Biography & Autobiography - General

More Than Just the Climb: Life's Lessons Well Learned covers Martyn Bould's 60 years in the Cayman Islands as he helped it develop 'the islands time forgot' with a population of 10,000 into a thriving financial centre with a population of 80,000 from 130...

The author's now celebrated quest, through narrative and photography, to capture today's built and natural environment and way of life along the Min Tong Line (Demilitarized Zone - DMZ) separating the two Koreas, is both a stunning literary and photographic achievement. Supported by 150...

This memoir by the internationally renowned jazz pianist Art Hodes, born in Russia in 1904, is in its own way a blues, a lament for and a celebration of music and musicians we have lost. The last of the living legends among Chicago jazz...

In the early 1970s, glam rock changed the face of popular culture in Britain. Against a backdrop of a nation racked by economical and social crises, the flamboyancy and theatricality of glam provided an excuse for a party and an escapist dream for musicians...

No mother has endured four children with the manic-depressive gene for 36 years, and, in league with one of her offspring, written about the lack of inhibition, horror and vigilance accompanying extreme moods. This is a candid study from insiders of the communication breakdowns,...

No mother has endured four children with the manic-depressive gene for 36 years, and, in league with one of her offspring, written about the lack of inhibition, horror and vigilance accompanying extreme moods. This is a candid study from insiders of the communication breakdowns,...

This is an Autobiography about how an around the way girl surpassed trauma, abuse, mental health, deceit, loss, and betrayal. After seeking therapy and participating in growth and healing of her past, she will show how she navigated to peace. She exceled in life...

We often had psychiatric patients for whom there was no information or medical history available. There was the hostile, combative, schizophrenic patient; the paranoid and hallucinating methamphetamine user; or alcoholics found wandering around outside with nowhere to go because their families wouldn't allow them...

Author: Peng XuemingISBN-10: 1646101588ISBN-13: 9781646101580Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2020Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

An Immigrant's Son tells the story of an immigrant who taught his son about pride and patriotism. The son, due to the examples set by the father, fostered a love for God and country. The father was very proud when his sons entered the...

This book is the pen-portrait of some incidents of my (writer's) life, which might have a great message. It is about the turning point of everyone's life. It is about my admission into a University, perhaps the best in the city. This story is...

"Ed is quite the special person. Not in the clichéd way that 'everyone is special.' You will find few clichés in his character. His life has unfolded through stages and phases which themselves are 'special' but which, in aggregate, can only be described as...

This inspirational book contains stories about some of my most memorable songs and poems. These stories, as unbelievable as they seem, are true. I'm telling 100% truths about the experiences that inspired me to write, including my reign as Miss Black Chicago, a near...

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...

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...

It isn't easy to let go of those we love so deeply. Sometimes we feel as if we will explode with grief. For many years, Maria A. Behm allowed her estranged relationship with her son to weigh her down, crying to alleviate the pain....

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...

Ivy Benson was born to be a musician. A good pianist by the age of ten, she was influenced by the music of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and other jazz legends to become a professional instrumentalist--and at age fifteen, having taught herself to play...

Author: Robert RomickISBN-10: 152459881XISBN-13: 9781524598815Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2017Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

This book chronicles a life long journey of stunning and tragic events. It took some five plus years of a "backward glance" to describe that journey. It begins within the doors of a small, seemingly insignificant church on the south side of Chicago where...

This is the true story about a man trying to hide his identity and the pain it caused those unfortunate enough to love him. He rainvented himself and then his past, it caught up to hm in the form of an abandoned son. This...

Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847,...

