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Step into the lives behind the legends—statesmen, rebels, poets, queens, and visionaries whose choices shaped history and stirred the world. From royal courts to battlefields, from scientific discovery to social revolution, this bookshelf opens a vivid parade of ambition, devotion, genius, and scandal. Every biography is a doorway into a larger-than-life story, where the person is as unforgettable as the age they lived in.
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John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides, volume 1 (of 3) : An autobiography edited by his brother
by John Gibson Paton
Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag
by S. O. Susag
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1
by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jr. Joseph Smith
Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy
by Patrick MacGill
Autobiography of an Androgyne
by Ralph Werther
Ravished Armenia The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great Massacres
by Aurora Mardiganian
On the edge of the primeval forest : Experiences and observations of a doctor in Equatorial Africa
by Albert Schweitzer
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.
by E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel) Woodcock
My fight for Irish freedom
by Dan Breen
Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave
by Henry Watson
In Brightest Africa
by Carl Ethan Akeley
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. I)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Yashka : My life as peasant, exile and soldier
by Mariia Bochkareva, Isaac Don Levine
Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives
by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War
by Richard Taylor
The Women of Mormondom
by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge
Cicero
by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. II)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Through the mill: The life of a mill-boy
by Frederic Kenyon Brown
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV)
by comte de Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
In the Days of Queen Victoria
by Eva March Tappan
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne, 1812-1813
by Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-François Bourgogne
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
by George H. Devol
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His Conversation by His Friend Christopher Carr of the Same College
by Arthur Christopher Benson
The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French
by Eugénie Foa
Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut
by James Mars
Vie de Henri Brulard, tome 1
by Stendhal
A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
by Nancy Prince
Anecdotes and memoirs of William Boen, a coloured man, who lived and died near Mount Holly, New Jersey
by Anonymous
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Thirteen years at the Russian court (a personal record of the last years and death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his family)
by Pierre Gilliard
Life of George Washington, volume 1 of 5
by Washington Irving
The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion
by Allan Pinkerton
Thackeray
by Anthony Trollope
Under the guns : A woman's reminiscences of the Civil War
by Annie Wittenmyer
Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865
by Hector Berlioz
Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter
by Theodore Roosevelt
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
by Ian Hamilton
Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 1
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Moral social : apreciación de Hostos
by Eugenio María de Hostos
Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman
by William Elliot Griffis
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
by James Longstreet
The Life of Flavius Josephus
by Flavius Josephus
Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure
Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895
by Freiherr von Rudolf Carl Slatin
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
by Samuel de Champlain
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10
by Thomas Carlyle
Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
by Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer
The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1
by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Florence Nightingale: A Biography
by Annie Matheson
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer
by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War
by Letitia M. Burwell
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow
The Son of a Servant
by August Strindberg
Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871
by Truman Everts
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1
by Ian Hamilton
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Seventy Years on the Frontier
by Alexander Majors
Lydia Knight's History The First Book of the Noble Women's Lives
by Susa Young Gates
Marie Antoinette
by Hilaire Belloc
Lives of the English Poets Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.
by Samuel Johnson
The Rebirth of Turkey
by Clair Price
Life of Heber C. Kimball, an apostle : the father and founder of the British mission
by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney
Seul, à travers l'Atlantique
by Alain Gerbault
Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Lady Hester Stanhope
The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself
by Dorothy Richardson
President Heber C. Kimball's Journal Seventh Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
by Heber C. (Heber Chase) Kimball
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
by John H. (John Henry) Haaren, Addison B. Poland
Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall
by Robert Stephen Hawker
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
by Samuel Johnson
Presidential Problems
by Grover Cleveland
The Reign of Andrew Jackson: A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics
by Frederic Austin Ogg
The Trembling of the Veil
by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795
by William L. (William Leete) Stone
Life, letters, and Epicurean philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the celebrated beauty of the seventeenth century
by Ninon de Lenclos
Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
by John R. Young
History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother
by Lucy Smith
Dumas' Paris
by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism
by Gilbert Chinard
Fridtjof Nansen: A Book for the Young
by Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull
A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.
by Kate Drumgoold
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
by John Forster
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 (of 10)
by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown
by James S. (James Stephens) Brown
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography.
by Solomon Maimon
An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north
by S. A. (Sozerko Artaganovich) Malʹsagov
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story
by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson
Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor
by Caroline Bancroft
From Immigrant to Inventor
by Michael Pupin
Gainsborough
by Max Rothschild
Fix bayonets!
by Jr. (John William) John W. Thomason
George Washington, Volume I
by Henry Cabot Lodge
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.
by Mark Twain
Mémoires touchant la vie et les écrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (1/6)
by C. A. (Charles Athanase) Walckenaer
