Autobiography: general

Sacred Heart, Minnesota, 1934: Born in the Great Depression to a sadly mismatched couple, a child is moved from one small town to another in her familys quixotic search for affluence.

Validation of Existence is a collection of writings by four different authors covering different aspects of living.

When actress/playwright/author Naava Piatka interviews her Holocaust survivor father, Xavier Piat, she is amazed to hear such intimate, graphic revelations of family drama, political upheaval, sexual seduction, divorce, mass murder, betrayal and ultimate creative triumph.

Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan.

A witty, honest, and thought-provoking exploration of modern sexuality and the search for love in the digital ageEmily Witt, single and in her thirties, had long imagined her sexual experiences would eventually lead to a traditional, monogamous relationship.

Growing up in a Roman Catholic household and working at a Protestant school can be incongruous.

Affordable, readable, and indispensable, this pocket biography of Barack Obama allows you to put the story of our 44th President right in your back pocket.

Raw chronicles a childhood marred by physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and a man's subsequent innefective search for identity in gangs, dysfunctional relationships, the military and even politics.

In this book, I have shared with you real experiences from my life and that of my familys.

From 2001 - 2004, Steve Koss lived in Suzhou, China, a city so renowned for its magnificent classical gardens, rich cultural heritage, and beautiful women that a centuries-old proverb describes it as paradise on Earth.

In 1953, Desi Arnaz surprised Lucille Ball with a 13th Anniversary Party at this Hollywood club.

This book was initially written as a way to come to grips with the loss of Caileen, But after writing a few sentences I discovered the best way to come to grips is not to.

Born Countess Marie Therese von Degenfeld-Schonburg, growing up as the beloved only daughter of a mother and aunt in one of the most beautiful castles in Bavaria, Neubeuern, Maria throws aside the protocols and expectations of the German aristocracy to marry an American diplomat.

New York Times Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller A brilliant, hilarious, and honest essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author and YouTube sensation Shane Dawson about how messy life can get when you're growing up but how rewarding it can feel when the clean-up is (pretty much) done.

On September 6, 1949, the author was a bride and clueless as to the twists and turns her life would take as the wife of a US Army officer.

Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahls astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.

'Her story is one that needs to be told and Zara does so with courage, insight and beauty' - Nicky CampbellZara H.

Travel back to the 1960s and walk the halls of Chicagos Cook County Hospital with Douglas R.

Framed blows the lid off one of Melbourne's most puzzling secrets: Who stole Picasso's Weeping Woman from the NGV in 1986.

The Sixties.

Imagine going upstairs to bed, only to wake up in hospital several weeks later not knowing your partner of 20 years, your three children, your mother.

Timothy Wahl grew up on a dairy farm in the town of Andover, New York.

"e;This book should be required reading for all social workers and families involved in foster care, and for all professionals who work with children.

The autobiography of a fascinating figure—as well as a rich, detailed portrait of eighteenth-century European society.

A powerful collection of true stories from everyday Americans, gathered by master storyteller Paul Auster.

Paul Gerhard Prestegaard was a die-hard, square-jawed Norwegian, with all the principles and authoritativeness that description summons.

Kenny Tedford was born with brain damage that left him with the intellectual ability of a 4th grader, deaf in both ears, legally blind in one eye, partial paralysis on his left side, and difficulty speaking until the age of ten-a remarkable combination of Helen Keller and Forrest Gump.

This is about a divorced woman with four children who fell in love with a man whom she trusted but gave her a deadly disease.

To some, her family was the picture of perfection, but to others, her home was a cesspool of dysfunction.

Author David Stealth's journey began more than forty years ago on the day he was sworn in as a Detroit, Michigan, law enforcement officer, a dream he had held since childhood.

When Patricia founded the Farmers and Country Bureau more than 30 years ago, she could never have envisaged that she would be responsible for bringing together thousands of people, hundreds of weddings and dozens of babies.

Al Sheppard was on the front lines of the most difficult job in police work.

Travel with Richard Francis Schaden on his crusade to make air travel safer.

After so many years of waiting, will the prophesy of a popularfaith healer and an elder of a charismatic church, Papa Kwamenafor Akosua Mansa and Agya Mensa from the village of Akim-Manso in Ghana be fulfi lled?

This is the true story of one family's heartfelt encounter with a tragic event.

In a beautiful and touching memoir, Mona Sizer brings the l930's and 40's to life as she lived them on a farm in South Texas.

A pivotal piece of nineteenth-century Native American history from a tireless warrior seeking justice for his people.

In this lyrical and poignant book, Finding Immortality: The Making of One American Family, award-winning writer Herbert Hadad records the joys and sorrows of parenthood and, in so doing, opens a wide window into family life that is intimate and unmistakably American.

Although the streets of the Bronx in New York were not paved with gold, the 1940s and 1950s were the golden years for author Eugene Racond.