Biography & Autobiography - General

The question is, how did I become a seventy-two-year-old woman, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, wife, stepmother, editor, poet, essayist, artist and friend who ends every single day sending her prayers of thanks to the moon? A frank and moving reflection on how a shy English...

When Deborah's father asked her to care for his older sister after an accident, she swiftly moved Auntie Rita into her home. What followed was 'one hell of a ride' and not one to be missed.Deborah and her husband Paul tirelessly indulged-and even learnt...

When Deborah's father asked her to care for his older sister after an accident, she swiftly moved Auntie Rita into her home. What followed was 'one hell of a ride' and not one to be missed.Deborah and her husband Paul tirelessly indulged-and even learnt...

It is an old truism that people who want to place theirperplexities in proportion or simply to clear their headstake a walk, and hope it is a pleasant one. The author is no exception and as an urban walker seeksplaces with a significant cultural...

When newly commissioned Royal Engineers Second Lieutenant Lawrence (Tommy) Bond was ordered overseas in February 1943, he left behind his wife Millicent and their two small children. They would not be reunited for more than two and a half years. How, in those pre-internet...

Tracie was fifteen when she ran away from an abusive father. At the end of her first day of freedom, she was running from two men with a rope. Blazing through the forest, she felt the papers in her shoes she had spent years...

A spirited artist with a can-do attitude, Yvonne Wakefield naively leaves behind a secure life in the lush Pacific Northwest to teach art in the desert state of Kuwait. Over the course of six years, she will instruct university aged Muslim women, earn her...

Travel! Adventure! Romance! What could possibly go wrong? It's 1972 when free-spirited "good girl," Fay, takes off on a 3-year journey around the U.S. and Europe in search of jobs, apartments and boyfriends. She soon finds navigating her way through The Real World will...

Travel! Adventure! Romance! What could possibly go wrong? It's 1972 when free-spirited "good girl," Fay, takes off on a 3-year journey around the U.S. and Europe in search of jobs, apartments and boyfriends. She soon finds navigating her way through The Real World will...

"In the history of literature one happens, from time to time, upon a book which has been written because the author had no choice but to write it," biographer Walter Besart said of Richard Jefferies' The Story of My Heart. "He was compelled by...

How do you make sense of your mother who married five times or your father who left his birth family and changed his name? What do you do with three differing newspaper accounts of your father's death? How does your uncle, "the Dynamite Man,"...

"You are the spine of your own book and have been graced to carry the volume of your pages". This is one of many insightful and provocative thoughts T.W. Suggs shares in his book, "Running Through the Rain: My Stories, Reflections, and Kind Reminders"....

Personal, philosophical, and conceptual essays by an Australian architect, on the meaning of "home" and "place," on architecture in Australia, houses for Aboriginal people, Australian history, her personal connection with Aboriginal red dirt country, all centering around the Hojoki, an early Japanese text on...

A trauma survivor, Nelson-Moon delivers a blow to the hypocritical ethical and cultural background in which she was raised. Left to deal with her emotional, mental, and sexual abuse, she shows how her sexual infringement becomes her Achilles heel. Her mix of fear, pain,...

"Memoirs are writings for our children and our children's children." So writes Maurita Estes Stueck in the Prologue to Passages with only 10 stories first copied for her children on her 90th birthday in Estes Park, Colorado.This is a collection of memoirs of a...

The early fight for civil rights for Black people in America is filled with excitement, danger, courage, Jim Crow laws, lynching, court battles, and has no shortage of learning lessons that still empower today. Author, NAACP activist, and criminologist Elvis Slaughter understands this deeply....

Multi-million dollar companies and titans of the industry aren't built overnight, or alone. Key players wielding bright ideas help pave the way. Damon Haley is one of those people. Throughout his multifaceted career, Damon led the marketing and global branding for iconic brands such...

Discover Where Poetry Begins25 ORIGINAL ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS. An innovative anthology of essential information about the development of the writing craft--memoirs and interviews of outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds who recall the ways by which they made their start as writers.Contributors include Jane Hirshfield,...

Even through a lifelong struggle with failures, adversities, and fears, Pat never lost Faith in his dream of being happy, fulfilled, and successful. That used to mean making a lot of money. He later realized that it actually means doing something meaningful. Something that...

"My Special Life Memoirs" is my triumphant journey and encouragement for those who have the privelage of rearing exceptional students. My hope is that you will feel and know that you are not alone; Every emotion, every tear, every up and every down that...

"My Special Life Memoirs" is my triumphant journey and encouragement for those who have the privelage of rearing exceptional students. My hope is that you will feel and know that you are not alone; Every emotion, every tear, every up and every down that...

I believe what you think about, you bring about, and all thoughts become things. I am an ordinary girl living an extraordinary life because of this thought process. It's quite simple, and I will go through and explain how easy it can be! As...

There is very little written from the perspective of siblings of chronic, mentally ill individuals. This book documents the perplexing lives experienced by Jane's two younger sisters, striving to live their own lives while inundated with Jane's calamities and inappropriate behavior. Jane was well...

What a wonderful and inspirational true story of dreams becoming a reality! "My Hundred Dollar Horse" captures the hearts of the readers, young and old, as we journey together to discover how the prayers of a young girl desiring to have her own horse...

We Are America, We Are AmericansBy: Matt TeahanA Journey through life (at least part of it)... and the lessons learned... and in a rare instance.... taught. In this quasi-autobiography, I answer the confounding questions of our day through a riveting (for some people) journey...

