Biography & Autobiography - General

From a review of by Ragnar Carlson, Honolulu Weekly, Vol. 9, June 8-14, 2005: In this collection, Dennis Kawaharada, a noted chronicler of native Hawaiian literature, explores the historical and contemporary terrain of his beloved Hawai'i. From a memoir of boyhood days in Kane'ohe...

"A Publisher and His Friends" from Samuel Smiles. Scottish author and reformer (1812-1904).Author: Samuel SmilesISBN-10: 1515134237ISBN-13: 9781515134237Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2015Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.69d

The book that saves you money, why? Because no need for counselors, therapists, or rehabs, now, ever, or anymore because for the price of the book, you learn how to beat the epidemics, learning the 11-steps to beating depression, suicidal thoughts, alcohol and drug...

The "Parallel life" novel is a dramatic insight into the life of Laura Cutina, an Olympic champion at the Los Angeles 1984 games. The story takes place in an atrocious communist era, where Ceausescu and his dictatorship have a strong lead on Romania and...

I began writing this book a few years ago with the sole intent of getting my story out. I have done my best to describe the struggle and adventures that took place in my life as I went from being a confident, rebellious, unaware...

This study comprehensively and systematically explores how Theodore Roosevelt understood, massed, and wielded power to pursue his vision for an America that was the world's most prosperous, just, and influential nation.Author: William R. NesterISBN-10: 1498596754ISBN-13: 9781498596756Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2019Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.Author: La Marquise de La Tour Du PinISBN-10: 1498092071ISBN-13: 9781498092074Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 470Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.95d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.Author: G. W. E. RussellISBN-10: 1498028381ISBN-13: 9781498028387Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.Author: Abram J. DittenhoeferISBN-10: 1497950198ISBN-13: 9781497950191Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d

After fighting a seven-year battle with Lyme disease, Aimee Goodwin has written of her struggles with the disease and with the medical community to receive a diagnosis and treatment. She writes of the dark moments of sickness and of her eventual triumph over Lyme...

THE GREATEST OF ALL IMPOSTORS... ...Once the purpose of using love to realize an objective has been satisfied, it is no longer of use. Exposed are a conniving ingenuity and an extraordinary capacity to deceive... ...Helen, of course, was much too experienced to allow...

About the Book- Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's.She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did...

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.Author: William RothensteinISBN-10: 1494114755ISBN-13: 9781494114756Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 498Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.00d

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.Author: Rene DalsemeISBN-10: 1494114151ISBN-13: 9781494114152Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 490Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.99d

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.Author: Walter DurantyISBN-10: 1494093715ISBN-13: 9781494093716Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.74d

This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.Author: John DrinkwaterISBN-10: 1494088398ISBN-13: 9781494088392Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.70d

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.Author: Green PeytonISBN-10: 1494082470ISBN-13: 9781494082475Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.Author: Forest CrisseyISBN-10: 1494068656ISBN-13: 9781494068653Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.Author: H. V. MortonISBN-10: 1494068044ISBN-13: 9781494068042Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.Author: Post WheelerISBN-10: 1494059622ISBN-13: 9781494059620Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d

Anthony Perseveres wasn't supposed to get accepted to a top university and obtain a college degree. Most people didn't even expect him to live to the age of twenty-four-let alone get married, father children, and play an essential role in their lives. But Perseveres,...

The Mentally Ill Mentor is an inspiring true story - a MUST read for all who struggle with deep depression, excruciating anxiety, and intense thoughts of suicide - and for those who dearly love those who do.Written by someone who has personally battled with...

Author: Barbara A. Seals NevergoldISBN-10: 1479783374ISBN-13: 9781479783373Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2013Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.15d

Author: Andrew J. PageISBN-10: 1479795321ISBN-13: 9781479795321Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2013Pages: 182Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Lucia De GarciaISBN-10: 1479712949ISBN-13: 9781479712946Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2012Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Our ability to overcome disappointment is learned in childhood. Individuals need a value-based inspiration to help them conquer defeat and advance achievement. For me, it was my mother and her stories, providing me all the knowledge, morals, humility, and courage I needed to succeed....

One of the bonuses of youth is that it has not accumulated enough decisions to regret. But, as age creeps in, future possibilities of regret become sparser, and decisions more urgent. At the age of forty, Steve Verity, part-time painter and part-time tutor in...

This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Half a Man' is an anthropological work on the status of black people in society. Franz Boas was born on July...

The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta. Scholarship surrounding Vivekananda is dominated by hagiography and his (mis)appropriation by the political Hindu Right. This work demonstrates...

The conventional portrayal of George Augustus Selwyn, the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, focuses upon his significance as a missionary bishop who pioneered synodical government in New Zealand and acted as a mediator between settlers and Maori. George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on...

Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam. The spokespersons of Shi'i Islam, in or out of power, have not been the...

The wives of rulers in early modern Europe did far more than provide heirs for their principalities and adornment for their courts. In this study, Judith Aikin examines the exceptionally well-documented actions of one such woman, Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706), in order to...

In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George's Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically 'English' identity. This has emerged as part of a wider 'national' response to broader political processes such as...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman...

Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to...

The niece of Mrs. Sarah Siddons, Fanny Kemble was a woman of unusual talent, intellect, and versatility: poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, musician, actress, and dramatic reader. To Americans she is particularly interesting for her popularizing of Shakespeare from the seaboard to the frontier and...

In this book, written with brilliance and charm, we see Wilson, in bright, remembered flashes, through the eyes of his young sister-in-law. Here, also, is the Southern background--Illyria, a composite of several small Southern towns slowly reviving after the war, where lived the Axson...

This biography describes Shelley's life-in-thought. It dispels the popular conception of him as a vague dreamer and reveals a radical thinker passionately concerned with practical questions of politics, social abuses, and the underlying questions of good and evil, free will and determinism. The Shelley...

Author: Wendy RichardsISBN-10: 1466908270ISBN-13: 9781466908277Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2011Pages: 188Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Into the Shadows is a story of survival and recovery from a traumatic brain injury. Dr. Krista Breithaupt was enjoying a family vacation when she suffered an aneurism that left her hospitalized for months. This book is an account of brain injury and her...

Author: Jeannine TerpeningISBN-10: 1456891278ISBN-13: 9781456891275Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2011Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

Author: Peter CraggsISBN-10: 1456811282ISBN-13: 9781456811280Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2010Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Jackson, a long-time pilot and accomplished skydiver, vividly retells how he modified his home-built, experimental airplane, and then flew it 4,200 miles one winter's day across the United States and back.Author: Jeremiah D. JacksonISBN-10: 1453574174ISBN-13: 9781453574171Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2010Pages: 154Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x...

A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and...

Marcelle, a young impressionable South Mississippi girl, after a tragic, devastating plane crash, ending in the death of her father, whom she adored. Her life changed forever, she wanted to escape to another world, into the past lives of her ancestors, her great, great...

Author: Christina SaffellISBN-10: 145201356XISBN-13: 9781452013565Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2010Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.15d

Author: Jack V. O'KeefeISBN-10: 1449024246ISBN-13: 9781449024246Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2009Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

The Railway Years is Laurie Driver's second book, his first being This Truckin' Life. This second book is about the life and times when Laurie worked for British Rail, as a road vehicle driver, for the London Midland Region and then National Carriers Limited,...

When you purchase this book of poetry, you trace the very being of a lonely writer, laboring some 40 years and throughout God's time span. From 1963 to 2005 this "slave of words" has penned his heart and mind toward everyone's love and understanding...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Hesketh PearsonISBN-10: 1447442792ISBN-13: 9781447442790Publisher: Tufts...