Biography & Autobiography - General

Jack was born in Stratford, Ontario, Oct. 17th, 1928. He spent his growing up years on the old farm on the Mitchell Road near the village of Motherwell, Fullarton Township, Perth County, Ontario. In 1942 at the age of 14 he contracted scarlet fever,...

The anthology of the 2006 zine series, 'Simon Gray: 2006', a horribly flawed vanity project mostly concerned with haggy name-dropping. Includes illustrations & glossary.Author: Simon GrayISBN-10: 0980691826ISBN-13: 9780980691825Publisher: Format PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2012Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.53d

A memoir covering my life from 1958 until 1969. Playing Latin American Music and Salsa, working in clubs, travelling by sea from Australia to Europe and then again by air from Australia to Mexico during the year of the Mexican Olympics... Coming of age...

MITCH LARSSON WAS A REGULAR MAN LIVING A REGULAR LIFE AS A HUSBAND AND FATHER. AS MIDDLE AGE APPROACHED, SOMETHING CHANGED AND HE MADE A SNAP DECISION THAT WOULD CHANGE HIS LIFE AND THE LIVES OF MANY WOMEN IN WAYS HE COULD NEVER HAVE...

Here we find that rare quality in two individuals that created a life-long partnership born out of love and respect...and in Darshan's telling of their life and travels together, we come to know Mohinder Kaur Sudha-Sarai in meaningful ways by the example she lived....

The winding journey of faith that led Aubrey Lewis Brown from rural Australia, through the jungles of the Congo to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.Author: Aubrey L. BrownISBN-10: 0969991126ISBN-13: 9780969991120Publisher: Sable PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2019Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

P.L.Bhandari was one of the first diplomats to emerge from the newly-independent India in 1947, a time of enormous social change and with India high on the international agenda. His assignments ranged over four continents and include encounters with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and...

A classic account of a cruise to Norway and Spitsbergen in a small boat just before the Second World War.Author: Winifred BrownISBN-10: 0957554931ISBN-13: 9780957554931Publisher: Pitchpole BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2013Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

A huddle of journalists was busily hammering at their typewriters the morning Irvine Hunt joined the Accrington Observer as a cub reporter in the heart of industrial Lancashire. A crumpled wire waste paper basket awaited on one side of his desk and a potted...

Herein are some of the most entertaining and key literary wars waged between Britain's Poets in the Georgian, Bloomsbury and Modernist groups between 1919 and 1939. Its sources are fragments of a broken landscape of letters and biographies of T.S. Eliot, Lewis, Sassoon, Auden,...

Oscar was one of those people cursed to live in interesting times; indeed, times interesting enough for a dozen normal lives. He was the architect of extraordinary - even heroic - deeds, yet they are completely forgotten now. He must be counted along with...

A year spend volunteering at medical children's homes in China. This book provides an insight into the lives of abandoned babies in China and the circumstances surrounding their abandonment. As well as giving a taste of the amazing personal experiences and impressions of a...

Bill Unsworth was a pioneering entrepeneur who was one of the first to introduce microcomputers into the UK (1977) and the Internet (1994. Bill Unsworth describes growing up in Bury, Coventry and Bedford. He went to University in London and did a degree and...

Bill Ferguson was a keen amateur photographer who took many photos of his family growing up in post-war Glasgow. His daughter, Ann Burnett, wrote many articles for the magazine 'Scottish Memories', about her childhood illustrated by his photos. These have now been collected together...

This is the memoir of a lad from the North of England who had a choice between the mines, the fishing fleet, or the Queen's Army. This volume takes the reader from the mischievous days of youth through to the first few months of...

INTRODUCTION of Journey to Purpose As I have struggled with infertility and subsequently had a hysterectomy (removing of the womb) at the age of 25, barrenness or infertility, is a topic that has, for obvious reasons, interested me since I know that many women...

The compelling autobiography of a girl who was born into a Jewish family in London. When she became a Christian as a teenager, her family reacted in a way that can only be described as shocking. This is the story of how Sarah's faith...

MEMOIRS OF A TRAINSPOTTER IN THE SIXTIES, WITH POP MUSIC AS A BACKDROPAuthor: Philip David MathisonISBN-10: 0954693736ISBN-13: 9780954693732Publisher: Dead Good PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2006Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.33d

This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee in the past fifty years, including the boundary wars of the 1950s between city and suburban towns and municipalities, freeway construction, and arguments and lawsuits over flooding and the polluting of Lake Michigan....

The Beach Boys are one of the most long-lived and popular rock groups of the modern era. Their distinctive sound and outlook, which began as smooth Southern California surfing music in the early 1960s, evolved to the point where they became a phenomenon in...

A newspaper columnist and an outstanding painter, Hennessey writes about the rapidly vanishing era when the woods held supreme.Author: Tom HennesseyISBN-10: 0892724935ISBN-13: 9780892724932Publisher: Down East BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 1Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 8.24h x 10.24w x 0.73d

Born in the small, northern community of Whitehorse, before the building of the Alaska Highway, Joyce Yardley's childhood was full of friends, family and, most of the time, fun. In Yukon Tears and Laughter, she shares memories of that time as well as other...

