Biography & Autobiography - General

A collection of introspective correspondence from the author to his son.Author: John WinthropISBN-10: 0997024240ISBN-13: 9780997024241Publisher: J WinthropLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2008Pages: 44Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

A series of thoughts written to provide distraction and comfort during a difficult time in the author's life.Author: John WinthropISBN-10: 0997024232ISBN-13: 9780997024234Publisher: J WinthropLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2006Pages: 62Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

A tennis racquet finds its way along with US author Bill Emrich after a successful youthful tennis career as he experiences college life, a stint under fire in the US Army in Vietnam, and several years as a tennis pro and Berlitz teacher in...

A satirical insight into the day-to-day running of an Old English Country Pub, of interest to those in the trade, those anticipating the trade, and those who just like 'goin' down the pub'! Colin Fisher and his wife, Kate, operated The Royal Oak Inn...

My Many Miracles: A Spiritual Journey describes a dozen actual miraculous events which occurred to the author of the book over many decades of his life. Each of these events helped to shape a life and are unexplainable by any ordinary means. These events...

The Rotary Club of Raymond Terrace was established almost 50 years after Paul Harris started Rotary in Chicago. We work differently We see differently: Our multi disciplinary perspective helps us to see challenges in unique ways. We think differently: We apply leadership and expertise...

A short, whimsical and light-hearted narrative of the life of a Yorkshireman who migrated to Australia with his parents in the mid nineteen sixties. His early years growing up in post war England. His subsequent journey to the far away 'colony'. How he found...

In When Your Superpower Becomes Your Kryptonite Tracey Hewitt writes about taking responsibility for our own lives and happiness, and the ways in which we might care for ourselves as kindly as we care for others. She compares our journey through life to a...

Recently I decided that all the old black and white photographs, snapshots, I had in my possession, needed some explanation. I also realised that I had never asked my grandmother about her early life which I now understand must have been extremely interesting. In...

The Boringbar War is a very intense, fast paced semi-autobigraphical novel written in just three days, as part of a national Three Day Novel competition run in June 2006. It is a sharp parody based around a true story, and is written in a...

Covering a wide range of emotive issues from frustrated ambition to religious and cultural differences and understanding, political correctness in the classroom, the underrated effect of homesickness, the slippery search for self, in Perspectives, Tangea Tansley offers a selection of impassioned stories that evoke...

For Those I Have Loved is a collection of poems by Ontario-based bilingual poet Kyla Heyming (KPH). She dedicates this volume to her recently deceased "Opa", saying of him that he was "a great man who made me fall in love with stories."The collection...

John Graham-Pole's second memoir asks: What is the true nature of healing? Healing by Intent explores clinical, ethical, philosophical and spiritual issues through stories of young people who survived illnesses that threatened their lives-and those who tragically did not survive.John writes: "The best doctors...

Surely time should stop, suspended by the tragedy of a serious disease?Surely life should become embalmed, preserved from the buffets of minutiae.Surely one should be exempt from laundry.When Sandy Glum, a high school teacher, was first diagnosed with rectal cancershe chose to record the...

In a quiet suburb of Bordeaux, France, memories from the last century haunt the thoughts of a retired, lonely widow, night after night. Time is running out for this former schoolmistress: she opens up to a stranger, the narrator, to have her story serve...

RAWSON: the name of the infamous Patagonian prison in the town originally called, in Welsh, Trerawson, Rawson Town. What was it like to be in Argentina's toughest jail during the years of the Dirty War, between 1976 and 1983? Pablo Bohoslavsky describes the experience,...

A volume published in tribute to the late David Henderson by friends, family and colleagues.Author: Benny Peiser,John Henderson,Nigel LawsonISBN-10: 0993119069ISBN-13: 9780993119064Publisher: Global Warming Policy FoundationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2019Pages: 126Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Part biography, part succinct history of the Berlin airlift from the viewpoint of an innocent 21-year-old girl who joined the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) and was sent out to Berlin in 1948. She now looks back at that time and how her views...

To flourish or not to flourish? That is the question. Are you flourishing enough to know that when your time on earth is finished it has all been worthwhile? Maximising your existence will seem incredibly appealing by the time you've finished reading. You will...

"Revolving Doors" is an adult, autobiographical novel in which 'Richard', now in his sixties, recalls incidents of his nightmarish first five years of childhood, while fostered through seventeen residences as a ward of Toronto's "S.W.York Co. Children's Aid Society". From his perspective and understanding...

Spencer Lee Duffy, the first of his parent's 13 children, hails from Augusta, Arkansas. But his African roots go back to the Cameroon and Sierra Leone. As a child, Duffy cherished the Chinaberry tree in the front yard. It spoke to him both of...

Vanida's Journey is a frank and honest exploration and account of the author's transition to womanhood. The author looks inwards to analyze herself, without resorting to trans-gender stereotypes to explain feelings, motivation and actions. Though a large volume of information exists concerning gender identity...

I once had someone say to me 'Get over it'. "Really!!" You obviously do not know what you do not know and can't know what happens to the body when you go through Breast Cancer or any cancer for that matter.This journey is to...

