Biography & Autobiography - General

Life is difficult for most of us. Why? Perhaps most of us are difficult to please. We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted? What we don't know is always difficult. Life is...

Author: Michel Robert MoutalISBN-10: 1434386007ISBN-13: 9781434386007Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2008Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Gregory Garland Johnson lived for 35 years. This book chronicles his tragic and uplifting life as a Lupus warrior. His life is portrayed in two distinct parts. In the early years before his diagnosis, Gregory was young, vibrant, full of energy, exhibiting a passion...

Probably the only reason I became a licensee was that it was one of the few jobs we had heard our father talk about as children. All the local news came from the village pub, in the village nearly ten miles away, where my...

Author: Franz UckoISBN-10: 1434382494ISBN-13: 9781434382498Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2008Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

This book is a true story of a wonderful Black man and his family. The man who came from St. Thomas Virgin Island in the early 1920s and settled in Sheffield Alabama where he married a beautiful wife and brought a stylish home during...

I've always had trouble describing this book, personal journey, historical exposé relating to the troubles in Cyprus and the massacres of 1963 or, and, a wake-up call for Humanity? Most people would celebrate completing their first book, I went to bed and wept myself...

The book was born out of the death of our precious daughter Kaye. Kaye lived a remarkable life and was an inspiration to many (none more so than I) what greater tribute then, than to continue that inspiration through her autobiography.Author: Dorothy HallISBN-10: 1434379353ISBN-13:...

This book takes you through 30 years service of a frontline police officer in the UK. Relating true stories from the old style policing days of the mid 70s, when the best piece of equipment issued to an officer was his uniform high collard...

Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all (Psalm 34:19). This book reveals the challenges Leon Houser faced and how God caused him to triumph. Danger was common place when he strayed from God. God delivered...

Given away as a child in order that my family can have a better life I encountered suffering and injustice working for trade man in the community and did not received any wages. I moved to Montego Bay at a tender age searching for...

This story is based on actual events in the life of Vanessa, a single mother of one that is hospitalized from internal bleeding and near death. During her ordeal she finds out that she is pregnant, and the doctor believes the bleeding is being...

Have you ever wondered what it was like to experience life as a civilian in the United States during the early 1940s while the world was engulfed in World War II? Or what it was like when the streets of American cities were almost...

An American Salesman is a story about the journey of a young mid-westerner who was raised and educated in rural Illinois. The story begins at his birth and continues to his early retirement and through to present day. He began a career in Sales...

To sum up, I hope Dorothy and I can survive a few more years together, even though we are not in excellent health. But as they say "keep taking the tablets!" We both, like alot of people, had alot of things to put up...

This book is about how the Korea War developed and the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) was created, and how I had served under frequent attacks by the enemy. The Korea was liberated by America but divided in north and south, and then the North invaded...

The book is a Russian immigrant's life story, written for himself, though with the hope that others may also find it interesting (after Dr. N. I. Pirogov). Chapter 1 begins with the family's chronicle in the Russian Empire, and how the author's parents ended...

Nothing produced a glow in his eyes like the wonders of nature provoking his every curiosity. Everything about nature appealed to his meticulous character and his childhood was invested at Medina Lake, chasing down fireflies, and fishing. There was nothing he liked better than...

Read and experience vicariously events and adventures of barrio youth. Meet interesting characters, perhaps, similar to some you may have known. See an insider's view of cultural activities which are, likely, no longer practiced. Relive youthful times, if you are of the proper age...

April 14, 1922 - November 25, 2007 Ellis, fondly known to many as Chief was proudly named after the man that taught him many of life's lessons. He was a true outdoors man; an avid Sailor sailing both in the Bay and out of...

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK Unless YOU want to 1. Land your perfect job 2. Live your life to the full 3. Take control of your future 4. Fulfil your dreams and desires A book with no buts, A plain speaking, entertaining read, Tony...

For as long as she could remember they had called her Betsy. And then one day in the rolling hills of Virginia, as she drove away from a marriage and the small town where she had lived for 27 years, she stopped at a...

Because I was introduced to loss and subjected to hurt and pain early in life, I developed an unhealthy opinion of life's expectancies. I am sure that what I experienced, because of my mother's untimely death, was well outside the normal lessons that most...

Momma and Me is a true story of a mother and a daughter who simultaneously suffer cancer - one ovarian, one breast. The memoir highlights the experiences of mother and daughter during a six year period, 1991-1997. Virtually all women and those who love...

The word damaged is often used to describe people who have had horrible childhoods, or who, as adults, have been treated treacherously by another. My way of coming to terms with my emotional pain is through writing this book "Voyeur To Violence". "Voyeur To...

