Biography & Autobiography - General

This memoir follows Barbara McCranie's journey from her rural homestead, where the large kitchen was the center of her universe, to the present day, where the world was her playground. En route, she set her table in a barnyard and onboard a boat floating...

This is a collection of entries from an online journal created by a U.S. Soldier stationed in Afghanistan. He was assigned as an embedded trainer with the Afghan National Army. It tells the story of the deployment starting from the training station, the experiences...

Abstract Realism is a book of true paranormal, telepathic, telekinetic, psychic and other-worldly experiences. The experiences are all mine and all true. I have compiled many strange and sometimes frightening experiences into this book as well as some of my art, photographs, poetry, &...

This anthology of short stories depicts growing up along the Atlantic Seaboard and in southern Alabama during the 1940's and 50's. These stories are true.Author: Panky MillerISBN-10: 0615168965ISBN-13: 9780615168968Publisher: Hank MillerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2008Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

A book about the unfortunate experience of neglect, rebellion and eventual redemption. One man's story of how God met him in the most extraordinary and difficult situations and showed himself strong and loving toward him. From a church boy, son of a preacher to...

"Sex and the City" meets "Running With Scissors" in this off beat account of how one small town girl's life spirals downward into scandal and debauchery. Vicki Honeycutt gives her readers an honest, extremely graphic look at her transformation from school mouse to stripper,...

Growing up in Berkeley, 1935-1945, and on a hardscrabble farm in Sonoma county, 1945-1952; college in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley; early marriage and children; beginning to learn about Modernism, writing, and the composition of music. The first thirty years, 1935-1964. 212 pages;...

A true story and a rite of passage for a southern boy caught in the middle of his parents' strained and confusing marriage.Author: Donegan SmithISBN-10: 0615157165ISBN-13: 9780615157160Publisher: Donegan SmithLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2007Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

BERKELEY DAZE: Memoir of a Frat Boy is the journey of a fraternity boy from the smug, late 1950s to the beginnings of the sexual, political and social revolution of the early 1960s at the University of California in Berkeley. Frat boy's journey is...

A childhood memoir that recalls events from the life of a Cuban boy. A chilling account of trust and achievement, deceit and failure, and faith in the noble life-lessons learned from his family, the author relates his tale through the filter of magical realism....

Growing up in India and Libya, Priya Sharma was crumbling under the assaults of a ferocious, narcissistic, alcoholic father and disabling chronic migraines. At 18, she had lost her will to live when an ancient prophecy in the Bible transformed her life with joy...

"IN THESE SHOES WE WALK" was written from the heart. Maria Madden-Williams shares her experience of losing her son, Joshua DeVante'Williams. This book explores the pain of losing a child and shares how parents are able to endure. How can we overcome the loss...

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, a beautiful young woman must learn to negotiate the streets, survive the casting couch, and fend off legendary stars and celebrities who inhabit the famous nightclubs and hangouts of Los Angeles.Author: Diane Du BoisISBN-10: 0578224135ISBN-13: 9780578224138Publisher: Girl at...

This book is a chronicle of the events of my battle with a stroke. I was informed and I fought hard and survived. During the stroke and my recovery I felt as if I had been in a dream state. I was not frightened...

I've come a long way in the seventy-six, and counting, years I've walked on this earth. From a farm in Denmark, where I warmed my feet in the morning in fresh cow pies, to the majestic slopes of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It's...

In the late 1970s, while America was in the throes of the first major fabricated oil shortage in history, Tom Archer, recent academy graduate, climbed aboard his first ship as the new third mate on the BALTIMORE CANON, an old rusting T-2 tanker engaged...

A true story of a girl whose life journey took her from Bayou Lafourche to a cane plantation near Donaldsonville, progressing to White Castle, Plaquemine, Port Allen and finally to Baton Rouge. Large print and narrative form makes for easy reading. This timeless story...

It's gone now, the Alaska we grew up with. It's almost surreal - like a sad, nostalgic dream of something once remembered. Nobody actually came and stole it away, it just sort of sank into a sea of compromise and conformity and disappeared. It's...

Born In The Wrong Country is about what the United States of America has neglected to do, things that this government have ignored when it comes to its own people. It deals with the White and the Black situation in America, the poor and...

Every moment of a year spent living with chemotherapy. Author Trey R. Barker shares his compelling, comic and often emotional blogs begun shortly after his diagnosis with malignant melanoma and continued through a year of treatment.Author: Trey R. BarkerISBN-10: 055735322XISBN-13: 9780557353224Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2010Pages:...

Ruminations of a Grumpy Shepherd recounts Dick and Gretchen Regnery's experiences from over 20 years of raising sheep in Door County in northeast Wisconsin. In their late 30's, they abandoned their urban life to buy and rehabilitate an old diary farm. Their flock of...

