Biography & Autobiography - General

My early years, mid early years, work on the farm, milking cows, High School, College, Courtship, and University years. In addition, my career as a Mathematician where I utilized the first scientific computers for Flight Testing, and Systems Manager for 37 years employed at...

This book is a biography of Sandy and her great grand fathers life journey, through an inspirational spiritual connection, involving cellular memory and genetic DNA. It entails a story of forced assimilation on a culture, still not identified in the countries constitution. Survival, deception,...

This book is to honor all of the soldiers/Veterans that served in the Vietnam War. The war began on November 1, 1955 and ended on April 30, 1975. However, the U.S. got involved in Vietnam in1954. The United States sent supplies and advisors until...

The story started with a little boy growing up in a large family he had seven siblings, his mother found her first love and decided to run away with this man. He later was brought up by some Reggae musicians who protected him from...

This is a story of my husband's family history commencing in 1882 in England. It follows the life of his grandmother born in 1882 and follows her life, marriages, and her children. We then follow the life of his Mother and her siblings, culminating...

The book is about the life of Armelda, and how she managed the hardship of life and raising her children alone. She overcomes some of the toughest things she is faced with throughout her life. She talks about how God restores her life when...

The author details his life experiences in a raw and brutally honest manner. He reveals his homosexuality in the first sentence of the book and continues to describe his childhood growing up as a Navy brat in the nineteen sixties. He describes that his...

Confessions of a Fool is a semi-autobiographical novel by Swedish playwright and author August Strindberg, recounting his tumultuous first marriage to Siri von Essen. The book is an intense and often bitter portrayal of love, jealousy, and psychological turmoil, reflecting Strindberg's personal struggles with...

When Appahummie Dotts enters the Cook County Jail, his guilt or innocence is irrelevant to staying alive amid all the violence and chaos headed his way. As an eighteen-year-old, he can hardly believe that he's in the belly of the beast with grown seasoned...

If Don Quixote tilted at a catawampus in the cock-and-steer style of Tristram Shandy with Finnegans Wake read aloud over the wireless in the next room, the result would be this sprawling narrative of mythic incongruities in the shadow of the Great American Novel...

We never know how well any of us are prepared to make life and death decisions, but that is exactly what Margaret and David faced in 2003. After their third son, Christian, was born, it was immediately apparent that there was something wrong. When...

This is my true story of my upbringing and all I went through as a young girl living with my father and being mistreated by my step mom. There was hurt, pain, and a lot of sadness a young child should never have to...

"I personally have known James since we were in the ninth grade at Rutherford High School in 1989. At that time James had already had his disability from the Aneurysm, but he was still just like any normal acting boy at that time. Years...

Elbows Deep in Idaho Potatoes50 Years of Selling Burgers! Don't We Have Someone to Do That for Us?By: George B. Graham Jr.Up to his elbows in Idaho potatoes, George B. Graham Jr. began working for McDonald's of Rockford, Illinois in September 1964. It was...

A simple yet profound story of our Mighty God reaching into the life of an Indonesian village girl who chose to follow His "paths of righteousness." With God's gifting, she has lived through much hardship with thanksgiving. - Ron and Ellen Ritchey Titing's faith...

Eliza is a tease who inevitably ruins her life with her actions. Eliza is engaged to a rich old man who dies while in her care. She is now single and has no intention of ever getting married. She is torn between a young...

He wanted a chance to explore a part of the Arctic, not to live adventurously, but things happened to Siegfried Bucher that were stranger and often more exciting and frightening than anything he could have imagined. He sledded with an Inuk on the frozen...

This book is being written in memory of all children, living or dead, who suffered from child abuse. This is my story. Hopefully someone will read this who will put a stop to child abuse. - Peggy Green, author Author: Peggy GreenISBN-10: 1545674086ISBN-13: 9781545674086Publisher:...

For seven decades, Byron Calhoun overlooked the muddy brown water of Mobile Bay in Alabama. He'd seen it all throughout the years from the end of the pier-sailboats, tugboats, Jet Skis, and yachts. Byron and his wife spent hours on that pier trying to...

I spent two years in the army and one year in combat in the delta area of Vietnam, carrying a machine gun in "Juliet Recon." Follow my platoon and I as I relate our various exploits in the morass of rice paddies and jungle...

Written in 1994, and published in 2008. The story in this book is the true real life story of two brothers who were constantly in trouble with the law. They had a lot of love and caring for each other. Even though they were...

