Biography & Autobiography

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Report copyright infringementby Gina Chick (Author)Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read. WINNER OF THE MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 INDIE BOOK AWARDS, BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR From day one of her wildly unconventional childhood, Gina blazed her own trail, which led her to dance through a hidden world of '90s nightlif...

The Patient Wait of the Stones: Time and Memory in Lunigiana

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Report copyright infringementby Antonio Romani (Author), Martha Cooley (Translator)A poetic, personal, and historical narrative of a late in life move to a tiny Italian village and a reflection on time and memory in the shadow of a medieval castle borgo.The Patient Wait of the Stones is a memorable meditation on the phenomena of place and the compelling force of history. First published in Italian, this hybrid narrative combines memoir with national and regional history. This literary work is...

The Messi Effect: How the Global Legend Changed the Future of American Soccer

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Tenorio (Author)In The Messi Effect, Paul Tenorio, national soccer writer for The Athletic, draws on coveted insider access to bring readers behind the ropes and into the inner sanctum and chronicle the last act of Lionel Messi. In The Messi Effect, Paul Tenorio, national soccer writer for The Athletic, who has spent more than a decade breaking news and providing critical insight into the power and politics of the sport, draws on his numerous high-rankin...

Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Larson (Author)In the tradition of bestselling classics such as Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Benjamin Lorr's The Secret Life of Groceries comes a character-driven exploration of the modern supermarket, unpacking what works and what doesn't, and delivering a blueprint for a better way to shop. Grocery stores may all seem the same. But the supermarket as an institution is anything but ordinary or one-dimensional. At the supermarket where I worked...

The Man Who Walked Through Storms: The Life of a Man Who Should Not Have Survived

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Report copyright infringementby G. O. Q. Author (Author)SOME JOURNEYS ARE NOT CHOSEN.THEY ARE SURVIVED.This book is about walking.Walking through fear.Walking through hunger.Walking through land that listens.In the second volume of the Forged in Fire series, a young man leaves a collapsing city and enters a world governed by harsher rules-those of terrain, borders, animals, hunger, and men with weapons.From night marches through wild land to illegal crossings and months of living without a na...

Four Directions, One Heartbeat, FROM FEAR TO LOVE: How Hardship Opened Doors

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Report copyright infringementby Michael M. Sweat (Author)The author's writing style is a unique blend of his personality, experiences, and linguistic choices. In the case of Michael M Sweat, the author of "Four Directions, One Heartbeat", his writing style appears to be reflective, personal, and emotive.He uses phrases like "There was a time in my life when fear was louder than anything else" to convey a sense of vulnerability and introspection, which suggests that his writing style is: - *Pe...

Farm Queen Adventures of a First Generation Farm Girl: Small town girl who fled rural life to live in the city only to return to the country to learn

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Report copyright infringementby Cindy Boyd (Author)I found a little more adventure than I bargained for while becoming a self-taught first-generation organic farmer. Once a tenacious small-town girl who moved to the city to escape rural living, only to return to the country 15 years later to become what I had never anticipated: a farmer! The future I wanted was declared barren, so I birthed a new one.A series of fantastical lessons and funny adventures led the way to my self-declaration of Fa...

The California Blues: A Musical Journey from the South to the West Coast

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Crawford (Author)"Blues is a feeling. It's all in what happened in my life or to someone else's life, which is the true facts and a feeling. When you've been mistreated, you're not the onliest one. Someone else in the world has been mistreated-that's the blues. It's all in your feeling and the feeling is a true part of life."̶ Jimmy McCracklin, from The California Blues "Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blu...

The Three Wives of Queer William S. Burroughs

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Antonic (Author)Although he was openly homosexual, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs married three women. Famously, he married the first of them, Ilse Herzfeld, to help her escape Nazi persecution, but almost nothing was known about her except an assortment of assumptions and exaggerations. Perhaps the most consequential act of his life was the accidental killing of another wife, Joan Vollmer, in 1951, but again her life has been poorly documented. Hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Harnol (Author)A traveler arrives in the United States and accepts a temporary place on a rural farm in Kentucky. The setting appears stable: work, routine, generosity, space. The days move forward without urgency. Nothing seems wrong.Yet the order depends on silence. Events reset. Words lose continuity. What felt solid begins to repeat itself, slightly altered each time. Staying requires adjustment-not to the work, but to the unspoken rules governing wh...

