Biography & Autobiography - General

'Duh: a book' is an exquisite corpse. Its bloated head is a book of possible futures; this is stitched to a anorectic torso of thinly fictionalized memoir. The legs which connect them to the ground are the essays which wander from the personal to...

Still I Rise offers a humorous, heart wrenching, and frightfully honest first hand look into the unthinkable. Much of the content consists of moments that I remember from the journey I walked with an eating disorder. I was mostly aware and coherent during this...

The birth certificate says Grace Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, March 31, 1925. Also, it says that I was born around 7 AM, and I was named George William Gibson. Somehow, I became "Bill" (or, rather, "Billy"). Whatever happened to "George"? I really don't know. Even...

Written by someone who has lived it, this first book by Ray B. Rogers brings home the unique culture of Western North Carolina during the Great Depression. From "Justifiable Homicide" (about chickens, naturally) to "The County Home," Ray tells it like it is, bringing...

In this book there are many varieties of topics from love, peace, lust, friendship, matchmaking, and poetry that covers about anything a poet can think of. This book is called the Quintessence for that very reason. While Joshua C. Udell was in jail he...

The story of Richard booker Chiles as life in America and the price paid as a mixed blood sold outside The Estelle Chiles prophecy of Richard ChilesAuthor: Gene Booker (Chiles)ISBN-10: 132927475XISBN-13: 9781329274754Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2015Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Maine Public Radio commentaries, written and broadcast between 1998 and 2008, by writer and educator Todd R. Nelson.Author: Todd R. NelsonISBN-10: 1329269640ISBN-13: 9781329269644Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2007Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d

This is a biography of my epileptic journey when I began having seizures up until I went through brain surgery. I started writing this journey to help others be aware about all the struggles along the way. It is a type of epilepsy awareness...

Starting a Career and Family in the 1960s includes 59 illustrated stories, sprung from the pages of the author's diaries, which she has kept since she was 10 years old. Most of the stories are based in the Los Angeles area of California. They...

When I go to my first sleep-away camp, everything in my life changes. Things are not what they seem anymore. With the strange voice in my head telling me to kill myself, it is hard to function in day to day life. It distorts...

It's always darkest before it's completely black. The sun may always come up but it's on a never ending spiral into the infinite. Death is just a concept. But it's the only thing that keeps me going. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Till that peaceful moment...

After the death of two dear military friends, I decided that their stories and mine needed to be told, as these stories disappear when we depart the earth. All these stories have one thing in common, the story tellers made it through their experiences...

The autobiography of a man born in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee and his varied careers as an attorney, college professor, disc jockey and author that led him to Memphis, Washington, DC, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Louisville, Kentucky.Author: Whitworth StokesISBN-10: 1329003322ISBN-13: 9781329003323Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2014Pages:...

Tell your life stories with the help of this guide. The book deals with real-life questions such as Where and how to start, finding time, and gives writing tips to help you. Without stress or strain, write the stories you want to leave for...

Diary of a Small Island Girl is a collection of diary entries celebrating the beauty of reaching womanhood, reflecting on the highs and lows of the journey. The inspiration for these entries come from 5 generations of women, a blend of their hopes, dreams,...

Mark Day was a mining engineer. He spent many years in charge of a tin mine in lower Burma. This is a fictionalised account of some his wife, Gwenllian's life in 1935, based on a diary and photos.Author: Jean DayISBN-10: 1326912631ISBN-13: 9781326912635Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Mark and Gwenllian Day went from England to British Colombia with the hope of having some success in gold mining. They joined Mark's sister, Una Richmond and her husband Dick, who had gone out a few months earlier, and had got involved in market...

These recollections, variously trivial, quirky and ironic, may provide some food for thought (and perhaps even a few moments of entertainment) for my children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren.Author: Cedric WattsISBN-10: 1326886924ISBN-13: 9781326886929Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2016Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.37d

This book is about the man of the hour, who put the welfare of others above his own. He was a trade unionist of his own stature, an orator and a man of the people, a voice of the voiceless. He is remembered as...

This book is a collection of stories from the Women who are members of the Women's Centre Waitakere, the creative writings and artwork are all contributions from the women. Writing and drawing is an important part of healing. The Women Centre is a not...

A guide to the chapel of Saint Ronan's School in Hawkhurst from 1904 to today.Author: Saint Ronan's SchoolISBN-10: 1326784323ISBN-13: 9781326784324Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2016Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.11d

At the age of 18 months, Jonathan Fryer was adopted into a prosperous business family in Greater Manchester, but he felt like a fish out of water there. When his adoptive father started interfering with him sexually, his only dream was to get away...

UNBROKEN is the first of three books written by Emily Reilly. It is based on my life. All names have been changed to safe guard myself, my friends and family. From Teen Mum beaten daily by an Abusive Partner, numerous heart breaks and set...

"Making Do" is a memoir spanning the first 26 years of Johnny Becker's life. His parents had narrowly escaped the chaos of World War I and the Russian Revolution making their way to the relative safety of Harbin, China where Johnny was born in...

Agnes was eleven years old when she was captured in Budapest right out of her school. She was sent to the concentration camp of Dachau. Here she not only experienced hunger and terror, but also her first tender love story with Alex, a young...

