Biography & Autobiography - General

Author: Anthony S. TravisISBN-10: 1483627225ISBN-13: 9781483627229Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2013Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

While growing up in rural Montana, Doug Wise never imagined he would eventually study engineering at Montana State University and be commissioned in the US Air Force as a civil engineer officer. But as he soon came to discover, life has a way of...

Author Brad Charles had always dreamed of opening his own restaurant. In the fall of 2005, he made that dream come true and opened Curly's Fine Dining in southern Utah. In Nightmare in Utah, Charles shares his experiences of planning for and operating this...

Matthew Pilkone shares a fascinating story of struggle, love, and loss in apartheid-era South Africa in this memoir. Born in the rural farming community of Middelburg, it's not until his late teens that Matthew moves to Cape Town, where he falls in love with...

World War II and My Military Memories takes the reader from the author's beginnings in the small town of Myrtle, Mississippi where he heard many stories about the First World War from his three uncles. Then to the ROTC, getting an education at a...

Outdoorsmen and armchair travelers will encounter history, ravenous insects, trail menus, hungry bears, and the quiet joys of endurance in this intriguing recounting of a 2008 canoe expedition. Six men began a 1,300-mile canoe trip along a traditional fur-trading route. During the two-and-a-half-month expedition,...

Nigel Reed is a man who has struggled for most of his life with not knowing where his place in life was supposed to be which oft times lead to bouts of depression. His one desire was to have his own family unit. Though...

As a young girl, Nickers always believed she would marry Mr. Right, have children, and live happily ever after. But as Nickers matured into a teenager, she soon discovered that her dreams would not be as easy to achieve as she once believed. In...

The Age of Restlessness shares the author's experiences and thoughts when he was seventeen until his twenty-first year. It was a time he reached out of adolescence, a time when he would be in his own man, a time that was a springboard to...

The Age of Innocence is about the author's life from age 3 to 12. He uses clips of events during that age to reflect on their meaning and what can be learned from them. Events are our memory. Innocence is instinctive, innate, spontaneous; less...

The themes of money, power, fame, and love are universal in humanity, regardless of race, or religion, or class. Whether we examine the lives of the rich or the poor, the powerful or the ordinary, the famous or the unknown, these topics crop up...

After slave trade ended, the European objective created the geographical space they called Nigeria, and the occupants were imposed upon that they should make a nation, so they had made attempts motivated by the oppressive colonialist tendencies. The author had been born and he...

This book was devised with a single intention: for people to understand how the brain works. Society, along with evolution, teaches us to rely mainly on the longterm memory area of the brain, yet this can be the underlying cause of many mental and...

"A spiritual journey in nine countries of Fareast. India, Nepal, Myanmar, Lao, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia... Everything begins with questions; travels also... The roadmap of the traveler who starts his spiritual journey is different, his questions are also... Mysterious attractiveness of spiritual...

The author turns true experiences into stories that adorn his biographies and autobiographies. He does so as a means of information, instruction and discussion. In fact he provides authentic insights of the human predicament in a universe that is sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile but...

Young Rebel With a Cause concerns a young surgeon who graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and joins the Confederate forces but is concerned about saving lives of both Union and Confederate soldiers who were being killed in large numbers as...

My Life's Journey chronicles the obstacles Tim Cronin encountered growing up with autism. Through all of his trials and tribulations, the author faces challenges with optimism and joy that he finds in Metal music and the greatest roller coasters that the United States has...

After sustaining debilitating injuries during the Second World War, Corporal Alvin Downey returned home where he suffered silently, plagued by his dark memories of being questioned about the orphan's flight out of occupied France, tortured with a cattle prod by a Gestapo agent, and...

Author David L. Lyons grew up during the 1950s and 60s in the small community of Whitehall in northern Alabama. As a child, he dealt with abject poverty and the stigma of being born to an unwed mother, which greatly affected his childhood. Lyons...

In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation,...

A Dickensian Family and a racist Criminal Justice System have blown my life off course. How I prevailed over the long haul is my bizarre, gut-wrenching story. The travesty of having my freedom snatched away will haunt me to my grave. I became my...

Despite growing up during the Second World War, watching the nightly vigil of German Bombers destroying the ship builders by the river, some of us did survive, had our fun, our adventure 's, first loves and misfortunes. As young adults our circumstance's changed. New...

pursuing peace Is there not something that we all seek - something that defines, separates, yet unites us? I believe that this is the pursuit for inner peace. There are an infinite number of individual paths to this one destination. This is mine. "Peace...

Patrick introduces us to a woman of character who overcame the rejection of her stepfather and the pain of being a poor orphan. He has taken the stories that his mother told and blended it with real-life experiences as they happened. The result is...

