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  • Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France
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    Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France

    This book looks at the period 2015-18 in French politics, a turbulent time that witnessed the apparent collapse of the old party system, the taming of populist and left-wing challenges to the Republic and the emergence of a new political order centred on...
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    Intimacy in postmodern times
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    Intimacy in postmodern times

    Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter...
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  • African Meditations
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    African Meditations

    An influential thinker's fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman...
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    Seven Aunts

    Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth centuryThey were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and...
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    Brave Enough

    Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America's heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitterPyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the...
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  • Infinite Variety
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    Infinite Variety

    Artists from Man Ray to Augustus John painted,sculpted, and photographed her; writers, including Jean Cocteau, Ezra Pound,and Jack Kerouac, praised her strange beauty; celebrities and royalty were awedby her lavish parties and spectacles at her homes in...
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  • Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant
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    Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant

    LARGE PRINT EDITION.Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902) is a posthumously published autobiography by Walter Besant. Although he is more widely known for his works of fiction and book-length studies of the city of London, Besant was also a gifted...
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    Year of No Garbage
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    Year of No Garbage

    "Eve's brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we've become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better." -Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me...
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    Sh*t Joe Rogan Says
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    Sh*t Joe Rogan Says

    "The answer is not to silence me. . . . The answer is for you to have better arguments."Go the Joe Rogan way. Sh*t Joe Rogan Says is a book of motivation, inspiration, and reflections from the man who talks to everybody. Not one to back down from a...
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    The Patient Experience
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    The Patient Experience

    Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him,...
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    The Price of Principle
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    The Price of Principle

    In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz-#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most influential legal scholars-explores the implications of the increasing tendency in...
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    The Attica Turkey Shoot
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    The Attica Turkey Shoot

    The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than...
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    Political Prisoner
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    Political Prisoner

    A WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW BOOK CLAIMS DONALD TRUMP WILL RUN AND WIN IN 2024!A riveting account of the HOAX that sent a presidential campaign chairman to solitary confinement because he wouldn't turn...
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    Called to Serve
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    Called to Serve

    Join brave American men and women first responders in sixteen inspiring tales of heroism.There is no question that it has been a rough few years for America and around the world. But along with news of the COVID-19 pandemic, new variants, wildfires, etc...
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    Rise of the Cajun Mariners
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    Rise of the Cajun Mariners

    The story of four families of Cajun boatmen and their rise from trappers and shrimpers to mega-millionaires.Rise of the Cajun Mariners documents an untold piece of American history-the beginnings of what is now the global, multibillion-dollar marine oil...
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    Philip Roth
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    Philip Roth

    'I don't want you to rehabilitate me,' Philip Roth said to his only authorised biographer, Blake Bailey. 'Just make me interesting.' Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over...
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    The Farrows of Hollywood
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    The Farrows of Hollywood

    The first intimate look at the cracked fairytale life of Hollywood's first family, the Farrows.John Farrow was Hollywood royalty. An Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, he was married to the talented and beautiful actress Maureen O'Sullivan,...
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    Lombardi and Landry
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    Lombardi and Landry

    With a new introduction by Giants beat writer Tom Rock! Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry could not have had two more divergent personalities. Yet, while working for the New York Giants in the mid-1950s under head coach Jim Lee Howell, the pair formed what...
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    Disloyal: A Memoir
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    Disloyal: A Memoir

    Thisbook almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to barits publication. The inside story of the real President Trump, by his former attorneyand personal advisor - the man who helped get him into the Oval Office.Once Donald...
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    Ending Plague
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    Ending Plague

    "An engrossing expos of scientific practice in America." -KIRKUS REVIEWSFrom the authors of theNew York TimesbestsellingPlague of Corruptioncomes the prescription on how to end the plague infecting our medical community.Ending Plague continues the New...
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    Undercover Epicenter Nurse
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    Undercover Epicenter Nurse

    Undercover Epicenter Nurse blows the lid off the COVID-19 pandemicWhat would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that millions of people were dying because of it?Combat veteran and nurse Erin Olszewski's...
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    Epstein
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    Epstein

    This is - for the first time - the full and unedited story behind the sick life and mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein that is being called one of the most significant scandals in American history.He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of...
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    Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist
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    Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist

