Biography & Autobiography - General

Title: The Complete Works of Lord Byron. With a biographical and critical notice by J. W. Lake. [With a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries...

The Kings of the East Are Coming: The Euphrates Prophecy and the Global UnravellingA river is drying. A prophecy is unfolding. A global power shift is accelerating-and few are prepared for what comes next.From the ancient pages of Revelation 16 to today's headlines, The...

The Bequest of John T. Ward is a riveting exploration of one man's relentless fight for freedom and equality during one of America's most turbulent eras. Against the backdrop of the 1820s-and later, the Civil War-John T. Ward emerges as a bold abolitionist, an...

Wake Up Call is a powerful and deeply personal memoir of trauma, healing, and spiritual awakening. Through raw honesty and soul-level insight, Gina Emilia Wells invites readers into her own journey-one marked by pain, silence, and survival, but ultimately transformed by resilience, clarity, and...

Artworking - lighting a candle, arranging flowers, getting a tattoo, wood working, telling a story, stitching or making first steps on a project - has unique potential to provide solace, lessen isolation and open conversations. Through artworking we can experience, express and gradually transform...

Step into the world of the 18th century literary elite with this fascinating collection of letters between Esther Vanhomrigh and Jonathan Swift. Known as 'Vanessa' to her friends, Vanhomrigh was a brilliant and accomplished woman whose relationship with Swift has been the subject of...

This is the story of Diamond Grace Jones. In her sleep, a neurological chip was implanted in her mind against her will. Her thoughts and actions are broadcast to anyone who knows where to look. Her will can be taken over through a transfer...

In 2015, at the age of 51, I was involved in an accident that left me a quadriplegic. Quite an unusual accident. My recovery started with two days on a ventilator, nine days in intensive care and 6 1/2 months in a rehabilitation hospital.Mine...

After retiring from a 35-year career in advertising, Tom Dryden discovered a new calling - documenting the hilarious, baffling, and sometimes maddening realities of aging, modern life, and residing in a state dubbed "God's Waiting Room."Retired & Moved to Florida is a laugh-out-loud collection...

Why read about a person who is neither rich nor famous? Nothing in my life has shifted the world from its axis, but it is little people like us who create history. We are the essential inhabitants of Small Town, USA.This biography tells of...

Sixteen Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-five Sunrises is a collection of humorous episodes concerning the life of John Estall Berry Jr. Most of the time, I was a willing participant in these, as I like to call them 'Dad Stories.' Dad only lived a short...

Membership by Invitation is about Frank C. Gore's career in the private club and golf industry. It spans a period of fifty-six years. Gore wrote it to help educate people in the industry, or others considering the private club industry as a career and...

French days, French voices by Wendy Lee is a wonderful story which is enriched with beautiful illustrations and poetry. It is about the experience of living in someone else's country. To be 'une étrangère', but not a holiday maker, nor part of an 'Expat'...

John's delightful book takes readers on a nostalgic journey of fishing and mateship through the golden age of angling in the UK alongside Mick Brown. "If I had to look back to an era of my fondest angling memories, it would surely be those...

Edgar Wallace, a British author, published his first mystery book, The Clue of the Twisted Candle, in 1918. A rich benefactor lures famed mystery author John Lexman into a murderous scheme in this story, but Lexman is ultimately betrayed and imprisoned. When his buddy,...

Despite numerous advancements and achievements across the world, the issue of women rights, equality, and safety continue to remain an unsolved issue. While women status varies widely across the globe, one common thread (among many others) that links women together is the issue of...

The Taj Mahal is synonymous with Agra. But, as Royina Grewal discovers in her wanderings, there is much more to the city. Its strategic location on important trade routes attracted empire-builders from the Lodhis to the Mughals and the British, each of whom left...

In the early 1900s was a turbulent and unsettling time for the Latino community in Sonoratown, Los Angeles. Illegal immigrants from Mexico were pouring into California for various reasons, fleeing their perspective country trying to escape persecution from Latin American Dictators. These scared desperate...

The book reviews the life of James K. McGuire, the youngest mayor of Syracuse, New York, his role as lobbyist for the Asphalt Trust and his contributions as an activist in the fight for Irish freedom. The book explores the issues of domestic political...

In early 2020, life as we knew it changed. In Twenty Voices of 2020, Jo Fuller takes us to one small corner of the world to see the human impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, sharing the stories of 20 people in her...

Despite several landmarks across the state bearing his name, John Hunter, the second governor of New South Wales, remains somewhat of an enigma. His solitary, career-driven life on land and at sea was tumultuous. He went from a talented mariner to a captain responsible...

Spending a week doing nothing but exploring the possibilities of Lego, thereby risking yet another job; impulsively sinking all his savings into wildly impractical self-employment ventures; sleepless nights, gripped by the need to write - these are just some manifestations of the often damaging...

