Biography & Autobiography - General

After the loss of her father, Emily Pittinos seeks solace on the road, but as she travels from Michigan to California and back again, she has to reckon with burdens everyone must bear--grief and guilt, resolution and closure, acceptance. In four poignant, lyrically adventurous...

Author Louella Christy Komuves was in a happy marriage that lasted 29 years until everything fell apart. Her husband, five years older than she, had silently struggled with his sexuality his entire life and finally made the decision to come out as a gay...

Follow the family history of the Cole family as seen through their matriarch's eyes. From the young age of 12, Angela Lily Cole hung onto every word her grandmother spoke. Learning of family past and present. Happiness and sadness. Triumph and loss. She is...

Author: Captain Francis Bond HeadISBN-10: 1913693201ISBN-13: 9781913693206Publisher: Clapton Press LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2022Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

"David is the absolute authority on Novello, and this new edition including Novello's own My Life is a bit of a must..." Alexandra Coghlan - The Sunday Times.This special 4th edition in hardback has been created to include My Life an autobiography created by...

Argues that the seeds of Ireland's transformation into a globalized, modern state were sown were sown between the mid 1950s and 1960s and at the heart of this revival were three men; T K Whitaker, the youthful Secretary of the Department of Finance, Sean...

Stories of today; celebrating 150 years. Why We Serve is a collection of stories from interviews with 150 RCMP Members from every province and territory across Canada. These stories are featured alongside photographs in a full-colour coffee table book to celebrate the 150th anniversary...

The life story of Mary Elizabeth LeBlanc in Jackie Muise's Island Girl is compelling and moving, not because she was highly unusual, but because she experienced, suffered, survived, and triumphed over challenges commonly faced by ordinary people during her era. She did so with...

BiographyBuu-Van was born March 1st, 1950 in Luangprabang, Laos as the youngest of four children to his Vietnamese immigrant parents.In 1975, he received his undergraduate degree in irrigation engineering from Nonthabury College of Engineering in Thailand.On January 29th, 1977, he married his other half,...

Coach Max Bass was a head football coach for thirty-two years; two years at the Boles School in Jacksonville, Florida, and twenty-nine years at Newnan High School in Newnan, Georgia. For eleven years, he also coached baseball, track, and golf. During his time in...

Coach Max Bass was a head football coach for thirty-two years; two years at the Boles School in Jacksonville, Florida, and twenty-nine years at Newnan High School in Newnan, Georgia. For eleven years, he also coached baseball, track, and golf. During his time in...

Have you ever wished you had written a book about your conversations with a colleague or close friend? Did you ever want to share your dreams or deeply held beliefs? In "First Fridays", you are invited to listen to the engaging and thought-provoking conversations...

Have you ever wished you had written a book about your conversations with a colleague or close friend? Did you ever want to share your dreams or deeply held beliefs? In "First Fridays", you are invited to listen to the engaging and thought-provoking conversations...

Sifting Your Life, and Gathering Pearls is the manifestation of more than six decades of poetry and prose, and the love of written and spoken word. Readers are witness to an elegantly crafted, and at times stark, slideshow of the American south, from The...

Sifting Your Life, and Gathering Pearls is the manifestation of more than six decades of poetry and prose, and the love of written and spoken word. Readers are witness to an elegantly crafted, and at times stark, slideshow of the American south, from The...

Caribbean Women's Migration: Windrush Era Housing Experiences and Aspirations is a qualitative case-study analysis of eight London-based women. The main purpose of the research was to document the housing histories of each subject over half a century since their arrival and subsequent settlement in...

State Mother Alice Marshall Jackson born August 17, 1908, to October 15, 2005. In her 97 years on God's green earth: She fought a good; She finished her course; She kept the faith; She lives on thru eternity! With style and gracious Mother Alice...

At age twenty-three, Goran Bixo emigrated to northern Minnesota, armed with an engineering degree from Katrineholm. His young sister, Ruth, in a memoir, remembers him and their grandfather, "Iorn Anners" (Iron Andersson), for songs and stories at Christmastime. As a child, Goran survived rheumatic...

This book is a collection of poetry and short stories that talk about love, hate, grief, and family. It explores the complex sides of growth and gratitude inside of grief and the strength it takes to get back up again.Author: Surayyah MuhammadISBN-10: 1662448139ISBN-13: 9781662448133Publisher:...

Day in, day out, Mike Murphy has been a constant presence with the San Francisco Giants since the team moved west in 1958. The clubhouse at Oracle Park bears his name, and in the jubilant aftermath of the team's 2010 World Series victory, Buster...

The journey of Buddhism over centuries, from India to China and then to Japan, is the stuff of mythology. But now, in our own time, we have witnessed and documented its historic crossing of the Pacific and its subsequent evolution in the Americas and...

Leonard Arrington (1917-99) was born an Idaho chicken rancher whose early interests seemed not to extend much beyond the American west. Throughout his life, he tended to project a folksy persona, although nothing was farther from the truth.He was, in fact, an intellectually oriented,...

An exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashian. In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally reproduced, we're all hungry to carve out our own unique personalities, our own bespoke personae,...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: William Andrew PetersISBN-10: 1528771907ISBN-13: 9781528771900Publisher:...

