An Autobiography, Paperback

One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songw...

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Reducere. James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission. The society that ...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

When you look at the picture on the cover of this book, what do you 'see'? A tiny baby that probably won't survive; or, a gift from God. Who, even ...

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Reducere. "Uncle Tom's Story of His Life" is a slave narrative written by Josiah Henson, who would later become famous for being the basis of the title chara...

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially...

General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace w...

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DescriptionThis book is the original autobiographical work by Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. In this book, Ford details how he got ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Weldon JohnsonFirst published anonymously in 1912, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is James Weldon's Johnson...

Reducere. Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918) is an autobiography by Earl Lind. Accompanied by an introduction by Dr. Alfred W. Herzog, Lind's autobiography...

Reducere. Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Ada...

The shocking, seminal memoir of a key member of L.A. gang the Crips, first published in 1990.Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressAuthor(...

An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father,...

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. As Blighty, Great Britain was a qui...

A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form...

Reducere. Intimate insights from the saint to whom Our Lord gave the Sacred Heart revelations. Includes Our Lord's own words to her and tells how she sought ...

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The memoirs of a legendary figure in TV and the arts, beautifully written, honest and fascinating.

Margaret Sanger - An Autobiography is a memoir written by famous American birth control activist with a goal to promote her main cause - the fight ...

Reducere. Written towards the end of 1937 during his Europe trip, after being nominated the President of the Indian National Congress, An Indian Pilgrim trac...

Reducere. This book is about some of the life experiences of a retired chief of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe of Delaware. He informs us what it was like growin...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn G. Paton narrates his eventful life as a missionary to the New Hebrides - modern-day Vanuatu - in a frank and vivid manner. Beginni...

One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement

In this riveting personal story, award-winning, bestselling country musicrecording artist Merle Haggard takesyou on a tour through his house ofmemo...

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Flickerbook is the classic autobiography of the writer Leila Berg (1917-2012), who grew up in a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood in Salford, Greater ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tabitha J. FarrarTabitha Farrar became ill with anorexia at seventeen. She describes her ten year struggle with the disease...

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Agathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the Trapp Family Singers, offers readers the real story behind an American classic in her poignant and fas...

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Reducere. Alexandra David-Neel was among the first Westerners to extensively explore Tibet. In these memoirs she tells of her encounters there; the people an...

A no-holds-barred autobiography from Welsh rugby legend Lee Byrne; from his childhood in a tough neighborhood, to on-field heroics, to off-field an...

An autobiography focusing on Patrice Chaplin's youth and relationship to Girona and the charismatic poet Jose Tarres.

Recounts the first half of the author's adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: P. J. RileyShot at, bombed, imprisoned and arrested for murder. His is the story the establishment doesn't want you to read...

Reducere. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundse...

Reducere. In an earlier book, Indian Boyhood, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) recounted the story of his traditional Sioux Childhood and youth. From the ...

Reducere. Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing best-seller and became a classic...

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Reducere. Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one o...

Reducere. This is the remarkable story of Benny Hinn?a man known to millions as one of the great healing evangelists of our time. Many who have attended his ...

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Reducere. James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous ...

General Sir Richard Dannatt's distinguished career in the army has spanned thirty-eight years and seen him serve in many different theatres of conf...

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Reducere. Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of ...

"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the...

Reducere. Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in...

Reducere. In 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Rang...

Reducere. When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that d...

Reducere. A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played ...

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An unusually rich selection of "Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on Johnson's life; the autobiographical inspirations for The Autobiography of an E...

* Now out in paperback, the successful autobiography from the famous and well-loved columnist and author of COOKING IN A BEDSITTER comes her autobi...

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Reducere. Readers first met Angel Ariel in Claire Candy Hough's previous work, One True Home - Behind the Veil of Forgetfulness, and followed her remarkable ...

Reducere. Bill Peet tells his life story. "An excellent blend of verbal and visual social history and self-revelation." -- Kirkus Reviews