Biography & Autobiography - General

This book presents the lives of thirty-one influential Christian biblical preachers of the past sixteen centuries. All of these preachers had a great deal of influence beyond their own base of ministry. Dr. B. J. Hartman was born in Beech Grove, Indiana and grew...

Stumblin' Towards Jesus is one man's journey towards salvation and into the loving arms of the Lord Jesus Christ. Ron Kight is that man and he shares his journey here. "Although I spent many wonderful hours together with Ron (and Dottie) they are the...

In this book, a historian of women's lives turns the lens on her own experience. Her story is "Midwestern" for its work ethic, modesty, faith, and resilience; "postmodern" for its sudden changes, strange juxtapositions, and retrospective deconstruction of the ideologies that shaped its progress....

The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observer As a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to...

Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet, was a woman of the French Enlightenment who was a member of the Girondin revolutionary faction, ran an influential salon, and translated Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. Her "Lettres sur la sympathie" is a work on moral philosophy,...

These essays have been collected and edited by the Amer. Philosophical Soc., of which Franklin was a founder, to honor the Society's 275th Anniversary. Contents: Letter to Mr. Nairne, of London, from Dr. Franklin, Proposing a Slowly Sensible Hygrometer for Certain Purposes; A Letter...

As a scholarly discipline and doctoral-level univ. course, musicology (the academic study of music in its historical and anthropological contexts) is about a century old. This is the first full-scale portrait of one of musicology's most distinguished practitioners. Nino Pirrotta (1908-98) was educated in...

"Michael An Endtime Sign" is a story that caters to the whole family, as well as teens. It builds faith at a time such as now when our hopes and dreams are being crushed almost daily by the economy and healthcare reform, as well...

This project is based on the reminiscences of Elizabeth Hawley Bowen Everett (1857-1940). She originally compiled these stories, records, and reflections about her life and her family in response to curiosity expressed by her grand-daughter, Betty Bowen Hanes. Her collection is called, The Olden...

From Frank Tuttle, the director of Kid Boots, The Studio Murder Mystery, True to the Navy, Roman Scandals, College Holiday, and This Gun for Hire, comes a candid and lively backstage tour of the film industry from the 1920s through the 1950s. With a...

The Jesuits-that group of clerics so deeply imbedded in the dreams and nightmares of the Catholic Church and in the history of the world. Sometimes saints and sometimes energetic and devious schemers, the Jesuits have educated and trained most of the Catholic intellectuals of...

Author: John BurroughsISBN-10: 1589634721ISBN-13: 9781589634725Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.02h x 4.98w x 0.76d

Author: Daniel ColemanISBN-10: 1585006955ISBN-13: 9781585006953Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1998Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.07h x 5.04w x 0.63d

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have seen fit...

Here I was pastor of a church of several thousand people in the city of Chicago, one of the largest and most exciting metropolitan centers in the world. I was having to conduct several services each Sunday in order to get everyone in, and...

Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the...

Does a place have value? Can a place change us?Is it possible for God to use the place you are in to form you? In Place Value, Katie Sciba explores special locations in her own past against the formative times and realizations of her...

"As the auctioneer continued driving up the price for me, a young couple finally stepped up and made the highest bid. They came forward and paid the officials the money. Then my mother handed me to their outstretched arms. I was now two and...

How does a country boy from Kentucky end up teaching and preaching in Lebanon and Africa, among other foreign countries? Simple! God had a plan for Harold S. Johnson-a plan that included spreading the gospel in the States and overseas. In his younger years,...

Marcia Armstead's life has taken many twists and turns, but through it all, God has been right by her side, even if she did not accept His guidance and direction in her early years. As we walk through life, different individuals make a significant...

An adoring older brother who loved nature and raised his own raccoons. A musically gifted father who showed her what true love is and pointed her to her heavenly Father. A best friend with no grandparents of her own. These are just a few...

Patti sat there pleading for God's protection. Was this the way the boat felt out on the Sea of Galilee when the disciples were so afraid? She tried to picture Jesus right beside her on a plane that felt like it was out of...

Born in a land where the main view is that God is not for real, Cassie cries out to God in desperation as she is about to end her life. To her amazement, He answers her cry in a miraculous way. Born with "mixed...

My shimmering star was bright. I loved my youth. As a child and young adult, I adored my family, my parents, and my friends. They were the shimmering stars that shone so bright for me. I became an elementary school teacher and dearly loved...

"Please Mother, write what happened when you and Dad were in Canada. Write it all out so I can have it." And so this book was born-made as a gift to our daughter. I felt I remembered every word-every detail because the summer of...

This is Volume 1 of a bi-lingual edition (Polish/English) of the wartime and post-wartime correspondence of the Grycz and Poniecki families. This amazing collection of the letters of two intersecting families: Grycz and Poniecki span several decades and reveal much about the indissoluble bonds...

Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this....

