Biography & Autobiography - General

Author: Frederick WilliamsISBN-10: 1434344746ISBN-13: 9781434344748Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2007Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34d

The lure of India pervades this book, as do the charms of Seil Island and Scotland's Western Seaboard. There are tales of modest adventure and mild disipation, but the author also makes an attempt to examine the evolution of those seemingly incomparable regions during...

Discovering Vera is about the dynamics of communist disintegration in Eastern Europe as witnessed by a remarkable little girl and strikingly beautiful young woman. It is about the fate of a father, who, chased both by the Reds and the Whites, eventually went mad...

Author: Vernon L. LawsonISBN-10: 1434342964ISBN-13: 9781434342966Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2008Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

This book is about a musician and entertainer of the fifties and the many things he was involved in throughout his musical career. You will laugh, cry, and ooh and aah at the things he has to say concerning his involvement with other people,...

Adventures of a (Mostly) First Class Guy: A Chronicle follows a wistful East Texas boy's coming of age and the journeys and adventures that Life brought to him. From Europe to the Far East, from Canada to Mexico and places in between, the writer...

Death March to Buchenwald is a gripping memoir of a young man's journey through the German concentration camps of WWII. Jochanan's fiancée, Nitzah, escapes the ghetto, and hides in the labor camp to which he has been deported. Somehow, from within the camp, he...

My name is Josephine MacDonald and I was born in Lennoxtown in Scotland in 1960. I was raised by my mum and dad in Glasgow, and studied at All Saints Secondary School, were I attained seven O'Levels. At the tender age of fourteen, I...

During the Second World War Britain was so short of vital coal supplies and coal miners that the authorities offered ex miners in the armed forces the opportunity to return to mining. This offer was a failure, so conscription was introduced. At 18, fit...

Life has always been a mystery to me. I believe God intends it to be so. See section on Religion. I was born in the UK and grew up there. At 18 I volunteered for and flew with the RAF on Bombers during World...

THIS BOOK REPRESENTS BOTH BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE. FOR THOSE NON-BELIEVERS, WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED READING THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AT YOUR OWN LIFE AND SEE GOOD AND BAD THINGS WHICH HAVE HAPPENED IN...

Just a Girl, Lily Wilson was an average twenty three year old living the high life with shopping sprees, credit cards, partying and plenty of bad choices.. working, single and a full time dreamer but no one could have imagined the whirl wind that...

Simple Solutions: For Planet Earth is a scientific book written in a popular style for the average reader. You have read about Peak Oil and Global Climate Warming, and complained about $3.50/gallon gasoline, but how really serious are these headlines and annoyances? The author...

HE LAY IN A COMA. I STARTED MY BEDSIDE VIGIL. THIS IS NOT A STORY OF DOOM AND GLOOM BUT OF TRIUMPH. THERE ARE FLASHBACKS. PLACES WE VISITED TO HELP HIS MEMORY NEW CHALLENGES. IN FACT. WE PLAYED THE WAITING GAME AS A TEAM...

An entertaining, irreverent and erudite romp through 60 years lived to the full by ex-millionaire, (to be again), businessman, writer, actor, sailor, teacher, consultant, entrepreneur, traveller and lover, Howard Ingram Cant; a descendent of Immanual Kant (but not as philosophically inclined), as he takes...

This is my story of my childhood living in Jersey with Portuguese parents. This is when life was simple and everyday was an adventure - children went outside to play. Remember Chopper bikes, Two Balla, Bazooka Bubble Gum and the Jackie Magazine? I just...

A heart wrenching true story. Donna met and fell in love with HIM at the age of 17 years old little did she know that the next 22 years of her life would lead her through some of the most abusive situations she could...

The Dust Busting Chronicles: Cleaning My Way Through Ovarian Cancer details the horrific and life-altering battle against ovarian cancer during a harrowing 19-month period. The story relays the logistical challenges of a life-threatening disease, and explores poignant moments of hope, anger, frustration and defeat....

It is 1935 in Central Texas! Right in the middle of the Great Depression of the late 1920's and 30's, a young girl, her brother and sister, are working the fields on their family farm just to scratch out a meager living. But there...

Middleburg is a "coming of age" memoir recollecting the author's childhood experiences of growing up in a small town in apartheid South Africa. M. J. Poynter provides a scathing attack of the apartheid regime as seen from the perspective of an English immigrant who...

A Journey of Faith, Hope and Discovery! If you could meet me today, you would see a bright, confident woman, happy relaxed; content with my situation, looking forward to a future of better things. However, it wasn't always like that. When my husband left...

Harry Newman is a retired cantor with thirty-four years of spiritual leadership in two Southern California congregations. In 1990 he was cited an Exemplary Teacher by the Orange County Bureau of Jewish Education. Cantor Newman's many years of teaching both children and adults have...

CAPERS OF A MEDIC was meant to be a life story to demonstrate some of the contributions of blacks to help preserve the freedoms of America during World War II. The intent has been to report truth of events, but to avoid boredom by...

This book is a true story about a little girl who has over come every negative obstical which have been thrown her way. From being sexually molested / sadomized, to constantly being beaten up and picked on by an uncle 8 years her senior....

The story is based on my life in Institutions in Ireland in the 1930s and '40s, and my subsequent disposal (their word) to a strange woman who took me to an even stranger outside world. As a seventeen-year-old, free for the first time I...

