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    No Risk, No Reward
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    No Risk, No Reward

    No Risk, No Reward examines the life and career of golf course architect John Sanford, from an insider's point of view. After a childhood spent on major league baseball fields, Sanford turned a passion for golf into a successful design career. Explore...
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  • YOU WILL BE A BUILDER OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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    YOU WILL BE A BUILDER OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

    Edward Victor Dick began life as a simple farm boy but was always attracted to music. Growing up amidst the cultural revolution of the 1960's was fertile ground for his exceptionally active imagination. A dramatic epiphany in his early 20's led him to...
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    Rooster - Fighter Pilot
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    Rooster - Fighter Pilot

    "Rooster-Fighter Pilot" is a riveting story about a boy who had a dream about flying that he has never let go. He would concentrate while dreaming and lifted off the ground and flew over the fields and farms where he lived in France.He lived out his...
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  • Ghost of Our Grandfather
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    Ghost of Our Grandfather

    A lifetime of questions led us to discover that the grandfather we never knew had led a surprisingly interesting and varied life, having occupied himself as a farmer and a Populist, a town builder and a merchant, a Freethinker and a pioneer of the Great...
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  • The Days Planned For Me
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    The Days Planned For Me

    Why does God heal some and not others? When caring for a seriously ill parent, spouse or child, when is it appropriate to pray for healing and when is it time to simply accept things as they are? These questions circled in Jean Sullivan's mind when faced...
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  • Student of the Woods
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    Student of the Woods

    "Student of the Woods" follows one young man as he embarks on a journey through life as a hunter. Deep in the woods, life's hardest lessons were learned from firsthand experiences and the natural process of searching for answers. Inevitably, these...
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    The Fight in the Dog
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    The Fight in the Dog

    Dickie Regan shares his journey through the turbulent waters of NCAA Division I college football at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina while experiencing the myriad conflicts associated with military cadet life. Despite being listed at...
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  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds
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    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Deeds

    This book details how the founders located Lifebridge Foundation in NYC that funded four grants to enable the members to sponsor many important activities during the 1990's. The book tells the story of the first Soviet-American Peace Walk venturing...
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  • Confessions of a Murphy's Law Child
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    Confessions of a Murphy's Law Child

    Murphy's Kids. What a strange moniker. It corresponds with the so-called Murphy's Law that states if a series of things can potentially go wrong, they will. As incredible as it sounds, there are some kids who, from the day they are born until they leave...
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  • Getting to Here
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    Getting to Here

    How does a square peg survive in a world of round holes? What happens to our sharp edges as we careen into our seventh decade of a wild life? Follow this cage-rattling lady from down-and-out in Central Florida, where she finds herself unceremoniously...
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  • Hermon Atkins MacNeil
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    Hermon Atkins MacNeil

    Hermon Atkins MacNeil has been written about in a variety of anthologies of American sculpture with brief, sometime quite serious essays, but never in a full book. Through the use of sound and thorough scholarship, Hermon Atkin MacNeil: American Sculptor...
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  • Where Would I Go?
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    Where Would I Go?

    This is the story of Jose Luis Flores' transformation from the world of drugs and gangs, to being a devoted follower of Christ.In his early life, Jose was introduced to the world of heroin addiction by a friend from New York at the tender age of twelve...
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    Growing Up Westsider 1950s, 1960s and Beyond
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    Growing Up Westsider 1950s, 1960s and Beyond

    As an Architect, we often think of 'Way Finding", starting when one approaches the site we create signs to point to the emergency access, the normal access, and delivery dock. Once inside the facility, we provide directories and directional signs. In...
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  • Cudlipp's Circus
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    Cudlipp's Circus

    Award-winning Australian author Peter Thompson evokes the now-vanished world he encountered on joining 'Cudlipp's Circus' at the Daily Mirror in 1966, bringing to life the days when Fleet Street was the front-page equivalent of Dodge City and its pubs...
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  • Parisian Life
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    Parisian Life

    When your best girl friend is Coco Chanel, your life can't be too dull. When your enemy is Napolon, your life can't be too ordinary either. And when you are flirting with Hemingway at the Ritz bar in Paris, even your love life is glamorous. This is the...
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    Good Power
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    Good Power

    Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power she recounts her...
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    Collision Course
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    Collision Course

