Biography & Autobiography - General

The Applegate Trail of 1846, describes the events that happened more than 150-years-ago, on the first wagon train, to take the trail through southern Oregon that would later be called the Applegate Trail. This trail left the Oregon Trial near Fort Hall in Idaho,...

From 1978 to 1982, the author was employed by a company called The Company, among other names. These are but a few of the stories of his time there, on the fringes of organized crime, in what the author terms as the Subunderworld.Author: Dan...

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest...

Queen Moremi AjasoroA Queen with a torch in her hand sacrificed her happiness to safe her people from the terrors of the Ugbos. Queen Moremi was the Queen of Ile Ife who hailed from Offa (city in Kwara State), she was married to the...

Raymond Reddington is a highly intelligent, highly driven individual with developed sociopathic tendencies. For all intents and purposes, this was caused by a post-traumatic stress disorder as there are no signs that he was born this way. Sly, manipulative, and charming. Red is always...

This is a history of the Walter and Cordelia Knott family. It describes the amazing life journey of Walter from his birth in San Bernardino, California through his time as a young farmer, to his days as a political activist towards the end of...

In his first book, Khalifa Al Matrooshi gives us a peak into some of his life experiences and writes about his advice to both experienced and new entrepreneurs alike. A lifetime of experience that moulded him into the man behind K7 Holdings formation and...

Biographical tales from Dr. Rusty Taylor's boyhood life on a rural dairy farm near Daytona Beach, Florida. This book gives glimpses of Daytona's mid-century history as well as adventures on the farm. Rusty grew up to be Ralph Newton Taylor, DVM. His wife, Paula...

Violet Furlonger was brought up in the provincial English town of Haslemere, in Surrey. She was born in 1893 and when she was 15, Violet began her dressmaking apprenticeship.In 1914 her country was catapulted into a World War, and her life changed forever. Most...

Anna-Mart explains, "Silence before Storm portrays the story of my son, Andries' battle with Cystic Fibrosis, and the miracle of a double lung transplant, which gave him the chance to have a quality life. Through His grace, as well as answered prayers, the Lord...

In this captivating memoir, Sarah shares how she was brought out of suffering in silence and established as a "Woman with a Word".Kidnapped. Trafficked. Suicidal. Incarcerated. "...He began slapping and biting me. He was exhausted from beating me. He didn't have the energy to...

This Fun Coloring Book Gets your Kids in the Mood!This Unique Coloring Book is sure to please and make the perfect present to give to an awesome boy kid.The perfect way to express your gratitude, 8.5 "x 11", 110 coloring pages are provided for...

This Fun Coloring Book Gets your Kids in the Mood!This Unique Coloring Book is sure to please and make the perfect present to give to an awesome boy kid.The perfect way to express your gratitude, 8.5 "x 11", 110 coloring pages are provided for...

This Fun Coloring Book Gets your Kids in the Mood!This Unique Coloring Book is sure to please and make the perfect present to give to an awesome boy kid.The perfect way to express your gratitude, 8.5 "x 11", 110 coloring pages are provided for...

Grandad What's Your Life Story? A Guided Grandad Book of MemoriesThis book is designed to inspire grandfathers to write about their life's memories and precious moments, following the guided prompts with sections on childhood, family and fatherhood, these books give you the perfect chance...

An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves--true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive societyFor eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which...

Is your child obsessed with rhinos? Then they'll love learning more about their favourite mammal in Rhinos: The Ultimate Rhino Book for Kids! Featuring over 100 exciting rhino facts illustrated with beautiful hi-res photos and a fun quiz and puzzles, this interactive book is...

Biography of the late American composer Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), exploring his work and important personal associations. In this first biography of American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), Robert Riggs paints a vivid picture of an extraordinary, multifaceted musician. Refugees from Hitler's...

In 1903, a beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, became the site of history. There, brother Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the first powered flight. Others had come before them and flown using gliders. But with their inventions of a lightweight engine and airplane...

In 1903, a beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, became the site of history. There, brother Wilbur and Orville Wright achieved the first powered flight. Others had come before them and flown using gliders. But with their inventions of a lightweight engine and airplane...

Thomas Edison was a brilliant inventor. He received over 1,000 patents throughout his life! But he is, perhaps, best known as the inventor--or more accurately, improver--of the light bulb. What's more, he developed a system to bring electric light to entire buildings, and then...

