D.O - Biography & Memoir 10

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Now……続きを見る

In late April 1904, newspaper editors started sending reporters to St. Louis to report on the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A few weeks later, editors were invited for Press Day. Some of those who ……続きを見る

As a young man, I went to New Zealand in August 1974 to attend nursing school at Christchurch Public Hospital in Christchurch. I lived in Christchurch for four years and travelled about the country……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Hertz, Gerber. Nowhe……続きを見る

This is the True story of my Family Adventure and Disaster and the best thing that ever happened to me! The number, 6692 is the date, June 6th '92, when the curse that was placed upon the vessel fin……続きを見る

I am a Rapid Cycler in the Bi-Polar world. This means that sometimes I can cycle from an extreme high to an extreme low quickly. Most Rapids cycle four times within a year. At times I have cycled, f……続きを見る

From his birth in a Texas hill country town that no longer exists, Weldon L. Kennedy has come a long way. After service as a naval intelligence officer, he joined the FBI in 1963. Over the course of……続きを見る

It's not often one has the chance to become 20 again... A World Ago chronicles, through one young man's journal and vivid letters to his parents, his life, adventures, and experiences at a magical t……続きを見る

In Pink is the memoir of a self-made woman who succeeded on her own terms by seizing the opportunity created by Mary Kay Ash when she founded her unique company at the very epoch of the women’s move……続きを見る

Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its historyーthirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born ……続きを見る

This file includes: African and European Addresses, Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography, A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open, Hero Tales from American History, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches……続きを見る

For pediatric heart surgeon Hisashi Nikaidoh, MD, a chance encounter near the hospital cafeteria would stay in his mind forever. The woman he ran into had lost her son in this hospital years earlier……続きを見る

An award-winning poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell to Vietnam, the chaotic sixties, and their long aftermath. “We tend to write about what will not go away,” Doug A……続きを見る

Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid……続きを見る

In the early 1940s a family is embroiled in scandal and a boy’s life turned upside down when his Orthodox Jewish mother leaves his father for her lesbian lover and becomes a Pentecostal Christian. C……続きを見る

Doreen Galvin's work in WWII was classified as "Top Secret" for at least 30 years after the cessation of hostilities. The atmosphere and events of the time, she wrote down many years later. She rela……続きを見る

Shows how, step-by-step, to create and publish an unforgettable gift, A High School Graduation Book, a lifelong keepsake that captures an event, memory, or one-time rite of passage. This is a book t……続きを見る

A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Ri……続きを見る

I was born in 1944, only 81 years after slavery, when segregation was the law of the land, and Black baby boys had a life expectancy of 55 years.  This is the story of my development from Negro to N……続きを見る

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) is a series of stories about the life of a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard is convinced that he is the brave……続きを見る

ABOUT THREE QUARTERS Teresa Madaleno reviews… “Three Quarters” by Donna Kakonge From the first chapter, Three Quarters manages to draw you in so that you sympathize with the main character who happe……続きを見る

So…This is Grace Short description/smashword so…this is grace is a true story of a woman named grace. it follows her through the school years into adult life. she lived through some difficult times ……続きを見る

The true story of a member of the famous group (Boy Band) Menudo, Raymond Acevedo, who at 12 years of age was determined to enroll and belong to the group Menudo. His struggles, determination and fa……続きを見る

Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "Spearhead" division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only indi……続きを見る

“You don’t have to be a millionaire to leave a legacy,” someone has said. We attempted to capture family history on paper as part of our legacy. Another concept, “Every time someone passes away, a l……続きを見る

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she w……続きを見る

In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans ……続きを見る

Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party’s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take……続きを見る

In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn Afghanistan to help the Afghans assem……続きを見る

The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences, by His Great-granddaughter, Sarah N. Randolph This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents……続きを見る