Departures: About What Happened, and My Telling of It

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Milana (Author)A memoir, spanning the last year, of losses, both private and public, including October 7th and our reactions to it; it seeks to balance honoring those lost, a gratitude for their gifts, with the dearth and injustices brought. In short, a prayer. Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 22, 2024

Growing up in Sparta and Other Adventures

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Stanley Buege (Author)Why read about a person who is neither rich nor famous? Nothing in my life has shifted the world from its axis, but it is little people like us who create history. We are the essential inhabitants of Small Town, USA.This biography tells of a forgotten lifestyle. It describes one-room schoolhouses and 15 cent movies with double features and newsreels. It depicts Halloweens without fear of darkness or needles in candy. We were free-ran...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosebud Baker (Author)An astonishingly candid and funny memoir that will make you laugh and cry while it steals your heart, from a renowned stand-up comedian and veteran SNL writer who is "an expert in making light of life's most devastating moments" (Rolling Stone). Rosebud Baker grew up as a loudmouth who preferred to be honest than polite, which is another way of saying she was unemployable. She spent her twenties trying to make it as an actor in New York li...

Perseverance Abroad: The Memoir of Lucien Denis Mocombe

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Report copyright infringementby Lucien Denis Mocombe (Author)These memoirs have so many facets that will pique the interests of young and old, Haitians and non-Haitians, physicians as well as non-physicians. One will appreciate Dr. Mocombe's candor as he describes the shock of social acculturation, which is the common lot of all foreigners trying to adapt to a new country and a new culture, as he had to do three times along the way. This story is also a history of resilience and triumph, as h...

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Report copyright infringementby Tristan Buckner (Author)American Skin, Southern Soil: A Journey Through Race, Justice, and Redemption in the American Southby Tristan J. BucknerA raw, unflinching memoir of survival, transformation, and truth-telling in a land where justice runs deep-but not always fair.Tristan J. Buckner was born into the red clay of the South, raised in a system that saw his skin before his soul. From the cracked pavement of St. Louis to the prison yards of Tennessee, he live...

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Report copyright infringementby Cara Coles (Author)You really can have anything you want out of life, no matter what. Living and Coping with Epilepsy, My Way is about the author's journey living and dealing with epilepsy, finding the law of attraction, and how her life has changed since then.Author BiographyCara Coles works as a healthcare professional. She lives in a busy household of dogs and other pets in Winchester, UK. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.3 ...

Napoleon's the Art of War and Power: Gilded Pocket Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Napoleon Bonaparte (Author)Author BiographyNapoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was the French Emperor between 1804 and 1814 and conquered most of Europe before his eventual defeat at Waterloo. Rising from his modest background on Corsica to seize the opportunities presented by the French Revolution, he became the personification of Republican France and the most notorious man of the era. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.72 x 6.62 x 4.1 IN...

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis McIntyre (Author)Near the end of our lives we may take the time to reflect and find meaning. Family, friends and acquaintances may have influenced us in our journey or we may have made a difference in their lives. "Reflections" is a journey of this author's life as he nears his final years. Lives touched through everydayinteractions become trophies of a life well lived. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Chyna Edghill (Author)Postpartum is A Mother is a thoughtfully written, research-informed book created as a first resource for postpartum mothers learning who they are becoming after birth. It gives language to the emotions and experiences many women struggle to articulate - exhaustion, anxiety, sleep deprivation, body changes, identity shifts, and the quiet feeling of losing yourself while caring for someone new.Rooted in shared experiences and current researc...

Attending Alaska's Birds: A Wildlife Pilot's Story

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Report copyright infringementby James G. King (Author)Attending Alaska's Birds, author King's 60 year memoir, covers a dramatic period in Alaska's history, a time when the people increased five-fold to over 600 thousand.King arrived in Alaska in 1949 at the age of 21. He describes life as a pilot/game warden, a refuge manager, a flyway biologist and an expert at enumerating birds while whizzing over them in a small plane. Over the past half century, James G. (Jim) King has probably been invol...

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 12

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), Benjamin Griffin (Editor)Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."--New York Times "His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."--Los Angeles Times Book Review When the first...

Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor (Author)Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and interrogates the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize. The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It's a word that Elizabeth Pryor...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Benesch (Author)It's Me from the Big Apple to Bean Town by Walter Benesch is a captivating and soul-stirring memoir that invites readers into the heart of a life lived with curiosity, courage, and deep conviction. From the streets of 1970s New York City to the academic avenues of Boston, Benesch tells his story through heartfelt letters to his daughter-sharing his most pivotal moments with disarming honesty and humor. A graduate of Franconia College and ...

Too Many Coincidences: A Pattern Behind Sudden and Mysterious Deaths

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Report copyright infringementby Danish Ali Bajwa (Author)Why do some deaths feel too strangely timed to ignore?Throughout history, sudden and mysterious deaths have raised unsettling questions. Political leaders, journalists, scientists, whistleblowers, celebrities, and influential public figures have sometimes died under circumstances that appear unusual, controversial, or suspicious. One isolated tragedy may be accepted as coincidence-but when similar events begin to repeat within circles o...

The Moneytron Machine: Rise and Fall of the Man Who Conned Europe's Elite

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Report copyright infringementby Adam H. S. Stone (Author)He had 108 Ferraris, a private jet, and a seat in the Belgian Parliament. He claimed his supercomputer, the "Moneytron," could predict the stock market with mathematical certainty. To the elite of Europe, Jean-Pierre van Rossem was a financial messiah. To the law, he was a ghost. To his victims, he was an $800 million nightmare.Step into the smoke-filled rooms of 1980s Brussels and the high-octane pit lanes of Formula 1 in this gripping...

The Papers of James Madison, Purchased by Order of Congress, Being His Correspondence and Reports of Debates...

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Report copyright infringementby James Madison (Author), Henry D. 1801-1860 Gilpin (Author).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 will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world...

Mothertongue: A Meditation on Memory, Truth and Love

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Report copyright infringementby Morgan (Author)A memoir about growing up in Scotland in the sixties and seventies with undiagnosed autismIs it ever too late to discover your authentic self? Alex Morgan always felt different, she just didn't know why. As a child living above the family's Edinburgh dress shop, she learned from her mother that the world was filled with monsters - her father chief among them - and dreadful things could happen at any time. To stay safe, she spent almost sixty year...

Cancer, the Gift: A Breast Cancer Survivor's Companion to Defiant Joy and Grace

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Report copyright infringementby Mia Saenz (Author), Kate Houston (Author)A literary micro-memoir anthology for every woman navigating the breast cancer journey: at diagnosis, in active treatment, and in the long after of a life forever changed.Cancer, the Gift, written by Mia Saenz and Kate Houston and featuring eight women contributors, spans the full arc of the breast cancer experience. These are stories of real reckoning - what it costs to face it fully, and what becomes possible when noth...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorit Kemsley (Author)From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley comes a candid memoir in which she reveals the unscripted moments that shaped who she is today.Dorit Kemsley has spent years cultivating a persona that exudes elegance, ambition, and confidence. But behind the designer labels and otherwise picture-perfect image lies a story of resilience, transformation, and self-discovery. Now, for the first time, she's telling this story in ful...

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Report copyright infringementby Chrissy Osborne (Author)'Michael Collins, Himself' focuses on the man behind the mask. Not the soldier, statesman or guerrilla, but the real, human Michael Collins. This unique approach offers insights into Collins' personal life and the crucial role women had to play in it; his likes, dislikes, interests and personality; and includes the memories and anecdotes of members of his family and descendants of those who knew him. The book is accompanied by photograph...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Godwin (Author)From the three-time National Book Award nominee and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin comes an incandescent reflection on past and present that speaks urgently to our current political moment."He just had the presidency stolen from him."Gail Godwin first heard these words in November 1960, one of a crush of reporters eagerly awaiting the first postelection meeting between Kennedy and Nixon. Hearing an uncanny echo in the aftermat...

Ultra Women: Stories of Unstoppable Female Power

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Wilkinson (Author), Lily Canter (Author)WINNER SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR WOMEN'S WRITING PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARTHE TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A celebration of female bodies, female pioneers and female endurance' - The GuardianWhat happens when women run beyond the marathon - and refuse to stop? Ultra Women is a gripping, behind-the-scenes journey into the high-stakes world of female endura...