Biography & Autobiography - General

From the brutal, poverty stricken tenements of 1960's Glasgow Al battles to survive while caring for his eight siblings. They endure relentless, sickening violence from a sadistic, psychopathic mother and an alcoholic father. At just eight years of age Al and his younger brother,...

The Spartan Lady in Red is not a traditional biography, nor is it a simple memoir. It is a heartfelt, humorous, and moving tribute to a woman whose life and work changed communities across Appalachia and the mid-southern United States. Through her mantra-"we make...

The Spartan Lady in Red is not a traditional biography, nor is it a simple memoir. It is a heartfelt, humorous, and moving tribute to a woman whose life and work changed communities across Appalachia and the mid-southern United States. Through her mantra-"we make...

A Remarkable Legacy ... From Poverty to PhilanthropyBraham Aggarwal's journey began in Mombasa, Kenya. It developed further in the United Kingdom and continues to this day in Florida. This book is about a life shaped by adversity, resilience, and an unwavering determination to overcome...

"It is easier to see the trauma in others than it is in our own lives. It is in reading that we find validation. And in I Know Why She Stayed I had that experience, over and over."Lara Lillibridge, author of The Truth About...

Anne Scargill and Betty Cook met at the beginning of the miners' strike. Together they helped to create perhaps the greatest thing to come out of the strike, the Women Against Pit Closures movement. Inspired by the working-class values that raised them, they put...

When he left home on a sunny Friday in October, the biggest decision Jay expected to make that day was what drink to have with his lunch. As it turned out that wasn't a decision he would have to make for another 12 months....

If you look closely you can get a Sense of Source in any person, company or industry and capture a better understanding of how the products or services you buy came to be. My company Florida Fresh Events is a Floral company that came...

In 2020 the UK and the world as a whole has been crippled by the Covid pandemic. Every move defined by ever-changing regulation and protocol.Joe's mother, having struggled with pancreatic cancer for years is nearing the end of her life. His father is struggling...

The extraordinary story of an ordinary policeman, from a disillusioned student in the 1970s to retirement at the turn of the century. Funny, sad, heartbreaking. Shocking, interesting, revealing. Being a 'rookie' cop in a busy town. The camaraderie, practical jokes and mickey taking. Discovering...

Bob Flowerdew, Infamous panellist for three decades on BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, ex-presenter of BBC TV's Gardener's World, with three dozen books in a dozen languages & score of editions Bob is one of the few gardening authors to ever be splashed...

Born into privilege, but forged in survival.Long Story Short is the haunting true story of a girl born into royalty where power, tradition, and legacy once shaped her world until war tore it all apart.From marble halls to mud-soaked roads, she flees alongside her...

ROBERT HUDDLESTON, a teenage combat pilot in World War II, now approaches his 101th birthday in 2025. This volume is a collection of his book reviews and esssays. Themes revolve around Bob's remarkable life experiences as a teenage combat pilot during World War II,...

Following Kim aboard the Kilinski as it journeys from south to north, readers are transported back to Vietnam during the war years, witnessing the hardships of daily life, the bittersweet humor, and the romantic wartime love stories of the people. Readers will also gain...

One Child's View is Book 1 of the Family of Secrets and Lies series. It is a 50,484-word nonfiction book that tells the true story of a little girl who is placed lovingly in a temporary, informal foster home at the age of three...

Woven by War presents the intimate and powerful stories of a team whose lives were irrevocably woven together by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The voices of project managers, engineers, mothers, teachers, and children reveal the resilience, pain, and hope of...

Pascal by John Tulloch has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and...

The book "The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...

Dr. Sunil Kumar Mishra Mishra is currently associated with as senior manager administration and public relations management with the prestigious organization. Such is the case with Yogi Adityanath, a man whose journey from the spiritual realm to the corridors of power is nothing short...

'don't quote me' is the story of my 50 years as a reporter on the weeekly and evening newspapers in Surrey and Hampshire. My career saw me chased from a caravan site by an armed traveller, come second best in a race with former...

I am now 93 years of age, and I have no idea what has kept me from writing about these long years for so long. Nothing... except the thought had never occurred to me before... I feel that what was left of my memory...

We hear again and again in politics how "entrepreneurs have to bear all the risk." Paul Schmid shows us exactly what this means and where it can lead in his autobiography, "Once I lived the life of a millionaire." Woven into his family history,...

Growing up in Roath Park, Cardiff, John Richards never envisaged a career in the cut-throat corporate 'City' - London, the world-renowned hub of trading, retail and financial marketing. Spending his childhood obsessed with trainspotting, music and girls, John had no aspirations to become a...

