Biography & Autobiography - General

Having one foot in North America and one in Europe, the author inevitably, compares these two continents, their surroundings, their people, and their modus vivendi. The interpretation of happenings on these continents as they relate to one life's adventure is the scope of this...

"What started out as an essay on my boyhood neighborhood an my life there turned in to a book. My purpose in writing the book was to revisit a few of my experiences there and give the readers of the book a synopsis of...

The book is a detailed description of his training and early years of practice and the interesting experiences of the author in this period.Author: Krishna Mohan MishraISBN-10: 1491804041ISBN-13: 9781491804049Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2013Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

God used an ordinary man, a gambler, on an ordinary job to witness for him on the dark night streets in the downtown Loop of Chicago. There were drunks, police incidents, riots, and people trying to get to their night jobs. There were snowstorms...

This book wasn't written for gender or race, but for anyone that feels he or she is incarcerated and sees no way out. When I looked at all angles and seen no open doors, no gaps, and the odds was too much against me,...

This book was written based on my mothers numerous journals, diaries, letters, photos, tapes and many artifacts saved over decades. It is also based on memories, conversations/ situations according to myself and the recollection of other family members as well as a few friends....

Arua Okereke shares his personal account of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, which ended in 1970, in this inspirational and informative autobiography. While there have been numerous accounts of the war, they have largely been written by governmental participants, military leaders, or academic historians, but...

Marie ("Missy") estimates that as the hostess for family celebrations she has polished 6,720 fork tines front, back, and in between. She's seen her duty, and she's done it. In Who Will Polish the Silver? she shares the stories about her life growing up...

As a child, Rosemary D. Neidig learned to be silent and suppress her fears in order to appease her peace-loving mother, who was focused on presenting a perfect image to others. But when Rosemary was diagnosed with breast cancer at age forty-seven, she embarked...

About this story Nothing could be a more true reflection of shackled lives behind the media's publicity-seeking headlines that strike a whole country from time to time. Remember the gripping stories of the "downfall of a golden girl, sex web, shackles and shame, gangster's...

Tales of sex and violence, mystery, murder and yes, even romance, abound in this sweeping saga as the reader is transported from the late seventeenth century to the mid twentieth when the self-confessed bad boy from the boondocks left school to make his own...

Author: Hasta Gautam Mridul,Shingh BISBN-10: 1479769940ISBN-13: 9781479769940Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2014Pages: 104Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Roderick StackelbergISBN-10: 1479762644ISBN-13: 9781479762644Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2012Pages: 122Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

An American-born boy grew up in a small village on the Greek island of Crete. In his last year in high school, he witnessed the German invasion of the island in May of 1941 during the early days of WW II. At the age...

Author: Ralph ShapiroISBN-10: 1479704105ISBN-13: 9781479704101Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2012Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Growing up on a farm in rural Michigan, Audrey and her dog, Wolfie, were inseparable. They spent hours together exploring the fields and woods. Wolfie could even do tricks, like climbing the barn ladder! But Wolfie faced one danger after another. First there was...

Their home environment was anything but ideal. Anna and Krista grew up with a helpless, detached mother and an angry, verbally abusive father. Anna walked around on eggshells, nervously waiting for her father to explode in a fit of rage. Krista, too, tried to...

Eve East and West of Eden two is the story of a woman who was born in Iran but grew to adulthood through the cultures of Europe and the United States while never fully surrendering her Persian heritage. She became successful in business and...

This book is about one woman's journey as she shares her stories through recollected adversities she faced growing up in a dysfunctional home being exposed to the street and drug life at an early age. She vividly tells of different accounts she had to...

"A beautifully written account of an idyllic childhood. Told in the first person against the milieu of show business, bounds of freedom and family idiosyncrasies. If only things were so straight forward. Instead this recount of the life's transitions is juxtaposed against the backdrop...

This book relates a wide range of interesting topics based on the experiences of the author's childhood memories, boyhood adventures, and his avid explanation of a scientific theory that most readers could easily understand.Author: Teofilo EcheverriaISBN-10: 1477241922ISBN-13: 9781477241929Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2012Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Early in 2008, my husband died, after forty very eventful years together. Devastated by his loss, I finished writing the biography he had started, depicting those years, and titled it See You Later, Darlin', which was his catchphrase. A tribute to him and the...

Author: Madalina SerbanISBN-10: 147713140XISBN-13: 9781477131404Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2012Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.17dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 10/29/2013

'The story and description of life on an operational base 'bang on' . . . . . . attack sequences gut wrenching . . . . . . the gamut of death, destruction and loss of close friends made good and descriptive reading ....

