Biography & Autobiography - General

Meyer London (1871-1926), a Russian Jewish immigrant, settled in New York's Lower East Side in 1891. He became a lawyer, labor activist, founding member of the Socialist Party of America, and a three term Congressman who advocated peaceful methods and refused to take rigid...

Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company:...

This work presents biographical and career sketches of each of the 637 participants in the 1884 Major League Baseball season. It also includes more than 100 photographs and 110 charts of the players' performances on National Association, National League, American Association, Union Association, Players...

This is the first book-length study of the career and life of Ann Savage, whose performance in Detour earned her a place in Time Magazine's list of the top 10 greatest movie villains. The biography covers her abused childhood and her career as a...

At first glance, Lloyd Hamilton was a large, baby-faced comic who walked like a duck. To the trained eye, Hamilton demonstrated keen timing and an inventive mind, providing wry humor rich in emotion during his 20 year career. Perhaps most importantly, Hamilton was greatly...

This is a study of the life and times of Saint Perpetua, Saint Felicity and their companions, all martyred at Carthage in A.D. 203. Unlike most early Christian saints, whose lives are often shrouded in legend and myth, Perpetua left an authentic prison diary,...

Claimants of paranormal abilities have always attracted controversy and fascination, and sometimes rigorous study by scientists. Charles Bailey, an Australian medium, was seemingly able to materialize different objects--animate and inanimate--under conditions which made it difficult to conceive how they could have been normally produced....

In 1911, when businessman James Rolph first ran for mayor of San Francisco, he promised, "I will be mayor of the whole city, and not the mayor for any particular section." This statement seemed to characterize Rolph's political career. After serving an unprecedented five...

The floozy, the gangster's moll, the nasty debutante: Most Hollywood actresses played at least one of these bad girls in the 1930s. Since censorship customarily demanded that goodness prevail, vixens were in mainly supporting roles--but the actresses who played them were often colorful scene...

This English translation of De Quilmes a Hyde Park: Las fronteras culturales en la vida y la obra de W. H. Hudson, which won the 2001 Annual Prize in Literature of Uruguay, analyzes how the richness of Hudson's work is linked to the overlapping...

Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis...

This work provides clear answers to difficult moral and social issues that we face in our personal lives-that governments need to address when balancing the interests of the community. By demystifying moral discourse, How to Live provides a clear moral pathway for students of...

A memoir of my life during the 1970s, traveling to New Guinea, experiencing a cyclone at Middleton Reef, meeting my future wife, getting married and starting a new life. Part of a continuing memoir, it covers the first two thirds of the 1970s and...

This biography of Moira Lenore Dynon nee Shelton (1920 -1976) was written by her husband John F Dynon. It contains a footnoted account of Moira's fascinating and inspiring life as a scientist, socialite, wife, mother and community activist. Moira graduated from the University of...

Judy O'Brien is a well-respected and highly sought-after Australian Medium, who has continued to build her reputation and clientele over the past fifteen years.This new book provides a fresh and honest account of the challenges she has faced managing her day to day life...

Within each of us is a powerful force capable of transforming our life. Follow Dianne Ellis through the adventures and profound healing experiences of her life; adoption and death, homebirth in the forest, a crazed gunman, surfing adventures with shark attacks and coaching her...

Fourth in the Stories of Life series, Papa's Shoes is a collection of true stories of faith, written by ordinary people who encounter God somehow, somewhere. Some of these stories are set, as you might expect, in hospital wards and graveyards, on mountaintops and...

Authentic, and inspirational is Vic's real to life account of the transformation that he has experienced - taking him from hopelessness to hope, from suicidal to purposed life and atheist to believer!'I AM ARRESTED' brings hope that no matter how far we have sunk...

"Ordinary things are seen with different eyes and diamonds of thought well up, usually unbidden." Riding a motorcycle from Perth to Kununurra and back at the age of 72, Peter Bruechle's mind meanders from pressing topics like religion and politics, to past reminisces, to...

If you were to talk a mile in my shoes, you'd understand so many things, enough about life to give you the blues, at the pain that child abuse brings.Having no-one to turn to, no-one to trust, leaves a legacy of fear and of...

Hello, I'm Hamiye Öksüz. The reason behind this book is to share my regular thoughts and questions that I asked myself. And the misbeliefs of the society that inflict deep wounds... I would like express my feelings on these subjects. I do believe that,...

