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  • "No Equal Justice" "No Equal Justice"
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    "No Equal Justice"

    "There is no equal justice for Black people today; there never has been. To our everlasting shame, the quality of justice in America has always been and is now directly related to the color of one's skin as well as to the size of one's pocketbook." This...
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  • Birding While Indian Birding While Indian
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    Birding While Indian

    Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." -KirkusThomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to...
    $42.00

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  • Henry Adams in Washington Henry Adams in Washington
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    Henry Adams in Washington

    A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American life, not least due to his ancestry. Yet despite his prolific writing in the years between 1877 and 1891, when he lived in...
    $254.00

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    Fuggers of Augsburg

    As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has...
    $163.00

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  • Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
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    Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

    Elizabeth Patterson BonaparteAn American Aristocrat in the Early RepublicCharlene M. Boyer Lewis"In this expertly researched and carefully documented biography, Boyer Lewis tells the personal saga of a woman scorned, in the process revealing much about...
    $49.00

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  • When Bad Men Combine When Bad Men Combine
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    When Bad Men Combine

    The Star Route scandal captured the nation's attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters's When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse...
    $76.00

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  • Gentle Art Gentle Art
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    Gentle Art

    The poems in The Gentle Art, a compelling new collection from William Wenthe, move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, who is at once inspired and disturbed by Whistler. The present-day author sheds...
    $25.00

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  • Fair Labor Lawyer Fair Labor Lawyer
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    Fair Labor Lawyer

    Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909‒1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped...
    $41.00

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  • Kokomo Joe Kokomo Joe
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    Kokomo Joe

    The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and...
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  • A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism
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    A.B. Simpson and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism

    A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn...
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  • Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law
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    Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law

    Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy, legislative reform,...
    $69.00

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  • Opium and Empire Opium and Empire
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    Opium and Empire

    In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson &...
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  • SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE
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    SHERLOCK HOLMES MY LIFE

    A memoir in which Sherlock Holmes discloses a conspiracy, between Dr. Watson and Dr. Arthur Doyle, to publish his real life adventures as works of fiction. Mycroft Holmes, his brother, aided by the British Secret Information Services, is solicited by Mr...
    $37.00

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  • "Through God, She Made It!" "Through God, She Made It!"
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    "Through God, She Made It!"

    This book is about my youngest daughter who the doctors didn't think would make it. With prayer, mercy and grace from God she overcame the obstacles and is doing well.
    $41.00

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  • Fifteen-Two, A Memoir Fifteen-Two, A Memoir
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    Fifteen-Two, A Memoir

    This is the story of how Jim Parenteau went from scrapes with the law as a kid in Wisconsin during the Great Depression to being a Chief Warrant Officer in the USAF and a popular volunteer at Children's Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio.
    $9.00

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  • Beep Beep, Akule! Beep Beep, Akule!
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    Beep Beep, Akule!

    A novel for the whole family about "small kid time" in a sugar plantation village in 1950's and 1960's Hawaii.
    $30.00

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  • Try Walking Across - Paperback Try Walking Across - Paperback
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    Try Walking Across - Paperback

    Helen Parker Holden was born and raised in Southern California. A descendent of America's pioneers, she was somewhat of a pioneer herself, crisscrossing the globe as an airline hostess from 1945-1958. By the time she left the airline, she was #3 on...
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  • It Wasnae Me! It Wasnae Me!
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    It Wasnae Me!

    Memoirs from a child growing up in 1950's-60's Post WWII Scotland. How society was and the colorful characters which littered everyday life. A heart rending story of a not-so-perfect childhood.
    $15.00

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  • Alien Interview - Readers Edition Alien Interview - Readers Edition
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    Alien Interview - Readers Edition

    The "Readers Edition" is a simplified version of the book, ALIEN INTERVIEW. It does NOT include FOOTNOTES, INDEX or TABLE OF CONTENTS. Only the letters, personal notes and copies of top secret government interview transcripts from Roswell, N.M.. The...
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  • Abiding Sorrow Abiding Sorrow
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    Abiding Sorrow

    These pages are deeply personal and frankly sentimental. They tell of a mother-daughter relationship -- and a friendship, forged by hard times; severed, but not broken, by death. They speak a word of empathy to others who have lost the person whom they...
    $21.00

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  • On The Bell Lap, Walking Among Giants On The Bell Lap, Walking Among Giants
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    On The Bell Lap, Walking Among Giants

    I joined Bell Labs in 1961, wanting to prove that I could compete and contribute to the progress of silicon semiconductor technology, in the midst of an amazing group of giants. After some meandering about, I was successful in a small way. Among other...
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  • The Education and Domestication of a Bulldog The Education and Domestication of a Bulldog
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    The Education and Domestication of a Bulldog

    I entered Missouri University in 1954 to major in Physics. When I entered, I was a little undereducated, and had to work my way through school, but by the second year, I had reached parity with my peers from St. Louis and other larger schools. I was...
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  • First a Panther, Then a Bulldog! First a Panther, Then a Bulldog!
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    First a Panther, Then a Bulldog!

