Biography & Autobiography - General

Our past is precious as it has made us who we are today. Our choices might not have been correct but they were right at the time. I have pulled back the curtain of time and invite you to walk with me, through the...

This book contains a collection of transcripts of podcasts I've recorded during the Covid lockdown period. It's a collection of stories I've written, recounts of my travels and other life's experiences, science topics that I find interesting, and the occasional opinion about the state...

A memoir of childhood in the 1920s and 30s, in a family living on the edge of Sheffield. An extended family live in a small house, dominated by a Methodist grandmother.Author: Joyce KitchingISBN-10: 1470972085ISBN-13: 9781470972080Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2012Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w...

The book is a collection of short stories about what it was really like to live in Moscow, USSR in the mid-1980s. The focus is on different aspects of everyday life, such as shopping, reading books and newspapers, going to work, church, cinema, watching...

Author Malcolm Snook has been a climber and explorer, full time skydiving instructor, car and motorcycle racer, business owner, swing dancer, actor and long distance sailor.This is a book with something for everyone. The new extended edition is brought up to date and includes...

A civilian internee of World War II, a fugitive in Rome from 1941-44, a partisan, and a member of Tito's Yugoslav army, the author fought against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. After the war, as a foreign editor of the Belgrade daily, Borba, he...

This is a grandmother's chat to her grandchildren. It is both historical and biographical. It is historical in following early settlers into good times and then through The Great Depression, World War 11 and building the foundation of the 21st Century. It is biographical...

Author: D. A. BrooksISBN-10: 146919967XISBN-13: 9781469199672Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

Author: Earle WilliamsISBN-10: 1469190370ISBN-13: 9781469190372Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2012Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Wallace MaddingISBN-10: 1469180073ISBN-13: 9781469180076Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2012Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Melanie CoetzeeISBN-10: 1469176998ISBN-13: 9781469176994Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2012Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Melanie CoetzeeISBN-10: 146917698XISBN-13: 9781469176987Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2012Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Guy GauthierISBN-10: 1469167727ISBN-13: 9781469167725Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2012Pages: 198Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Few have encountered the rich tapestry of experiences that Ruiz has known. After he fulfilled His childhood dream of becoming an engineer he traveled a path that eventually led him to alleviating harsh conditions faced by third world countries that lacked infrastructure necessities such...

Author: Sharon GardinerISBN-10: 1469161206ISBN-13: 9781469161204Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2012Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 03/28/2012Foreword 11/28/2012

Author: Pierre L. Delva,Joan Campbell-DelvaISBN-10: 1469158795ISBN-13: 9781469158792Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2012Pages: 182Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Michael A. StraightISBN-10: 1469156121ISBN-13: 9781469156125Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2012Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d

Author: Ralph E. SimmonsISBN-10: 1469146762ISBN-13: 9781469146768Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2012Pages: 88Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Polly NdzotyanaISBN-10: 1469133733ISBN-13: 9781469133737Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2012Pages: 54Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Author: Robert K. JohnsISBN-10: 1469131285ISBN-13: 9781469131283Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d

Author: Melava Yugovich KingISBN-10: 146912548XISBN-13: 9781469125480Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2012Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Dolores W. MooreISBN-10: 1469126125ISBN-13: 9781469126128Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2012Pages: 150Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Selbourne Reid, the author of this book is a retired Detective Inspector of Police. He was a member of the Rifle Squad which travelled in front with Inspector Fisher who led the charge in the operation against the Rastafarians. He saw a man chopped...

The book, STAND UP !For What You Believe In, is about Ronald's childhood and his legacy in the SIT-IN MOVEMENTin Greensboro, North Carolina at the Woolworth Lunch Counter in 1968. Ronald, his cousin Mark Martin, and James Patterson all helped to make a difference...

Author: Lloyd DeitschISBN-10: 1468562347ISBN-13: 9781468562347Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2012Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

When we are faced with the unknown, we turn to others for help. Then we find ourselves on a journey of hard times. When we face those times with the right one, it gets easier. I faced that time, and learned what I needed...

Author: Donald G. BrooksISBN-10: 1468560700ISBN-13: 9781468560701Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2012Pages: 404Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Maria Kelmis was adopted from Greece at the age of fifteen months. She always knew she was adopted and considers it one of the best things that happened in her life. Golden Strangers is a story about a journey to find her biological mother...

