Biography & Autobiography - General

The Love of My Father is a powerful and deeply personal true story that traces Angela's journey through pain, rejection, and the relentless search for love. As the youngest of five children growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Angela faced dysfunction that ran deep...

The following pages chronicle the story of my life to date. They recount my existence candidly and include many of the people and places that I've known, liked, and loved during my time on Earth, as well as a few otherwise wayward souls, too.Author:...

At six years old, Diana Lynn's innocence was stolen by someone her family trusted-someone they welcomed with open arms. Branded by trauma and silenced by shame, she lived decades battling the scars of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a man known only...

The Story of a Mother's Love and the Pain of Letting GoMeticulously researched and inspired by a sheaf of notes left by his birth mother before her passing and informed by interviews with first mothers of the Baby Scoop era. In Gliding Through Goodbye,...

This book presents extraordinary incidents and qualities of the "fathers" of 18th century New England. The alphabetically arranged sketches are short but informative, providing when and where these men were born, their education and accomplishments, and their impact on their communities. A full-name index...

This autobiographical work of fiction tackles what it was like for a Jewish boy to grow into a man in the aftermath of World War II. As the narrative unfolds, we resonate with the touching, introspective journey of a human being who strives to...

IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS WITH 20 DISTINGUISHED AND HIGH-ACHIEVING WOMEN. SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO INTERACT WITH EACH OF THESE PEOPLE AS THEY REVEAL THEIR BACKGROUNDS, THEIR LIFE STORIES AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTSAuthor: Andrew LeighISBN-13: 9798897952502Publisher: Self PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2025Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...

As I review my general surroundings, I am somewhat confused. The children of today are being bombarded and consumed by the continual assault of cyber technology, and I have this worrisome feeling that they are progressing to oblivion. Let us hope that I am...

The journey of Tanxian Zhe, simply known as "Tan", begins aboard the Conscious Awareness. His allegorical ship takes you to different ports within your own heart, soul, and mind where, along with Tan, you will explore locations and characters representing various emotional states of...

Pipe dreams... Pipe hopes.... Pipe fears and Pipe tears! Yeah, that's been my life! Living the life of an addict's spouse hasn't been easy, but, with God the impossible can have possibilities... If you believe!Author: Vanessa WinstonISBN-13: 9798729446162Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2021Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Dive into the life of one of music's most enigmatic and polarizing figures with "The Smith of Words". This compelling account unravels the story of Steven Patrick Morrissey, the lyrical genius and frontman of The Smiths, whose haunting voice and introspective words defined a...

This is a harrowing survivor account of the sinking of the Lusitania, a luxury, trans-Atlantic passenger ship which was struck by a German torpedo on May 7, 1915 during WWI. The Foreword and Afterword contain other survivor accounts as well as the backstory of...

Claire de Miribel lived for 36 years at L'Arche, a community founded by Jean Vanier, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share their daily lives together. The "Prelude" of this book briefly outlines the compelling early years of this young woman's search for...

There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Ronald MortensonISBN-10: 1984575392ISBN-13: 9781984575395Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2019Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

"Brushing Away the Tears" paints a portrait of a life lived with and taken by AIDS. It is the true story of Christopher Colt's journey through HIV/AIDS, and it is told in his own words, through his journals and letters, and through the journals...

This three-part book is a series of award-winning essays from the first Helen Keller Foundation International Memoir Writing Competition. They give voice to writers with ongoing disabilities, those who have overcome their disabilities, and from those dealing with another's disability. Their stories are real...

Becoming Visible brings together scholarly discussions of visibility and illness, photographs of an experience in treatment for Hodgkins lymphoma, and personal testimonial about that time. An artistic and academic contribution to the fields of trauma studies, disability studies and autopathography, this cancer journey reveals...

After The Dance delves into the intriguing life of South African artist Le Roux Smith Le Roux (1914-1963), a brilliant yet obsessive outsider who was appointed Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery in 1950 at the age of thirty-six. Renowned for his sharp intelligence...

In a career that has embraced fiction and non-fiction, and bridged West with East, Tahir Shah has frequently commented on his own work - or on that of other authors - in a series of supplementary essays.For the first time, the dozens of Prefaces,...

Over one, two, three years, the authors of the stories in this book met in Dublin City University, in the Intergenerational Learning Programme. The programme's aim is to open the doors of the university to older people, either for the first time or for...

Stories of There and Then is a collection of short memoir pieces written by senior writers, all participants in a memoir writing class. The stories all belong to a specific place and time -Ireland in the first half of the 20th century-, and deal...

Marion gave 40 years of her life to work as a surgeon and physician mostly in church hospitals for the Anglican mission society, USPG, in Tanganyika, now Tanzania. She shares some of her experiences in practising surgery and developing her skills, and maintaining high...

Are you going to have a baby soon? Are you apprehensive? Do you want to find out what birth is like without drugs or unnecessary interventions? Do you want to know what couples do to make healthy labours easier, quicker and safer? Does your...

Why would any normal person choose someone with a serious mental illness? We never know where our path in life will lead us. For one woman, her entire life, the people she met, the experiences she endured, made her prepared to accept a challenge...

When a young idealistic Catholic attorney decides to take on the leader of a white supremacist training camp, she has no idea how far she will have to go, and how much it will eventually cost her. A true story of faith in the...

