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Genealogical and biographical notes on ancestors of Lida Jane Mulliner Wheeler. Includes information on the following ancestral lines: Samuel Mulliner, Harriet Armelia Berry, Ira Jones Willes, Cornelius Peter Lott, Abraham Shaw, Jane Lawrenson, Thomas Jackson, and Alice Crompton.Author: Gloria Eileen WheelerISBN-10: 0359256864ISBN-13: 9780359256860Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage:...

Someone once said the first year of work is the freshman year of life. For me, no truer words have been written. The year-and-a-half spent working in a small market television station four decades ago was one of the most significant periods of my...

A book of poetry to relate my story of that one tragic and catastrophic day: September 11, 2001.Author: Maria TeixeiraISBN-10: 0359231896ISBN-13: 9780359231898Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2018Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.07d

Writing these stories has been quite an experience. I found it a little difficult at times, because I didn't always feel I had something to say about a particular subject. However, after editing the stories, and arranging them according to a timeline or by...

This book is a collection of Janet's stories, written in this class. As the author is now in her eighties, these recollections go back as far as the fifties. They are stories of events from childhood on up and how these events affect the...

Imagine growing up between two different societies. This story is about my journey trying to understand one and balance the other. Also, I met, as I am sure everyone else has, some beautiful people. I want to share them in the hope than when...

True autobiography of an african-american which tells the horrific conditions of slaves in that era. In 1841, African American Solomon Northup, a free man, is kidnapped and forced into slavery under the name 'Platt' for 12 years. He faces the hardships of being a...

After working on my family history for many years, the realization that I knew very little about the early lives of my parents, and absolutely nothing of my grandparents youth, prompted me to record a few of what I believed were interesting episodes and...

An unusual autobiography, based on memorabilia saved in 21 boxes and 2 desk file drawers accumulated by the author through the years. The life of the author unfolds as each box and desk file drawer is opened. Somewhat random, but mostly chronological, this memoir...

Of all the great women in the history of the world, these seven should be remembered forever. They accomplished so much in medicine, the arts, the field of entertainment, science, and contributed so much to everyone in science and in pure charity, that they...

Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon against the grand narrative of England's 18th century empire building. This book is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy,...

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) had an enormous influence on social and cultural thought in the second half of the 20th century, leaving a mark on fields as diverse as sociology, anthropology, critical theory, education, literary criticism, art history, and media studies. From his childhood in...

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and...

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie examines the lives, works, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men's personal papers as well as the materials of the Association...

Whether you are applying for a job or in conversation with someone new, you will probably be asked about your hobbies and interests. Having penned two books about travelling and work, I thought I should complete the trilogy by confessing to some of the...

my true life experiences which reveal humorous and sometimes naive impressions of the world in which we're living.Author: Roger KalterISBN-10: 0244956871ISBN-13: 9780244956875Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.12d

Nightclubs are closing at such a rate in Britain - down from an estimated 4,200 in 1994 to around 1,700 in 2017 - that they could soon be a relic of a bygone age. This book is set in the period from the mid...

I am sixty-five years old. I have lived a beautiful life with many stories to tell. I have cancer. Throughout his life, Gilbert Lailvaux has faced many challenges, but Laughter Through Tears tells the story of his toughest one: cancer. From childhood memories of...

Bill and Sil's intended journey was turned upside down. Their plans were thwarted, as the Canterbury Plains of the South Island of New Zealand were rocked and rolled by earthquakes and aftershocks. Travel arrangements had to be changed. Risks thought through. However, despite environmental...

We see this.. the U. field, the transfer to another U. determined field in q.mech.. and the vapor trail.Author: Alexander P. M. Van Den BoschISBN-10: 0244921431ISBN-13: 9780244921439Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2017Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.17d

If you are seeking adventures like sailing the seven seas, crossing deserts, or hiking in The Himalayas, well you won't get that far with me. But if you would like to visit The Black Country, have a few laughs along the way with a...

Margaret Evans grew up in Rhostryfan, a small rural village near Caernarfon. Retired and living in Wrexham, on returning to the place of her upbringing she was inspired to write this wonderfully vivid account of her childhood.Author: Margaret EvansISBN-10: 0244917078ISBN-13: 9780244917074Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2017Pages:...

Hard-hitting true account of a journey, adaptation, resilience and recovery. 'Annie's Song' tells a personal story, family story and story of a place and time. 'Annie's Song' is about, motherhood, childhood, trust, betrayal, struggles, within ourselves and beyond ourselves in times of 'war and...

'Forgotten Fife Tales' is a personal reflection on some of the stories covered by the Kingdom's local newspapers that have slipped from the community's wider memory. Jerzy Morkis, a former editor, weaves these into his experiences as a journalist to provide a glimpse of...

Blinded at the age of 2, Peter Young embarked on a life of debauchery, until he stood on skis for the first time. After that he was hooked and decided to dedicate his life to becoming the best in the world. A man made...

