Biography & Autobiography - General

We've all been in a place in life where we longed to hear someone say, "I understand because I've been there." In my life, this comforting phrase has broken down numerous mental barriers. When I sensed genuine compassion, I opened the door, and a...

This is an introduction to my lifes events. All the things are all facts and no fiction. Names have been changed to protect peoples identity. I hope you enjoy my book.Author: T. -MacISBN-10: 1546235302ISBN-13: 9781546235309Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2018Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

The book deals with a young Dave, growing up in Saint Lucia and its capital city Castries. His immense popularity as a teenage singing heartthrob with the Tru Tones band in the late 60s and the many challenges of an only child under the...

Dancing with the Devil is about the trials and tribulations in my life. I used my power and my looks to get what I want from men. I feel honored that you would want to read my book. Now hold on. Its going to...

This is an autobiography turned into fiction, as the theme of the story is not interesting enough to entrance the audiences awareness, not interesting to become a big-budget motion depiction, not attracting all the social lessons of all the races and nations, and not...

In boat-racing terminology, a rooster tail is the spray of water following a speeding boat that is produced by its propeller. In this writing, Rooster Tales is what the name impliesa compilation of short boat-racing tales or stories, as remembered by a veteran member...

Sixteen-year-old Juri arrived alone at Ellis Island from Russia. His father sent him for a temporary period, eager for his son to escape the coming war in 1914. Juri, no different from the many other immigrants, spoke no English. All he had was a...

This book deals with situations of living through the German occupation of Norway from 1940, including shortages of food and heat, all under a threatening occupation by the Hitlerite German Army. My father was imprisoned in Germany for five years while we survived without...

This is the dramatic real life story of Celeste: A woman, who from a very early age, was tormented with severe physical and mental abuse. As she grows up into a young troubled adult, her haunting past leads her into the self-destructive choices of...

Dick has lived a full life. He wanted to record some of his memories for his current and future family to allow them to understand the different lives we all lived back in 1937 to 2017. Growing up in small towns in Connecticut and...

The goals and dreams you once had as a child shouldn't dissipate because you?ve grown older or due to circumstances that have taken place in your life. But from me to you, you can't allow what happened to you at the age of four,...

My name is Veronica Vulpine. I wish that I could say that I had a really exciting life being an extra in Miami Vice or involved in a witchcraft covenant, but I am just me living on a lonely mountainside. I have suffered through...

This is the true story of a young woman's fight to survive, and try to live as normal a life as possible despite her medical problems. When I met Rita she was a single mother, held a full-time job, and lived as though nothing...

I wanted this book to be the story of the people, the conditions they faced, and how they met their challenges. It is about the family of my parents, Leland Eddy Bolt and Fern Leoline (Brubaker) Bolt. Their story is preceded by Leland and...

In the annals of the entertainment world, the name of Len Carrie is not a household word. Yet icons like Frankie Avalon, Tiny Tim, Spike Jones, and Frank Sinatra are. And within the aura of these brilliant careers and others like them lies the...

Genius Invisible Wall is an insight of the Author's Roots and Culture and the depth of her Faith that carried her this far. It is the drive to never give up regardless of what challenge she faced. This is the kind of book that...

It was like thick darkness during the day; not an eclipse that is predicted months and days ahead, but an unexpected event, very unexpected. The fact that one serves God Almighty does not exempt him from problems, suffering etc. Job in the Bible was...

This memoir tells of the hardship faced by my family escaping from the Japanese invasion in once peaceful Singapore. Running away from my home to another country, without decent food or any future, at only 6 months old, how I survived with no milk...

As most supporters will know, Following Wolverhampton Wanderers has been a bit of a roller coaster ride over the last 50 years. From Wembley cup finals to successive relegations. From playing in Europe to playing at Scarborough, this book covers many of the experiences...

Feisty Anne Cumberland moved with her British family to a tobacco farm her father had bought in Northern Rhodesia in 1949. But when she married the adventurous hunter, Rowland Morris, she did not know what she was letting herself in for. Rolly promptly joined...

Living with dyslexia has been an uphill struggle, from the day I started school until the day I left to go to work and even after going to work, where I found that there where bullies in the workplace where they thought it was...

Going boldly forward . . .This book is a memoir written and edited by Herbert Rosenblum, reflecting the several dimensions of his personal, professional, and communal involvements. His young years on New York City's Lower East Side, his educational and professional training and growth,...

My book encapsulates the journey of a young girl growing up in a small town with an abusive father. Her story is shared through journal entries as written years ago detailing some of her childhood memories of actual incidents of the abuse as well...

Friends, I know many of you are asleep now. Vickie has had a stroke and had no feeling or movement in her left side. As her doctor had said, this is a life-changing episode, but I am praying for his light and glory to...

Most stories start with the words "In the beginning, something happened a long time ago." There was a great country, and if we could turn back the clock and watch the years, months, and days go idly by, we could make time do our...