    In Japan it's called the 'Ghosn Shock' - the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved Nissan and made it part of a global automotive empire.Even more shocking was his daring escape from Japan, packed into...
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  • A Constellation of Ghosts
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    A Constellation of Ghosts

    A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a commitment. When Laraine Herring receives an unexpected colon cancer diagnosis, her father, thirty years dead, returns to her as a raven, setting off a magical journey into complicated grief,...
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    The First 21
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    The First 21

    Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells hisorigin story: how Frank Feranna becameNikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinatingjourney from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mtley Cre...
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  • Last Pick
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    Last Pick

    A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyerThe oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his...
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  • God of Sperm
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    God of Sperm

    God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine.Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the...
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  • Desolation Peak
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    Desolation Peak

    'Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.'In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking...
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  • Icons and Instincts
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    Icons and Instincts

    For the first time, the choreographer of Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bjrk and many others reveals stage stories through his extraordinary journey.Vincent Paterson began his professional dancing career late in life. It would take an exceptional turn when he...
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  • Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
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    Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

    In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, John Corabi recounts his life from the mean streets of Philadelphia to the Sunset Strip. Take a look behind the scenes at Corabi's time fronting Mtley Cre, Union, and The Dead Daisies, as well as his time playing rhythm...
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  • Double Talkin' Jive
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    Double Talkin' Jive

    In Double Talkin' Jive legendary drummer Matt Sorum takes music lovers behind the scenes of a remarkable life in rock. Sorum, whose albums have sold tens of millions of copies around the world, provides an honest, engaging account of the highs and lows...
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  • Black Heart Fades Blue
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    Black Heart Fades Blue

    If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my...
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  • The First 50
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    The First 50

    A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War,...
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  • Bleeding Internally Since 1971
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    Bleeding Internally Since 1971

    Corey Taylor from Slipknot wrote the introductionJason Christopher plays Corey Taylor's solo band, and they tour all over the world together regularlyBooks will be promoted on their tourJason Christopher self-published a book called Rogue to Nowhere and...
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    Overcome

    Karmen Karma is known as a contract star on the popular porn site BrazzersShe has 530k twitter followersShe has 322k Instagram followersShe will be promoting to all of her social mediaEvents in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and moreInterviews with adult film...
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    Julian of Norwich: The Showings
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    Julian of Norwich: The Showings

    "As a major fan and promoter of Julian of Norwich, whom I call 'my favorite mystic', it is genuinely exciting to find such a faithful but freeing translation of Julian's long-lost Showings. Now they are no longer lost-for anyone!" -Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F...
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  • October Child
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    October Child

    From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostrm Knausgrd was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at this "factory" progressed, the writer's memories began to disappear. What good is a writer...
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  • World's Best Mother
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    World's Best Mother

    A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey - through pregnancy, the mothering of...
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  • A Little Annihilation
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    A Little Annihilation

    June 1, 1943, Eastern Poland. Within just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the survivors was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers,...
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  • Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
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    Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

    Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in...
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  • Finding My Voice
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    Finding My Voice

    In this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father's cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence.She begins...
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  • Waiting in the Wings
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    Waiting in the Wings

    In a series of journal entries-some original passages, others revisited and expanded in retrospect-Cherri Moraga details her experiences with pregnancy, birth, and the early years of lesbian parenting.With the premature birth of her son-when HIV-related...
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  • A Revolutionary for Our Time
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    A Revolutionary for Our Time

    Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists' today. Rodney lived through the failed though...
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    People Wasn't Made to Burn

    In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago's West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his...
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    Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel
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    Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

    Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an...
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    On Edward Said

    Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and...
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    The Living Flame

    This collection will be of interest to all who want to dive deeper into one of the 20th centuries most brilliant women revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg. Publication will coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death in 1919. Renewed attention to the...
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    Star-Spangled Zionism
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    Star-Spangled Zionism

    This is the story of how Zionism, supported by Americanism, created a modern miracle-told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history.And None Shall Make Them Afraid presents eight historic figures-four from...
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    Paper Belt on Fire
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    Paper Belt on Fire

    Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education."Part adventure tale, part manifesto,...
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  • The Statesman as Thinker
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    The Statesman as Thinker

    In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena."Abrilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action."-Victor...
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    United and Independent
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    United and Independent

    John Quincy Adams is widely recognized as America's most distinguished diplomat, taking into account the length and breadth of his public service and his influence on American foreign policy. In the course of this remarkable journey, John Quincy...
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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.