'A fascinating and absorbing story... Before we forget the past, we ought to read her.' Merryn Williams Pinnacles and Pratfalls reflects with humour and depth on Birchall's mobile life from the 'hungry thirties' and selling their piano, through a wartime childhood and her father's...

We go through our daily lives, happy and content in the routine of work and family life. Not realising that this happy routine is precarious. It can all change. Kevin made the move to Australia in 2004, where he worked as a lecturer in...

"And behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up." Most of the time when someone is attacked with this spirit, in this age and time we now live...

My story of Kilshanny in Ireland, the homeland of my father. My experiences whilst I was visiting this beautiful countryAuthor: Patrick FordISBN-10: 0244786534ISBN-13: 9780244786533Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2019Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.67d

Morris (Moe) Miller's Musician's Memoir (mmmmm - tasty) includes a cast of characters, most of whom are long gone: up there somewhere in the sky, acting, dancing, singing, or playing in an orchestra or big band. Miller speaks for them, to them, and about...

This is a moving story about a very special lady who is going blind and the hurdles she has to go through against all the odds. Her dog Buddy knows when his mistress is low and would lick away her tears and fears away...

Santana is a Latin music and rock group formed in San Francisco, California, US during 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana, having captured the attention of the public with their performance of "Soul Sacrifice" at Woodstock in 1969. The exposure helped propel their eponymous...

Beginning in the 1920s and ending in 2013, the story covers Ted's journey from Clerkenwell in London to Essex and finally to Manchester and Cheshire, nudged by his poems to remember stories from the past. The poems become his personal expression of feelings, and...

Walter Herbert Bowen, known as Bert, starts to keep a diary at the age of 14 in January 1914. The early entries in his Boy Scouts Diary show his preoccupations with scouting and riding his bike. In the build-up to World War I his...

By reference to his early working life as a probation officer in England the author argues that the timespan covered was a period when those in that role were essentially operating as independent professionals. He uses examples from his early experience to explain the...

William Doyle, affectionately known as Billy by his friends and family was almost thirteen when World War Two began. He was an innocent lad with a vivid imagination who had to come to terms with growing up in a war torn Britain. His zest...

It doesn't happen in this day and age, or does it? A vulnerable gay couple are placed in housing, where secrets are rife and terror is just a floor away. This raw, gritty emotional roller coaster will leave you stunned. A true and riveting...

Keith Iveson has written a very interesting and amusing book about his career from National Service to Regular Warrant Officer Class 1 in The Life Guards. Starting in the early fifties to his eventual departure from the Army in the late seventies, it portrays...

You had one bath a week whether you needed it or not. You knew with iron certainty what was for tea on any given day of the week. There was every possibility that grown-ups, known to you or not, might clout you. But being...

A true story based on a life of unexpected pain in many ways but also a story of strength determination and in time a happily ever after.Author: Debs S. EaglesISBN-10: 0244679592ISBN-13: 9780244679590Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2018Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.09d

This is another book of my lyrics these were all written around February, March 2018 I wrote most of these while on a songwriting forum, there are all bits and pieces and I just wanted to keep a record so that they don't get...

The true and inspiring story of two Parsi women who initiated the dawn of women's emancipation in India during the British Raj, their courage and broad-mindedness in the face of orthodox opposition in embracing English education and travelling round the world in an age...

When I realised that my wife was an alcoholic I made a decision to stick by her for as long as I possibly could. I had seen the statistics, including those concerning the children of alcoholics, but I was determined not to allow any...

This collection is the second instalment in the Diary of a Small Island Girl series. Through prose and poetry, these deeply personal entries take you on a journey of love, loss, forgiveness and transcendence. The passages contained in this book may well be the...

A biography of four English men married to four sisters. Each man made a contribution to the war effort but in a different way. The story of the families left behind in England shows the uncertainty and strain under which they lived for several...

Sonia Parry spent a year in 1966, serving in Voluntary Service Overseas in The Gambia. Her wonderful description of her experiences are a joy to read. "It had always been my ambition to work abroad and when I was told I could not sit...

Jailed alongside some of Britain's most dangerous criminals including Charles Bronson, Marks' gripping novel describes how he became corrupted from within his role as a prison officer, the transition to becoming an inmate and the lies he had to tell in order to survive...

Join us! There is a unique sound that only you have, and only you can release! It is an experience or a story that you have in which you knew that God helped you and that He was there for you. People cannot wait...

A memoir by Paul Griffin who was the young Principal of the English School in Nicosia during the Cyprus Troubles of 1955-1960.Author: Paul GriffinISBN-10: 0244536287ISBN-13: 9780244536282Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2019Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.43d

The autobiographical story of a decade in the author's life includes her experiences as a wartime evacuee from London, sent to live in St. Ives and later in Trowbridge. Full of emotions from fun and laughter to fear and trepidation, this story makes fascinating...