A giant collection of over 300 Ink and Wash illustrations from HAYDEN FRYER.For the first time ever, this series of artist monographs presents the best and most comprehensive curated selection of Ink and Wash Illustrations from HAYDEN FRYER, a Blue Mountains (Sydney, Australia) based...

A blockbuster collection of longform reporting, A Voice Was Sounding Vol. 3 represents many of the notable works that helped This Land magazine achieve an international reputation for uncommonly well-crafted, award-winning articles. At times packed with tension and suspense, at other times courting the...

Author: Michael MasonISBN-10: 0985848790ISBN-13: 9780985848798Publisher: This Land PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2015Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.57d

Author: Demetrius Irick,Jaqueline IrickISBN-10: 098579030XISBN-13: 9780985790301Publisher: Deejak's Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d

This selection of the art writings of Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), the early twentieth-century art critic, collector, and patron, is the first gathering of these texts into a publication devoted exclusively to this essential side of the man who founded The Phillips Collection in Washington,...

For over forty years Saul Bellow has been writing fiction that denounces the destructive forces that have dominated the literature of this century--existential nihilism and historicist pessimism. In novel after novel--The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humbolt's Gift, Mr. Sammler's Planet, and others--he has...

The October 1917 Revolution, Trotsky explains, was workers' most powerful conquest in history. Here he exposes the theoretical forgeries and historical frame-ups cobbled together in the 1920s by a rising bureaucratic caste headed by Joseph Stalin to rationalize a political counterrevolution. The book helps...

Dixie Kiefer's reputation for durability began at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he broke an ankle and shattered a kneecap while playing football. After anti-submarine duty in World War I, he became a pioneer of naval aviation and had an elbow shattered by a...

In this book, Chesse pioneers an approach to classic drama, documents the working of the government-sponsored years with the Federal Theatre Marionette Units in California, and concludes with his fourteen-year adventure in television, producing the award-winning program, Brother Buzz.Author: Ralph ChesseISBN-10: 0802600123ISBN-13: 9780802600127Publisher: University...

How do animals guard, serve, and care for us? And how and why do we love them so much? Anne Coombs spent her entire life working to understand the profound answers that come from these two deceptively simple questions. Before her death in late...

The dramatic biography of an American Veteran who experiences the terror and suffering of severe mental illness for thirty-six years...then miraculously recovers. Strength gives you hope and hope gives you strength. This book explores discoveries about how the side effects of medications, taken exactly...

This fascinating collection explores the life of renowned theorist Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, this collection brings together the work of psychoanalysts, social thinkers, historians, literary scholars, artists and medical doctors who draw on Balint's work in...

Gloria Steinem represents second-wave American feminism. This new biography recounts her truly fascinating life, one that was remarkable even prior to her association with the feminist movement. Steinem was destined to succeed and showed extraordinary strength dealing with difficult family circumstances, a peripatetic upbringing,...

Fidel Castro has ruled Cuba for over 40 years, yet he remains one of the world's most complex leaders. Rebellious at an early age, he attemped to organize a strike of sugar workers against his father as a teenager. By his early twenties, he...

With a listing of over 3,600 books about individual artists and groups, this is the most accurate and comprehensive bibliography available on Rock/Pop stars. It is the most authoritative source for English-language titles, which are listed in the main directory under an A-Z presentation...

An authoritative treatise on the history of botanical studies and exploration in Angola. For any region, cataloging, interpreting, and understanding the history of botanical exploration and plant collecting, and the preserved specimens that were amassed as a result, are critically important for research and...

Bright Star of the West traces the life, repertoire, and influence of Joe Heaney, Ireland's greatest sean-nos ("old style") singer. Born in 1919, Joe Heaney grew up in a politically volatile time, as his native Ireland became a democracy. He found work and relative...

Author: Janet NaughtonISBN-13: 9798999109033Publisher: Palmango PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2025Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.51d

Author: Anubis MudISBN-10: 1257786512ISBN-13: 9781257786510Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2025Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.17d

In circa 1404, a man named Dragomi and a group of family members and followers came riding east from the direction of what today is Albanian territory. They settled a village that bore the name Dragomi in NW Greece near the Ionian Sea. Some...

American Notes For General Circulation And Pictures From Italy This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content,...

Author: Stephen ReichardISBN-13: 9798218789510Publisher: Self-PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 428Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d

Author: Sheriff Terry Ashe (Retired)ISBN-10: 1665779756ISBN-13: 9781665779753Publisher: Archway PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2025Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Go back into the Jungle with these further adventures of The Brian Jonestown Massacre during the heady 1990s. A companion piece to the acclaimed cult classic memoir, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle, this is a return ticket to the San Francisco music underground during...

Alive with with Damue is a look into the life of Damue with kidney disease. He takes you thru his journey on how it effects his life emotionally and physically. The ups and downs how he gets through life to live a normal life.Author:...

A Soldier's Lament is the true story of Willie Davis, Jr., a U.S. Army officer whose negligent mistake during Operation Iraqi Freedom claimed the life of a fellow soldier. More than a war memoir, it is a journey through guilt, accountability, and faith showing...

Join sixteen year old Barbara Stechow whose life was forever changed when she was invited to join the Trapp Family Singers on their final tours. Her story is filled with personal memories and pictures of life with one of the most famous families of...