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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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    Journal of a Black Queer Nurse
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    Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

    In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been...
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  • The 23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir
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    The 23rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir

    Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives readers a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With...
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    Pillar of Salt, A Memoir

    As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From...
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    Museum of Mistakes
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    Museum of Mistakes

    For almost two decades, Julia Wertz has been documenting her life's most intimate, absurd, and amusing moments through a whimsical and hilarious diary comic book called The Fart Party. Wertz retells childhood antics that end in scars and swears. She...
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  • Ray By Ray
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    Ray By Ray

    Nicholas Ray was cinema. The legendary director of such classic films as Rebel Without a Cause was an innovative force who dramatically changed the Hollywood landscape. He was also Nicca Ray's dad, Nick. After he disappeared from her life in...
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  • Don't Hide the Madness
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    Don't Hide the Madness

    Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs'...
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    Taming the Beast
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    Taming the Beast

    Mike Tyson is a cultural phenomenon: heavyweight boxing champion, author, movie actor, Broadway star, tiger owner, felon, tabloid gossip mainstay. His memoir, Undisputed Truth, was a New York Times bestseller. While no one is disputing the truth he tells...
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    Tolkien For Beginners
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    Tolkien For Beginners

    Tolkien For Beginners will introduce the reader to the multilayered depth and breadth of Tolkien's tales of Middle-earth, what critics, following Tolkien's lead, refer to collectively as his legendarium.J.R.R. Tolkien sweeps us away to a distant time and...
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    C.S. Lewis For Beginners
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    C.S. Lewis For Beginners

    C.S. Lewis For Beginners is a thorough examination of C. S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, throughout his career as an author and as a professor at Oxford University.A Christian apologist defends Christianity as a...
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  • The Vanished Collection
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    The Vanished Collection

    "Engrossing ... The book reads like a detective story."-The Washington PostIt all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather,...
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    Distant Fathers

    This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and 30s, and expands southward to the Italian countryside. In distinctive writing as poetic as it is precise, Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and...
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    I Belong to Vienna

    In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, hides in Nazi-controlled Vienna, and never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique...
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    No Time For Spectators

    Why are the best leaders the ones who are most adept at following? What should we expect of those who have the privilege of leading? And what may leaders expect of those who follow them? Drawing upon a military career spanning more than four decades,...
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    Into the Wind

    Without a map, nineteen-year-old Jake Ducey leaves behind a drug-filled life and college basketball scholarship to wander the world and prove we can find our dreams by following our heart. On the outskirts of civilization, often uncertain, without money...
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  • We Need To Talk: A Memoir About Wealth
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    We Need To Talk: A Memoir About Wealth

    When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of millions of dollars. Today, there are millions of people like her...
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    Paddling My Own Canoe

    Go Simple, Go Solo, Go NowIn 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find a...
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    Paddling North

    In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling...
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    Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968

    This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the...
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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.