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  • WE HEREBY REFUSE
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    WE HEREBY REFUSE

    Publishing in tandem with Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience with a grant from the National Park Service.- While certain stories of Japanese American resistance during WWII imprisonment are well-known (Gordon Hirabayashi, for...
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  • Those Who Helped Us
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    Those Who Helped Us

    The second installment in the series of graphic novels that began with Washington State Book Award FinalistWe Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime IncarcerationBasketball-loving Sumiko Tanaka, then 11, narrates this graphic novel about...
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    Persimmon and Frog

    Written intimately and in the first person, Persimmon and Frog reveals a less familiar story from World War II. Born in America to immigrant farmers, Kimura was visiting Japan as a 10-year-old when the US entered the war. She was stranded in Japan and...
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    Judging Iran
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    Judging Iran

    AKIRKUS REVIEWSBEST INDIE BOOK OF 2023From a divided Berlin to The Hague, the Reagan White House, the forests of Costa Rica, and more, Judge Charles N. Brower shares a personal history of a life spent at the forefront of international justice-and a case...
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  • Dear Barack
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    Dear Barack

    One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped the twenty-first centuryToday, we know US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as two of the world's most influential leaders,...
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    Confessions of an Egyptologist
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    Confessions of an Egyptologist

    Bestselling author Erich von Dniken shares the story of a 16-year-old grave-diver who discovered a mysterious labyrinth of the old kings under one of the pyramids of Saqqara.In this book, Erich von Dniken shares the story of his friend Adel H., an...
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  • Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked
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    Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked

    Slaughterhouse-Five is a seminal novel of contemporary literature, a rumination on war, space, time and the meaning of life and death. In Kurt Vonnegut's existential classic, we meet Billy Pilgrim, a man who has become unmoored in time after being...
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  • Antiman
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    Antiman

    Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an...
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  • Nine Moons
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    Nine Moons

    Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly...
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    I Escaped from Auschwitz
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    I Escaped from Auschwitz

    April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over one hundred miles to be the...
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    THE GREATEST SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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    THE GREATEST SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

    "We will make America strong again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Greater than ever before!" - President Donald J. TrumpThe ultimate collection of President Donald J. Trump's most important speeches and words to...
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  • Where Are the Elephants?
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    Where Are the Elephants?

    Fierce and funny, this memoir in essay and song is full of wonderful tales of art and protest. Leon Rosselson's Where Are the Elephants? is a rare behind-the-scenes look at the life and times of one of England's foremost songwriters. This clear-eyed...
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  • Remembering the Armed Struggle
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    Remembering the Armed Struggle

    Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in...
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  • Young C.L.R. James
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    Young C.L.R. James

    This unique comic by Milton Knight illuminates the early years of C.L.R. James (19011989), known in much later years as the "last great Pan-Africanist." The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his...
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    Joe Hill
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    Joe Hill

    A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies-songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr-Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture...
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  • Odd Man In
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    Odd Man In

    An entertaining look at one of hockey's most unique traditions: the emergency backup goaltender.Tom Fenton was in a barber's chair when he got the call. Nathan Schoenfeld was giving his 5-week-old twin boys a bath. Eric Semborski was teaching kids to...
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  • Lute Olson
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    Lute Olson

    A profound collection celebrating one of college basketball's greatest coachesLute Olson is a college basketball coaching institution, from Tucson and the University of Arizona through the Pac-12, and forever in the annals of the sport as one of the best...
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  • The Idealist
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    The Idealist

    An essential story of understated courage, the lasting power of a name, and the battle to honor a pioneering legacy.On the eve of his second varsity football game for the Iowa State Cyclones, Jack Trice wrote in a letter, "The honor of my race, family...
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  • Matthew Barnaby
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    Matthew Barnaby

    A dynamic and candid memoir by an unlikely NHL brawlerIn the run-up to the NHL Entry Draft in 1992, the Buffalo Sabres interviewed Matthew Barnaby. John Muckler, Buffalo's coach, asked him, "What happens at 8:05 on Saturday night in Detroit when Bob...
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  • Ed Snider
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    Ed Snider

    A multidimensional biography of one of Philadelphia's ultimate power brokers.Most sports team owners make their money elsewhere and purchase a team as an extravagant hobby-but that is not the story of Ed Snider. One of the few owners in history to get...
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  • Chris Therien
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    Chris Therien

    In Philadelphia Flyers orange and black, Chris Therien cut an imposing figure on the ice, a stalwart physical presence for over a decade in the NHL. But by the end of his playing career, he was concealing a much greater battle with alcoholism which bled...
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  • Willie Horton
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    Willie Horton

    A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sonsAt 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At 20, he smacked his first major-league home run. At 24, Horton stood in full uniform on the...
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  • Sports Illustrated Kobe Bryant
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    Sports Illustrated Kobe Bryant