The phrase "triumphing in the face of adversity" could have been especially created for Jamilla Govani. Few people can have a more inspiring story to tell-a tale that involves starting all over again after her life was shattered, almost literally overnight. At the tender...

OUT OF THE DARKNESS Samantha's Story is the story of a small town Midwestern "girl next door" who bravely faces the passing of her grandmother -her best friend. This changes her life forever. She battles a deep depression and is comfronted with the epidemic...

Author: Akbar Mohammadi,Nasrin MohammadiISBN-10: 1477143211ISBN-13: 9781477143216Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2012Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Author: Mark RainboltISBN-10: 1477137955ISBN-13: 9781477137956Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2012Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Author: Ronnie CarrollISBN-10: 1477123539ISBN-13: 9781477123539Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2012Pages: 439Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

C. F. Konrad provides the first book-length commentary on Plutarch's Life of Sertorius, the work that has shaped most modern interpretations of the man and his career. Quintus Sertorius (126-73 B.C.) was a political and military leader during the period of turmoil that ended...

One cannot study the life of Lindsley without being impressed by the amount and variety of his labors and the dignity and ability with which he accomplished them. He was scholar, teacher, medical journalist, hygienist, and minister. As dean and chancellor of the medical...

This book offers a cross-section of the work of the Carolina Playmakers from 1919 until 1945. It tells of the work of the founder of the Playmakers, Frederick Henry Koch, and of the accomplishments of the young playwrights who made up the group's membership....

"Vanport City, the largest public housing project ever built in the United States."--Page 219.Author: Richard D. NelsonISBN-10: 1469153203ISBN-13: 9781469153209Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2012Pages: 386Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Is Thailand the Test Case for Asian Development? That is the issue that caught my imagination and attracted me to teach and research in Thailand in 1964 and it has caught my constant attention over the years to the processes that were applied to...

Abandoned by the worlds largest superpower, left on the ground to ecsape and evade the most ruthless of enemies, eight very unique indiviuals, at the top of their military game will use everything in their personal arsenals to fight starvation and exhaustion in the...

EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING HAPPEN ONCE WHICH CAN CHANGE THEIR LIFE FOREVER. SOME TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AND FIND THEMSELVES TRULY BLESSED. However, too many let it pass by and forever wonder with regret what could have resulted if they had just accepted the challenge...

From the orphanage to the Marine Corps there are over 40 pictures. They tell the story of war and the people who fought in them. The Chosin Reservoir is one of the greatest battles in American History. The Star of Kota Ri was as...

A coming-of-age tale, family saga, and nostalgic view of the fifties and sixties, Noha Shaath Ismail's poignant memoirs describe her formative years in Alexandria, Egypt, and elsewhere, in prose that is effective and evocative. Read about Ismail's Palestinian father, Lebanese mother, Egyptian husband, and...

Just Call Me "Colonel" was written and published for our family. The pages of this book were the result of interviews with Grandpa and written by a hospice volunteer who is also a freelance writer. Specific facts were checked and double-checked by his children....

PERILS! is actually two books in one. One book is a collection of close calls and scary stories that actually happened to two adventuresome author-travelers. Danger lurked on the river behind the Taj Mahal! A knife-bearing Sikh came to the rescue. Catching a subway...

Are you stressed out and looking for something? You probably are in this everyday life. You have the book you need in your hands now. Want to see how to get from one point in you life to a much better place and be...

Author: Kim WellsISBN-10: 1465354298ISBN-13: 9781465354297Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1900Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Experiences from growing up on a farm and having an exciting career both in the military and foreign travel.Author: Harlan W. Van GerpenISBN-10: 1463448252ISBN-13: 9781463448257Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2011Pages: 156Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Jerry was recruited by Gonzaga University during the summer of 1951. His thirty-year run as a basketball player, coach, and diversified educator in Washington State began in September of that year. The new coach, Hank Anderson, led the team on a long march to...

This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about! The main interest would depend upon what one gets out of it? Therefore I am writing some wise words of great masters which actually played vital rolls in...

They Made Me An Addict shows the journey of Moses. A young African American Male who grows up fascinated by the street lifestyle and dismayed at it's tragic results. He decides to write a book about the streets from the inside out. The only...

Kyle Paxman was scheduled to be married on September 9, 2006. Her mother, Patty Carbee, had helped her plan the wedding of her dreams. Shocking and unfortunate circumstances in the weeks leading up to the event led to heartbreak and a cnaceled wedding. Not...

As the second World War comes to an end, Pence Mefford returns from active duty to New Castle, his small hometown in north central Kentucky. Now armed with his typewriter, Pence writes columns for the local paper, commenting on everything from rural life to...

Author: Max T. M. D. TaylorISBN-10: 1462887988ISBN-13: 9781462887989Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2011Pages: 354Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: John Kris K. PorotoISBN-10: 1462860079ISBN-13: 9781462860074Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2011Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d