Biography & Autobiography - General

During what came to be called "The Great Depression", families struggled to make ends meet. In 1933 at the depth of the Depression, 16 million people - one third of the labor force - were unemployed. In January 1934 while sixteen years old, I...

In this book, David Donovan presents examples of the many types of assignments that local "beat cops" handle. From death investigations to missing persons, from traffic collisions to dealing with the mentally ill, Donovan supplies a sampler of cops' interaction with the public. From...

This is a story about incest, child molestation, rape, suicide, bullying, physical abuse, murder, and multiple pedophiles and ghosts. Pedophiles, rapists, and murderers have been around since the beginning of time. Author: Princess Pretty EyesISBN-10: 1524575925ISBN-13: 9781524575922Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2017Pages: 372Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h...

Author: David CannonISBN-10: 1524564346ISBN-13: 9781524564346Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2016Pages: 282Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

The Presidents' Escort: The Joseph Browning Corbin Story is an adventure-packed journey through time from Corbin's early life in the Shenandoah Mountains during Prohibition and into the farmlands of Culpepper County, Virginia. The true story spins the reader through a tornado that leaves the...

The Joy of living on Planet Earth traces the life of Edward C. Woerz. Born in 1924, Edward spent his formative years in Hollywood, California. Raised in a hardworking family, Edward lost his little sister at an early age and his father a shortly...

Each chapter begins with noted scripture verses to read from the Bible in relation to the context of each chapter. The following is a true story, as narrated through the eyes of a black English Labrador retriever named Chert whose purpose is revealed in...

Richard O. Rafanovic was born and lived throughout his youth in a country that was occupied by Hitler's military, then the Russians, and finally, the Communist government of his country. His quest for liberty inspired him to find freedom, which led to his crossing...

Author: Chuck and Marion SokolowskiISBN-10: 1524548111ISBN-13: 9781524548117Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2016Pages: 156Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Charles Ray TottyISBN-10: 1524538019ISBN-13: 9781524538019Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2016Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Joseph F. MaraglinoISBN-10: 1524534153ISBN-13: 9781524534158Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2016Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Richard T. ChengISBN-10: 1524535397ISBN-13: 9781524535391Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2016Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

From life in Malta in the nineteen thirties, when Britannia ruled the waves and her father was part of the Grand Fleet, Joan describes the start of World War II and life in an English village under the threat of invasion. But memories of...

Don Tweedie, Fighting Bandsman's Last Stand is a story of courage, determination, heroism, faith, love, and mateship throughout World War II. Don Tweedie's last stand against the Japanese was in 1942 at Holland Hill, Singapore where he was severely wounded. Most stories that have...

This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II. Their stories relate how they came to live on virtually virgin land and lived in tents and sheds with no electricity and no running...

This is the story of a boy, who on becoming a man was very mixed up after having been adopted as a teenager. He was brought up with love and care during World War 11 in a life that could be thought of as...

From life in Malta in the nineteen thirties, when Britannia ruled the waves and her father was part of the Grand Fleet, Joan describes the start of World War II and life in an English village under the threat of invasion. But memories of...

Both genetic and environmental factors play important roles in one's life. Genetics remains a fixed entity, whereas environment is a variable. Environmental experiences in life can have a positive or negative influence upon the genetic makeup of a given individual. Decision-making in the preschool...

Author: Jarvis DoctorowISBN-10: 1524509663ISBN-13: 9781524509668Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2016Pages: 172Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

The book Why Did You Come If You Leave Again? is an ethnographer's personal account of the five years he spent in one of the remotest parts of Africa. In the author's comprehensive monograph (eight volumes published by Schwabe) about the Anyuak, a little-known...

This work covers over 1300 families stretching back to 1066 where possible.Colonists with traced roots back to Europe: GEORGE ABBOTT, MARGERIE (MARGERY) ARSCOTT, CAPTAIN MICHAEL BACON, SARAH BALDWIN, SYLVESTER BALDWIN, AUDREY BARLOW, ELEANOR EMERY, PILGRIM EDWARD FULLER, EDWARD FITZ RANDOLPH, ENSIGN EDMOND HAWES, ROSAMOND...

A clear and measured account of Richard II and the political instability that marked the late fourteenth-century English monarchy. In this volume from Jacob Abbott's Makers of History series, the life and reign of Richard II are presented with particular attention to the tensions...