The story is about a man going through a divorce, he has a young daughter but that's the only thing that is good in his life, having to live with a woman he has no emotional ties to, looking for a reason to carry...

This entertaining account of one man's journey through an extraordinary existence is compulsive reading. Focusing on the most memorable events spanning 50 years, these anecdotes are fascinating, funny, sad, thoughtful, and thrilling, and written with an honesty which is immensely appealing. They depict a...

This book depicts the true real challenges of life and how our personal drive and dreams pushes us to overcome those challenges.Author: Alfred LabejaISBN-10: 1326622145ISBN-13: 9781326622145Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2016Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d

1275... a cry for help from a woman who is kidnapped at sea. Present day. Dutch archivist Fenna van Wijk is helping architect Ned Thompson to sift through a stack of ancient papers kept in an untouched archive in an old English manor house...

This book is more than a memoir of a missionary in Pakistan. It includes insights into the inception of the Salvation Army in UK and also of its work in Pakistan. A travelogue through parts of Pakistan and the Afghan Refugee Camps in Northern...

The Search For The Goose's Palm. A totally non-PC account of the travels of a boy from Luton who wanted a bit more adventure out of life than the annual two weeks in Margate could provide. Often hilarious, frequently farcical, consistently idiotic, sometimes unbelievable,...

I'm not a celebrity, just an ordinary woman, who has experienced what millions of other people around the world have experienced. This is my story, in my own words; in some parts harrowing and in others funny, sad and even shocking but nevertheless this...

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where the thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs" Hells Angle writer, Hunter S Thompson. Drums, inspirational Drummers and Drum solos, is the theme of this...

Memories/memoirs from my childhood, my working life and everyday events and observations- some sad, some sweet and sentimental and some just fun...Author: L. TaylorISBN-10: 1326488147ISBN-13: 9781326488147Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/2015Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.24d

We've never had it so good - puts forward the opinion that the 'Baby Boomers' - those born within eight years or so after the end of World War II have lived through the most fortunate period in history. Now in their sixties, they...

John Belchamber's 2nd instalment of his Belchamber Family History. Including Photographs, transcriptions of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates and parish records.Author: John BelchamberISBN-10: 1326469657ISBN-13: 9781326469658Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2015Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.22d

Janet Teal Daniel is a Londoner by birth and Welsh by adoption. Her first career was as a Librarian, a springboard for travel and adventure; first to Indonesia as a volunteer, then working for the British Council in Jakarta, Greece and London, promoting the...

These memoirs give glimpses of how integration into an alien environment, war and evacuation affected a little refugee girl and how she reacted to these experiences.Author: Mary Brainin HuttrerISBN-10: 132641321XISBN-13: 9781326413217Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2015Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.34d

One man's story of survival in London's East End during the Second World War and his subsequent evacuation to Morecambe.Author: George WattsISBN-10: 1326366637ISBN-13: 9781326366636Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2015Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d

Dick Lloyd spent his working life as an Export Salesman, visiting almost every country in the world. He specialised in selling to Communist Eastern Europe. All of his experiences are encapsulated in his first book entitled ""40 Years a Salesman"". He speaks several languages,...

In 1998, in the last chapter of his book Very Ordinary Officer: The story of a Yorkshire-born Australian, Geoff Feasey outlined some of the world's problems and confessed to an urge to comment on them. But he 'resisted the temptation to jump in'. Now...

Edited memoirs of Bill Shires, who served as a navigator in the Royal Air Force's Pathfinder group during the Second World War. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Bomber Command Memorial appeal.Author: C. W. ShiresISBN-10: 132626270XISBN-13: 9781326262709Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage:...

This true account started as a love story with many obstacles in its way such as nationality, religion and differing cultures and developed into becoming a witness to major historical events. Starting in London in 1975, falling in love and then marrying in Iran...

'We are all misfits. There is no such thing as normal. It is just that some are better than others at hiding their peculiarities.' So opens this latest collection from Neil Raffan. Whilst it may be too simplistic to say the content falls into...

Elizabeth Raffald was a tremendous character who lived in pre-industrial Manchester. She produced a must-have cook book, the town's first ever trade directory while running confectionery shops, cookery school and pubs and having a family of at least 6 daughters. She did so much...

Memorials of Czechoslovak Volunteer in International Brigade in Spanish Civil War 1936-39Author: Ludvík NetopilISBN-10: 1326177397ISBN-13: 9781326177393Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2015Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.19d

The Irish trio of The Script started in 2005 when long-time friends Mark Sheehan and Danny O'Donoghue met Glen Power for some jamming. The result of that session was the first The Script song, Before The Worst. Since then they had four albums with...

Warren Caylor is one of todays leading materialisation mediums and is currently demonstrating across the globe...for more details please visit www.warrencaylor.co.ukAuthor: Warren CaylorISBN-10: 132612739XISBN-13: 9781326127398Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2014Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.57d

This book is about five special people and their adventures which I came across during the family research. I begin with the story of Rabbertus Pluis and his adventures at sea, in which his family played a large role. The second story is about...

In his first book, Benjamin Hawes takes us through his journey to adulthood. Starting out as a kid with a bike and a bowl cut in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ben soon realized that he hated being a child. He did what it...