Author: Ramsis F. Ghaly FacsISBN-10: 1503538095ISBN-13: 9781503538092Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2015Pages: 712Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d

Author: Nicole SundermierISBN-10: 1503514234ISBN-13: 9781503514232Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2014Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

"Philip Sorgen is not really dead-- it's just that since he received his poetic license he has been dying to use it. Philip has been an actuarial trainee at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a Sp4 in the U.S. Army reserve and then for thirty-four...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.Author: International Correspondence SchoolsISBN-10: 1498111378ISBN-13: 9781498111379Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 542Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.73lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 1.09d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1897 Edition.Author: D'Arcy PowerISBN-10: 1498018718ISBN-13: 9781498018715Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.63d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1896 Edition.Author: Edward B. PoultonISBN-10: 1497988705ISBN-13: 9781497988705Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.48d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.Author: Walter R. SteinerISBN-10: 1497930723ISBN-13: 9781497930728Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.05d

Denise Waide is a professional lady who works hard day and by night, but under all her smiles and bubbly personality, she hides a dark secret. Her health remains under a strict balance on a daily basis. Her secret has taken its toll on...

?Leadership in Architecture: My Passion in Life? spans the decades from the 1940s to the 1980s. It focuses on the professional career in architecture of MacDonald Becket, FAIA, and the projects of Welton Becket and Associates and the Becket Group. An architecture firm headquartered...

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.Author: Victor O. FreeburgISBN-10: 1494053470ISBN-13: 9781494053475Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.50d

Author: Bobbie Jean CrossISBN-10: 1493121944ISBN-13: 9781493121946Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2013Pages: 182Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Imagine that the very food you eat and the beautiful carpet on your floors start to make you feel violently ill. Your contact lenses cause your eyes to burn and water uncontrollably. Trace amounts of mold on other people's clothing cause you to become...

A memoir and a history, Grampa's Left Arm tells the story of Jakob Tirjan and Annie Kaufold, immigrants who settled in southeastern Pennsylvania in the early 1900's. Their village on the Austro-Hungarian eastern frontier faded into history when the province of Galicia came under...

Born with multiple disabilities, Adrian relates how he almost committed suicide in despair but overcame his problems. He tells us details of what can be done with help and support. This book is very inspirational.Author: Adrian PatayonISBN-10: 1490778438ISBN-13: 9781490778433Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2017Pages: 108Format:...

Author Roberta Capasso explores the way generations of Native American children were forcibly taken from their families and subjected to the federal government's Indian boarding school experiment in order to assimilate them. As a direct descendant of a woman victimized by this experiment, the...

Alan Newberry always believed it was a man's duty to answer his country's call and serve with dignity. When he received his draft notice at age nineteen, he knew he had to mentally prepare himself for what he was about to face: a brutal...

The environment at author Laura Schoonover's workplace became so toxic over a period of months and years, that she eventually attempted suicide. Dying to Work There is her gripping autobiographical account of the depression and mistreatment that led her to that dark place. By...

After sustaining debilitating injuries during the Second World War, Corporal Alvin Downey returned home where he suffered silently, plagued by his dark memories of being questioned about the orphan's flight out of occupied France, tortured with a cattle prod by a Gestapo agent, and...

Martin Luther was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses...

Author: Suzanne FitzpatrickISBN-10: 1479784826ISBN-13: 9781479784820Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2013Pages: 72Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Jeanne Sullivan TuohyISBN-10: 1479783013ISBN-13: 9781479783014Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2013Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Brooke's Journey of Heart is the story of a daughter who lives each day with the disabilities delivered with her at birth and the mother who gave birth to her. Beverly Charles asked her daughter, Brooke Klemme, if she would like to write her...

Author: Lisa GrimaldiISBN-10: 1477152067ISBN-13: 9781477152065Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2014Pages: 62Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Paige TurnerISBN-10: 1477151435ISBN-13: 9781477151433Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2012Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: Stephen MapesISBN-10: 1477119205ISBN-13: 9781477119204Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2012Pages: 410Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 11/01/2012

Author: Laurice EddieISBN-10: 1477101144ISBN-13: 9781477101148Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2012Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

This is a candid reexamination of the work of Samuel Richardson, presenting a just view of one of the most important figures in the history of English prose fiction and eighteenth-century culture. The book surveys Richardson's literary career in its immediate setting and centers...