What does freedom look like from inside an Israeli prison?The walls of the cell are etched with the names of the prisoners who came before. A bird perches on the cell window and offers a deal: 'You bring the pencil, and I will bring the...
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  • Queer As All Get Out
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    Queer As All Get Out

    "Unique in both format and content, this important book is a first choice to help diversify teen graphic nonfiction collections." -Starred Review, School Library Journal Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the...
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    Manhattan Cult Story
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    Manhattan Cult Story

    "We were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive...
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    The Chimpanzee Whisperer
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    The Chimpanzee Whisperer

    A moving, heartwarming memoir about a conservation hero and real-life chimpanzee whisperer-now the subject of the award-winning documentary film Pant Hoot.Stany Nyandwi's gift for communicating with chimpanzees is so special that world-renowned...
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    Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
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    Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

    The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer androle modelwho is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements asthe first woman tocommand an American space mission as well as...
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  • Beatboxing
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    Beatboxing

    "The masterful art of chess, Kung-fu sword play, and the sweet science of boxing are all hip-hop expressions that connect us universally.Beatboxingtells the story. It's razor sharp."-Masta Killa, Wu-Tang Clan"I love howTodd Snyder's brain works. Like...
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    The War
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    The War

    The battle between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns is remembered as one of the greatest fights of all time. But in the months before the two finally collided on April 15, 1985, there was a feeling in the air that boxing was in trouble. The...
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  • Shot At the Brothel
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    Shot At the Brothel

    In Shot at a Brothel, Patrick Connor reveals the salacious story of how handsome, playful, heavyweight boxer Oscar 'Ringo' Bonavena wound up murdered outside of an infamous Nevada brothel, and why.Argentine heavyweight Oscar...
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  • Slaughter in the Streets
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    Slaughter in the Streets

    Co-op advertising available for booksellers willing to carry other titles in the Hamilcar Noir series. On November 12 2019 the first two volumes in this hard-hitting true crime series publish together. Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero...
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  • (Low)life
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    (Low)life

    In (Low)life, Charles Farrell lets the public in on his gripping, harrowing, rich, and often amusing life that transverses his path from a teenage jazz prodigy, to mob-involved boxing fight-fixer, to his business partnership with the legendary Floyd...
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  • Berserk
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    Berserk

    "Stradley [has]...a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this...tragic figure should be captivated. A gritty, absorbing account of a boxer who couldn't defeat his own inner demons...
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    Macho Time
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    Macho Time

    Macho Time will be the first definitive biography of Hector Camacho Sr., who lived a life as fast as his fists flew in the ring. Camacho's son, Hector Camacho Jr., also a professional boxer, has worked closely with author Christian Giudice to give him...
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    Off the Ropes

    "Toft adeptly shows this to be the legacy Ron Lyle left behind, one that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with a boxing legacy that is nothing short of remarkable."--Rafael Garcia, The Fight City "[Ron Lyle's] life was a remarkable one and the story of it...
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  • Nonwhite and Woman
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    Nonwhite and Woman

    Nonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology's title is from Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, "won't you celebrate with me," which serves as the anthology's epigraph.
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    Barbra Streisand the Music, the Albums, the Singles
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    Barbra Streisand the Music, the Albums, the Singles

    On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one...
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  • Before Evil
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    Before Evil

    Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders? Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet...
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  • ARTEMISIA
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    ARTEMISIA

    Artemisia Gentileschi was a painter of passions...of rich colors and fraught moments...of women taking command of their own stories. She reversed the classical depictions of female characters in mythology, presenting them with agency, as the protagonists...
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  • All Roads Lead to Ram
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    All Roads Lead to Ram

    For anyone drawn to spiritual love and devotion, and how to joyfully align one's life to a soulful calling, All Roads Lead to Ram is a captivating and empowering true tale.For anyone drawn to spiritual love and devotion, and how to joyfully align one's...
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    Enlightened Contemporaries

    Enlightened Contemporaries is the first book to compare the lives and teachings of three of the world's most admired spiritual masters: Francis of Assisi, the Christian saint; Dogen, the great Zen Buddhist teacher; and Rumi, the Islamic Sufi...
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  • Witch, Please: A Memoir
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    Witch, Please: A Memoir

    A touching and thought-provoking account of how a woman explored a spectrum of religions--ancient and new--and ended up, unexpectedly, becoming a bona fide witch--plus a celebration of modern Wicca and witchcraft, spell books, broomsticks, holiday...
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  • Days of Lead
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    Days of Lead

    #1 Best Seller - Over 50,000 Copies Sold Hailed by Israel's founder David Ben-Gurion, Days of Lead is a gripping best seller recounting the author's life on the front line during Israel's War of Independence. Exquisitely written with a poetically...
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    The Pope of Brooklyn

    Joseph Di Prisco's anticipated memoir brings the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer-Joe's father-back to life, and reveals the fascinating and unsettling truths that simultaneously bound and separated father and son. On the...
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    Inside Studio 54

    In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...
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    Chicken Genius
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    Chicken Genius

    In 2014, Bernard Radfar moved to West Los Angeles for one reason: to be closer to Toshi Sakamaki and his incredible Yakitori restaurant. Chicken Genius is a visual love letter to Toshi's cuisine and the care and grace with which he...
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    Stitched & Sewn
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    Stitched & Sewn

    A child survivor of the Holocaust, Trudie Strobel settled in California, raising a family and never discussing the horrors she witnessed. After her children grew up, the trauma of her youth caught up with her, triggering a paralyzing depression. A...
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    Mortimer's
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    Mortimer's

    Take a trip down memory lane to witness 22 years (1976-1998) of Mortimer's, one of the most notable restaurant hotspots that ever existed for an international celebrity clientele. Found in these pages is a feast of ephemera, including menus, recipes,...
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    Uncommon Measure
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    Uncommon Measure

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NPR "BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR" SELECTION NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becomingHow does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we...
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    Wife | Daughter | Self

    Beth Kephart is a writing teacher and the award-winning author of more than thirty books; her many fans and students will embrace this intimate and beautiful memoir in essays The author's books on how to write memoir as well as previous memoirs have...
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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.