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Best Autobiographies For Teens on April 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Anchor Sports)
- ASIN: 0307949583
- ISBN: 0307949583
- Brand: Anchor Books
- Manufacturer: Anchor
Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real deal: Major League Baseball. John Feinstein takes the reader behind the curtain into the guarded world of the minor leagues, like no other writer can. Wh... [Read More]
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The Hoops Whisperer: On the Court and Inside the Heads of Basketball's Best Players
- ASIN: 1592409377
- ISBN: 1592409377
- Brand: Gotham Books
- Manufacturer: Avery
Basketball’s most unlikely—and most sought-after—training guru offers an inside look at his career, his methods, and the all-star players whose games he’s helped transform. Where do the best basketball players in the world turn when they want to improve their game? Whom does a future NBA Hall of Famer thank at his press conference when he�... [Read More]
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Educated: A Memoir
- ASIN: 0399590501
- Brand: Random House
- Manufacturer: Random House
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Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
- ASIN: 1476794146
- ISBN: 1476794146
- Brand: Gallery Books
- Manufacturer: Gallery Books
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who followed those traumatic events. Clint Hill wa... [Read More]
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Spilled Milk: Based on a true story
- ASIN: 0615835600
- ISBN: 0615835600
- Manufacturer: K.L Randis
Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and jus... [Read More]
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
- UPC: 884641071366
- ASIN: 1442497823
- ISBN: 1442497823
- Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s list child, perfe... [Read More]
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50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet, 3rd Edition
- ASIN: 1512413283
- ISBN: 1512413283
- Brand: MILLBROOK
- Manufacturer: Millbrook Press
Heroes come in all sizes, colors, and ages, and 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (2nd Revised Edition) introduces readers to a diverse cast of great Americans. The remarkable stories of fifty inspiring Americans are highlighted, from Jane Addams to Louis Zamperini. Revised in 2016 by the original authors to include ten new heroes, the book ... [Read More]
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The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts
- ASIN: 1633535835
- ISBN: 9781633535831
- Manufacturer: Mango
#1 Amazon Best Seller! ─ Super women. Who are some of the most awesome women in history?"The Book of Awesome Women shares stories and triumphs that are not often mentioned in mainstream history and is something you absolutely need to check out....Reading this book filled me with happiness and I just felt so amazed by what the women within this bo... [Read More]
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust
- ASIN: 0062489968
- ISBN: 0062489968
- Brand: GREENWILLOW
- Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books
The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said and in what is left out.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) ... [Read More]
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Brown Girl Dreaming
- ASIN: 0147515823
- ISBN: 9780147515827
- Brand: Puffin Books
- Manufacturer: Puffin Books
Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she share... [Read More]
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Saving Sadie: How a Dog That No One Wanted Inspired the World
- ASIN: 0806538384
- ISBN: 0806538384
- Manufacturer: Citadel
“An uplifting story with tremendous heart. I couldn't put it down.” —Helen Brown Joal Derse Dauer was donating blankets at a local no-kill shelter when an injured and despondent dog caught her eye. With three “fur babies” already at home, Joal wasn’t looking to adopt another dog. But there was something special about Sadie . . . W... [Read More]
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Think Like a Warrior: The Five Inner Beliefs That Make You Unstoppable (Sports for the Soul Book 1)
- ASIN: B01F5MCOF6
- Manufacturer: Shamrock New Media, Inc.
Discover the five inner beliefs shared by the world's greatest achievers.If you want to take control of your life and achieve your biggest dreams, you must develop a "warrior mindset." This book will show you how to stop thinking like a victim and start thinking like a warrior.In this inspirational fable, Chris McNeely is a college football coach w... [Read More]
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
- ASIN: 0316327913
- ISBN: 0316327913
- Brand: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school.Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan tr... [Read More]
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- ASIN: 074324754X
- ISBN: 9780743247542
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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Stephen Curry: Rise of the Star. The inspiring and interesting life story from a struggling young boy to become the legend. Life of Stephen Curry - one of the best basketball shooters in history.
- ASIN: 152390285X
- ISBN: 152390285X
- Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
‘I’ve never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I’m ready for the moment’ – Stephen Curry. Stephen Curry was intent in showing the world that he was not just ‘lucky’ – he wanted to show that he deserved to be playing in the Finals. He deserved to be th... [Read More]
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Even If It Kills Me: Martial Arts, Rock and Roll, and Mortality
- ASIN: 159439539X
- ISBN: 159439539X
- Manufacturer: Ymaa Publication Center
Benjamin Franklin Award SILVER WINNER - 2017This is the true story of a rock and roll musician who takes up taekwondo at forty years old. Doni Blair, bassist for the Toadies, knows he's past his physical prime, but he's determined to push himself and pursue his dream of becoming a martial artist―even if it kills him.As a kid Doni was obsessed wit... [Read More]
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- ASIN: 0374531269
- ISBN: 9780374531263
- Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
- Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one beco... [Read More]
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My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
- ASIN: 0143119451
- ISBN: 0143119451
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
"Straight from the trenches, a mom's tale of weathering her daughter's transformation from sweetheart to snark mouth." - PeopleWith the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open-and sometimes wounded-heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler launches an eighteen-month mission, embedding herself in her about-to... [Read More]
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In Pieces
- ASIN: 1538763028
- ISBN: 1538763028
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother. One of the most celebrated, beloved... [Read More]
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- ASIN: B0176M1A44
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Scribner
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this instant and tenacious bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic,... [Read More]
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