#biography-autobiography — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #biography-autobiography, aggregated by home.social.
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📖 England's Dreaming by Jon Savage (⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Biography #Music #Nonfiction #BiographyAutobiography #PunkRock
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780312288228/englands-dreaming
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📚 Lessons From a Lifetime by: David Suzuki, Ian Hanington
Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares pearls of wisdom and hard-earned l...
https://bookblabla.com/book/lessons-from-a-lifetime
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #lifesciences #ecologyhistory #warsconflicts #general
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📚 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by: Omar El Akkad
On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late...
https://bookblabla.com/book/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #world #politicalideologies #democracy
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📚 Crossroads by: Kaleb Dahlgren
On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their fron...
https://bookblabla.com/book/crossroads
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #wintersports #hockeyselfhelp #motivationalinspirational
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📚 Political Girl by: Maria Alyokhina
From a member of the Pussy Riot collective: An urgent, intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin's Russia
Picking up where Riot Days left off, Maria (Masha) Alyokhina takes us through her activist experiences between 2014 to 2022. In vivid, diary-like v...
https://bookblabla.com/book/political-girl
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #politicalhistory #russia
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📚 Finding My Way by: Malala Yousafzai
This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.
Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crow...
https://bookblabla.com/book/finding-my-way
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #socialactivists
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📚 Careless People by: Sarah Wynn-Williams
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.
From trips...
https://bookblabla.com/book/careless-people
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #industries #internet #technologystudies
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📚 Awake by: Jen Hatmaker
At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering in his phone to another woman from their bed. It was the end of life as she knew it. In the months that followed, she went from being a shiny, funny, popular leader to a divorced wreck on antidepressants and antianxiety meds, pare...
https://bookblabla.com/book/awake
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #divorceseparation
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📚 Girl Warrior by: Joy Harjo
An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate.
To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is there evil in the world? Why do people suf...
https://bookblabla.com/book/girl-warrior
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #indigenous
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📖 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Biography #Autobiography #BiographyAutobiography
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human. On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of...
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📚 I'm Glad My Mom Died by: Jennette McCurdy
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, whatever it took, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what her mother called "calorie restriction"...
https://bookblabla.com/book/im-glad-my-mom-died
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #parenting #dysfunctionalfamilies
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📚 Crying in H Mart by: Michelle Zauner
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expec...
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📚 Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick by: Javier Zamora
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New Yo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/solito-a-read-with-jenna-pick
#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #emigrationimmigration
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📖 This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Tech #Nonfiction #BiographyAutobiography
The inventor of the World Wide Web explores his vision’s promise—and how it can be redeemed for the future. Perhaps the most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of technologist. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, he famously distributed...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780374612474/this-is-for-everyone