Author: Turner PublishingISBN-10: 1563115166ISBN-13: 9781563115165Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/1999Pages: 118Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.80w x 0.50d

Cotton Mather is probably best known for his contributions to the Puritanism of colonial America. Yet the subject of this book is Mather's theology of Christian experience, usually associated with continental Pietism, a dynamic movement of reform and renewal in the Lutheran church. Richard...

Sudan Africa has been torn by war between Christians and Muslims for 30 years. It is 1985 and Sudan now finds herself in the middle of a devastating famine. Under these extremely harsh conditions, Richard Fennell accepts assignment as Field Supervisor for Arkel-Talab, to...

After reaching a landmark age, the author and her husband moved to Hungary and found themselves in an intriguing life. The book tells about their triumphs and tribulations as they adjust to a different culture.Author: Judith Petres BaloghISBN-10: 1553697413ISBN-13: 9781553697411Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2002Pages:...

The story of a WWII Bombardier in the air over Europe and as a prisoner of war in Romania.Author: Julius 'Al' AltvaterISBN-10: 1553695038ISBN-13: 9781553695035Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

The outdoor realm encompasses a vast array of sites-- water, land, wetlands--for us to embrace, explore, and enjoy. Subsistence, recreation, knowledge, and spiritual teachings are available from the woods and seas. The roles of naturalist, hunter, photographer, fisherman, trapper, canoeist, spiritualist, boat captain, hiker,...

A driven six-year-old kid provides for his family after his father dies from lead poisoning, and continues that drive to become the president and principle owner of a large structural steel fabricating company.Author: JoshISBN-10: 1553690389ISBN-13: 9781553690382Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2002Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.50h...

This biographical story is a journey through the 52 years of a successful marriage which ended under tragic circumstances. The reader will be confronted in the final chapter with the decision faced by the author. WAS negligence involved with the demise of his wife?...

The story of how an immigrant from Switzerland fared during his first five years in Canada, more than four decades ago.Author: Siegfried BucherISBN-10: 1552124959ISBN-13: 9781552124956Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2000Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Chris LeGrow of Topsail, Newfoundland, began to compile his resume of adventure during his junior high school years when a friend provided his fateful introduction to small boat sailing. Together they took sailing lessons and eventually placed second in the national championship as members...

John Manningham's Diary, written in 1602-3, was first discovered as an anonymous document in 1820 by John Payne Collier, and then in 1846 by Joseph Hunter who determined the authorship. Two main editions have been published-that of John Bruce and William Tite (1868); and...

Having done around forty-five years in fostering, I think I can safely say that I do not know anyone else who has been through the same. No one that I know of has fostered for forty-five years, has had an allegation, came through it,...

This is Jacks second book and turns from Verse to Prose for an autobiographical work. Memoirs of a Signalman covers his years as a Signalman with British Railways on the Fylde Coast of England between 1978-88. It is not just a cold technical book...

This is not a travelogue or a self-help book but reflections of a world that can only be exposed to those that journey by foot Following the suggestion that "every young man should walk" a young Australian breaks free from the madness of his...

This is a recall of events from the author's very early childhood to reaching pensionable age--stories that, at times, appear far-fetched and, as incredible as they are, remain honest throughout this work. Another Day Another Time is the amalgamation of all those happenings and...

My Paranoid Theory is a story that mixes fiction with real incidents to create a new sci-fi reality. It's a story that merges illusions, dreams, nightmares, facts, and other relative realities.All the stories are based on real events. Paranoia and schizophrenia might have contributed...

Was I born unlucky or was I just too naïve? I was so young, barely old enough to understand the world and its cruelty while surrounded by people who took advantage of that. This is a story of how my innocence was exploited by...

When the spirit for adventure strikes, a bargain buy on a used motorhome, spontaneous travel plans, and a quirky mother-in-law make for an unforgettable and extremely eventful summer vacation for the Roberts family. Enjoy the comical escapades of the family as they travel from...

"Ping and His Chickens and World War II" are based on true stories set in 1950's and 1940's (World War II in the South Pacific). Phil Vernon relates his unique and heart warming experiences of raising chickens from an original two that were destined...

Doris Bourgeois-Darling, nee Dorice Leger was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, and raised by her father and her grandparents in a small village named Saint Marcel. She immigrated to the United States in the early sixties as a young adult; where she became...

This book is about our deployment as C-130 Air Force Reserve aircrew. We were called to active duty that was entering into combat for the first time, not knowing what lay ahead of us. We knew that the Lockheed C-130 was and is the...

While compiling this memoir, I was reminded of a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do not follow where the path may lead, but instead, go where there is no path and leave a trail. I titled this memoir Perseverance because in January of 1990,...

"Honor thy father and thy mother." This is the fourth commandment from the ten God gave us through Moses in the Bible. This fourth follows the initial three signifying our duties to the Supreme Being. After God, our next obligation is to our parents....