Biography & Autobiography - General

Author: Puja ChangoiwalaISBN-10: 9353577314ISBN-13: 9789353577315Publisher: HarperCollins IndiaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2020Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

In the face of pain, how do we rise? How do we find the strength to heal?In Awaken: I Suffered. I Learned. I Changed., Aisa Marie Magsombol delivers a raw, unfiltered testament to resilience. Through addiction, separation, career transitions, abusive relationships, and invisible illness,...

Many of our patients have just had it! They are angry, frustrated, disappointed, and disillusioned. For many patients, the healthcare they receive is inadequate and incomplete... a miss on the part of their doctors and healthcare teams. We are not talking about the accuracy...

Song-by-song, album-per-chapter book looking at the exemplary catalogue of King Diamond's devilish original band, from Melissa and Don't Break the Oath in the eighties to a vastly under-rated run of top-shelf reunion records in the nineties.The King Diamond catalogue gets a more informal look-in...

Before superhero franchises dominated movie theaters and television screens, THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY quietly introduced audiences to a young Clark Kent discovering his destiny. In his latest book, LOOK UP IN THE SKY: THE FORGOTTEN SUPERBOY SERIES, author Mark Edlitz revisits the groundbreaking yet...

Robert Hickox was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star with Valor, a POW Medal for thirty months in captivity in Pyuktong Prison Camp Five, and more for his service in the Korean War. This memoir briefly covers his life, but primarily he recounts...

In How to Grow Wings, Lyn C. reveals the compelling life of Bill Brosco, a young man the US Air Forde sent off to a Cold War he wanted no part of. His father had signed him up for the Army when he was...

"I Didn't Die... So, Now What?" is a brutally honest, unexpectedly funny, and deeply human memoir about what happens after your life gets turned upside down - and you somehow survive.When Alex Guffey was diagnosed with leukemia, she braced herself for battle. But nothing...

"Dealing with Diseases" provides an up-to-date look at recent headlines highlighting the significant changes scientists now believe are long-term effects of COVID-19 and other diseases, such as influenza, which currently poses a greater risk than COVID. Influenza has now surpassed COVID-19 as the deadliest...

Follow the Journey of a Prophet on a Quest to Learn! In this beautifully told story, young readers will travel alongside Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) as he searches for a mysterious wise man named Khidr. With the help of his young student,...

SONS OF DANIEL GARDNER is a family history book that records all of his direct paternal line descendants. The book is 4 sections, the four sons of Daniel Gardner (c. 1745 - 1796) of Kershaw County, South Carolina, tracing his paternal lineages with descendants...

In the face of pain, how do we rise? How do we find the strength to heal?In Awaken: I Suffered. I Learned. I Changed., Aisa Marie Magsombol delivers a raw, unfiltered testament to resilience. Through addiction, separation, career transitions, abusive relationships, and invisible illness,...

From 49 to 95 Lessons Learned on the Roads to Success is an autobiography of a young Black male who grew up in a rural town to become an Army Officer. The book depicts the author's travels and lessons learned from early childhood to...

Johanna S. Billing's THE MEANING OF LOVE weaves the author's quirky sense of optimism through an intriguing story of childhood abuse and its aftermath.By the time she was 25, Johanna S. Billings had already suffered multiple traumas, losing her entire family in the process....

Step into the clever and whimsical world of Huang's Whinings, where Dr. John Huang takes readers on a delightful journey through his most popular blog posts. With sharp insight and a healthy dose of wit, this special collection offers a captivating mix of sports...

Upwardly mobile father born into an impoverished Italian immigrant neighborhood succeeds in becoming a medical doctor and moving his family to an upper middle class suburb. His children attend Irish Catholic schools where they are stereotyped and excluded, but succeed academically. One of the...

SHARING CIRCUMSTANCE AND OFFERING PERSPECTIVE "Sometimes, life glitches so that you can rewrite the code"- S.A. Grant Midlife has a habit of forcing change. Whether we're in a career or marriage cul-de-sac, caring for aging parents or coping with empty-nest syndrome, we find ourselves...

“An Emerson Calendar” offers daily inspiration drawn from the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's foremost thinkers and writers. Compiled by Huntington Smith, this collection presents a year's worth of Emerson's insightful essays, poems, and lectures, carefully selected to provide readers with...

For those who wonder how well-educated, well-adjusted, happy students can be produced at a private school, this book provides an invaluable roadmap to success. With humor and transparency, it tells the American success story of a school that grew from humble beginnings and rose...

Dive into the fascinating world of Edgar Allan Poe with "The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers, With a new Memoir" by Eugène Lemoine Didier. This collection offers insightful essays and a new memoir that explore the life, works, and enduring influence of one...

Corey Hamilton's latest self aggrandizing book is a collection of essays that are half about music related events and half about topics that piqued his interest. Topics ranging from the Mohawk uprising, NSBM, his parents and grandparents and more.Author: Corey Wayne Wayne Hamilton, Karlie...

"This Was Not in My Job Description" is an engaging memoir that captures the unexpected personal adventures and life lessons of a seasoned public health consultant whose career has taken him across four continents and very challenging situations. Far from a typical professional recounting,...

Our recent storms didn't start in 2020 or 2016. They started decades ago in the 1960s - a whirlwind of threatened nuclear catastrophe, then police dogs and rednecks terrorizing civil rights marchers down south, then Vietnamese children fleeing from napalm flames. Then draft notices...

Growing up in the United States was different for me and my siblings compared to an ordinary American family. Our father raised us in his traditional Filipino culture. We were not privy to many things as children. We had a difficult time understanding this...