I myself was one of those eager young people, ready to go fight for our country, willing to accept that my life was a number, disposable on the cheap, and not to question. But when the war was over my reflections centered more on...

Saloma Martin Smith was born in Hawkesville, Ont. of parents who belonged to the Dave Martin order of Mennonites until their own encounter with Christ. Much of Saloma's childhood was spent in the Schwemmly, a cedar grove about four miles from St. Jacobs on...

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...

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...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia.A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment.This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer...

Originally published in English in 1989, from a 1980 German edition, this book provides a comprehensive study of Oscar Wilde's work. It aims to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical oeuvre by fully analysing each of his works on the basis of...

The author who at 17, had to care for her terminally mother. There was much she learned especially how much her faith played a role in the whole situation of caring for her mother and then helping her to move on after she passed...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

With the announcement of his resignation from the World Bank, the ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz, played out in the front pages of the world's newspapers, came to a dramatic conclusion. Paul D. Wolfowitz, as columnist George F. Will wrote in the Washington Post...

In Knowing the Unknowable God, David Burrell traces the intellectual intermingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions that made possible the medieval synthesis that served as the basis for Western theology. He shows how Aquinas's study of the Muslim philosopher Ibn-Sina and the Jewish...

During the 1950s and 1960s, labor leaders Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway championed a new kind of labor movement that regarded workers as "total persons" interested in both workplace affairs and the exercise of effective citizenship in their communities. Working through Teamsters Local 688...

Derek is the eldest child in a working-class family of five children, growing up in the aftermath of a world war, in the small village of Norton, a suburb of the town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham. In this nostalgic sequel to the author's...

Born in to a poor mining village in the 1930s, Peter Wells was keen to escape pit life. His Grandfather's small holding provided an alternative, and early life skills, and Sheffield's moorlands space to explore. An apprenticeship at Hillier's Nurseries gave practical skills. He...

From the London Blitz of 1940 through to the present day, the author takes us on a very personal journey through her childhood in dwindling parts of the Empire, does anyone remember Aden, Northern Rhodesia and Basutoland? Personal reminiscences of these countries also include...

This new addition to the Author Chronologies series details the tumultuous and tragic life of Katherine Mansfield (she died from tuberculosis aged only thirty-four) and sheds new light on her approach and attitudes to writing.Author: R. NorburnISBN-10: 0230525598ISBN-13: 9780230525597Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2008Pages: 146Format:...

She Showed UpA Woman of Purpose, Power & Unstoppable FaithFrom Then to Now...I have lived my life by showing up, even when I didn't know what was waiting on the other side of the door. Every smile. every challenge, every new country, every handshake,...

When God Taught Me My Worth is a powerful and deeply personal story of pain, survival, and ultimately, healing.Letha Harris takes readers on an unfiltered journey through her life from a childhood marked by confusion and silence, to years of searching for love in...

The author tells the story of her experience as a social work graduate student in Chicago who meets a civil rights worker on a picket line. The year was 1965. The two eventually marry and she moves to Atlanta where he is working with...

Life Lessons Learned is a faith-infused memoir-meets-guidebook for anyone navigating adversity, identity and reinvention. Simone draws from her British-Sierra Leonean heritage, strong family values and deeply rooted faith to share hard-won wisdom that transforms pain into purpose. Through two powerful sections-Discovering Who You Are...

Author: Joseph FagarazziISBN-10: 1764011309ISBN-13: 9781764011303Publisher: Joseph Fagarazzi PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2025Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Book Description When a government turns criminal, there remains but one option: react with total disobedience. It took perseverance, foresight and courage to succeed. The author of this autobiography had done just that. From the age of ten until age twenty-two, the length of...

Author: Tom EllisonISBN-10: 178222808XISBN-13: 9781782228080Publisher: Paragon PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2020Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.44d

He was just an eighteen-year-old boy from Rockhampton and his story was yet to unfold.How could he possibly know what lay ahead?Author: Danielle RyanISBN-10: 0646853228ISBN-13: 9780646853222Publisher: Danielle Louise RyanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2021Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

Author: Hailey FeinburgISBN-10: 1006729178ISBN-13: 9781006729171Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2021Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d

In The Decision Room, Avraham Lalum shares true stories of conflict, mediation, and personal transformation. Drawing from his decades of experience as a legal expert and mediator, Lalum offers a compelling look into the quiet, unseen moments where decisions are made that change lives...

Author: Anthony TaylorISBN-10: 1608805921ISBN-13: 9781608805921Publisher: Eber & Wein PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2017Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

Author: Barbara J. YahnISBN-10: 138951840XISBN-13: 9781389518409Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2017Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d

The story of an unusual missionary. Joseph Booth published a book in 1897 demanding independence for Malawi and played a key role in inspiring an anti-colonial rising eighteen years later. This book tells of his activities in Malawi, South Africa and Lesotho and of...