Biography & Autobiography - General

This is my memoir of the many people I have met and places I have been. The people are ordinary, hardworking, devoted-to-duty military men and women and people from all walks of life from the many countries I have visited.Author: Robert S. SaitoISBN-10: 1546247882ISBN-13:...

A Facebook friendship develops into a trying relationship between an American officer and a Swedish woman. She helps him to be released from his military service in a war zone. On his journey home, he encounters many obstacles, which entail great expenses. She gets...

Where "Catch me if you Can" meets "The Wolf of Wall Street" on the ocean NEVER ENOUGH LOVE is the fascinating story of John Lazano, who grew up in a traditional New York Italian Catholic family, joined the Navy, married a prostitute, accidently made...

Life itself is such a strange journey, with its ups and downs and curves. Have you ever asked yourself why we were put here on this earth? What is our purpose for being here? Why are people born? A person is born, and they...

Through the Fire is a life storybook that will captivate your mind, soul, and body. This is so because it is a true story written with the passion it deserves. The story is ugly, shameful, and may be even ridiculousone which should be kept...

Down South and Other Places is a nonfiction work by Eric Koplin. He tells a tale of being a support troop (heavy-equipment operator) in Vietnam in 1969. He was an enlisted man, a lance corporal (E3) in the United States Marine Corps. He moves...

There are many books about running available that attempt to discover what it all means to be out along a course, street, or trail; about the psychology, makeup, sensibility and consciousness of it all, the camaraderie, the friendship, the overcoming, surmounting, and the conquering...

This is not an autobiography turned into fiction, as the theme of the story is not interesting enough to be entrancing audience awareness, not interesting to become a big budget motion depiction, not attracting to all the social lessons of all the races and...

These are true stories told to me by my best friend. Author: Ige HunterISBN-10: 1546223886ISBN-13: 9781546223887Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/12/2018Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Eleven Fourths is the story of Oren, as told in his own words, about struggles and trauma he has endured, as well as his adventures. Eleven Fourths is the empathic tale, written by Orens mom, as Oren would tell it if he were able....

A twelve-and-a-half-year-old boy who is impoverished and abused has an amazing change in his life after he decides to help a discharged Canadian alcoholic war veteran survive for a few cold months from October to December 1945. The veteran is killed when he is...

Poet Kay Jacobs began writing in middle school to deal with the frustrations and challenges of being a teenage girl. And Jacobs continued to write. In Within Shades of Mahogani, she offers a collection of her work that she has penned throughout the years....

My name is Veronica Vulpine. I wish that I could say that I had a really exciting life being an extra in Miami Vice or involved in a witchcraft covenant, but I am just me, living on a lonely mountainside. I have suffered through...

The author wrote this book in the hope that she would inspire others by her story.Author: Mary L. BurchISBN-10: 1546214097ISBN-13: 9781546214090Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2017Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

This is a true life story of Alvin Wrights life, from beginning to current day as we know it.Author: Alvin WrightISBN-10: 1546211977ISBN-13: 9781546211976Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2018Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.14d

Abuse for Use is a story of a teenage girl given in marriage and sent to America fulfilling her parents', and not hers, American dream for a desired comfort level in home life. She almost lands up in a shelter home because of abuse...

Preston Jones was just five years old when his mother showed him a metal box tucked away in their basement. Fueled by curiosity, little Preston secretly opened the box one day. Inside was stacks of money and two envelopes. After he opened the envelopes...

I am from the hood that is a part of America. I had my fair share of trouble in this country as I grew from my youth. I wanted secrets I couldn't explain. I told myself things I didn't know where from. God is...

This book is about giving parents some hope to cope with losing a child and how to have faith and strength and encouragement.Author: Loretta CroomISBN-10: 1546203656ISBN-13: 9781546203650Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2017Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d

This is one of the saddest stories of WWII. It is the tale of a man who loved military and excelled at every turn; one who gave every ounce of physical, mental and spiritual energy to serve his country. But the fortunes of war...

Like my life itself, this book is dedicated to God my Father and your Father, my Lord and your Lord, and the wonderful and powerful Holy Spirit, my comforter and your comforter! People in my life, in particular Binh Le Hunt and Elizabeth Ann...

What Others Don't Know is an Autobiography of how, Jones, a young native of Boston, Mass has gone through and overcame a variety of rough times that presented themselves in his life. In this true story, he explains some events that happened and how...

Life has taught me many tough and, at times, exciting lessons. In this diary, one of those lessons was being detained while awaiting trial. I wrote down every event that took place, from the food that I ate to the conditions I had to...

This book was inspired by real-life events experienced by one young widow from Southern Africa, who at the age of thirty lost her husband. She felt as though she had been abandoned by the wayside holding three young children. She had no tangible support...

This book is the story of my life. It is a story of recovery, a journey of ups and downs, and a declaration of truth. It aims to serve as a testament of how I have been a living proof that whatever life throws...