"Trusting Trauma: Navigating Through Pain to Find Peace" provides a heartfelt exploration of the human experience, guiding readers on a transformative journey from suffering to healing, and ultimately to a place of profound peace.Drawing upon personal anecdotes, psychological insights, and spiritual wisdom, "Trusting Trauma"...

This simply narrated history of Genghis Khan traces the life of the great conqueror, from being the son of a minor chieftain in Mongolia to becoming the ruler of arguably the largest empire in history. PrefaceThe word khan is not a name, but a...

Who were these parents who had lived in a tent on an island in the Potomac River during the Depression, while the father wrangled WPA guidebooks toward publication, and later wrote speeches for the Senator investigating cartels during World War II, wrote the book...

Johannes' work is truly unique and timeless by challenging artisticconventions through an analogue method that seems to be forgotten in adigitised world. His objects break down the barrier between the object andthe viewer. The central element of his photography is that his objectsinvite the...

A book for dreamers and doers, this dreamer nurtured a lifelong vision to spend the last chapters of her life in her father's birthplace, Tobago. She spent 50 years benchmarking Tobago against places of interest on five continents. Re-live her adventures in 1984, flying...

A book for dreamers and doers, this dreamer nurtured a lifelong vision to spend the last chapters of her life in her father's birthplace, Tobago. She spent 50 years benchmarking Tobago against places of interest on five continents. Re-live her adventures in 1984, flying...

When Cancer came uninvited, faith, family, and unexpected strength showed up.I thought I was doing everything right.Balancing motherhood, working out, staying healthy, keeping faith tucked in my back pocket for the hard days.Then one day, life threw a punch I never saw coming -Breast...

Within these pages, a daughter makes her way through the messy, sacred, hilarious, heartbreaking journey of grief. Told through a mix of stories, letters, and poems, this anthology is raw and honest - sometimes irreverent, sometimes holy, sometimes both in the same breath. It's...

It remains Britain's biggest unsolved murder mystery. On November 7th 1974, at just after 9pm, Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, vanished into the night leaving in his wake a scene of chaos and carnage. Stuffed into a US mail sack in...

The true story of Timothy Goldring a successful British businessman in Singapore who in 2014 at age 61, is found guilty of Conspiracy to Cheat in the Court of Singapore. He is sentenced to seven years' incarceration in Singapore's notorious CHANGI PRISON COMPLEX, a...

Quaking Aspen, or Pando, is the largest living organism on Earth-an aspen grove in Utah with over 47,000 trunks and millions of leaves, all connected through a single root system. I was a miniature of that aspen grove. For me, the earth where this...

Ever wondered what it takes to shape a nation, conquer the skies, or inspire millions? The Heroes Among Us: 25 Extraordinary Indians gives children aged 8 to12 a backstage pass to the lives of those who changed India forever. Fly with Rakesh Sharma to...

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft through George Gissing is a semi-autobiographical novel that delves into the inner mind and reflections of its titular individual, Henry Ryecroft. The novel is obtainable as a series of magazine entries, presenting a glimpse into Ryecroft's solitary lifestyles...

La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West (Volume Ii) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Modernism and Its Others: U.S.-American Literature and Culture in the 1920s, language: English, abstract: When the French philosopher, critic and...

The ancestors of Thomas Ahab Nickell came from the Scottish Highlands - from Clan Mac Nicol on the Island of Skye in the Hebrides, from which it is said they joined with bands of Vikings in their raids of the coast of England. Later,...

In March 1900, Joachim Luchsinger, a penniless 18-year-old Swiss immigrant, traveled to America with a vision and a dream. With hard work and perseverance he became a nationally-known Jersey breeder and successful dairy farmer in upstate New York while teaching valuable life lessons and...

A Vision of Strength: The Michael Chronicles is a deeply personal memoir by Michael Irons. It shows mere pieces of his life as a person growing up in the 1970s with visual impairment, a crucial time when blindness was often overlooked and misunderstood without...

This is a true account of my life until age 45 Years. I have written it in the hope that it will inspire and encourage those who have experienced the effects of being without their biological families, being placed with the wrong people and...

My novel, 22 Ways A Nonfiction Portrayal, is the completely true story of my life. In this book, I re-live my journey through 22 entirely different jobs, each with its own unique experiences. These jobs include work in oil refineries, hospitals, nuclear pipe sales,...

Little Baghdad is a loving, historical, and personal account of an indigenous group of people who were forced out of their ancestral home, Mesopotamia. They found refuge in the United States, specifically Sterling Heights where according to archaeologists Native Americans lived more than 11,000...

The reality of adulting and/or parenting children, with Autism and ADHD. A very honest account of the author's experience of being diagnosed with Autism and ADHD at age 38. The difficulties and mental health struggles faced up until this point and the reasons why...

William was a historian, biblical commentator, biographer and classicist; his intellectual achievement is studied here. William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) was England's greatest historian after Bede. Although best known in his own time, as now, for his historical writings (his famous Deeds of the Bishops...

TADGLASS is a raw and gripping true story of survival, resilience, and the unyielding human spirit. Abandoned as a child and raised in an unforgiving institution, Ethan learns that trust is dangerous, love is conditional, and survival is a game he must master. When...

Nothing is ever coincidental. Everything happens for a reason. "Reason is around and within each one of us." Learn to create the reason within. George Spiric Fraxon This book is a work on the discovery of the Energy of Life. It has been forty...

In 1869, Empson Edward Middleton, an English ex-soldier and man of means, built himself a 23-foot sailboat and set about becoming the first man to single-handedly circumnavigate England. He chose the most difficult route he could think of, one of poorly charted sea lanes...