Biography & Autobiography - General

Meredith: The Family I Once Had follows the exploits and struggles of Meredith, a girl living at the foothills of northwestern North Carolina under the shadow of the Great Depression. As social unrest and economic failures spread around her, she easily gets worried about...

Author: Richard D. ChurchISBN-10: 1436330645ISBN-13: 9781436330640Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2008Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Know a little more about Wall Street as Otto Theurkauf's shares his fifty-year experience with Scudder, Stevens & Clark. This period yielded victories and defeats - and he has some fun and useful things to share about how the stock market works. Along the...

Author: Susannah D. McCallumISBN-10: 1436327083ISBN-13: 9781436327084Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2008Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Author: Chuck BlackburnISBN-10: 1436322898ISBN-13: 9781436322898Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2008Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Author: Greta W. StantonISBN-10: 1436321840ISBN-13: 9781436321846Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2009Pages: 396Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Fred ''Max'' RobertsISBN-10: 1436316324ISBN-13: 9781436316323Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2008Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Author: Marlyna O. SevillaISBN-10: 1436310407ISBN-13: 9781436310406Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2008Pages: 396Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and VooDoo, is the true to life story of the Jackson family, growing up in Memphis, TN during the 60 s and the 70 s. Their lives were just as turbulent as the turmoil during the Civil Right s movement. The main...

Author: Eugene CowlesISBN-10: 1436306582ISBN-13: 9781436306584Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/2008Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Author: Clara SnookISBN-10: 1436303761ISBN-13: 9781436303767Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2008Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author Carrie Brinks was a young and severely abused wife. But was she guilty of hiring hit men to kill her husband? My Father, an inspirational autobiography tells the real story behind one of the most highly publicized trials of 1979. This riveting drama...

It was sometime in the summer of 1987 when the bug bit. "Let's buy a motorhome and go on an adventure," said one spouse. "Are you nuts," replied the other, "I like my roots right here where my friends are."Author: Al AllawayISBN-10: 143579057XISBN-13: 9781435790575Publisher:...

Danny Blue grew up the last of 11 kids. With no father, a mother that worked many jobs and living one block from the center of drug activity in Fairmont, NC, it wasn't long before he was neck deep in the drug trade. But...

Love, which is life's greatest weapon, life's greatest tool, inspired me to do the biggest thing I've ever done. I wrote this book as a token of appreciation for a sick friend who was more than just someone I loved. Either diabetes will take...

Aunt Fussy started her restaurant by Golden, Colorado, in 1927 with two boxcars and builds it into a lovely country estate with a reputation for fine dining. Twenty years later young Tommy comes to help his grandma run the restaurant and finds joy in...

The Absentee Ballot is the story of my four-year journey into a liberal inferno. I had been on many unforgettable Italian vacations saturated with history, art and the world's finest cuisine, but I was left unprepared for what turned out to be a life's...

THE WINDOW is an extraordinary work which includes in itself the book of the author the book of the main female character and the book of the reader. Each left page which is blank provides free space for the reader to describe their spontaneous...

Beneath the endlessly buoyant exterior of the sports journalist laid a young man combing the professional landscape in search of his niche. Don Ladas's radio expertise in 1954 was limited to that of knowing how to turn one on and off. But when a...

Bang, crash, hurry up, F***! Heat and sweat, burning pots, bloody hell! Wake up, shut up and run, don't look back. "Check on" table 10, table 2, table 7. Main courses for table 15, starters for table 5. -They have been waiting now for...

Author: Wallace J. GordonISBN-10: 1434391949ISBN-13: 9781434391940Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2009Pages: 504Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d

This fascinating and compulsive read takes you through the life and times of a Twentieth Century man who endured and survived four years of captivity as a Second World War P.O.W. Marched all over Europe and succeeding in escaping three times.The courage and grit...

MAPLE GROVE THE 60s is about some experiences in 4-H, middle school, high School, the guard and a few places I worked in the 1960's. Also are some thoughts on driving cars, shooting guns, riding cycles and being a teenager. The book is a...

A little book with some big laughs. Some stories from my life working playing and travellingAuthor: Bob WintISBN-10: 1434386708ISBN-13: 9781434386700Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2008Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d

John Barry, an Irish immigrant to Philadelphia in 1760, commenced a naval career that included being victorious in thirty naval engagements verses the British. Captain Barry was credited with the first capture of a British warship. He was wounded in a ferocious sea battle,...

My father, Per, came to the United States during the potato famine and depression in Shilafors, Sweden at the age of 18. Alfred Rosenquist, his future father-in-law, sponsored him to come to the United States to help on the Rosenquist family farm west of...

