Biography & Autobiography - General

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Story, events and history of my other grandmother, Alice Cook Crannell 1886 to 1961.Author: Gail M. CramerISBN-10: 1329980018ISBN-13: 9781329980013Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2016Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.15d

A candid look at life from the lens of one woman's journey. Veronica Valles reveals the details of her mind through the musings of her day. Such is the dance of being Spirit in this human form.Author: Veronica VallesISBN-10: 1329947223ISBN-13: 9781329947221Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2016Pages:...

A collection of monologues. Each story seeks to tell a story that entertains but tell an important story.Author: Marty HeitkampISBN-10: 1329909518ISBN-13: 9781329909519Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2016Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

In the next few pages I want to paint a picture of my Grandmother and hope that you will come to understand her in some small way. Loss and separation, death, is something we all must face. I offer my experience to you, dear...

This book will be a series of narratives and dramatic readings spread with a little wisdom in order to give you an account of my journey. I want to share with you how I was resilient, how I've been redeemed and how I found...

Welcome to Authorized Departure, a series of letters from a U.S. foreign service officer's experiences in Iraq, from 2004-2010. These time capsules capture the evolution of U.S. involvement in Iraq, everyday life, and the transformation of a society - a transformation whose outcome remains...

A memoir from the second World War -- written by a soldier who went on to become a renowned writer.Author: Yefim SalitaISBN-10: 1329787005ISBN-13: 9781329787001Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/2015Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

THE BOOK RELEASES THE RICH AND DIVERSE CULTURE OF THE NEEDMORE COMMUNITY AND DESCRIBE HOW IT WAS DESTROYED BY URBAN RENEWAL THAT WAS GUIDED BY WHITE RACISTS. THE COMMUNITY'S ECONOMIC ARTERIES WERE SEVERED AND MANY CHOSE TO ACCEPT EMPLOYMENT WORKING FOR THE WHITE RACE.Author:...

This book contains true stories and documentation of how our family became endangered refugees in WWII Europe. Some family-members escaped legally to the States. A few others 'illegally immigrated' into Mandatory Palestine. Many survived in Hungary until late 1944, and hoped to travel to...

Pete's story, in his own words, pulls you in from the start and keeps you riveted. As much as the cerebral palsy he is born with limits him physically, it only serves as a catalyst for daring to dream how to defeat it, both...

Rick shares his story of overcoming a childhood disease and finishing the 95th Boston Marathon. Rick also ran in a 465 mile run and beat cancer. He later celebrated 10 years as a survivor by completing a 250 mile/12 day walk.Author: Rick OteyISBN-10: 132972013XISBN-13:...

The experience of a sixteen year old girl volunteering at her local animal shelter.Author: Melissa CollISBN-10: 1329702751ISBN-13: 9781329702752Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2015Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

When the author's uncle died 6 months after returning from Vietnam, his family did their best to deal with the grief and move on with their lives. Over 40 years later, the author embarks on a journey to learn more about his uncle. An...

Biography of Arthur Friederich Schulz. Born in Strasburg Prussian-occupied France in 1891. Arthur lived during one of the most important periods in German history and pivotal periods in European and World history. Arthur was an athlete, soldier, industrialist, party-member, and father.Author: Michael JacobsonISBN-10: 1329677560ISBN-13:...

From early chilhood to Second World War times Françoise describes what her life was in France during this period. This little book not only invites you into the world of a young child but it also adds an historical value to its context.Author: Francoise...

Recollections and anecdotes of the Green family - descendants of Noel L and Theo Green, along with a genealogy and photos. Memories of Carl Green's early life.Author: Sippie Carlene O'KelleyISBN-10: 1329643860ISBN-13: 9781329643864Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2015Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

"From her birth during World War One, to witnessing the opening of World War ll from the Free Sate of Danzig, expatriation-loss of country and citizenship and considered a Displaced Person, to removal to Hoechst near Frankfurt, and from there immigration to America in...

All of us harbor memories of the people who raised us. My own parents had tremendous forbearance or I know for an absolute certainty I would not be here to write this smallest of tributes. My own father was very brave and taught all...

As a young girl, Jennifer's life is perfect. She lives in a quiet, small town with pink bedroom walls. She graduates high school at the top of her class. She is accepted into a prestigious private university. She's sweet. She's smart. She has a...

ÒAny arrival at dawn necessitates the navigation of night beforehand. It is written in the very cycle of life. History is continuously being written and rewritten, and every breath serves us another glorious opportunity to forge forward from the past. As I trundled to...

This first ever collection of selected interviews with one of America's most prolific and eclectic authors, William T. Vollmann. Editor Scott Rhodes collects eighteen interviews that covers the span of this important writer's expansive career.Author: Scott RhodesISBN-10: 1329486498ISBN-13: 9781329486492Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2015Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight:...

"On June 15, 1929, with Dr. John G. Cullinan, Reverend Thomas J. Hill and Father Healy by his side, William Swanton signed his name for the very last time . I wasn't there, of course, but I can imagine him raising his pen with...

Many people are faced with adverse situations that leave them feeling trapped. In this book, which is also a life guide, you will notice that I have faced a plethora of challenges in my life. Even though the dust of my situations blinded my...

This book encompasses experiences that span almost a century in the life of Edgar "Buddy" Galvin. From notes and memory, Buddy reflects on the major highlights and lessons gleaned over that time. His story illuminates events in his lifetime; from his childhood growing up...

