Biography & Autobiography - General

It's not about me is a testimonial to the human condition. Just walking through life is not enough to secure one's place in history. At some point, it must become apparent that the true test of a person's character is defined by how much...

Not every smile hides joy. Some conceal hardship, loss, and invisible battles most will never see.In Soured Smiles, Kunal Vyas shares a raw and moving collection of personal essays chronicling life with multiple sclerosis, cultural clashes, family struggles, and the complicated emotions that define...

What do the co-author of Grimm's Fairy Tales, a founder of modern chemistry and an immigrant changemaker in New York City have in common? The name Jacob! This is a different kind of personalized book for boys named Jacob. It explains the meaning and...

Never Forsaken is a profound memoir of Bishop Ted G. Thomas Sr. It chronicles his journey from Hoke County, North Carolina to Norfolk, Virginia and beyond. Each experience gained from his two hundred and fifty mile transition to the city and his upward climb...

This non-fiction book includes poems, prose, and ponderings. They are astute observations from an elderly lady, the author, who often sees irony in life. Many articles are introspective, thought-provoking, and heart-to heart. The author shares family experiences, both good and bad, both happy and...

The life of artist Margaret Downes Hickenbottom, a War Bride of Wem, England, is lovingly portrayed with illustrations of her artwork.Author: Sandy Benson CastilloISBN-10: 1943471819ISBN-13: 9781943471812Publisher: Azalea Art PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2024Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.17d

In the 1930s and '40s, winters on the mighty St. Lawrence River were cold - so cold that the waters froze solid and "the black ice was crystal clear . . . you could see the fish swimming beneath it." In this tender and...

Told with humor and insight, the exploits and adventures of amateur artist, animal lover and environmental advocate Jeanne Poett Leonard take us on a rollicking ride through the landscape of her Northern California home and beyond.Author: Jeanne Poett LeonardISBN-10: 1943471347ISBN-13: 9781943471348Publisher: Azalea Art PressLanguage:...

A man obsessed with drugs, sex and violence takes a dramatic turn in life and becomes a teacher of Christian principles and a servant of the poor and downtrodden. Read the amazing story of Guy Walton and the teachings that have made him a...

In 1849, Ralph Buckingham, a younger son of a youngest son of New England Pilgrim stock, went to California from his small-town Connecticut home. Landless, with no inheritance or trade of his own, Ralph sailed around the Horn, then traveled overland from San Francisco...

With no GI Bill income duing the summer I couldn't afford rent, so set off to hitchhike to North Cape, the northernmmost land in Europe. I had an old Boy Scout backpack, tent, sleeping bag, nesting pots and a pan, and a tiny Lomas...

An honest, humorous book for both new and experienced teachers offering wise advice based on hard experience, the occasional big mistake, and an even bigger heart. "It's complicated, this teacher thing," says the author. "But in the end, it's about honesty, openness, failures, and...

When love fails, God shows up. Read one woman's condensed journey through the darkness of depression and abuse, and how God's love never fails.Author: Crystal A. ClemonsISBN-10: 1938986040ISBN-13: 9781938986048Publisher: Crystal A. ClemonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2018Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

I've been down too long Up against the wall Fighting for my life. I've been down too long Taking the devil's blows Trying to take my life He's backed me up I can't move no more Trying to take me out Nothing seems real...

Introducing Keepsakes: A Design Memoir, by noted Russian designer Constantin Boym. Featuring a specially curated group of personal objects, some designed by Boym, and others collected through his travels from Russia to Turkey, Italy, Qatar, but all accompanied by a witty commentary on the...

Nuns, Nam & Henna is an honest and straightforward account of the author's story told in poetry and prose. This chapbook starts under the guidance of Catholic nuns in heavy woolen habits and bonnets that covered all traces of hair. And ends with observations...

Two musican/kayakers paddle around Sun and Moon islands of Lake Titicaca in search of caves that, according to local folklore, are visited at night by water spirits (sirenas) who come to play instruments left by local musicians. Traveling with an Andean ten-stringed charango, the...

This is a book of short stories about old romances written in a creative nonfiction format.Author: Donna KakongeISBN-10: 1926734378ISBN-13: 9781926734378Publisher: Donna Kay Kakonge, M.A.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2009Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d

I was going on twenty-four and living in Annecy, France when it happened: a soul moment so charged with energy that it changed the dynamic of my life...Author: Orest StoccoISBN-10: 1926442164ISBN-13: 9781926442167Publisher: Orest StoccoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2017Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Not unlike Neale Donald Walsch's conversations with God, the author of "In the Shade of the Maple Tree" has a series of dialogues with Ascended Master St. Padre Pio. Their talks touch on the daily activities of the author's life, and in the process...

"Stories bear the truth of the human condition, and the human condition is the story of our becoming; but not until we solve the riddle of our becoming will literature resolve the issue of the human condition. This makes literature endlessly fascinating, because every...

"Despite my Roman Catholic faith growing up, when I encountered the "doctrine uttered in secret" I felt an immediate attraction to it; and although it threw my Christian faith into confusion, I pursued the doctrine of reincarnation. And the more I read on reincarnation,...

Not unlike Neale Donald Walsch's conversations with God, the author of THE MAN OF GOD WALKS ALONE has a series of dialogues with Ascended Master St. Padre Pio. Their talks touch on the daily activities of the author's life, and in the process he...

