Biography & Autobiography - General

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: Michael Mason,Natasha BallISBN-10: 0985848782ISBN-13: 9780985848781Publisher: This Land PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2014Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.53d

Parenting is not easy. When a parent is single, the challenges of rearing children are magnified. This book provides a comprehensive guide for rearing children in a healthy and nurturing environment. It also provides tips in keeping an amicable relationship with your former spouse...

The Personal Chronicle of a Flight Engineer of a Lancaster in Wartime. Why, at 80 years of age, did I write this book? My fellow Flight Engineers are rarely mentioned, except occasionally in passing, in historical war books. Our role was barely acknowledged in...

Sometimes in life, the simplest of actions reveal the most profound truths. In Imitate None, Joseph Pally explores these truths that can transform an everyday life - into something extraordinary. Using wit, positivity, and endearing experiences, Pally's messages are quite simple, yet immensely profound....

Lin Zexu may not have destroyed the English opium in 1839. This work suggests he may have made a morphine salt to distribute as anti-opium pills to Guangdong province. In 1839, the emperor sent Lin to Canton to stop the opium trade. He seized...

This book describes the author's personal journey from brokenness to wholeness. It further tells of the author's struggles and mishaps which led to an ever expanding relationship with God. Its intent is to encourage the readers that by having faith in God and themselves,...

Why would a family leave their long standing home? What would push them out? And then, where would they go? What would be the attraction of going someplace totally new and foreign? You can find the answers in this compelling story of the Weber...

At 22 years of age, Colleen was fit and happy. Then she suffered a cerebral aneurysm. She had only a .06 chance of survival.The Clancys were advised that there was no specific facility to cater for young people with a medically acquired brain injury,...

ACTS OF LOVECommunity Empowerment through Servant LeadershipACTS OF LOVE is a call to individual and collective empowerment in the African American community. It is 2020, the year of the 21st century civil rights movement: police brutality, social unrest, protests, and #BLACKLIVESMATTER, in addition to...

'Words of Wisdom' is a personal collection of my writings throughout the years. My life experiences have been plentiful and I leave my 'words of wisdom' for my family, friends and for those who I have had the pleasure of knowing. In this book,...

A story of three families who came to America from Europe--the Deppes in search of financial opportunity, the Gansers, desparate to escape their father's dangerous political associations, and the Steins, hoping for a life free from prejudice against Jews. Each will find success in...

Passo dopo passo parla del passato ricordato di un paese amato. Careno, sulle rive del Lago di Como e più di un bel posto. C'e l'ho vissuto, e vive in me. Queste parole parlano di una vita personale a Careno, e com'erano le cose...

In this sequel to her first book, Enclosure: A Spiritual Autobiography (1986 to 2012), Barbara Becker writes about some of the most challenging and rewarding experiences in her life. This is a vulnerable and compassionate memoir of her life since 2012, beginning with her...

Recipes from the family archives of Thomas William Ward, Sr., a southern patriarch who loved only his family more than he loved his food and his cooking. Includes snacks, main dishes, desserts, large-crowd recipes and such things as dressings, relishes and other unique family...

Allama Mashraqi (Inayatullah Khan) and Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, two eminent 20th century personalities of the Indian sub-continent, fought for freedom - the former for an undivided and the latter for a divided British India. The political controversy between these two leaders over the...

'My Memories Journal' is a child's personal treasure chest of early life milestones and memories. Uniquely, this journal is suitable for children from diverse backgrounds. Designed by foster carer, Meryl Adams, who recognised the need for a place to record memories of children who...

Embark on a journey of personal transformation in Josie Townsend's raw and rivetingautobiography, 'Once Was a Girl.' Set against the backdrop of Australia, this gripping truestory follows Josie, a young woman whose dreams of prosperity are challenged by the twistsand turns of fate.From the...

The autobiography of exhibition dancer and actor Thomas Allen Rector, from his birth to his enlistment, at the age of 36, in the Allied's cause upon the United States' involvement in World War One. The time was one of change and excitement. The Gay...

The winding journey of faith that led Aubrey Lewis Brown from rural Australia, through the jungles of the Congo to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Canada.Author: Aubrey L. BrownISBN-10: 0969991134ISBN-13: 9780969991137Publisher: Sable PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2019Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Since 2006 I've been working without an office - traveling and exploring the hidden nooks in my own city in search of the creative inspiration I could never find in an office job. What I found while on the road was so much more....

A memoir by Janet Hickson of her life and family.Author: Janet HicksonISBN-10: 0956850006ISBN-13: 9780956850003Publisher: D.O.R. BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2011Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

From the 1930s to the 1960s Herbert Read was probably the world's leading writer on modern art. His name is closely associated with the key figures of international modernism, from Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, to Kurt Schwitters and Naum Gabo, to name but...

