An Autobiography

Publisher: New Village PressAuthor(s): Aviva RahmaniIllustration(s): 12 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication dat...

Reducere. DescriptionThe long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of...

DescriptionPublished to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography...

Born to Whisper is full of true-to-life horse stories and adventures, and also tackles some of the burning issues in the horse world today, from a ...

Reducere. H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among the most remarkable literary documents of their time, and they are a major reason why he has become such an ico...

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Reducere. Margaret Marshall Saunders was a Canadian author. She was born in the village of Milton, Nova Scotia, though she spent most of her childhood in Ber...

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

DescriptionBeautifully illustrated by comic book legend, Bill Sienkiewicz. This official autobiography of Santa Claus is the perfect Christmas pres...

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 ...

Reducere. This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education i...

Reducere. The Rise of a Street General provides a unique and fascinating look into a gang members journey to rise to the top. Starting with his initiation in...

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

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...

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. Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scienti...

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...

Reducere. Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and ...

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 ...

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

The acclaimed autobiography of Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt is brought to the reader anew in this well-produced edition, inclusive of all notes and a...

Reducere. A gifted musician's decision to navigate society as a white man causes an internal debate about anti-blackness and the explicit nature of intent ve...

A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Jam...

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 ...

Reducere. From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nab...

Reducere. Ely Green was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893. His father was a member of the white gentry, the son of a former Confederate officer. His mother...

Reducere. Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir. With richness an...

Reducere. Byron Nelson was one of golf's greatest legends. He was one of the finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the most magnificen...

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 ...

Reducere. Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hu...

Reducere. This is the journey of a young European immigrant who was living the American dream--life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--until she found h...

Reducere. New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother-who pines for the 1950s Brook...

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Publisher: Nora Ruiz Ednacot BrozoAuthor(s): Nora Ruiz Ednacot BrozoNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 22Cover type:...

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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 ...

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The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University's legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved ...

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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. Born into slavery. First leader of the Tuskegee Institute. Political advisor to Presidents. This is his voice. This is his story. "I have begun eve...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman, and one of the most colourful figures of the ...

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

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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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Jim Spain dedicated his life to education, teaching over 40 years of college level courses, between Michigan Technological University, University o...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an o...

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

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

Reducere. The Center of the Cyclone is an autobiographical work authored by famed fringe scientist and psychedelic pioneer, Dr. John C. Lilly. This is his mo...

Reducere. "My father's life represented many layers of the human experience--freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban profe...

James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African Ameri...

Reducere. Book Summary To compile the life of this amazing man in a single manuscript is almost impossible. His war years have been recorded many times, but ...

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

Publisher: Siglio PressAuthor(s): Nicole RudickIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 268Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 199...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a young boy struggling to find his way through the immense poverty, secrecy and war-time suffering that gripped his life in Northern ...

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...

Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar: deaf, wild disturbed, stupid insane... She lived within herself, her own world her fore...

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

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

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. 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. Originally published in 1833, the autobiography of the Sauk war chief Black Hawk was the first memoir written by a Native American who was actively...

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

Reducere. Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of th...

"You may think I'm crazy, but the gun actually talks to me, " says Francis Kane, who has agreed to write the autobiography of a gun that had twelve...

Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...

Reducere. Eleven Days to the Promised Land is a timely realization of past and present times, a fascinating tale of how an impoverished boy from a civil war-...