The idea of writing a book, was in my mind for a long time. To realize it into print I needed a better time and opportunity. To say the truth, in the monastery where I used to live, I wouldn't express myself in writing...

The Dust Busting Chronicles: Cleaning My Way Through Ovarian Cancer details the horrific and life-altering battle against ovarian cancer during a harrowing 19-month period. The story relays the logistical challenges of a life-threatening disease, and explores poignant moments of hope, anger, frustration and defeat....

Living in the Five-Sense World is a true story about one man's journey in search of discovering his own personal truth, measured by his own personal standards. Being a warrior by nature makes this man's quest for peacefulness a difficult task. His ridged belief...

Author: David A. KerinsISBN-10: 1434307328ISBN-13: 9781434307323Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2007Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

THIS IS A COMEPLETELY HONEST ACCOUNT OF HOW ONE MAN BATTLED TO OVERCOME ILL HEALTH AND STILL MANAGED TO LIVE A LIFE OF ADVENTURE AND EXCITEMENT. PATRICK DALY STRUGGLED WITH BAD HEALTH SINCE CHILDHOOD AND, DESPITE THESE DISABILITIES, COMPETED IN MARATHONS ACROSS THE GLOBE....

Growing up in Southern California during the Depression within a dysfunctional family controlled by a domineering stepfather was difficult. Here are a few topics: 1. George often bragged: "I got my first piece of ass when I was ten." 2. Mom thought that it...

If you are someone looking to break into the modeling industry just starting out or in the middle of your modeling school classes this is a book for you. Especially if you live in a small town where there are no modeling agencies in...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""Fatalism in the Works of Thomas Hardy"" is a literary analysis of the themes of fate and determinism in the works of English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Written by Albert Elliott, the book explores how Hardy's characters are often trapped in a predetermined...

""A Study of the Clausulae in the Works of St. Ambrose"" by M. Rosella Delaney is a scholarly work that examines the use of clausulae, or rhetorical devices, in the writings of St. Ambrose, a prominent Christian theologian and bishop of Milan in the...

Racial And National Types In The Works Of Joseph Conrad is a book written by Rupert Esmond Clark that explores the portrayal of different races and nationalities in the works of Joseph Conrad, a famous Polish-British writer. The book analyzes Conrad's novels and short...

Alexander Hamilton: The Little Lion of the Treasury by Clifford Smyth is a biography that tells the story of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was born in the Caribbean and faced many challenges in his early life, including poverty and the...

Edmund Yates V1: His Recollections And Experiences is a memoir written by Edmund Hodgson Yates, a British journalist, novelist, and playwright. The book is the first volume of Yates' autobiography and covers his early life, career, and personal experiences up until the mid-1860s.Yates was...

""A Defense of Edgar Allan Poe: Life, Character and Dying Declarations of the Poet"" is a book written by John J. Moran. The book is a comprehensive analysis and defense of the life, character, and work of the famous American poet, Edgar Allan Poe....

A Woman's Trip To Alaska: Being An Account Of A Voyage Through The Inland Seas Of The Sitkan Archipelago In 1890 is a book written by Septima M. Collis. The book is a memoir of the author's journey to Alaska in the year 1890....

""Reynard The Fox In South Africa Or, Hottentot Fables And Tales"" is a book written by W. H. I. Bleek. The book is a collection of fables and tales from the Hottentot culture in South Africa, featuring the character of Reynard the Fox. The...

The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey is a collection of poetry by Alex Posey, a Creek Indian poet. The book features a comprehensive selection of the poet's work, including his most famous pieces, as well as lesser-known works. Posey's poetry explores themes of identity,...

A visit to the Tower almost certainly meant a death sentence. After the two Princes were confined to the Tower, they were never seen again. There were many theories as to what had happened to them; that they had drowned, been poisoned, or possibly...

India has made major advances in science and technology in the last five decades -- from nuclear plants to the software revolution-- which have provided the foundation of its economic development. One of these advances was in offshore oil technology. This book provides an...

Tattered Essence is an honest account of a life lived in constant turmoil. It exposes a child's inner pain while coping with abandonment and violence all around her. A world of drugs, alcohol, and self mutilation swept her away at the tender age of...

Learn everything you need to know about farming, fixing airplanes, starting a business, flying big airplanes, properly appreciating music, and other essential information that they don't teach you in school. Sort of. Well, most everything, anyway. OK, at the least you'll get a laugh...

The discovery of a hidden diary containing mysterious sketches leads to a personal and intriguing journey through the Saar Valley, London, New York and Israel. As a clinical psychologist and child of Holocaust Survivors, Dr.Wolgroch provides essential reading for the Second Generation and readers...

Shrouded in secrecy, the military conducted de-conditioning experiments on soldiers during the 1970's. Harvard psychologist Isaac Renfield was hired to "re-condition" these individuals who had mysteriously lost all social conditioning. After a few short months of this work, Renfield mysteriously vanished from the military...

"My First Year In Purgatory" is a memoir with illustrations, about my adventures and insights as a Gen Xer teaching in a crumbling inner city school district. In it, I lead two semi-functional lives: embattled educator by day -whose students make Damien from the...

In this first person account of bipolar disorder, Michael Lukas tells the story of discovering his illness as he finds himself transformed from high school valedictorian to correctional facility inmate over the course of a summer. The changes begin with an unexpected and deep...