Biography & Autobiography - General

When Louis Raphael was in junior high school at Tacoma, Washington, in the early 1940s, his grandfather hired him to work during summer vacations as a boathouse boy at American Lake, a few miles south of Tacoma. The lake enchanted the boy with its...

Follow one man's journey from a World War II American concentration camp detainee to a U.S. serviceman.Author: Sonya MastickISBN-10: 0578124246ISBN-13: 9780578124247Publisher: Son KaydaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2013Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

This book is a narrative of growing up in a rural town during the 40's and 50's in Eastern Washington.Author: Dorene JohnsonISBN-10: 0578122049ISBN-13: 9780578122045Publisher: Fuzz's PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2013Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Living The Difference Acquired behavior or genetic makeup, what do you believe?Author: J. C. Knudson,Joseph C. KnudsonISBN-10: 0578062712ISBN-13: 9780578062716Publisher: Espresso House Publishing & Distribution, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2010Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d

"Winner of the Literary Awards for 2009 Best Autobiography/Biography" -Multicultural Literature Advocacy Group, Living in Color Literary Awards . . "Thank you for thinking of me" -Sonia Sotomayor, United States Supreme Court Justice . . "A Prison Story/Autobiography like you have never read before"...

Tales from the Red Pump, volume one in the series, recounts stories from 130 years of Northland Wisconsin family adventures, challenges, and joys. These wide-ranging Tales provide glimpses of human and natural history in our changing northern, Lake Superior environment.Author: Thomas Wayne KingISBN-10: 0578042142ISBN-13:...

Wake Up the Night is an account of the author's experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War, the process of adjusting to life 'back in the world', and his involvement in the anti-war movement.Author: Robert HaleISBN-10: 0578023822ISBN-13: 9780578023823Publisher: Robert Hale & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Sordid Stories of an Ordinary Family is a humorous collection of short stories revolving around the quirkiness of an ordinary family living in a small town in rural America. The author combines a unique blend of storytelling styles- the charm of a Norman Rockwell...

A Raw Hummingbird is the first volume of a creative nonfiction trilogy. It delves into identity formation, sexual orientation, rape, abuse, spirituality and the significance of relationships within our lives. Actual emails, online chats and memories weave together the lives of two radically different...

This is a story about a young man's very risky journey over several kilometers of Ocean to join with friends fishing for the very large Spring Salmon that could be found located there. The location, Rivers Inlet, British Columbia, has been made famous for...

Kenneth Boulton Thurstone served with the 315th Ammunition Train of the 90th Division of the U.S. Army in World War I. A native of Buffalo who later resided in Amherst, NY, Ken wrote wonderfully detailed letters home from overseas. His descriptions of the life...

Jenny Barth Bornstein was an intelligent and spirited child who would become one of Germany's first women physicians. Her frank and lively account of her childhood and adolescence in 1860s and 1870s Berlin paints a portrait of an upwardly-mobile Jewish family in Bismarck's Germany....

A brief biography of Janet Nunley, a child of Ashland Kentucky in the 1940's.Author: Don CampbellISBN-10: 0557719011ISBN-13: 9780557719013Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2010Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A key lawyer in the growth of Merchant & Gould, John served as its managing partner, president and chairman of the board from 1973 to 1988. John has over 40 years experience as a trial lawyer throughout the United States in the field of...

Before his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease in 1998, Fred Ransdell had dismissed thoughts of contributing to the field of paleontology, labeling them as ""unrealistic"" and ""out of reach."" Today? Ransdell has spent years working on fossils at the Museum of Nature and Science in...

"A Journey to Self Love" is a memoir to a path from self-hatred to a path of self love. Readers will experience with Armetria a journey through their hardships that they don't have to be endowed with guilt and shame or burdened by their...

Author: Lewis Joseph D'AntoniISBN-10: 0557530504ISBN-13: 9780557530502Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2010Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

This story takes place in Iceland during the fifties and sixties. It's a story of a girl whose ancestors; farmers, lawmen, murderers, poets, and priests can be traced back to the ninth century. Placed in a sanatorium at the age of eight, she had...

Have you ever just wanted to get away from the city and go live in the woods? 'Winter's Coming, Winter's HereAuthor: Antonia ChristiansenISBN-10: 0557501067ISBN-13: 9780557501069Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2011Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

The Time: the immediate aftermath of the bloody Balkan wars of the 90s. The Man: a penniless science-fiction author. The Job: write the official biography of Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman. In an effort to keep Tudjman out of the War Crimes Tribunal in The...