Reminiscences of a life lived to the full - by a woman who is nearly real.Author: Clive SemmensISBN-10: 0956489745ISBN-13: 9780956489746Publisher: Xin PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2010Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Insights and reflections by Rev. Canon Dr. S. E. Long on life, religion, politics, and society. The foreword is by Rt. Hon. the Lord Molyneaux of Killead K.B.E, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (1979-1995). As author and academic, Dr. Long has written much...

A fascinating account of the splendour and squalor of life in India, during the British Raj, as seen through the eyes of four generations of a British family. Through the author's cast of characters, she paints a revealing picture of life as 'children of...

Through 2007 and 2008, Dave Brinson wrote a regular online 'blog commenting on politics, education and the arts from a perspective of "Eastbourne...and the World." From Labour's deputy leadership contest, the ups and downs of Gordon Brown's first year in office, to the major...

True story based on an account of a Greek christian woman married to a Libyan muslim man with fairly stringest views about religion and family relationships. This story is paying particular attention to a female perspective and explores the relative human nature and interaction....

This interview with Alan Paton by Roy Holland has never, until now, been published. The interview took place on June 19 and June 20, 1973, when Holland was a guest in Paton's home, Lintrose, at Bothas Hill, Kloof, Natal. It provides many insights into...

Story of mine and my mother's life first through her eyes and then through mineAuthor: Madge Millard-BrawnISBN-10: 0955974003ISBN-13: 9780955974007Publisher: Madge BrawnLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2009Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

'Jennifer Holly Stephens died on February 25th 1971 at five o'clock in the afternoon. I put her personal things into my student trunk. I finally opened it in 2003 over 30 years later. In the trunk I found her diaries ... 'Author: Bill UnsworthISBN-10:...

A man's journey into the world of healing. Exploring the gift he thought never existed.Author: Antonio SalacuriISBN-10: 0955855608ISBN-13: 9780955855603Publisher: Antonio SalacuriLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2008Pages: 564Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.26d

The Diaries of Charlotte Downes, Volume I, is the third in a four-volume set, covering years 1828, 1829, 1831-1837. The diaries afford the reader a glimpse of a small corner of rural England from the Regency through to the early-mid Victorian periods when life...

An illustrated history of the life and times of Jolly Jack Dunn 1923-2004.Author: Peter GriptonISBN-10: 0955675359ISBN-13: 9780955675355Publisher: Las Atalayas PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2007Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

The story of the adventurous life of James Martin, who was the first Westerner to make contact with Barak Obama's Luo tribe in Kenya in 1883. Obama's grandfather's generation took advantage of the opportunities the white man brought. Martin, originally from Malta, also founded...

A collection of essays honoring John Cronin. A River's Pleasure, an intimate and thought-provoking book, offers readers an episodic narrative of a pioneering and influential part of the modern environmental movement, including a look forward into its future.A River's Pleasure contains 21 pieces of...

Prominent people I've met over my career are featured in anecdotes, photos and letters that reflect our encounters. Among these individuals are famed artists (Dalí, Leonora Carrington), writers (Barth, Borges, Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa), musicians (Segovia), poets (Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Amiri Baraka,...

The life of John Anderson Carriker's life is highly illustrated in this photo-biography. From birth to the US Army, including his ancestry and family of descendants, just some of the stories are given in this testament of a man who grew up in faith,...

Fighting for the Dream is a collection of oral histories of 40 Chinese American men and women-ages 24 to 94-who served in wars from World War II to conflicts in Afghanistan. These individuals defied boundaries, went against their cultural grain, and changed history. Through...

In this alternate history, George Washington becomes Lord President George I of the United States in 1789, and this action changes the course of world development: the monarchies of Europe and the New World are never displaced, but evolve into parliamentary democracies. And so,...

Navigating the Major Decisions of Cross-Cultural ServiceMissionaries face a constant barrage of new ideas and methods to help them deal with cross-cultural decisions. Some fresh recruits arrive in their adopted country full of plans, and with the right methods, but without understanding how to...

Drawing on original manuscript sources, Maxey has produced a persuasive study of a late-18th-century portrait and its subject. He has focused attention on an enigmatic painting, and the person portrayed in it -- a woman of talent and verve, whose life has remained undeservedly...

Volume 2-the investiture of Badajoz to the Campaign in Southern France, 1814 The author of this history of Wellington's Peninsular War, Captain Lewis Butler of the Rifles, declares himself at the outset to be a disciple of William Napier and an enthusiastic student of...

Volume 1-Invasion to the Battle of Albuera, 1811 The author of this history of Wellington's Peninsular War, Captain Lewis Butler of the Rifles, declares himself at the outset to be a disciple of William Napier and an enthusiastic student of that 'incomparable classic' for...