Sixteen generations later, the same old winding roads and blazed trails throughout the three novels lead us all back home to nostalgic dishes and the worlds from which they came. Upon arrival at the old home place, we quickly find our favorite room: Mama's...

The Secrets of the Jack Pines is the amusing yet riveting true story of a Finnish-Canadian girl growing up on the outskirts of a small Northern Ontario town in the 1950's and 60's. Light-hearted, honest and forthcoming, the author recounts her adventures and the...

My book is a semi-autobiography about me, and the trials and tribulations that I had as a student with a learning disability, and my successes and failures. I hope to inspire, and make those that do have a learning disability realize that they can...

I used to sit on my mother's lap while she showed me the faded pictures in her old photo album. "That's me when I had beautiful long blond hair," she's say, or ""Look at that Homer! He was a bad one." Then, a far-away...

The author, Professor Z. V. Togan, staged a counterrevolution, who first interacted and bargained with Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and the rest of the Soviet and Bolshevik luminaries of his own time for Baskurdistan and Turkistan. It can be read profitably in the context of...

The writing in this book refers to a construction project that I was lucky enough to have being chosen to take part in on behalf of the British Antarctic Survey. The Project took place at Rothera Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, in the summer season...

These are selected steps on my journey through life. Although weights have been a major part of that journey, I have tried not to overburden my uninitiated reader with to many technicalities.Author: Eddie BennettISBN-10: 1467878022ISBN-13: 9781467878029Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2011Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h...

Through my ability to listen I constantly hear how middle class people are disgusted with our society and wonder where it all went wrong. This book takes you through my own life experiences and stories of frustration I have encountered along the way. I...

Mary Ayres, the manager of the South Campus Learning Resources Center (LRC), is retiring effective August 31, 2011, after serving Southern State Community College for thirty years. Known to her colleagues and friends as the "Queen," Mary came to Southern State in 1979 as...

Here are dreams and tales of trivial and great matters throughout all my life; of great figures of the past in literature, philosophy, politics, science, mathematics, art; of friends of my youth and of my broken heart; dreams of other worlds, other me's that...

Author: Pastor Demonn McNeillISBN-10: 146709496XISBN-13: 9781467094962Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

This is the author's true story. A heart warming love story with a very tragic end. The protagonist's life doesn't halt. It continues just like her spirit. That doesn't mean an end to the difficulties. How this tiny, emotional girl next door emerges against...

Some Nautical Tales covers the adventures and experiences of Captain Wilbur H. Vantine, as he worked his way up from Ordinary Seaman and sailed as Ship Master on tramo freighters in the United States Merchant Marine. Along the way he was able to "see...

Bang! I just cut the corner and ran right into this six foot blond guy. I was just about to say Watch where you are going! when I looked up and into the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen. I got a tingle...

Author: Jeanne FuchsISBN-10: 146703116XISBN-13: 9781467031165Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2011Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 11/05/2011

WHEN AFRICA CALLS, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ..... When eighteen-year-old Daisy Quarterman's longing for adventure and love of humanity lead her to volunteer as a Salvation Army missionary in South Africa in 1896, she has no way of knowing what lies ahead. Leaving her family...

"Qin Xiao-meng wrote the original manuscript in English"--Page vii.Author: Margaret Liu Wen Tsai,Xiao-Meng QinISBN-10: 1467024414ISBN-13: 9781467024419Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2012Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 05/27/2012Foreword 09/14/2012

God is doing a new thing in the earth, He is dramatically transforming the lives of people everywhere, and this book serves as an example and dedication to the new wave of glory that is coming upon the church in the last day. As...

How many times have you heard stories about close encounters, near death experiences and seemingly insurmountable needs met unexpectedly and from unfamiliar or unknown sources? You may have marveled and even wondered why you had not experienced such in your life. Well, you can!...

The authors: Gwen and Fred are two people from totally different backgrounds who eventually married and suffered amazing trials and tribulations at the hand of, let's say, less-than-honest members of the criminal justice community. Gwen was introduced to booze and was sexually abused from...

Reflections Reading Peter Tschetter's book Hutterite Life is a personal reminiscent collection of stories of a generation living during transition times to a more convenient way of living on the prairie of South Dakota. One can get a gimpse of the living conditions of...

This is the story of a young girl's life as she lives it in Judenburg, Austria, and how it differs so greatly from our own in America. From a war-torn Austria at the beginning of her life to her experiences growing up in Northern...