Biography & Autobiography - General

Run, Elvin! contains multitudes: it is at once an expertly-crafted history lesson on the causes and consequences of genocide, an expansive, three-dimensional account of one man's refugee experience in all its traumas and triumphs, and a love letter from father to son on the...

The False Healer: A Trilogy begins with the end. It brings closure to a nine-year odyssey of entanglement and deceit. Based on true events, Paula artfully details her foray into the justice system to right the wrongs committed against her by a False Healer....

In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, from the old family recipe for pineapple cheesecake to the portrait of an ancestor, from the wife who sleeps with an axe under her bed to the tough...

Like everybody else's life, Eric's is unique. He was thirteen when his father took him, his brother and two sisters out of Canada and away from his Innu mother during a bitter divorce and custody battle. He grew up between two worlds, as a...

The Halfway House is based on my own experiences with the public and private psychiatric systems. Mental illness is a complex subject and the effects are debilitating, for the sufferer, close relatives, friends and to society in general. This fictionalised memoir tells the story...

How she came to be there, in the first place, it is hard to think. Because of the family who asked for a ride home from the football? Because of the song of the old lady who rocked to and fro on the back...

In his day, Raphael Cilento was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in Australian medicine. As a senior medical officer in the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, he was an active participant in public health reform during the inter-war years and is best...

With the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the last of that generation who lived through it are slowly departing the stage. Otto Gaczol and his life were profoundly shaped by that war. As an ethnic German boy who grew-up in...

A lively memoir in which Nicholas Hasluck explores the life and times of his elder brother Rollo, an adventurer brimful of bright ideas and his own way of going at things. Rollo's family moved from Perth to Canberra in the war years. His father's...

'Pumpkin is a sociological study - rather a case study, with all the warmth of the human experience of one family, and especially of one girl growing up in that family...' - Betsy Wearing PhD'This is a truly beautiful book, a post-war coming of...

I am enthusiastic about telling my story all about my illness - bipolar mood swing disorder. I write with restlessness and with recklessness, sometimes with energy so strong, along with energy incredibly low. With the effect of this illness comes the need to rebuild...

This is a story about growing up in a small racist town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the Apartheid years. The author is the oldest son of the town's mayor, a publican. He grew up between the hotel, where he was exposed...

Orphaned at four, growing up at a time when the stigma of illegitimacy was lifelong, divorce scandalous, and cruelty in the home left to take its course, my mother confessed her shameful origins to her children only when she was in her sixties. She...

The incredible story of singing teacher extraordinaire Mathilde Marchesi who trained more international opera stars than anyone before or since. Who was Mathilde Marchesi? How did she become a byword internationally for vocal excellence and operatic success? What was her formula? And how did...

A kaleidoscope of social history and down-to-earth humour tracing the life of Ray Clift through sickness, recovery, sadness, the discovery of the truth about his birth and many life-threatening moments as a long-serving Adelaide police officer, during which he received citations for courage. Not...

This insightful book is a rare glimpse into the world of autism. It tells of one man's struggle against all the odds, in a fearful and confusing world - his aspirations, his yearning for acceptance and love, not just for himself but for the...

The intriguing and enigmatic life story of Michael Kickham. Ordained a priest in 1884 for the New Zealand missions, he found an environment where Irish secular priests were undervalued. This resulted in a petition to Pope Leo XIII. His attempt to leave Christchurch diocese...

The Chase family, Shelley and Del, and sons, Micah and Nick, lived in the home they had built in the foothills of Central California amidst manzanita, cedars, and pine. Happy and healthy, the family worked, romped, and played in their hilltop paradise where homegrown...

It always seemed to me that the universe has a voice and will speak if anyone is there to listen. Most times we don't hear what it has to say. We are busy with our beloved trivialities. Once in a while, we do hear....

This academic memoir recounts Stanford Law graduate Rony Guldmann's time as a law school fellow researching conservatives' alleged cultural oppression by the liberal elites. Things go awry when the project metastasizes into an all-consuming obsession that thrusts Guldmann into headlong conflict with his milieu,...

This academic memoir recounts Stanford Law graduate Rony Guldmann's time as a law school fellow researching conservatives' alleged cultural oppression by the liberal elites. Things go awry when the project metastasizes into an all-consuming obsession that thrusts Guldmann into headlong conflict with his milieu,...

If you'd like a deep peek inside the education industry, this is the book for you. Mr. Williams worked at school districts in an urban environment, a rural one, and in the suburbs. He also taught in Alternative Education schools and a Jewish Yeshiva....

It's kind of a messed up view on life/my choices in life. Or I to like too, gamble my life away. I can't believe a 12 year old who wrote a book.Author: Denis SoISBN-10: 1728399645ISBN-13: 9781728399645Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2020Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h...

Mickey, the narrator of this book, looks back at his life growing up in Tilburn, thirty miles out of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In reflecting on his life, Mickey explores how children let the world in rather than judging it at a safe distance. We...