    This is the story of my four years of high school, starting with two years at Rockville as a Panther, and the second two years as a Bulldog at Appleton City, Missouri. They were fun, productive years. I was a bright student with limited athletic...
    $34.00

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  • Herb, My Early Story Herb, My Early Story
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    Herb, My Early Story

    I am a Missouri boy, born into a family with southern roots. My family moved often, making it difficult for me to fit in. Mother taught us Southern values, and Dad taught us the importance of honor and enterprise. I was a pretty good worker and a fair...
    $29.00

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  • It All Started On A Wednesday It All Started On A Wednesday
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    It All Started On A Wednesday

    A true story about an 18 year old girl, who became suddenly ill with an unknown medical illness. This book is about her struggles and her miraculous healing.
    $19.00

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  • Adventures At Castle Dome Adventures At Castle Dome
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    Adventures At Castle Dome

    Schuyler and Eleanor Turner thought they were simply accepting another job when they packed up their family and moved to Castle Dome, AZ to work in the old mine. Little did they know what thrills awaited them in the sands of Castle Dome.
    $21.00

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  • Death of a Trillion Dreams Death of a Trillion Dreams
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    Death of a Trillion Dreams

    Absolutly astonishing revelations learned from the astronauts of Skylab. The secret connection between the exponential increases in autism and dementia brought on by an unknown intelligent force that is altering our genetics. Plus other extraordinary...
    $22.00

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  • Eight Candles of Consciousness Eight Candles of Consciousness
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    Eight Candles of Consciousness

    Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, vegetarian and lifelong pacifist, shares his best anti-war articles, thoughts, poems and memories from 40 years of peace activism. Includes his nonviolent Hanukkah service, "Eight Candles of Consciousness"; his anti-Kahane protest...
    $26.00

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  • Someone to Hear Me Someone to Hear Me
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    Someone to Hear Me

    Someone to Hear Me is a personal account of how Dorene Lewis survives daily abusive relationships and finds the strength to make drastic life-style changes to better her life and the lives of her children
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  • Life Done Differently Life Done Differently
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    Life Done Differently

    What do you do when everyone around you is embracing parenthood or focused on their careers, and you're not sure either path is right for you? Lisa Jansen decided to find outAt 33, Lisa had everything she ever wanted; A successful career in...
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  • Becoming Karl Becoming Karl
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    Becoming Karl

    Karl was born seriously damaged by toxoplasmosis and hydrocephalus. Barely alive at birth, he survived, but doctors said he would be ineducable. Today, fifty-six-year-old Karl is artistically talented and has been in the workforce for twenty-five years...
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  • The McMullan Family in New Zealand 2nd Edition The McMullan Family in New Zealand 2nd Edition
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    The McMullan Family in New Zealand 2nd Edition

    This collection of stories, facts and photos is about a family living in Otago, New Zealand in the last half of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. The family lived in Gabriels Gully, Lawrence, Otago where the Gold Rush of the 1860s...
    $44.00

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  • Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature
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    Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature

    This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important...
    $113.00

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  • Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices
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    Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices

    Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. These organised cultural encounters bring together people of different backgrounds in order to promote...
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  • Elusive Happiness Elusive Happiness
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    Elusive Happiness

    I have been keeping a journal since I was 15 years old. Over 35 years and hundreds of pages later, I decided to transcribe my chicken-scratch handwriting into typed form. Then I thought I needed to put my journal entries into context so I wrote a...
    $176.00

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  • Kommunarov St. Kommunarov St.
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    Kommunarov St.

    Learn about how a loving father flew 4,380 miles in 1992 to pick up a little boy from Leningrad, Russia. This is the convergence of two minds, in two points in history: the journal of a father's travels and the internal thoughts and response of the boy...
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  • Ronnie and Me Ronnie and Me
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    Ronnie and Me

    This book is about two brothers, Ronnie and Michael, born to parents of south Italian origin and growing up in small-town Rochester, NY during America's "golden age" of the 1940's and 1950's.
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  • This Was Us This Was Us
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    This Was Us

    Memories of old Yorkville, a neighborhood in New York City. Friendships and community separated by gentrification.
    $33.00

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  • The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1889-1895 The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1889-1895
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    The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1889-1895

    These are the edited (i.e. transcribed, annotated and indexed) diaries of the diplomat Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) for the six and a half years during which he was posted to Montevideo (Uruguay) and then Morocco. Throughout the period his ultimate goal...
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  • Scrap's Adventures - The Rose Bowl Scrap's Adventures - The Rose Bowl
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    Scrap's Adventures - The Rose Bowl

    Hold on to your dreams - They just may come true! A childhood dream becomes a life accomplishment. Enjoy this play by play recollection of an incredible, impromptu trip to the 2019 Rose Bowl!
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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.