Thomas Edison was a brilliant inventor. He received over 1,000 patents throughout his life! But he is, perhaps, best known as the inventor--or more accurately, improver--of the light bulb. What's more, he developed a system to bring electric light to entire buildings, and then...

Grace Hopper was a big part of teams that worked on the earliest computers, including the landmark MARK I and UNIVAC I and II. She developed the compiler and was instrumental in the creation of programming languages that used English words instead of symbols....

Grace Hopper was a big part of teams that worked on the earliest computers, including the landmark MARK I and UNIVAC I and II. She developed the compiler and was instrumental in the creation of programming languages that used English words instead of symbols....

George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter--but, he did make it popular! In addition, he found more than 300 other uses for peanuts, including candy, soap, and even medicine. His humble roots as an enslaved person didn't stop him from becoming a successful agricultural...

George Washington Carver didn't invent peanut butter--but, he did make it popular! In addition, he found more than 300 other uses for peanuts, including candy, soap, and even medicine. His humble roots as an enslaved person didn't stop him from becoming a successful agricultural...

Benjamin Franklin was a writer, Founding Father, scientist, and inventor! He not only invented new things--like bifocals and the armonica--but also improved on inventions others had made. In this informative volume, readers learn about why and how he invented the lightning rod, including key...

Benjamin Franklin was a writer, Founding Father, scientist, and inventor! He not only invented new things--like bifocals and the armonica--but also improved on inventions others had made. In this informative volume, readers learn about why and how he invented the lightning rod, including key...

Since the invention of the telephone, there has been controversy over who really invented it: Was it really Alexander Graham Bell? Or was is Elisha Gray--or someone else? But, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first patent issued to a design for a telephone,...

Since the invention of the telephone, there has been controversy over who really invented it: Was it really Alexander Graham Bell? Or was is Elisha Gray--or someone else? But, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first patent issued to a design for a telephone,...

Through childhood flashbacks and wild adventures as a young man, we trace the life of free-spirited Freddy Snakes as he explores the seedy and adventurous corners of Māratopia, encountering a diverse array of characters and dangerous situations in his quest to uncover buried truths...

A brilliant approach to the queerness of one of Taiwan's greatest auteurs A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema--and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre--Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and...

In Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization....

Ingmar Bergman's rich legacy as film director and writer of classics such as The Seventh Seal, Scenes From a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander has attracted scholars not only in film studies but also of literature, theater, gender, philosophy, religion, sociology, musicology, and more....

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a fan's love, a fiction writer's eye, and an essayist's sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through line quite...

Historical Society of New Mexico's Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award Santa Fe Trail Association's Louise Barry Writing Award The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the...

Sherman and Grace Coolidge were a remarkable couple in many respects. Sherman Coolidge (Runs On Top), born in the early 1860s into the Northern band of Arapahos, experienced the extreme violence of the Indian Wars, including the death of his father, as a young...

Sherman Coolidge's (1860-1932) panoramic life as survivor of the Indian Wars, witness to the maladministration of the reservation system, mediator between Native and white worlds, and ultimate defender of Native rights and heritage made him the embodiment of his era in American Indian history....

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Life of the Indigenous Mind David Mart?ez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most influential Indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual architects of the...

Dr. Robert Sharp tells remarkable, highly readable, and true stories of a country vet's encounters with animal patients of all kinds, their equally unusual if not unique owners, and the flavorful rural settings they inhabit. The Bull in the Darkness and the One-Eyed Dog...

George Chakiris famously played the angry gang leader Bernardo in the film version of West Side Story (1961), for which he won an Oscar for best supporting actor. My West Side Story is an insider's look at how this theatrical and cinematic landmark evolved...

Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled an essential work for every film lover's library.Author: Barry MonushISBN-10: 1493070800ISBN-13: 9781493070800Publisher: Applause BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2022Pages: 832Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.17lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.65d

Send a Ranger: My Life Serving the National Parks is the story of one park ranger's journey from Gettysburg to Denali and back, raising a family, contending with bears, and rescuing hikers, in four national parks over more than 30 years. Interspersed with real-time...

Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience...

Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a black editor or...

Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a black editor or...

This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture. T Bone Burnett is...

Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has invited in the world...

Ann Miles has been chronicling life in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca for more than thirty years. In that time, she has witnessed change after change. A large regional capital where modern trains whisk residents past historic plazas, Cuenca has invited in the world...

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has been written about Botvinnik himself. This book explores his unusual dual career--as a highly regarded scientist as well as...