This is the last of the words from a loving farmer to his second daughter. Will that ever be Folk' followed by his daughter as a loving mother of three handsome sons Benjamin, Daniel and Scott she became the loving grandmother of six beautiful...

In the frenzied 1970s, a young Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro in search of self-knowledge embarks on a cargo ship heading East. His goal: to graduate from The Yoga Institute, the world's oldest organized training center of this millenarian science. Reconstituted from a travel...

Farm boy wakes up in vibrant habitation, grows happily in Lion Mountain Nation. His childhood aspirations, is to be business professional and leads in life. After Farm Boy graduated from high school, life becomes unpalatable in the Lion Mountain Nation. Instability crops up and...

Rose wasn't meant to have a voice. She was born and spent her childhood in an ordinary family with a simple lifestyle. Although Rose knew exactly what she wanted to become in life, just because she was a girl, the society she grew up...

A soldier who fought for his country and couldn't live with what he was led to believe he had done when two young children were killed in Iraq. After attempting to take his life, he found the help he needed and was shown the...

This book is a biography about my childhood through the years of the Second World War dedicated to my grandchildren.Author: Beryl HartISBN-10: 1728388430ISBN-13: 9781728388434Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2019Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.22d

This little-known but remarkable man was not just a Missionary. He was a writer, photographer, naturalist, and linguist as well. Despite only receiving a primary school education, he published several books on Polynesia and Madagascar, illustrating them with the then new science of photography...

The year is 1963, and a very naive, recently qualified hairdresser from Lancashire takes a job in Cannes in the South of France to gain work experience and finds he has entered another world of unfamiliar sophistication.Author: Richard HalsteadISBN-10: 1728386756ISBN-13: 9781728386751Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book by Daddy Dan is based on facts and evidences that happened over twenty-one years, from 1979 to 2018. In this book, we have the two deceased Mrs. E, who passed away in England in 1979, and Mr. R, who passed away in...

The book is based on my real life story and struggles that I had to go through to get to the place that I am today. Being away from your family from a very young age, not being allowed to work, not being allowed...

The Straight Path To Success is a real-life story that emanates from personal experience that traces back the crucibles and major learning stations in Nour-eddine's life and the important events that shaped his transformation Journey to date. It is written as a guide of...

Tina lived in a time when there was no name or diagnosis for mental illnesses nor an understanding of the various types of mental ailments and treatment for them. As the years passed, the medical science of mind matters, psychiatry, and help for dysfunctional...

This is a journal that I have written to my partner every night, while he was not very well in hospital and in the induced coma. It is full of the daily updates that we received from the hospital about his health, diary entries...

...choices that she herself made. Her whole world was in sudden darkness, a void that saw her life plunging into an endless chasm. She was lost to open ignominy and certain death until the light of the lord and Savior, Jesus Christ shone on...

This book will encourage you to stand strong and firm inspite of the curve balls before you. Encourages your spiritAuthor: Joan BethelISBN-10: 1728371333ISBN-13: 9781728371337Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2020Pages: 72Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

This is a book of real-life experiences in the world of collective bargaining in both; labor contract negotiations and the consumer market. You'll be so happy after reading this book, and after putting some of your learned negotiating skills to work, you'll have to...

The Girl Who was Her Brother's Keeper is a book that talks about the deep love & protective nature that my sister Sheila Prater had towards me. Sheila & I were extremely close & shared many of life's experiences together. I could always count...

This book was conceived in me when I became aware that what I did or did not do with my body became more important to others than the heart that lived within me. I used the word imaginary in its title because it best...

Gretchen Henderson had a happy childhood until age seven when she succumbed to the physical, sexual, and mental abuse of her stepfather. He disappeared a few years later, but the trauma that had been endured severely damaged her psyche. This led to deep depression...

Story of life's internal struggle, with an in depth look at how one perceives the challenges in life. Going through the journey with tremendous insight as to why a person does things to belong. Visiting the horrors that can happen to an individual by...

What happens when the outcome you've been working toward ends up being the outcome you least expected? Even if you knew in the back of your mind it was inevitable you still hoped against hope that it would turn out differently? In my case...

A bittersweet love experience between a Singaporean guy and a Saigon lady in a modern setting...you can finish reading the story that could happen to you anytime when you fly to a nostalgic place very foreign to you when you touch down for the...

This book is about everything that deep down inside, our inner self is aware of. All those maybe they are true subjects, or maybe we believe in them to comfort ourselves. Maybe they are just shadows in the dark that hopefully we can ignore....

The farmlands in Alabama 1947 the cotton fields were full of Black, White, and Latin woman picking cotton, dragging their babies on the cotton sacks, as they worked from sun up to sundown, and as their babies would cry out in hunger, one of...

My miraculous life begins, with one miracle after the other. With God all things are possible. In the eyes of the Lord we are all children of God and we are loved.Author: Beverly MutotiISBN-10: 1728356199ISBN-13: 9781728356198Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2020Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h...

This book is about the life of John Cotterell from the time of his birth. He wrote this book himself but sadly passed away on 10 November 2014, aged 82, before completing his memoirs. His life was hectic. John was a disabled person from...