    A profound remembrance of a life of greatness cut short.In 20 seasons in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform, Kobe Bryant ascended from teenaged rookie to 18-time all-star and five-time NBA champion. The superstar known as The Black Mamba left his mark on...
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  • Bernie Nicholls
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    Bernie Nicholls

    Across more than a thousand games in the National Hockey League, Bernie Nicholls made his mark with flamboyant style and dynamic scoring prowess. In this new autobiography, Nicholls reflects on his life on and off the ice, sharing candid anecdotes and...
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  • I'll Show You
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    I'll Show You

    Derrick Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he...
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  • Chadwick Boseman
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    Chadwick Boseman

    A profound remembrance of an extraordinary life cut short,celebratingChadwick Boseman's brilliance on screen as well as his rich existence as a generous friend, family member, and activist.Chadwick Boseman will forever be remembered as a sublime acting...
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  • Juke Box Hero
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    Juke Box Hero

    Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock's most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and '80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as Cold As...
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    I Am a Bacha Posh
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    I Am a Bacha Posh

    "You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called "bacha...
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    Miracle Survivors
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    Miracle Survivors

    If you have received an incurable cancer diagnosis, hearing about someone "who made it" is like spotting a rescue ship when you're drowning in a stormy sea. Miracle Survivors provides that lifeline with a collection of stories of cancer survivors who...
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    Dr. Feelgood
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    Dr. Feelgood

    Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named "Dr. Feelgood," developed a unique "energy formula" that altered the paths of some of the twentieth century's most iconic figures, including President and Jackie...
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    The Unknown Henry Miller
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    The Unknown Henry Miller

    Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature. Better known in Europe than in his native America for most of this career, he achieved international success and celebrity during the 1960s when his banned Paris books -...
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  • Hit Girls
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    Hit Girls

    Think punk was only a boys club? Read about the women who were the punk revolution!Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent...
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    Glamour Ghoul

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  • The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles
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    The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles

    Francoise Hardy is best known in Europe for originating the famed "Y-Y" sound in pop music which began a cultural scene in the early 1960s. Her teenage success grew as she became a much-photographed fashion model and actress. Adored for her shy beauty...
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    The Mudd Club

    "I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standing outside, staring at the crowd, it was "out there" versus "in here" and I was on the inside. The Mudd Club...
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    Hard-Core

    Harley Flanagan provides a fascinating memoir: a homeless child prodigy and family friend of Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, at a young age he became close to many stars of the early punk rock scene like Joe Strummer of The Clash and was taught to play...
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    The Secret Life of a Satanist

    The Secret Life of a Satanist steps behind the curtain with the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan.What is contemporary Satanism, and why would one start a church dedicated to the Dark One? It wasn't a rebellion against an oppressive...
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    Making Mavericks
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    Making Mavericks

    When Richard "Frosty" Hesson was first approached by a young Jay Moriarty in 1990, the skinny kid with a sparkle in his eye only wanted one thing from the icon: his help in becoming a better surfer. Hesson, one of the first to conquer the huge waves off...
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    Dance of Death
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    Dance of Death

    John Fahey hovers ghostlike in the sound of almost every acoustic guitarist who came after him, from Leo Kottke to Jimmy Page. In essence, John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent...
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    Uncaged
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    Uncaged

    Before Frank Shamrock became known professionally as "The Legend"-winning almost every mixed martial arts title in existence-he endured a childhood marred with abuse, neglect, and molestation that led to an equally troubled young adulthood. This riveting...
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    98% Funky Stuff
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    98% Funky Stuff

    Maceo Parker's signature style became the lynchpin of James Brown's band when he and his brother Melvin joined the Hardest Working Man in Show Business in 1964. That style helped define Brown's brand of funk, and the phrase "Maceo, I want you to blow!"...
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    Japanese Cinema
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    Japanese Cinema

    An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.This is a passionate, personal journey through one of the world's greatest national cinemas, beginning with the classic directors who came to the fore in...
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  • A Hard Place to Leave
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    A Hard Place to Leave

    In these essays, Marcia simultaneously navigatesthe globe while carving out a second career as a travel writer for majormagazines, while navigating her own past and the bumpy and sometimes complicatedroad of midlife. Marcia's voice has quiet power,...
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    In the Red Corner

    Jos Carlos Maritegui (1894-1930) is widely recognized across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his life and work are largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this gripping...
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    Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, and he...
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    Trotsky on Lenin

    Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin's fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an...
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    The Politics of Che Guevara

    This reexamination of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activists-or anyone longing to fight for a better world.Fifty years after his death, Guevara remains a symbol to legions of young...
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  • Fueled By Failure
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    Fueled By Failure

    Fueled by Failure: Dare to Fail. Dare to Succeed.Olympian and former NFL player now thriving as a CEO and Philanthropist, Jeremy Bloom pulls at the common thread that unites him with all of us: the defeats we encounter on our journeys to reach our goals...
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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.