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This is a personal story, which tells of a quite different journey through the complex facets of my life in 'Education'. It recalls my childhood years in Infant, Junior and Secondary schools both during and immediately after the Second World War. It covers Grammar...

This book takes a brief and positive look at the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his dream and his vision and his struggle. It is a journey from a dark past to what he envisioned as a bright future. However, we seem to...

Naomi W. Zaslow arrived in Philadelphia from Canada as a toddler in the depths of the Depression. Her acting talents led to professional performances on stage and radio, and school life led to her love of writing. Hitler and World War II brought the...

This autobiography is about a member of the "greatest generation," a life that began during the First World War and experienced the Great Depression, World War II and the half century since. It is not strictly a chronology, but a telling of events selected...

This book is autobiographical in concept, as the author has had many experiences in life, in addition to his bouts with cancer and his subsequent survival. As the author brings his story to you in this book, his attempt is to present things in...

You and I are surrounded by stories. Wherever you live makes no difference. Things happen to you and to me and take on all aspects of living. Some are humorous; others can be sobering. Sometimes the event causes real thinking, and it is still...

In the spring of 1946, World War II was over, and returning veterans were beginning to rebuild their lives. Bill Terry's hitch in the Air Force was up, and as he was trying to figure out his future, along came the lovely Gladys Walland,...

This memoir takes you through the rookie years of being in uniform, patrolling the Ghetto on second shift, making some terrible mistakes-apprehending a felon and luckily coming out uninjured, then being placed in traffic enforcement detail where some lucky stops of vehicles came up...

Don't Look Back in Anger- Synopsis Preserved in it's original diary form, Don't Look Back in Anger is one woman's true account of her experience as a human shield in Saddam Hussein's desperate attempt's to avoid a military response to his invasion of Kuwait...

John Harvard's own tolerance for difference-in people, in ideas, in issues and situations-is very apparent in the way he lived his life and in the classical writers he chose to emulate and to admire the most. By the time he finished his studies at...

The first chapter introduces the author, Robert, with a vivid and amusing description of his stressful London life. Strong characterisation of the people he works with gets the book off to an immediately absorbing start. Working at all hours in a tiny jewellers for...

Herding caterpillars; raiding a neighbor's tall peach tree by means of stilts; constructing a fake "Loch Ness Monster" with canvas and a derelict canoe; machinations in a Pawn Shop to obtain the fur coat of a 'genuine' Eskimo Princess: or even adding paddling (with...

The book is about family life. It starts with the formation of a family unit soon after Virginia Starr graduates from Murphy High School. She was very young, only sixteen years old. She was more or less a camp follower during the first two...

Author: William Lowell PutnamISBN-10: 142591070XISBN-13: 9781425910709Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/09/2006Pages: 508Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

Author: Beth GuilesISBN-10: 1425920144ISBN-13: 9781425920142Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2006Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d

"Letters Of An Imprisoned Mobster" is a satire depicting the droll and macabre nature of an Irish-American mobster, poetically and savagely expressed in his prison correspondence to a host of foreboding, zany and hilarious characters. While doing hard time in Federal prison, Seamus "Red"...

Author: Catherine JenkinsISBN-10: 1425917410ISBN-13: 9781425917418Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2006Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

At the age of eighteen, Aaron Joseph Moore Stovall had begun his freshman year at Xavier University of Louisiana. He had attended a few days of classes in college when the natural disaster, hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. A few weeks prior to attending...

This book is about a 26 year old Manager of a Fitness Center, with two young sons, who was given "No Hope" of seeing 27, only a few months away! This was back on November 26, 1982. YES 1982. A Stage IV diagnosis: Seminoma,...

The book is written in three parts, with Appendices, Maps, References and Photos. The first is a story of myself and immediate family, and the role we played in Chinese history. The second covers my extended family, and friends who have lived equally interesting...

This is a story 'based on' the life of Doris Dixon who had a burning ambition to become a professional jazz singer during the 1930's. Doris came from a privileged English background and was highly educated with her parents expectations of her going into...