A brief memoir of abuse, support and achievement. The neurodivergence of the author becomes evident throughout the memoir as he explores how his original ignorance to his situation was originally a benefit, and how his eventual self-awareness became a more important tool for his...

My name is Hannah Collins and I'm an alcoholic and drug addict. . . 'From personal experience, I know alcoholics and drug addicts lie, cheat steal, and manipulate. And without sobriety end up in one of three places prison, hospital or a wooden box.'...

How could a Stage IV incurable cancer be completely gone in weeks? How could you quickly bounce back after your husband departed with your friend? How could God speak to you when your heart was closed and your mind was already made up about...

A reunion at Borumba Dam on May 7th, 1988, brought together people who had lived and worked along Yabba Creek and its tributaries. While the billy boiled and the Webb Brothers sang, personal memories of timber cutting, farming, dairying, school days, games, accidents and...

Experience Doug's gripping journey rafting down the iconic Franklin River in the world heritage area of wild southwest Tasmania. From bubbling mountain streams, through powerful rapids, to inspirational chasms rising from still waters with magical reflections.Entwined with this ride, share Doug's experiences and adventures,...

The story of a young girl's journey from England to Australia and her subsequent problems settling into a new and different culture. The affect of the move has a profound effect on the human relationship within her family, particularly her mother.Author: Joyce B. DuncanISBN-10:...

Twelve-year-old Lilly had a problem. She could not take it to her widowed mother. Mum was in no position to help. Lilly figured out a solution with the help of a friend. Their answer would have life-changing consequences. Supported and challenged by her Christian...

Linda Virage grew up believing that she was a typical child being raised in a migrant family but nothing could be further from the truth.Linda experiences countless visions, religious dreams as well as many supernatural events which reinforced that her life was not as...

The Yorkshireman is a delightful true story about the life of Arnold Stuart Hinchcliffe. Arnold started his memoir and his daughter, Alison, researched and pieced together his remaining adventurous life story, to honour her father. Arnold was born in Walton, a small coal mining...

Warren Fahey takes readers on a wild ride through the music business, including his legendary Folkways Music store, fiercely independent Larrikin Record label, and behind-the-scenes of some of Sydney's most outrageous social events. Then, in the wink of an eye, he goes bush recording...

Many of us joke about being control freaks, while the rest hide our need to be in control deep inside. Let's face it - the simple idea of being out of control generally leaves us feeling unsafe and anxious at the very least. We...

Maureen Lane's story is the story of her generation. Born in the 1950s into the warm embrace of a loving and vibrant family, her childhood was one of movies and make-believe that merged into a devotion to the Beatles and Australian music. A teen...

Peter Morton has lived and worked as a doctor in outback and rural Australia for 48 years.Now he and like-minded mates have got together to share their memorable experiences.This book is full of a number of rollicking yarns gathered together of bush life from...

Jack Bewes' story of war is seen through the eyes of the mates who flew Lancasters together from England to Germany and France and saw their best friends killed. There was the mate they celebrated with at the pub or the dance who did...

Robert J. Sykes, Jr (Bob) was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia in December 2003 at the age of 47. This rare form of Dementia is a brain disease that slowly erodes cognitive abilities and causes personality changes. He endured the disease for more than three...

Mental hospital, mental breakdown, mental illness, group therapy; now the hard part is out of the way. Let the stigma persist if it must, but I will tell my story-a story a nation needs to hear about what is going on right under our...

An emotionally gripping biography filled will enticing, dark imagery and daring confessions. A must-read for fans of true-life memoirs and thought-provoking poetry. The Thirteenth Circle is a collection of 66 poems written by American Poet, Chaz Allen. Aiming to provoke thought about one's nature,...

California knows how to party, and when it comes to entertaining people--from celebrities' birthday bashes to prom celebrations--Captain Marky Mark, the founder of PartyLounge Transportation, California's first State Licensed Motor Home Limousine Company, is the man. In this delirious collection of short stories packed...

Who is she? Why does her skin look the way it does? These are just a few of the questions that I heard for many years. Whispers in the background as I walked past those that thought I didn't hear them. Born a chocolate...

The author was raised as a Southern Baptist and Mormon convert, although he was always a non-believer. However, like everyone else in his blue collar surroundings, he believed in America, the military, anti-Communism, and, although too young to vote, Senator Barry Goldwater when he...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...