Author: Jude AddoISBN-10: 1499088329ISBN-13: 9781499088328Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.24d

This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and then Prime Minister. Janet Fallon emphasizes her rhetorical appeals to enact a vision of social, economic, and political change in Britain.Author: Janet...

Nancy takes us on a journey through her childhood years with an Italian/Polish upbringing, and continues through the triumphs and tribulations of her adulthood with sarcastic humor and grace. As we become immersed in Nancy's true-life story telling, it becomes obvious that she has...

In about the middle of the 1800's a man called Henry the Flyer, because he walked so fast, went for a little walk through the village of Bolsward located in Friesland located in the Netherlands. He was a cattle buyer and partners with the...

Author: Dante CosentinoISBN-10: 1483693686ISBN-13: 9781483693682Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2013Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

Author: Phillip Eldridge WilliamsISBN-10: 1477158316ISBN-13: 9781477158319Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2012Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

A sports history with a personal touch, this compendium of baseball profiles and remembrances highlights and celebrates some of the greatest Italian American ball players of the 20th century. This history, thoroughly illustrated with high-quality photographs, also shines a light on those lesser known...

I could sense the gathering of the storm clouds. The winds of disaster began to blow through me with a cold chill. I could imagine the ugly thunderheads billowing skyward on the distant horizon, but I was totally unprepared for the bolt of lightning...

Author: Sister Diane Ris Sp,Sister Joseph Eleanor Ryan SpISBN-10: 1456736051ISBN-13: 9781456736057Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2011Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Glada Mae Barker JenkinsISBN-10: 1453514775ISBN-13: 9781453514771Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2010Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.18d

Author: Mary Lt Usn Retired KingISBN-10: 1453506306ISBN-13: 9781453506301Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2010Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

STILL SHAKING: Jim has settled back home with his family, and into his job in the engineering industry. Still experiencing difficulties with cerebral palsy, with his shaking hands and unsteady legs. He is determined to achieve his potential. Being non-reliant proves impossible, and he...

It is October 17, 1849, Chopin has just taken his last labored breath. Solange Dudevant Clésinger, George Sand's unloved daughter, is at his bedside, but Sand herself is nowhere to be found. Solange, deeply grieved by the loss of Chopin, with whom she feels...

The biographical and autobiographical memoirs contained in "From the Heart" include essays about Harry Geduld's lifelong interests in music, books and movies, about his wife, and about the exceptional lives of his parents. There is also a memoir, "My Dad," by the author's son...

Author: James SimpsonISBN-10: 1441591583ISBN-13: 9781441591586Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2010Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

Drafted in the army at the age of eighteen while living in Phoenix Arizona, Donnell completed his army training in the Deep South in middle sixties. Then shipped to Vietnam where he was assigned to The 2nd and 18th Infantry Unit with the 1st...

To Mama, The Long Road Home This is not a novel. However-if you've been poor, picked cotton, sold scrap iron from a red wagon, played Red Rover on top of a big sawdust pile, played marbles, played hooky, tasted moonshine, dipped snuff, survived a...

NOT YOUR EVERYDAY CIGAR MOGUL For more than 60 years, Edgar Cullman was king of the cigar business. Whether it was top-of-the-line cigars like Macanudo and Punch or mass market products like White Owls, Tiparillos and Tijuana Smalls, Edgar influenced what people were puffing,...

From Savages to Yorkers, to the surprise attack on Ft. Ticonderoga, to America's first Navy and its ambush of the mighty British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Champlain at Valcour Island, to the defeat of British outside Bennington and finally the turning point...

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS-DARKLY is based on real life experiences suffered by two children deserted by their mother at an early age. They were thrust into a life of emotional and physical abuse in a foster home, where they remained for 14 years. Released...

The last memory in bypass ICU was the cold. Now he was in a German village with his boots off, messaging his freezing feet. He stood in the underground factory as the Czechs pointed up to a huge rocket yelling "New York.New York." She...

Author: Ralph KrenzISBN-10: 1413402054ISBN-13: 9781413402056Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2003Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.10d

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a reminiscing. what it's like to lose yourself and what it's like to find it again. a walk in the woods with a golden lover. a warm honey spilling down your spine. a paper terrarium. a girl under glass. a girl with a flame...

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Women are now the largest student body demographic in graphic design programs, yet in the twenty-first century the professional work of female designers is still underrepresented or ignored in the media and historical canons. Women Graphic Designers features illustrated essays of 42 undervalued and...

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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...

""Correspondence In Relation To The Killing Of Prisoners In New Orleans On March 14, 1891"" is a historical book written by James G. Blaine in 1891. The book is a collection of letters and documents related to the killing of prisoners in New Orleans...