Günter Wallraff. He was the hero of the 70s and 80s. Using controversial methods he wrote against the powers that be in Germany. In the Industrie Reportagen, in his role as the Turk Ali or as Hans Esser, editor at the Bild newspaper Günter...

Can Do Better tells the story of David Chaplin's life from a shy and unpromising schoolboy, through his time of devoted service as the head teacher of a country prep school and concluding with his adventures working with children in Rwanda, work which earned...

List of books received by the American antiquarian society from the sale of the first part of the Brinley library is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research...

In the Footsteps of Arminius - A Delightsome Pilgrimage is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

Some Recollections of a blameless Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

Two lives become as one when a young doctor and academic lawyer meet and, almost immediately get married. Many years later during the Covid lockdown, they write the story of their lives for their grandchildren. But the stories that are told are of much...

Miriam Virgo has written this book on account of her life experiences, ranging from childhood abuse through to later becoming a single parent through tragic circumstances, a heart rendering autobiography with an amazing revelation......... A born again Christian, Miriam has chosen to break down...

Theodore Dreiser heavily invested himself in The Genius, an autobiographical novel first published in 1915. Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality.Author:...

Where Tigers Flew is an emotional journey and dramatic story of escape, love, disappointment, survival, courage, and sacrifice through these autobiographical memoirs. This story is different from the majority of most stories out of China. It is a story that is not told through...

Beginning as a boyhood encounter with two Italian POWs from the Mediterranean put to work on his grandmother's vineyard in the Clare Valley of South Australia and through a career living in a variety of countries as a diplomat, this is the story of...

In 1961, Murray and Dorothy Leiffer went to Singapore to study the status of Methodism in that country. They befriended Samuel Wong, then a college student, and encouraged him to pursue advanced training in the United States. Upon Wong's graduation, they adopted him as...

Imagine an old man shifting through a pile of 260 letters that his American parents wrote him over a 30-year period, re-immersing in the love unconditionally and liberally showered on him and his family through the years, and listening to their silent yet animated...

The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey...

This is the story of Veronica Walker. A second generation white African this is the story of how one woman learnt to accept loss and rebuild her life time and again. How she learnt to fight for herself in a society where women were...

"Linda Stewart has written a warm and strong life story that conveys to every reader the terrible trials and extraordinary joy that attend the caring of a loved one with Alzheimer's."HOWARD DEAN, M.D.Former governor of Vermont"With powerful prose Linda Stewart evokes a luminous portrait...

This is the third volume profiling the various heroes and hooligans that call Tybee Island home.Tybee Island lured an eclectic assortment of visitors even before Gen. James Oglethorpe passed its shore on his way to nearby river bluffs to establish what has become the...

At first blush, a book centered on the WWII love letters between an Army medic and his war bride living and working on the Akron, Ohio, homefront may seem rather bland. Such correspondence, after all, had to pass through an official censor, so what...

Born Grown is a biographical sketch that uses the memories and experiences of Travis C. Burrell to paint a very vivid picture of the lives of children who grow-up in neglectful homes and in-and-out of foster care. He had seen so much and been...

"Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club" is a 428-page case study of a Polish-American organization, active since 1971. This volume reveals the interests, activities, accomplishments, and challenges of successive waves of Polish immigrants to California, especially the generation...

"Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club" is a 440-page case study of a Polish-American organization, active since 1971. This volume reveals the interests, activities, accomplishments, and challenges of successive waves of Polish immigrants to California, especially the generation...

Using digitally restored page images of four books, of which were first published in 1865, 1925, 1911 and 1918, based on the lives of Paul Jennings, written by himself about his experiences with former US President James Madison, Frank Loesch, from a personal account...

This book is the outgrowth of many years of stories, questions and travels that have been cultivated over time. Being adopted, I have to take others' word for the beginning of my story. It is said I was found on my adopted parents porch...

We try to learn from every patient, to help them get better and to facilitate understanding of their health and the progression of the disease process impacting both body and spirit. This book allows one to understand the human interface with the diagnostic process....

Dr. Hercberg-Grodecki - Gallant Physician of Polish Ghettos tells the fascinating true story of a young Jewish physician and an avid Polish patriot who during World War II saved the lives of hundreds of patients incarcerated in Polish Ghettos. The book describes how the...

An intimate tale of the road travelled by former slaves, the poorest of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the all but dehumanized of the Caribbean, in the hope for their humanisation. This book is a telling biography of the lives of people who despite...

A collection of real-life lockdown experiences by doctors, nurses, Covid-sufferers, members of the clergy and Foreign Office, children, students, shielders and many more. Also accounts by people living in a range of different countries. A snapshot of life in the time of coronavirus. Endorsed...