First published in 1909 this is a wonderful historical account of life in Victorian Britain, through the eyes of a Master of Fox Hounds. A glimpse of life on a rural Scottish estate. Full of the fascinating day to day excitement of a packed...

Author: Imogen LaceISBN-10: 1471781658ISBN-13: 9781471781650Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2010Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d

This second volume of Martin Nicholson's projected four volume autobiography takes the author through his student years between 1956 and 1963, during the Cold War. Martin did his National Service in the Royal Navy learning Russian. He took his degree in Russian and Spanish...

Author: John W. HolcombISBN-10: 1469169193ISBN-13: 9781469169194Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2012Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Michael A. StraightISBN-10: 146915613XISBN-13: 9781469156132Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2012Pages: 150Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Two Hampshire Families, Hann / Hiscock is the story of two families, brought together by marriage, during the period from the mid nineeteenth century through to the twenty first century. From very different backgrounds we follow members of each family through hardship, wartime tragedy,...

Will A. Thurland of Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, a year after the Selective Service Act of 1940 was made applicable to the territory in World War II. The photographs are taken with a Kodak...

Author: Tina Klassen KauffmanISBN-10: 1468550926ISBN-13: 9781468550924Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2012Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

This book is an autobiography of my life with my brother, Don from my early years growing up in Washington, D.C. as my mother Bernice Augusta along with my father for part of the period nurtured, sacrificed and cared for us with meager funds....

Art Myers is a Viet Nam veteran with memories. In 2005 he and his wife Linda traveled to Viet Nam with a group led by a psychotherapist who works with veterans affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From the Mekong Delta in the...

Forji has the magical knack of showing the world as it appears through the eyes of a young person. His words first introduce the reader to Cameroon's diverse society as an infant sees it; and then we peer with him through the anxious lens...

Np>"Billy Don't" is the story of a harsh and troubled life lived by a child in a 1930's boarding house in Oakland, California., /p> Billy has been removed, by court order, from the loving protection of his father and grandmother, and placed with his...

QUOTES FROM THE CHAPTER, "LET'S BE REAL" Do we have any understanding of the un-churched culture in which we live and the way these people view the church? Do we spend intentional time cultivating relationships with non-Christian people, or is our attitude one of...

Historic fiction based on the true story of a love that influenced three generations of women in three countries and two world wars. Finally, in the third generation, Maria-Karolina's grand-daughter went in search of the key to unlock the door to what had been...

Frankie Valen's autobiography, "Chasing An Illusive Dream," is a story that contains the drama and pathos that inspired the old cliché, "Truth is stranger than fiction." This story of a pop-singer is about fame and the loss of it, separation from family and children,...

"A controversial look at a World War II veteran's five year journey with Alzheimer's disease at the VA Hospital in Syracuse, New York."--Front jacket.Author: Diane BradshawISBN-10: 1467025038ISBN-13: 9781467025034Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2011Pages: 148Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

The day has finally arrived for Dwight "Crip " Francis to be released from prison. Now he's ready to get back to the streets and start where he left off, running hard in the streets selling drugs, hitting the hottest clubs, and seducing the...

Author: Lela Haynes SessionISBN-10: 146342793XISBN-13: 9781463427931Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.28d

Here is an expanded perspective of Greek History and aspects of both old and Modern Greek history that you would not find elsewhere. Greek and Hebrew languages and writing have nothing in common, yet their alphabets are identical. What does this mean? Where was...

"Defining Moments" is the compelling true life story of one American soldier's adventures in the South Pacific during World War II. It is a captivating tale of war behind the front lines as revealed through the prism of the more than 300 letters this...

This book begins with the past and ends with the future for Olivia. She has lost two sons within 5yrs and 8months of each other. She has gone through incest and rape as a young child. She lived with an aunt that made her...

Author: Alexandre ElyISBN-10: 1462897789ISBN-13: 9781462897780Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2011Pages: 102Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Tricia PayneISBN-10: 1462846777ISBN-13: 9781462846771Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2011Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

What would you do if this was your last year on earth? What if someone you couldn't live without had only one year? How would you live that year? We have all been impacted by cancer. Some of us have battled it. Others have...

An autobiography published with the assistance of BePublished.Org, FROM A LABEL TO A BRAND is Antonio Wright's debut effort to inspire others to persevere in the face of all (small and life-altering) challenges by continuing to focus on goals and believe beyond belief. His...

The author manages to break all the "rules" of memoir writing in recounting in humorous fashion lessons learned from the small things in life: From selling fiddler crabs and quahogs as a youth in Wickford, RI., to ending up with an odd-shaped Christmas tree...