Short stories from the life of a Nurse from Silver Creek, Mississippi. Travel back to when life was simpler, work was harder and the good times made great memories and even better stories. The first book in a series of three.Author: Doris Willis GraciaISBN-10:...

Douglas D. G. Keddie shares the story of his career in the Royal Air Force from 1932 to 1957. This includes the happy years of his first posting, the war years, the service years, and finally his return to Canada.Author: Douglas D. G. KeddieISBN-10:...

Ulysses tells the story of his journey from a thief and drug addict to a wheelchair racer. The defining events are a fall from a sixth floor balcony during a theft, a descent into drugs and alcohol, a recognition that he had to change...

Life is comprised of singular moments that come together to tell an important story. How do all these short stories come together come together and connect? Follow the author on a journey that takes him from different cities, to different women with fascinating predicaments....

Menglim Phoy is an exceptional young man from a poor family. His mother, ignoring the taunts of their equally poor neighbours, encouraged her children to fulfill their potential rather than work the land. Now 23, Menglim is at a Russian university progressing toward a...

this book is about a true story about lack of love and acceptance in this life. it is also about finding love inside myself which is where love is truly at.Author: Dove NightISBN-10: 1329177029ISBN-13: 9781329177024Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2015Pages: 36Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

My darling granddaughter, Tykiah-your stay on earth was very brief. Still you experienced life and all of its changes, the ups and downs, the good and bad, the mean and lovely, you knew those that had and those that had nothing (this reminds me...

"One last look at Europe" - that was the idea behind a 3-month trip in 2006. The weather was always good and that 3 months led to a life of unanchored travels, for years moving among countries and continents. In Local Time: a memoir...

Turkey Privatization Programs and Regulations Handbook - Strategic Programs, Regulations, OpportunitiesAuthor: Inc IbpISBN-10: 1329164490ISBN-13: 9781329164499Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2015Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.60d

We are labeled. We are stereotyped. We are teenagers, and we will use our voices to rewrite the story of adolescence. In this honest and inspiring collection of diary entries, vignettes, and prose poems, seventeen brave 9th grade students at Hoboken Charter School in...

The true story of Canadian missionary who was born on the prairies and grew up in Fort Erie, Ontario. He raised over 100 orphaned and abandoned children in his own home as a single missionary in Nigeria. He spent 48 years there caring for...

In this book, the author writes of 3 shaman (Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi of India, and the author, unsaid leader of his hometown hosts) -- intermediaries between the mortal and immortal realms -- who sought hegemony for 3 societies.Author: Stuart N. TabaISBN-10: 1329072243ISBN-13: 9781329072244Publisher:...

In "Surviving Childhood", the author takes us on a journey through his past to help us understand just how the past shapes all of us, yet how a person can move on from the past, whatever effect it's had on them. It's a story...

The story of Forest K. Ferguson Jr. is one of athletic greatness at tiny Stuart High School in the late 1930s and at the University of Florida in the early 1940s. "Fergie" was a World War II hero who won the Distinguished Service Cross...

An autobiography of Zdenka Lillian Tesar-Kiszkan including chapters on her father, Jan Tesar, and her mother, Beata Tesar.Author: Zdenka Lillian Tesar-KiszkanISBN-10: 1329013689ISBN-13: 9781329013681Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2015Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.37d

this is a really personal book so please don't judge this book thank you in hope you enjoyAuthor: James BaileyISBN-10: 1329013190ISBN-13: 9781329013193Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2015Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

Reflections on the dying process and family's grief in a daughter's recounting of her mother's death to cancer.Author: Debi AlexanderISBN-10: 1329003209ISBN-13: 9781329003200Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2015Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.26d

This is the second part of Harry Goulding's autobiography, following on from his account of his childhood years (1905 to 1927) growing up in working-class Grimsby ('Henry the Ninth') The details of his ordinary yet eccentric life were written down in longhand on sheets...

A collection of short stories and poems by members of Swansea U3A.Author: Ann Potter (Editor),Sue Shannon-Jones (Editor)ISBN-10: 1326989782ISBN-13: 9781326989781Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2017Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.25d

Following on from Ancestral Chains DNA Part I, this work takes the reader a step further along the intrigue of the Family Tree. Viewing Victorian life through the mind-set of great-grandmother, Kate, the stage is set in a posh Georgian terrace in Lewes that...

The Maronda Mashona (Five Wounds of Christ) community was set up in colonial Zimbabwe just over a century ago by the missionary, poet, redoubtable champion of African rights and fierce critic of imperialist oppression, Rev Arthur Shearly Cripps. This book describes the evolution of...

Hello, welcome to Psych Ward 1. Up yours etc. What? you want me to write a description? of course you do! the book IS the description! Just buy it - take a risk! Enter into uncharted territry for once in your life you .....Author:...

Carole's first book took the reader to Yekaterinburg, Gaza City, Goteborg and Taipei, with various other destinations in between. Whilst Southampton, Manchester, Glasgow, and Leeds are not as obviously exotic, you may be surprised by some of her adventures nearer to home. In HomeWorks,...

The Wilderness Journey is the autobiography of Richard Pratt, a nineteenth-century miller and Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. First published in 1876, this book tells of Pratt's spiritual and temporal journey from his birth in 1816 up to 1875. Richard Pratt was troubled much...