My memoir, Fire, is my journey of self-definition and can be best summarized in words of the poet and writer Audre Lorde: "If I didn't define myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." My struggle for self-definition...

Unintended Consequences is a story of survival for one small child plagued by the actions of others. The authors perilous journey through experiences speaks to her resilience and shows where joy was felt in the shadows. As a child, Janet would turn to drugs...

This is as much a celebration of life as it is a memoir. My husband, Lou, and I each did our own thing but we always helped one another to accomplish what the other needed or wanted. We adored our children and took pleasure...

The book starts at 1999. That is far as I can remember. I was raped and given genital herpes from the guy that raped me. I was taken away from my mom at age ten. I was confused because I wanted to be with...

First let me say to everyone out there that my reason for writing this book came from all those experiences I faced throughout my lifetime here on earth. So therefore, I was inspired to share my thoughts with my readers, leaving no stones unturned...

Everything Fatima has she's earned on her own merit. Having gone the very tough way, she built her education from nothing and made it a successful journey through her resilience, determination, focus, and self-motivation. Her childhood was full of uncertainty for her passion (education)....

Being a police officer myself who has served in the J&K police, I was keen to document the life and work of Peer Sahib, who is an example of what can be accomplished through hard work and dedication in order to motivate other officers...

John Is Me is a biography of our son John, a gentle person who, in his own way, has taught lessons for a lifetime. He was born cognitively disabled and, in his fifty-nine years, has not spoken a single word.Throughout John's story, his imagined...

In just his first five years of filmmaking, acclaimed Portland independent director Jon Garcia was able to produce four feature films. Eric B. Olsen examines the first four films of Garcia's career in order to provide a deeper understanding of works that transcend the...

It is just a few years ago that I started to write this book! "It's Official!" Growing Old Sucks! My intent was simply to appeal to older folks of sixty-five years and older who have let their physical and mental muscles go to hell...

Perhaps in your old culture, as in some non-Western cultures, the life of the individual is regarded as precious. Some cultures even seem to endow a person's life with a certain measure of sanctity. In these other cultures, such person-oriented features are often played...

This book details Fatimas journey as a two-time liver transplant recipient. The book is also about how her health struggles affected her personally and how the youth who have grown up with chronic illnesses can have normal yet special lives and how their families...

This outstanding story is the one of Nordine Mohamedi, who was born in France to a North African mother and an unknown American father. Nordine spent more than half his life looking for his father whose name was the only thing he knew of...

As a small child, Pauline Elischer had no idea how dreadful war could be. Born in a small village in the center of the Carpathian Mountains, she was safe as a baby bird in its nest. But World War II changed her life forever....

A Young Man's Living Nightmare is more than a story of domestic violence. It's also a story full of hope. Read it to find out how psychological hostages are created. But more, be inspired as BJ's will to live a life of his own...

As a baby boomer, the author found himself in many unfortunate situations while growing up and becoming an adult. These troublesome and often humorous moments were usually caused by his own defiance, curiosity, and goofy judgment. The book shares several incidents that ultimately led...

Telling It like It IsIt is a deliverance of the mind to think freely. It is breaking the chains that have enslaved the mind, body, and soul for several generations. It is telling like it has never been told before. It will enlighten the...

Portrait of a Servant of God is a devotional book based on the life of Theodore Bubeck and the letters he wrote to his family over a period of thirty years. Ted and his wife were pioneer missionary church planters from 1928 to 1960...

Saffron is a Vietnam veteran who not only performed a vital role in keeping Australian troops mobile but approached all his encounters with compassion and sincerity. His deep religious faith, sense of humour, unconditional love of his pets, and marriage to a good woman...

This is a true story of an ordinary boy who grew up to have what I believe to be an extraordinary tale to tell. This is the tale of a lad growing up in post-war Britain and of the trials and tribulations of life...

This story started from convict grandfather and birth in Largs, NSW, to traveling from Sydney with her husband and five children to the coalfields in a gospel wagon. They eventually traveled to Brisbane and designed and patented what was to become a world-acclaimed corset....

This book is the biggest inspiration to make you never want to give up. The advice Steve always gave his daughter while she was growing up is to remember that no matter how hard she believes her life is, there is someone else out...

The beginning of a town. The year was 1906. Two brothers, John and Norman Matheson, built a store and post office on a parcel of land on the eastern plains of Colorado. Next came the lumber yard, a hotel, livery barn, and blacksmith shop....

Watching her mother slowly succumb to dementia, Brigid Elsken Galloway felt the first pangs of loss - and that was only the beginning. Within two years, both of her aged parents passed away, her job as an editor for Time was eliminated, and she...

This book is a true picture of what goes on in public housing. From conflicts between tenants, drug use, drug dealers. The police are here so often they should have a substation here. Also what the owners do not do to take care of...