I don't remember the circumstances that led to this. But my mother pushed me and pressed me against her legs. As I fought go get away from that pressure, she made it even more painful. She sat me on her feet and lifted my...

Living with dyslexia has been an uphill struggle, from the day I started school until the day I left to go to work and even after going to work, where I found that there where bullies in the workplace where they thought it was...

This engrossing anthology, ranging from unrequited love to the big bang and quantum mechanics, promises something to get lost in and remember. Alex still continues to find fulfillment with family and life, devoted to children patients, traveling, playing golf, singing, dancing, and doing civic...

Crazy Is Forever Following Me is the true story of one woman who picked up and moved her life (literally) to the other side of the world for four years. Some of her life and the adventures she encountered are shared in her first...

Fred F. Maphis was born In Germany during World War II. His father was in the German Submarine force, was missing in action, and presumed dead. During the American occupation of Germany Fred's mother meet and fell in love with his step father, a...

Kasia, My Mother & her American Dream is the story of my mother and her incredible life. All her childhood and her early adulthood life she was dreaming about America. Her strong dream became reality. She came to this beautiful country in 1974. There...

This book is about twenty years of having a spiritualist guidance, a lifetime of accomplishments and thoughts on a spiritual power with physical nature implications.Author: Maurice N. Karkar Ph. D.ISBN-10: 1543463339ISBN-13: 9781543463330Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2017Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

My Mayor is a book that was inspired by Ochitti's experience during campaigns for the position of mayor of Wipolo Municipal Council as a member of the opposition party--the Alternative Forum Party (TAF).This campaigns were in Wipolo District in the months of September,2015, to...

My life is filled with interesting stories from first grade all the way to present-day 2017--like how I lived with twenty-twenty vision until I was seventeen and that age I was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration also known as Stargardt. I write about the...

Elder Martha Z. Garkpi was born on December 15, 1949, in Zia, Lower Nimba County, Liberia. She was known to be a major pillar in every community in which she lived. She was very skilled and had many trades and titles to prove it....

Shorties is a collection of stories about things that have happened to me and to people close to me over the course of my life. These stories aren't earth-shattering or shocking. They are about everyday experiences that can take on greater meaning when they...

Will my bed accommodate their love for schnitzel? I discover later that fourteen pancakes are not enough for my German friends. One roll of toilet paper for two people should last two to three days. I am wrong. I left the plastic mouse in...

This is a story about a former US marine returning to the continent of Asia for a third time.Gracefully, on his third tour to the largest area on Earth, he traveled alone without the thousand plus men of the strong infantry battalion of 3/5....

When the American Civil War began, it was quite possible that the only experience Jabez and William Challacombe had with horses was walking behind one as it pulled a plow. Certainly, Northern boys didn't have the same equestrian tradition as Southern boys. They hadn't...

While characters like James Bond (Bond 007) get all the notoriety in films and books, others like our protagonist, Shelly Cohen, do the everyday nuts-and-bolts work of the spy business. Join our hero as he shares his adventures with you. There's no fanfare for...

If you wanna know about me, then read the book!Author: M. O. MerlinISBN-10: 1543449506ISBN-13: 9781543449501Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2017Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d

War crimes do not end with the war. Revisit this riveting memoir as told by a Croatian immigrant, whose family became unwitting actors in the cruel theater of a postwar Europe, and how they survived to tell their story.In this compelling frame story, the...

War crimes do not end with the war. Revisit this riveting memoir as told by a Croatian immigrant, whose family became unwitting actors in the cruel theater of a postwar Europe, and how they survived to tell their story.In this compelling frame story, the...

No time in my life had ever been good within the time I had spent on this earth at the age of ten, except for when I lived with my grandmother in a west African county called Liberia. You see, my parents had me...

As my life carries on through my thirties, I still sit and ponder the true meaning of life. --Does anyone fully understand? --Is life a statement, question, or exclamation? --Does life contain the answers? --Will life give the simple mind clarity? As confused and...

The aftermath of murder would continue to baffle me at some times and bring me to the depths of pain at other times over the years. I had to deal with distance in the family, divorce, and the loss of friendships, where people drifted...

No one chooses to live a life of poverty. Jose Daniel was born into poverty. His childhood was faced with overwhelming challenges that the affluent children in his neighbourhood never had to confront. His mother was never around, and his father was a habitual...

I have started the book with a compilation of several short stories. The reader will be taken through my early childhood years up to my adult life. I will be writing about the aforementioned material, such as the psychological and physical effects of drug...

This is a story of a young boy growing up in West Dallas. My parents, Jack and Robbie, had eleven kids. We grew up just as poor as the rest of the people in West Dallas. In 1956, we lived in a two-bedroom house,...

From "Brooklyn to Burbank" is the story of a man born during the great depression of the 1930s. His thirst for knowledge and his tenacity took him from his birthplace to the pinnacles of success in television production in Hollywood. Although his main focus...