Thomas Powell may be known to you as the distinguished, award winning editor and publisher of the monthly newsletter, The Avant Gardener, and the author of popular garden books. But, back in the nineteen fifties and sixties, he and his wife Betty were just...

Audrey and Bob McCollum traveled extensively, often to exotic locales.The more they traveled, the more their awareness of the world around them deepened. In this collection of essays, Audrey's vivid writing brings us along with them - to remarkable places and new understandings, all...

At the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world, and much admired throughout Europe. From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania, he had become the first American artist to study in Italy, and within a few...

All the poetry quoted in Russian has a plain prose translation, so that the book can be enjoyed by the general reader as well as the specialist student of Russian language and literature.Author: Henry GiffordISBN-10: 1853991740ISBN-13: 9781853991745Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Description Angel Just-Rights tells of a plethora of mortifyingly unhealthy, demoralising, ritualistic and compelling behaviours that manifest deeply in a fragile life so touched by the world around her. This is an exclusive account, based on the remarkable and true story of Rebecca Parker...

Who is Abu-Moch? Is he Kadouri Kudsi Zada, a hard-working Jewish businessman from Baghdad? Or is he a Muslim dervish named Nur El Din Khan? Find out when you read this spellbinding true-to-life tale of a shoemaker from Baghdad who, when forced to flee...

An autobiography bu a post WWII "Baby Boomer" in the 1950"s to present day, keeping family history alive for future generations. The author recounts memories of many humorous adventures in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.A. It's about growing up in a small country...

The story is about a family; Immigrant from Ireland who find work in early America, the lead character finds love as he grows; both in his job and life; work for the most was more manual, many thing done by hand not machines, the...

This is a moving life-story that will encourage, uplift, and motivate the reader to cross over the river from struggles to triumphs. The Aucilla River symbolizes a physical barrier, separated families, traditions and cultures. This journey over the river is a prime example of...

Determination: There is in this world. No grater force than the force of a man determined to rise. To God be the GloryAuthor: Noble ZenkISBN-10: 1728322510ISBN-13: 9781728322513Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2019Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adventure of "ordinary fellow" Richard Hannay, who is thrust into a plot involving the theft of crucial military intelligence by...

Picking up where his first book Thumbs Out left off, Jim Poole returned home from U.S. Army Service in 1958. He resettled in his hometown of Sudbury, Massachusetts with his wife, Wendy just in time to welcome their first child into the world. He...

Trapped by the Devil is based on a true story of how Kate Spencer made one single decision which took her on the path of destruction for 15 years. The author of this gripping story explains how Kate endured mental health illness, domestic abuse,...

A young innocent girls travels over 4 thousand miles to Long Beach, California to attend high school as an exchange student with AFS exchange programs. She lives with families she has never seen and has to get used to their way of life. The...

John Urho Aalto, Jr., known to his many friends simply as Urho. Engineer, linguist, rifleman, archer, hunter, fisherman, intelligence officer and perhaps the last of the real mountain men in this cockeyed world. He was my best (male) friend for more than sixty years...

"Walking the Camino was a "bucket list" item for me. It stretched me physically and spiritually. I came home realizing that life is like the Camino-a way that Christ asks me to walk with all its ups and downs, joys and trials and I...

Salupo's Groceries is a beautiful written story about two young loves that met and married in Sicily. Carolina and Nicolo had their share of heartaches and happiness over the years. Nicolo was an Army Veteran from the Turkish Italian war. Together the newly married...

I wrote this book for two main reasons. First reason is I woke up every day with these stories on my mind. I knew for some reason I needed to write them down. The second reason is for future women. Quite honestly I get...

The overall theme of God, I'm Still Trying, Please Keep Forgiving, is simple: Keep trying. Each of us has one shot at life. Once it's over, it's over. Don't let the distractions and regrets that you've already faced cause you to give up. Keep...

When you read a book from an author who writes comedy, it's a pretty good assumption you're looking to laugh, not cry. Sometimes in life, though, there are far more tears than there is laughter. That's true in the life of a comedy writer,...

Early Life Narratives: Venetian, Ionian, British and Spartan OriginsBy: Joan MarkessiniThese narratives spell the lives of my parents and grandparents: All were children when they departed their homelands, three of the four came alone and one was a babe in the arms of a...

Mary S. Brock was born in Arkansas; and raised in Ohio, from age five through 18. At the age of 18, she moved to California, where she currently resides. Shortly after going to California, Mary was married; is the mother of two children. She...

Mike was born on January 2nd 1938 at Hollywood, California. Came to Seattle, Washington in 1940 with his mother and resided at 7701 13th S W on Holden Street in the Highland Park District.Mike went from K through 8th grade at Highland Park Grade...

Brandon O'Brien writes about his life growing up in rural America, young adulthood in the suburbs, and midlife in Manhattan. Through personal stories, humor, and reflection he looks at how the place we grow up shapes our lives, beliefs, and faith.Author: Brandon J. O'BrienISBN-10:...

Walk with me down a captivating road. The lead ins below, are the stops along the way. The road will be smooth, alluring, with a picturbale scene. In contrast, it will have huge bumps, hills, curves, and cross roads. Death will be close by,...