Richard Alston - barrister, politician, diplomat, company director, senior Cabinet minister for more than seven years - was a leading figure in national debates about privatisation, innovation, information technology, the Arts and the ABC, transforming the federal Communications portfolio into a telecommunications powerhouse with...

In her heartwarming autobiography, Marie takes us on a journey into a world of passion, pleasure, desire and dreams. She then brings us into the unstoppable realm within her. Her story starts as a child in wartime England, and includes a sudden change of...

Few inside accounts have been published in Australia written by those who were active in that part of the Cold War which took place inside Australia's social institutions, especially the trade union movement. Most published memoirs have been written by those on the extreme...

This is a humorous memory of a boy growing up in Norfolk from the thirties to the present day; about relationships, the Second World War and it's effect on ordinary folk on the Home Front and life after the war as I grew up....

This book will not change you life. It will pass a few minutes as you wait for a train or your dinner but there'll be no epiphanies on my watch. Sorry. This book is a selection of minor nonsenses, from my brain to yours....

This is the true story about a young woman that was seeking fame and fortune in Hollywod but instead found Jesus as she realised that all the fame or fortune in the world could not fill the void that she was feeling. Author: Victoria...

I was in my early forties when my friend Gem suggested that it might be beneficial for me to see a counsellor, as she knew that I have struggled with feelings of worthlessness and insecurity my entire life, resulting in episodes of deep depression.Subsequently,...

"Warning: This book is almost impossible to put down." - Tracy Fahey, Author: The Unheimlich ManoeuvreJust how much are we shaped by the entertainment that scares us?Author, blogger, podcaster and lifelong fan of genre Kit Power sets out to answer that question, with a...

Throughout the author's life in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) his father was a member of the Northern Rhodesia Police and the author sets about recording various incidents in the life of a youngster growing up in the numerous towns and police stations at which...

Leaving school and declining a place at University, Jimmy "fell" into an apprenticeship in Painting and Decorating. Life had suddenly taken a turn, but had his decision been a good one? A must read for any would-be or current construction worker, follow Jimmy through...

During the 1950s Shänne Sands lived between England and India. This evocative, beautifully written prose work by the poet, brings gods to life, populates streets with breath and takes you into the world of many religions wandering their path on unsteady legs through the...

This book is based on a true story of two young people, whose lives were thrown into total devastation when they found out that a baby had been developing un-noticed in his mother's womb. It was only when Sophie was crippled with stomach pains...

Ginny Crackfart, as she came to be known because of her inappropriate verbal outbursts, changed from a hermit like creature of habit, into the resident neighbourhood maniac! This honest and at times very personal account tells the story of how one woman's refusal to...

Isabel Savory's first book, published in 1900, was a best seller sensation about a game hunting expedition she made with friends from Bombay up to Peshawar, to the Khyber Pass into Kashmir and then down to the Nigiri Hills. In less than a year...

This Spring 2007 (V, 2) Issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled "Insiders/outsiders: Voices from the Classroom" includes papers, some by students at UMass Boston, that creatively apply the sociological imagination to understanding specific personal toubles involving insider/outsider experience in...

This Fall 2003/Spring 2004 (II, 2) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes a collection of student essays exploring their lives in an applied sociological imagination framework. Topics are: "A Welcoming Statement to the Editorial Advisory Board," "The Complexity of...

This Spring 2003 (II, 1) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge include student papers from coursework completed at SUNY-Oneonta. The creative efforts students display in advancing their sociological imaginations demonstrate the extent to which the best pedagogical strategies are those...

The approval of God, and faithfulness to Scripture, were Graham Miller's first concerns, and his autobiography will sturely stir the same ambitions in others.Author: J. Graham MillerISBN-10: 184871064XISBN-13: 9781848710641Publisher: Banner of TruthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2010Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.20d

This book is a selection of historian Oliver MacDonagh's writings edited and introduced by his former student, Tom Dunne, who contibutes an account of MacDonagh's career and a bibliography. It brings together a series of childhood memories of a bank manager's son in 1930s...

This is a book of memoirs spanning a period of more than 80 years. Born in 1933, the only child of loving working-class parents, the early recollections of Barrie Cottingham are of life in World War Two, and particularly of the Sheffield Blitz, when...

This is a true story of this man. It is full of adventures and unusual encounters that are highly interesting to read.Author: Richard T. ChengISBN-10: 1796084751ISBN-13: 9781796084757Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2020Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

You're Built to Win - Embrace Your Truth! If you don't know what you bring to the table, then you are certainly the chair. Our existence is not designed for us to be "sat on". Dr. Charles Lee chronicles his life in such a...

There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Albert RileyISBN-10: 1796068861ISBN-13: 9781796068863Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2020Pages: 924Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.06d

This book is based upon true events that have taken place within the life of a young woman named Celeste. Some or all the names in this book have been changed to respect the individual/s right to privacy.Author: CelesteISBN-10: 1796017043ISBN-13: 9781796017045Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Dust and Drama is a lighthearted look at the memories of people who acted, directed, and were otherwise connect to Broken Hill Repertory Society. Wherever there is theater, there are funny stories, and these snippets of memories have been collected into this book. There...

An account of the naval commander Roger of Lauria and his command of warfare at sea. Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of...

Aubrey believed that life was a game, a test to be played in the best way he could. He was born when South Australia was seventy-three years old. Over a century later, when he died, a nation had been built, people had endured two...