Author: Michael I. Edem CMISBN-10: 1514486059ISBN-13: 9781514486054Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2016Pages: 798Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.76d

Author: Paula Marie BeardISBN-10: 1514491826ISBN-13: 9781514491829Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2016Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

KILLING our beloved AMERICA reveals the ugly truth behind present-day deceptions. As an elected official, the author was privileged to confidential leaks by insiders such as how President Obama resisted Operation Geronimo to get bin Laden. - Discover the heroes of this mission shouting...

To a woman who stood by her moral convictions, values, and keeping her family together after going through so many downfalls in life and raising six children during difficult times. We call it the rough side of the mountain top. We came a mighty...

Author: Marion PalmISBN-10: 1514478579ISBN-13: 9781514478578Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2016Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Author: Mba Mabs JamesISBN-10: 1514476738ISBN-13: 9781514476734Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2016Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Author: Prof Mushtaq AhmadISBN-10: 1514474808ISBN-13: 9781514474808Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2017Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

The book begins with the turmoil plaguing her family and relations in the Ukraine before and post-WWI, progressing into the chaos of four years of the Russian Civil War. Maria is born in a small village with the country under communist control. As a...

Author: Larry Dale FernattISBN-10: 1514457776ISBN-13: 9781514457771Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2016Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 04/25/2016

Author: Liz CollettISBN-10: 151444691XISBN-13: 9781514446911Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2016Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

Author: Peter LeisISBN-10: 1514446324ISBN-13: 9781514446324Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2016Pages: 394Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Turiya S. a. RaheemISBN-10: 1514439484ISBN-13: 9781514439487Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2016Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Rosetta DixsonISBN-10: 1514437791ISBN-13: 9781514437797Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2016Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Author: William B. AbbottISBN-10: 1514410702ISBN-13: 9781514410707Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2015Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

Author: Ashley LewisISBN-10: 1514417766ISBN-13: 9781514417768Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2015Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

As a young man, Jerry Fitch made some less than desirable choices-choices that could have led him to jail or an early grave. Jerry, however, managed to avoid that route and instead battled through life's difficulties-eventually becoming a respected family man who served in...

Join Kim on this fantastic exploration which she still feels was so real. This book delves into the scary and chilling details of that fateful day of August 29, 2005 when in a blink of Katrina's eye, her world and life as she knew...

UNSTOPPABLE. IMMOVABLE. UNSHAKABLE.These excerpts will empower, encourage and influence you to stand firm, be brave and stay strong. God is in control. You will break through every circumstance no matter the situation.Author: Golda HawthorneISBN-10: 1512791652ISBN-13: 9781512791655Publisher: WestBow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2017Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h...

The book is essentially a personal memoir, telling true stories from the author's life, with the purpose in mind that the account of his struggles with cerebral palsy will serve as an inspiration to the reader. Not only that, the greater purpose of the...

Back in the 1970s on the poverty stricken streets of the Bronx, New York, amongst the African-American community there was a rise in the popularity of the 'block party'. People like the Ghetto Brothers would plug their amps between the lamp posts. These parties...

This hybrid literary project combines autobiographical with philosophical material in such a way as to harmonize with the author's customary approach to anything remotely resembling an autobiography which, as on previous occasions, could not materialize were it not for his ongoing or, in this...

Why am I writing this book? So much has been written about Joe's life in the music world but nobody has written about the other side of Joe. From a strange beginning we became good friends and I like to think that I, together...

The book seeks to tell a very truthful story of my own life as a boy and up to the age of 16 years old, this is only part one of a two part book, the second part tells of my life from the...

"Padmashree" is about a woman from Garhwal, a village at the base of the Himalayan Mountains. She faced many challenges from her childhood. In want of a normal life of a simple girl, she encounters an unpredicted incident that ultimately changes her life completely....

This story will take the reader into the spectacular adventure of an expat in South America who gets incarcerated in a drug conspiracy, where he was acting as a mule to carry drugs overseas in his luggage. The prison turns out to be hell,...

Set in an industrial, relatively poor district of North Staffordshire, "A Staffordshire Lad' is a sensitive, innocent and frank portrayal of an ordinary boy growing up during the Second World War in an ordinary family amongst ordinary people. There are no heroes. It is...

The book contains twenty stories of the author's experiences and other encounters as he travelled through Africa, Europe, and the United States of America. They chronicle events, observations, and various occurrences that travelers meet as they played out in his particular case. People who...

This is the story of his life (so far). This is a story of determination, dedication, and discipline. This is the story of Jim the Swim, OBE. He hopes you enjoy it.Author: James Anderson O. B. E.ISBN-10: 150499406XISBN-13: 9781504994064Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2015Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight:...