Relocating to Hawaii presented many departures from New England living, especially during Christmas celebrations. Big Island Santa recounts a Scrooge-like--yet humorous--effort to both make money and make merry in paradise while drawing on examples from holiday film, literature, childhood memories, and roadside Americana to...

Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820. Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda, a young woman barely in her twenties, writes her story as a way of explaining her actions to her...

This book is a record of events that happened at Callan Park before 1960. It is a journey of discovery that uncovers facts and manoeuvring not published before. In time dramatic changes did happen; there was a paradigm shift from mothering to encouraging independence....

YES, There is Hope for a Prisoner is about the journey of living aimlessly and without hope to becoming productive in society againAuthor: Jafari JenkinsISBN-10: 1664162054ISBN-13: 9781664162051Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2021Pages: 124Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The author is introduced to his ancestors by his old aunt Lois. His ancestors are from different ethnic groups but share a bond of love and faith. The story is told as the author struggles with being an epidemiologist in the face of racism...

On February 23,2019, my beloved brother died. It was a shock to his family, friends and the Old Saybrook, CT community. He was smart, generous, jolley and a CPA. RIP my brother!Author: B. J. TryonISBN-10: 1664108378ISBN-13: 9781664108370Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2021Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize:...

We are all unique, and no person's healing journey will be the same as another. As you heal, you will find the blueprint for your own journey.My healing Journal from Once Broken to I Am is not to give anyone a specific way to...

Strong City Baltimore's mission is to build and strengthen neighborhoods and people. Doing this work for 50 years has shown us that building the capacity of neighborhood and grassroots leaders is the path to lasting change. Building Blocks uses the unique, compelling stories of...

Author: William Roscoe ThayerISBN-10: 1613826664ISBN-13: 9781613826669Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2012Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for...

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for...

Author: James WatsonISBN-10: 1535806109ISBN-13: 9781535806107Publisher: Gale and the British LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1879Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.18d

I am writing this book because I want people to know that there were two people on this earth that loved each other and they loved life, their friends and most of all they loved me, I am a product of them, it's a...

A Good Man is a book based on actual events that occurred during the years this couple knew and were married to each other. Their marriage was strong, their love was strong, and their endurance was strong. In this book, you will learn what...

Thirty three years working in a prison taught me about the lives of criminals. Some were guilty by their own misdeeds. While others committed crimes they couldn't avoid. For instance, I had people working for me who killed in self defense. There were those...

How would you like to go on a journey back in time with a Meth Cook? Let me take you there with the true stories written in this book. My name is Brandon Connor Jr. . My nickname was Trip in the dope game....

A personal account of being a WW II POW in Stalag 383..Author: Denys CookISBN-10: 1490716009ISBN-13: 9781490716008Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2013Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

We are more than our bodies! My patients have taught me this. It began with an imaginary conversation with a patient that turned out to be real! This memoir of my story and my patients' stories is intended to inform, empower and entertain you....

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) and Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), two of the leading literary personalities in turn-of-the-century Vienna, maintained a friendship that lasted forty years. These letters contribute to an understanding of the life, times, and writings of both of these important authors and provide another...

Philip Pendleton Cooke, a typical Virginia gentleman farmer and lawyer, realized a creditable achievement in lyric poetry, in critical essays marked by vigorous good sense, and in the historical tales to which he returned. His work received recognition from leading literary men of his...

Joseph Blount Cheshire, for nearly forty years Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, was known and loved throughout the state as a man of great personal charm, good sense, and the ability to get things done. In addition to his ecclesiastical interests, he...

In the biography of Sidney Lanier there is little radically new to be learned though the author has located a number of previously unpublished letters and neglected sources of information. The emphasis is primarily one of interpreting what is known, of looking freshly at...

Author: Gary J. MelloISBN-10: 1456833294ISBN-13: 9781456833299Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2010Pages: 436Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d

This book has brought into sharp focus the parts played and contributions made to the Legal Profession in Nigeria from Independence till today by Hairat Balogun. Hers has been a Life of service, driven by truth and a commitment to Justice. Service, Truth and...

Author: Sheldon A. ChryslerISBN-10: 1450077285ISBN-13: 9781450077286Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2010Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Possibly there is nothing more conducive to thoughts of the Eternal, than having one's face slammed into red, wet muck, with explosions so close your body arcs and bounces off the ground, hot shards burn in your flesh, and concussions are bright flashes of...

This is a "TELL ALL" book about what an official of a government office in Broward County, Florida did to us, Guilty Till Proven Innocent. I am telling you about what they "can do" so that you will be able to prevent this from...

Everyone has a right to their own opinion. This book is certainly my opinion and not a reflection on anyone else. I am not a racist and never will be, because everyone has the same goals in life and that's to be somebody. If...