"Rooms to let - No Niggers, No Irish and No dogs" This sign, openly displayed in England in the 1950's, symbolises a time associated with overt racism and discrimination. It was during this period, that Betty Jones, a twenty year old white English woman...

I wrote this Story to give people an unusual glimpse of the person Jesus. Much has been written about him, but, it seems to me, most views of Jesus, including the "historical Jesus" are through a prism of Creedal concepts (divinity/atonement) which obscure the...

Born on the Caribbean Island of Barbados, the Author for thirty-plus years, made an eventful journey through the corporate world of work.This is his story. LIMITED SKIES presents a hitherto unrevealed perspective of work life, culture and systems in several organizations as seen from...

The exhausted Union cavalry company under the command of Col. Philip Creighton arrives at Howard Hill plantation where they find five frightened women living alone. Philip informs Caroline Howard, the widowed mistress of the plantation, that they are confiscating her home for a few...

"From barren rocks ... to living stones" is a concise and incident packed memoir that covers an eighteen month period in the teenage life of the author in the nineteen sixties. It is seen originally from a young person's perspective; and, as the writer...

People live at least two lives; the one in front of the family and the one outside of that. Now I can say that my more dominant personality is the only life. As a professional, it makes me feel good to know that people...

This fifty-year history of South Church offers us some wisdom. The story of South Church is the story of community. Real people of considerable depth share their lives and their work in the pages of this history. All of the complexity of life is...

Neither rain, sleet, nor hail or the dark of night shall detain this couier from his swift completion of his appointed route.The swift footed Persian messengers of centuries ago ran to the beat of this mythical quotation. This measureless treasure of postal acclaim was...

I sat at my great- grandmother's kitchen table, helping her prepare for our 69th annual family reunion. Lots of relatives were traveling from all over the country to visit Mama Cora in Atlanta, yet I was the first great- grand- daughter to fly from...

"Marry him and you'll be sure of wine for life!" So said a friend of the author's fiancé in 1948. Now he and his wife are in their 60th year of marriage and are heading for their Diamond Wedding celebration. This fascinating book illustrates...

Author: John VintISBN-10: 1434371166ISBN-13: 9781434371164Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2008Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.49d

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I want to thank Jane Bounds who was the publisher/editor of the Rockwall Success and was brave enough to publish my articles about cooking. Then, there was Mary Cecil who also printed articles about My Aunt Eunice when she was editor of the...

GETTING IT WRONG provides unique and critical reportage of events in Cyprus in early 1964. Circulation of an original report by Packard, commissioned by the CRO in 1964, was embargoed by Whitehall, which also rejected a UN request for a copy. Why was the...

"Renee" is a narrative of the career of Academy Award-winning actress Renee Zellweger. The book chronicles Renee's rapid rise to the top of Hollywood, recounting the story of her film career with precise details. In a nutshell, "Renee" describes the fascinating process by which...

Author: Rob WonderlingISBN-10: 1434366952ISBN-13: 9781434366955Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2008Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d

How do ordinary citizens survive the devastation of war when it arrives on their own soil? These are the true stories of three women whose destiny was changed forever when their lives and homelands were shattered by invasion. MARYSIA'S JOURNEY begins with her deportation...

Stuart brings his story to the present time in his final book of this trilogy.a time when little girls wore dresses and hats to church, the United States was experiencing growing pains of its own and history, culture, and technology were evolving into what...

For its author the real reason for this full to the brim autobiography stretches back through the decades to one specially remembered day in his young teenage years when he was persuaded to appear in a bible class presentation of a St Francis of...

These are the true life stories of the men and woman I have associated with in my twenty year career as a Paramedic. While reading this book, you will get to feel and understand some of the pressures of working the street. The Streets...

This book carries on from my last autobiography 'Married to the Vent'. It continues the story of my day to day life, the struggles that I have faced and overcome and the struggles I am still dealing with. No matter what life has thrown...

The challenges we face in life whether it is to cope with supporting yourself or your family would always endure a sense of doubt. No one is sure about the consequences of their decision. The moment we experience a problem or a situation, we...

This book will give you the truth about how hard life is when you become a young mum. When growing up I never would of thought that my life would of took me down the path that it did. In this book you will...

Author: Philip James ConleyISBN-10: 1434352803ISBN-13: 9781434352804Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2008Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d

I chose to write this particular book, mainly to prove something to myself and other people just how a person such as myself can progress in their lives. After surviving both physical and sexual abuse in my past from a family member. Having to...