Originally published in 1968, this classic work by renowned archaeologist Neil M. Judd is a compilation of recollections and memories of his extensive career in archaeology. The stories told are truly those of "Men Met Along the Trail," of the archaeologists, Mormons, Indians, prospectors,...

A certain mystique has always surrounded the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. This book goes far toward defining it by taking the reader on a journey with the watermen as they harvest oysters, clams, fish, and crabs. The author was on board with the...

This book spans a generation of gay life, from the early activist origins of Mardi Gras to the confident, perhaps even tired, gay Sydney of today. Charting the life stories of ten very different gay men, Robert Reynolds asks whether gay life has contemporary...

Milburn "Catfish" Smith rose from the humblest of beginnings in rural East Texas to lead the Carey Cardinals and the Mount Vernon Tigers to numerous football and basketball championships, including Texas State Schoolboy titles. In doing so, he defied the sports gurus of his...

James Prendergast is the most infamous figure in New Zealand's legal history, known mainly for his condemnation of the Treaty of Waitangi as "a simple nullity" in 1877. But during his lifetime Prendergast was a highly respected lawyer and judge. He was arguably New...

In this previously unpublished work that is part memoir and part personal essay, critically-acclaimed novelist John Mulgan reflects on his departure from New Zealand. A powerful piece of writing and nostalgia, this account charts Mulgan's efforts to discover who he is as a New...

Views of Europe during the Napoleonic Age The last years of the 18th Century and the first years of the nineteenth century were typified by revolution and warfare. Europe was torn apart by conflict as the hereditary rulers of the Continent fought to defeat...

Two volumes of the life of the dynamic wife of a great soldier John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough was without question one of the finest military commanders the British Isles has ever produced. He was singular in several ways, but he was also fortunate...

A key player in the annexation of Austria in 1938, Odilo Globocnik was made Gauleiter of Vienna for seven months until the Nazi party forced him to resign because of his abrasive manner, murky financial dealings, and blatant incompetence. Due to a close personal...

Author: Chaim PearlISBN-10: 085303043XISBN-13: 9780853030430Publisher: Vallentine MitchellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1971Pages: 216Format: Paperback

The indispensable charter collection for the Breton lands in the complex period of the break-up of the Angevin hegemony. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Around 1200, sovereignty over the duchy of Brittany was disputed by the Angevin kings of England and the Capetian kings of France....

A new interview-based biography of The Wizard of Oz lyricistKnown as "Broadway's social conscience," E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981) wrote the lyrics to the standards, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," "April in Paris," and "It's Only a Paper Moon," as well as all of...

Author: Pat NaveISBN-10: 0816357137ISBN-13: 9780816357130Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing AssociationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2015Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.20d

Finalist, 2016 Society for Midland Authors Award for Biography & MemoirDuring his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922-1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn't allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the...

The notebooks of Thomas Wolfe constitute the most important body of Wolfe documents remaining to be published. The day-to-day jottings of a romantic of the world rather than the polished work of a critical literary intelligence, these notes are of primary significance in reconstructing...

Fully one-third of this county history is comprised of genealogical sketches and family records compiled from the primary sources of King and Queen County. Bagby ably covers the settlement and development of this tidewater county, which was formed from New Kent County in 1691...

The title of this book refers to the Cold War that ended in a whimper. Lincoln Landis, a U.S.-Russian liaison during key periods of the Cold War, offers a simple explanation: communism in the Soviet Union began to collapse the moment Premier Joseph Stalin...

Arlington National Cemetery is probably the most famous and most frequently visited cemetery in the United States. There are seventy-nine substantive Union Civil War generals and two Confederate generals buried at Arlington, and, until now, no books have been published concerning those eighty-one generals...

I Came to America recounts the incredible life story of François Alain Borny, written in a charming style that conveys his sense of adventure and wonder. It is a treasure for anyone that reads it; a riveting tale of places and events that few...

The light-hearted narrative style of this work makes it an enjoyable and interesting read. The author covers a wide variety of topics including religion, education, politics, meetings, and the general pains and pleasures of life in early Indiana. This booAuthor: William C. SmithISBN-10: 0788422294ISBN-13:...

Over the course of fifty years in the mid-twentieth century, Fred "Dixie" Walker lived several baseball lives. Dubbed the successor to Babe Ruth after his impressive major league debut in 1931, Walker went from sure-fire prospect to injury-plagued underachiever, to Brooklyn hero, to persona...

Although there are different opinions about where cable television actually began, a great deal of the ingenuity that developed cable into today's multibillion dollar industry came from Pennsylvania. In this state, with its mountainous geography, the need for an unusual means of obtaining a...

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...

In 1942, Ed Vebell landed with the US Army in North Africa and was recruited by Stars & Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper, as their official staff artist. Daily, he drew illustrations and reported on the progress of World War II throughout Europe....

Author: Rosanne Buhler OrgillISBN-10: 0759662622ISBN-13: 9780759662629Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2002Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.08w x 0.48d