Journey of a Lifetime: The First 100 YearsThe Memoirs of Ilja Buz: July 27, 1920 - July 27, 2020By: Tatjana Buz PittsWith stories of hardship and endurance, of struggle and triumph, of desperation and deliverance, of survival and faith, Journey of a Lifetime: The...

Most of us would agree that New York and the South are very different places today, both culturally and politically. Yet, surprisingly, during the 19th century they shared a common outlook. As a native New Yorker, Donald J. Green was astonished to learn that...

Compound D (Old English-Public Domain): The Struggle of a Family in America's Most Dangerous CityNow that we are retired, we travel around the country and meet folks who claim to be from Detroit. We ask, "Really? What neighborhood?" The response is some affluent suburban...

Finding Hope is a story of a young man with a Tom Sawyer-like knack for getting himself and his friends into trouble. Alcohol and drugs begin to take a toll on him, and eventually take him down a road from which he will spend...

Finding Hope is a story of a young man with a Tom Sawyer-like knack for getting himself and his friends into trouble. Alcohol and drugs begin to take a toll on him, and eventually take him down a road from which he will spend...

For the first time since the publication of his internationally bestselling novel, Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano shares his early-life experience with the violence of the Neapolitan Mafia and how exposing them irrevocably changed his life. Italian journalist Roberto Saviano was twenty-six years old when he...

Wanda thought being young and attractive would take her places, but what she found was a big letdown. She spent decades running from the real world and struggled day by day to live a purposeful life. Thankfully, by the grace of God, her life...

This is a continuation of the story of Anne Angelo, as published in the companion book: A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass. It is a heart-warming story that completely justifies the researching and writing. It demonstrates how inexorably lives can be...

This is the story of Anne Angelo. It is a heart-warming story that demonstrates how inexorably lives can be shaped and directed by the circumstances of birth and the environment in which the formative years are spent." "Born in Invergordon, RossShire, in the Highlands...

In The Return you will journey with us, through this true story, of changing times and hope. Hope that will shine in the darkness.Author: Stephen BennettISBN-10: 1669887189ISBN-13: 9781669887188Publisher: Xlibris AuLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2022Pages: 70Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31d

In The Return you will journey with us, through this true story, of changing times and hope. Hope that will shine in the darkness.Author: Stephen BennettISBN-10: 1669887162ISBN-13: 9781669887164Publisher: Xlibris AuLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2022Pages: 70Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 10/10/2022

Growing up is hard enough, but imagine growing up in a world full of chaos. In Father, Daddy, Dad, Natalie struggles to find her place in this world, all the while desiring the love of the father she never knew. Follow her on her...

Read and experience the story and life of Vernie Pharr King, a woman whose life has been filled with love, religion, education, and hard work. Her life has been filled with many lessons and experiences. Raised during the height of Jim Crow Laws and...

Read and experience the story and life of Vernie Pharr King, a woman whose life has been filled with love, religion, education, and hard work. Her life has been filled with many lessons and experiences. Raised during the height of Jim Crow Laws and...

"What is the process? Esoteric means method. Bodily methods and mental methods, bodily methods, mental methods separately also, too cause effects such as concentration, bioluminescence, or Spirituality in any order can be experienced. The process therefore is physiology and psychology separately and combined in...

A story about dating and heartbreak during the pandemic and how I learned to be there for myself when no one else was.Author: JaneISBN-10: 166982991XISBN-13: 9781669829911Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2022Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.15d

Sharecropper's Daughter is a Memoir written by a Tennessee farm girl who grew up to marry a sailor and become a preachers wife, mother, musician, artist and author.Author: Bettye Faye AbrahamsonISBN-10: 1669829499ISBN-13: 9781669829492Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2022Pages: 62Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

My friendship with Dr. Antal Syom covers more than seven decades. He decided during our high school years to commit himself to the practice of medicine, both as a scientist and a clinician, a decision that no doubt grew out of his battle with...

In April 1988, I proposed marriage to my girlfriend Carey. She said yes! I'm not sure she said yes because she wanted to be my wife or she was shocked by the question and didn't know what else to say as we had not...

The first four chapters are a memoir of my days in Morocco 1972-1973. I was a Hippie smoking hashish and taking LSD regularly. This led to a psychotic breakdown. Moroccan authorities placed me in a prison for the insane in Tangier. I was rescued...

The first four chapters are a memoir of my days in Morocco 1972-1973. I was a Hippie smoking hashish and taking LSD regularly. This led to a psychotic breakdown. Moroccan authorities placed me in a prison for the insane in Tangier. I was rescued...

This is a great short story with very good reviews. This book is about a mixed Irish and Dutch teenager who was raise in the Roaring 20's and ran away in the late 1920's.Only to run into the Great Depression of the 30's. She...

We may never know the true meaning of friendships, love or family. We've always been taught since birth what's accepted or not in the real world. What's really the definition of LOVE? Are we really accepted for whom we are or is everyone for...

We may never know the true meaning of friendships, love or family. We've always been taught since birth what's accepted or not in the real world. What's really the definition of LOVE? Are we really accepted for whom we are or is everyone for...

On a cloudy February morning, heading home from an uneventful trip to the Sunday flea market, I reluctantly turn into a deserted parking lot. I noticed two dealers were here at opposite ends. Little did I expect this would turn into a year and...