The Havah's Journey trilogy--Please Say Kaddish for Me, From Silt and Ashes, As One Must, One Can--abridged into one illustrated volume with bonus stories. No one can forget the bravery and perseverance of Havah Cohen Gitterman, the Jewish heroine of Rochelle Wisoff-Fields's captivating family...

Bishop Dr Omroy Miller had just preached a powerful sermon and was preparing for his daughter's surprise birthday party when his evening took an unexpected turn. A heart attack - for the sixth time.In Love Brought Me Back, Bishop Dr Miller shares this testimony...

Two books are combined into one. The first book is titled "Human Insecurity To God's Security" and the second book is titled "God's Security To God's Plans and Purpose".The first book looked at life from the prism of an insecure young boy going through...

Raising My Frequency is an autobiographical journey of awakening. Instead of deliberately seeking a spiritual journey, the journey "found" her. Setting out to experience the "More" of life, Catherine Ann Clemett shares her ever-expanding understanding and integration of who she is as a spiritual...

A debut essay collection from the winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize.Katherine Indermaur's full-length debut, II, is a serial lyric essay that explores the mirror's many dimensions --philosophical, spiritual, scientific, mythological, historical-- alongside the author's own experiences. Anyone who has...

Herb Welch, the inventor of the still popular streamer pattern, the Black Ghost, is Maine's first and only celebrity guide to gain international status. With over 200 images including archival black and white and color images by photographer John Swan, this book documents the...

The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of the first Moteuczoma, Tlacaelel would become "the most powerful, feared, and esteemed man of all that the world had seen up...

A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well--a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state's recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for...

Frances W. North is serious, funny, spontaneous and a lot of other adjectives. At 84 years old, she's experienced a lot of life, not all of it good. She was the youngest of 14. Her mother died when she was in first grade, ....

Our David was always an optimistic, endlessly determined person, and while he navigated through his challenges of having two rare disorders, it was never more evident! Share in his journey to make his little corner of the world a better place. His quick wit...

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional government of the Roman Republic evolved to include a leading role for Augustus. Peace at home was balanced with...

About the AuthorDr. Laurance R. Doyle, a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in Mountain View, CA, became interested in astronomy at age 6, when his Dad gave him a map of the Solar System with stars in the background,...

Anthony L. Eagle, or Tony to those that knew him, lived the only way he'd ever known- the street life, until he finally realized that doing the same thing over and over was insane. He missed out on his kid's lives, his marriage suffered,...

Selfless Choices raises awareness of the education options afforded to our children as it offers encouragement and empowers the reader. Through the eyes of a person of color and living in the inner city- the Bronx, Sharon shares her extensive search for better education...

S ren Agenoux had a few close brushes with fame. Andy Warhol filmed his superstar Ondine playing Scrooge in S ren's antic version of Dickens's A Christmas Carol at the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village. S ren's infamous zine The Sinking Bear captured the...

This book takes the reader into an intimate understanding of the many challenges, successes, and disappointments Dr. Rose Bruce experienced in her life. It includes divorce, self-exploration, higher education, death of a spouse, a lesbian relationship, alcoholism and recovery. It provides the reader with...

This book takes the reader into an intimate understanding of the many challenges, successes, and disappointments Dr. Rose Bruce experienced in her life. It includes divorce, self-exploration, higher education, death of a spouse, a lesbian relationship, alcoholism and recovery. It provides the reader with...

An incredible journey. One cannot be too prepared to be swept away. Deeply stilling and resonant, Galen's writing, like his brushstrokes, is a work of extraordinary meditation. Remarkably restrained and sublime, it is writing that emboldens the enormity of story with a cast of...

When Lieutenant Commander Bobby Thompson surfaced in Tampa in 1998, it was as if he had fallen from the sky, providing no hint of his past life. Eleven years later, St. Petersburg Times investigative reporter Jeff Testerman visited the rundown duplex Thompson used as...

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned...

A collection of poetry, visual art, photography, essays, and reflections by Malaya Ulan. Malaya Ulan is a fourteen-year-old Filipino-American based in Philadelphia. She writes as a way to process her memories of the Philippines contrasted with her experiences navigating patriarchy and white supremacy in...

REAL PRISON / REAL FREEDOM is a biography of Rickie Smith and how his life intersects with the woes of the prison system and with Warden Keith Price. Naturally, he wanted out, knowing that realistically it will never happen. Officials told him he'll never...

Inspired by real events, the novel Notorious Casolini tells the story of the life and adventures of Peppino Casolino. Peppino lived in the city of Barranfranca, Sicily. In the early 1900's. A gentle person of high moral values dedicated to his family, he wanted...

A continuation of the life and times of 8-yr-old Debora as she lives through the trying times of cultural changes from small town to rural poverty and back to the place, they called home. Those changes were worse going back home to Pine Bluff...

From the Roots to the Fruits: Becoming A Tree of Righteousness is the second published work by Author Teresa Pearsall, aka Tree Pears. Like the first published work, Seeds, Trees, Branches & Leaves, this book is a sequel collection of poems, lessons, and stoetries...

Have you ever felt or had thoughts that your life is cursed? Have you ever wondered why certain things happen to you? Does it seem as though negative incident after negative incident occurs in your life, and every time you take two steps forward,...