Author: Sarah MkhonzaISBN-10: 142579999XISBN-13: 9781425799991Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2009Pages: 180Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Betty Bill Gifford GiffordISBN-10: 1425796028ISBN-13: 9781425796020Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2008Pages: 120Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Eva May GreeleyISBN-10: 1425797938ISBN-13: 9781425797935Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2008Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Author: Col John H. Jr. RoushISBN-10: 1425797792ISBN-13: 9781425797799Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2009Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Stephen AugustusISBN-10: 1425786456ISBN-13: 9781425786458Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2009Pages: 476Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Author: Jerzy Glowczewski,Jerzy GowczewskiISBN-10: 1425782701ISBN-13: 9781425782702Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2007Pages: 454Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

"BOOK DESCRIPTION" In Ron Larry's own raw and unique streetwise style, this stimulating story draws the reader into a rather suspenseful anticipation. This fascinating "tell all book" reveals some rather frightful insights into some behind the scenes exploits of a drug-drenched life. It tells...

Author: R. Vogt Ph. D. Herbert R. Vogt Ph. D.,Herbert R. Vogt,Herbert R Vogt Ph DISBN-10: 1425779360ISBN-13: 9781425779368Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2009Pages: 396Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Helena F. PowellISBN-10: 1425778577ISBN-13: 9781425778576Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2007Pages: 156Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

"Rob Smith's candor about his life's journey provides the reader with keen insights that one should apply to their own life." -Col. Arnold Scheller, M.D. "This is an essential book for anyone who wants to pursue excellence in life." - Grand Master Joseph Esposito,...

The Statue of Liberty likeness illustrated on the cover of Enlightenment is a very symbolic image not only for Americans but for many other people of the world who harbor dreams for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." However, there are many individual...

Cancer and Me, I am forty- two years old when cancer became a permanent part of my own personal life. I have had lumps remove before they were not cancer. I knew what cancer can do to you, I experience that with my mothers'...

Author: Olga LehnerISBN-10: 1425770851ISBN-13: 9781425770853Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2009Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

This is a memoir of living and eating in England in the 1960s and 70s. It is the culinary recollections of Lucia Adams who accompanied her husband to the new Lancaster University located in a remote part of the British Isles at a turbulent...

Author: Bonifacio T. PunoISBN-10: 1425763200ISBN-13: 9781425763206Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2007Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

About this book-by Author Christopher A Thompson. Special Note to my dear readers: Making absolute difference to pave the way for a brighter future, has always been the vision of author Christopher A Thompson... From the secluded village of mountainous Saint Ann-a place where...

Author: Ezegiel KeochekianISBN-10: 142575807XISBN-13: 9781425758073Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2007Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

Author: SudestaISBN-10: 142575693XISBN-13: 9781425756932Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2008Pages: 212Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

This book is about going above-and-beyond for your boss, your employer, your employees and the public, your customer. This was the order of the day at the Clayton Solicitor General's Office. Although on any given day or moment we had to wear many hats...

Author: Midge SherwoodISBN-10: 142574401XISBN-13: 9781425744014Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2007Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d

Author: Robert Ayres CarterISBN-10: 1425748481ISBN-13: 9781425748487Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2007Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d

Author: Krystyna Ros SorellISBN-10: 1425744699ISBN-13: 9781425744694Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2010Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Vincent D. RiellyISBN-10: 1425735096ISBN-13: 9781425735098Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2007Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

This is true story of author's fifteen years of tribulation that was by-product of overzealous government agents and three craven men who rather sell out their friend than take punishment for their parsimony and slip-ups. The events leading to author's abrupt, astonishing, unwarranted and...

1960 - DESTINATION ISRAEL The story is an account of Elsa van der Laaken's journey from The Netherlands to Israel and her life in Israel from February 1960 until October 1962. An Israeli woman who studied in The Netherlands had invited her. At that...

An Inkwell of Pen Names tells the stories of 100 authors' pen names in a hundred short chapters. Many other authors who used pen names are discussed incidentally. Features of the compendium include pen names beginning with every letter of the alphabet, authors from...

I have always tried to make my home or community bigger, better and more beautiful and, having moved often, I've had many opportunities to work toward that goal. My husband of 63 years was a mining/metallurgical engineer who went from one mining site to...

Aspie takes you into the life and mind of one man's struggle with Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder affecting approximately 1,000,000 Americans. Here you will see how common AS "symptoms" such as temper tantrums, depression, moral idealism, "hyperhonesty," and social awkwardness went unexplained...

The early 1980s were a time of great change in America. A recent invention, the personal computer, was quickly altering the nature of the workplace and reducing the need for jobs and workers to fill them. The runaway inflation of the 1970s was gradually...