    The untold, insider's account of the high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game.'Right out of the gate, the entire game was designed to empty the pockets of those rich, celeb-loving LA suckers.' -...
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    Justice in the Age of Judgment
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    Justice in the Age of Judgment

    From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of 'innocent until proven guilty' survive in what acclaimed Seattle...
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    Tomcat Rio
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    Tomcat Rio

    From Topgun to Squadron Command You're in the cockpit of the legendary F-14 Tomcat fighter, blazing along at twice the speed of sound seven miles above the ocean and the carrier that hurled you off its deck. You're practicing dogfighting with...
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    White Like Her
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    White Like Her

    White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's "passing," Gail's struggle with the shame of her mother's choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context...
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    Women Healers of the World
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    Women Healers of the World

    Women Healers of the World shares with readers an extraordinary variety of healing plants from around the world that have inspired today's "alternative" medicine, as well as the stories, challenges, and triumphs of remarkable women healers from...
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    Gary Player's Black Book
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    Gary Player's Black Book

    Gary Player's Black Book contains sixty questions and detailed responses from eighteen-time major winner Gary Player. The book, divided into three parts, focuses on specific scenarios and problems that arise in golf, life, and business. In the first...
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    Plague
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    Plague

    On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prostate cancer, lymphoma,...
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    The Poison Patriarch
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    The Poison Patriarch

    "An unusual route into the thicket of JFK conspiracy literature." -Kirkus Reviews Focusing for the first time on why attorney general Robert F. Kennedy wasn't killed in 1963 instead of on why President John F. Kennedy was, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and...
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    Major Taylor
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    Major Taylor

    In the wake of the Tour de France's fallen heroes, the story of one of history's most legendary cyclists provides a much-needed antidote. In 1907 the world's most popular athlete was not Cy Young or Ty Cobb. Rather, he was a black bicycle racer named...
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    The Murder of Marilyn Monroe
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    The Murder of Marilyn Monroe

    Since Marilyn Monroe died among suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962, there have been queries and theories, allegations and investigations, but no definitive evidence about precisely what happened and who was involved . . . until now...
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  • Laughing with the Trickster
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    Laughing with the Trickster

    Brilliant, jubilant insights intothe glory and anguish oflife from one of the world's most treasured Indigenous creators.Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a...
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  • Scenes from the Underground
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    Scenes from the Underground

    Finalist, Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging WritersI have just heard for the first time the expression "to make soup": it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine,...
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  • Die Walking
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    Die Walking

    In the spirit of Night by Elie Wiesel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son of a Hutu pastor dreaming of becoming an airplane pilot when he heard something was wrong in Kigali, Rwanda...
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  • Strange Bewildering Time
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    Strange Bewildering Time

    A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a...
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    Tessa & Scott
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    Tessa & Scott

    Now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic Games and beyond. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the world's most...
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  • Channel of Peace
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    Channel of Peace

    One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away, Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001.When...
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  • Seven Fallen Feathers
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    Seven Fallen Feathers

    Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist,...
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  • Up from Slavery
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    Up from Slavery

    Booker T. Washington's famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington's rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation's most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for...
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    Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
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    Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

    A unique tribute to Jimi Hendrix on the 50th anniversary of his untimely death, featuring contributions by those who knew and worked with him, enhanced with images by the most renowned rock photographers of the era.The legendary Jimi Hendrixshook the...
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    The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
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    The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This record of Tesla's pioneering work gathers many of his most famous findings and theories, allowing contemporary readers to experience the amazing range of his...
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  • Deconstructing The Rat Pack
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    Deconstructing The Rat Pack

    "Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and the Summit" is a new look at the true creation of the group of entertainers that rocked the world. For twenty-eight consecutive nights in February 1960, a dusty town called Las Vegas became the epicenter of...
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  • Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History
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    Hitler, Stalin and I: An Oral History

    Heda Margolius Kovly (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her crime novel Innocence;...
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    The Untold Story of Jesus

    The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore Kindle-Deepak Chopra 2008 Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His-Sarah Young 2013 In the Footsteps of Jesus: A Chronicle of His Life and the Origins of Christianity-Jean-Pierre Isbouts, 2017 The Universal...
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    Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

    Subject of The New York Times documentary "The Forger," winner of a World Press Photo Award and an Emmy AwardAs seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper"[An] engrossing literary debut. ... Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor...
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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.