In 2004 Sue found herself dealing with the fallout of the breakdown of her fourth marriage. Vowing never to marry again, she met Mark during a residential training course. Despite all her reservations and her determination not to fall in love, she realised that...

"Out of the Miry Clay" is a compelling testimony of the everlasting love God has for His children, and the awesome power He has to transform our lives in this touchingmemoir. It becomes quickly apparent that God was always with Rev. Stigger, fromthe moment...

Author: Curtis Francis HoglanISBN-10: 143434911XISBN-13: 9781434349118Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2007Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Life s Wonderful Journey is designed to be a celebration of life and an inspiration to younger generations that they, like the author can overcome hardship. Throughout the book, the author recounts life experiences, urging readers to set and stay focused on goals; the...

The text was orignially intended for my family. As I proceded, the writing became a therapy for me. My recollections did not come to me chronologically. Hence my digressions. I wrote as I remembered. It's about my life, which is admitedly not spectacular. It...

"Heroes and Heroines Canonized in the Twentieth Century" Book II is a well-researched volume of all the saints canonized in the last half of the 20th century with a preface by the saintly Father John A Hardon, S.J. These saints may not be easily...

JaMarlon is wonderful in this compilation of poetry and short stories. He takes you on a journey through his world, giving the reader raw depictions of real instances, real struggles, real love, and real life. The art of his poetry is that each are...

The Life of a Loner has always been the life I lived since I never had any close friends I hardly ever even go to a Restaurant to eat, I usually go get something and come back to my Apartment and eat where I...

With the visit of an angel, Mary accepted the difficult honor of becoming the mother of the Son of God. With the guidance of several angelic visits, Joseph took on his unusual, taxing, and even dangerous assignment- to protect and provide for them both....

Journey with this man, as he suffers a massive stroke, is thrown into the tragic world of divorce, subsequently alienating him from three of his four daughters, while enduring the pain of losing his father. Walk with him through these tragedies and feel his...

"In The Thick of Things" is an invitation to freedom. The individual and society are invited to think and act creatively, unhindered by fear and local prejudices that limit group potential. In this autobiography, the writer exposes in a dramatic way his life experiences...

How can you one day be living an ordinary life, then the next facing the biggest fight of your life? What would you do? Journey with the author through cancer and out the other side. Follow her while she struggles to make sense of...

A grandfather describes his boyhood experiences of World War II Britain - with its bombs and rationing, evacuation and separation, "doodle-bugs" and rockets - to a grand-daughter currently of the same age (ten years), as he was at the end of the war in...

With the rise of the Religious Right in the United States and the presidency of George W. Bush, the issue of what evangelical Christians believe and how this affects their behaviour and attitudes has never been more relevant. Britain, too, has been governed for...

My tribulations, I talk about during my journey are like the stories countless others experienced during the Great Migration period from the South to the North. What so many took for granted, so few were able to realize. I am convinced that each of...

Author: Gary Alexander AzerierISBN-10: 143432978XISBN-13: 9781434329783Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2007Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47dReview Citation(s): Foreword 08/21/2009

GEORGE WILLIAM (BILL) HOSKING was born on May 29, 1923. In pursuit of his dreams, Bill joined the Navy. The outcomes were far different than what he had dreamed but the adventure was very real. This book is about the beginning of the career...

On October 5, 1980, Jacqueline Jane Wurst, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class, United States Navy, left the Naval Hospital at the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, California to go on a four-hour break before her next shift. Her body was discovered the next day after...

Introducing The Most Dangerous Book in America Warning Before anyone decides to read this book please answer the following questions: 1) Have you ever heard of the US ARMY? 2) Do you know who M!CHAEL MAYHEM is? If you answered No to the first...

This is a true account of the journey with my family and myself coming to terms with Pagets disease of the breast, a rare form of cancer affecting only 1% of Cancer victims along with grade 3 and intermediate grade breast cancer. Through the...

This is the true and emotional story about a son's bravery as seen from his parents eyes. Our son was diagnosed with scoliosis (curved spine) from an early age. This is the journey we all took over the last six years. The pain we...

German Memories in Asia, is a collection of memories by the author Rajkumar Kanagasingam, in his association with the German university students who have been volunteering in Asia under an internship program. German Memories in Asia is narrating the fascinating early human migration from...

The Myers cabin still sits on the original cornerstones where it has stood for over 130 years. The cabin's logs were cut from red beech that were numerous then. It was built around 1870 by Louis Myers with the help of Alvis and Samuel...

Author: Ben Herbert BrumelISBN-10: 1434313638ISBN-13: 9781434313638Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2007Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

When Franz Ucko retired from his profession as a research scientist in 1986 after an illustrious career in the field of Microlithography he had a number of patents and many papers to his credit . This was the time when he decided to start...