In this book, which reads like a novel, Dirk Baatenburg de Jong, a Dutch Merchant Marine, is involved with a war he never signed up for after the Nazis invaded his native country, The Netherlands. After being part of the Battle of the Atlantic,...

A book written to help city dwellers who need to save money. Written by a city raised woman who had to learn many "old country knowledge" things to live well while living in abject poverty. A kind of humorous look at that learning process,...

Memoir of a university instructor's journey to China, and her loving relationship set in modern day China with a handsome male student. Their affair ignores boundries of age, and culture amid the backdrop of traditional Chinese society.Author: Judy Coker-BlaaISBN-10: 0557321743ISBN-13: 9780557321742Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2010Pages:...

'Newcomer' opens an uncanny window to the hopes and struggles of newly-arrived immigrants in the United States. With a language that combines humor and wit, Manuel Ballagas looks back at his first years in America, and reflects on all the hard work it took...

The author of WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC and other short story collections has kept a daily diary for forty years, since he was 18 in the summer of 1969. Here are entries from his diary for...

A primal scream erupted in the Charity Ward of Providence Hospital in Washington, DC. Crying out for Mother, baby Movsisian felt her loving grip for only minutes after birth. Judy's bassinet was wheeled away, then hidden, once her birth blood was washed away. Her...

The author of WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC and other short story collections has kept a daily diary for forty years, since he was 18 in the summer of 1969. Here are entries from his diary for...

A first hand account of what owning a small town Bed and Breakfast is really like. Told with a fresh, lyrical voice. This wry and witty account of big city girl turned small town diva also includes some of the most delicious breakfast recipes...

When a death is reported on the news we forget how it affects family and friends. In my book LIGHTNING CHANGE you'll follow my family from the depths of sorrow to times of laughter. My story is based on an event that changed my...

Getting Through Customs is a travel memoir told in fifteen true stories centered on the theme of transition. With passion, wit and tenderness, Sophia Tellen, author of Walking Into Moments, reflects on the ridiculous to the essential and conveys the wisdom gleaned in a...

This book is the life story of Eric Caceres and how being molested as a child affected the rest of his lifes development. It is an exhortation to parents to educate their children so that horrible experiences can be those of others and not...

This is the story of the ten years I spent with a wonderful woman. Through life, love, illness, happy times and sad. I have never professed to be writer let alone a good writer, in fact I'm not even a great reader, but this...

Joseph Patton, born in Ohio, fought for the Union in the Civil War. Cornelius Gardener, who married Patton's daughter, served forty years in the Army, first on the Great Plains in the Indian Wars, then in Cuba and the Philippines in the Spanish American...

Someone to Hear Me is a personal account of how Dorene Lewis survives daily abusive relationships and finds the strength to make drastic life-style changes to better her life and the lives of her childrenAuthor: Ebony Joy Wilkins,Dorene LewisISBN-10: 0557000912ISBN-13: 9780557000913Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2008Pages:...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""The Refutation of Darwinism and the Converse Theory of Development; Based Exclusively Upon Darwin�������s Facts"" is a book written by T. Warren O'Neill that challenges the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin. O'Neill argues that Darwin's theory is flawed and presents evidence to...

Everyone in Australia knows Ray Martin the journalist and TV presenter, but few know about his secret passion--photography. Full-colour and gloriously produced, this book will showcase Ray's stunning photos from Australia and around the world. Ray presents landscapes from remote Central Australia to the...

Peter Abelard conducted many analyses of Scriptural and Patristic teachings, and achieved an extensive rapprochement between Christian and pagan thought. His public career was ended in 1140 by an ecclesiastical condemnation, but this touched upon the central issues facing the early leaders of the...

In this volume of autobiography Helen Corke, now aged 93, recalls her childhood and youth before the First World War. Her account has both a personal and a representative significance. Helen Corke has a gift for recounting the development of her own consciousness and...

Despite setting out on a "short" three-month trip, Sea has since departed expensive Melbourne life entirely, still traveling indefinitely - presently locked down in Goa, India. The past three-plus years of adventures included road trips through Europe, an unexpected spiritual journey in India, the...

At the merry age of 80 years a wonderful dream for me became a reality with this book about my life. Come take a walk with me which begins in Dublin, Ireland and continues through numerous destinations to the other side of the World...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This book brings to life the very human experiences, frustrations and aspirations of a well respected 16th centutry physician who struggled to win respect from fellow practitioners and loyalty from patients.Author: Joanna GrantISBN-10: 0415863090ISBN-13: 9780415863094Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2014Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w...