Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
by Augusta Theodosia Drane
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
A Memoir of Mother Francis Raphael is a classic biography of the Dominican nun.
Trespassing Across America
One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
**Winner of the Nebraska Center for the Book Award, Travel • A Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Notable Book • Honoree of the Society of Midland Authors Annual Literary Award for Biography/Memoir
Now that President Donald Trump has revived the Keystone XL pipeline that was rejected by...
Is It True What They Say About Black Men?
Tales of Love, Lust and Language Barriers on the Other Side of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
"Jam-packed with humor, heartbreak, and, of course, a little naughtiness, this short memoir is sure to satisfy those who enjoy reading sordid stories and hearing about awkward encounters involving strangers in strange lands." -- Queerty "Jeremy Helligar takes the reader on an adventure...
Starved
A Nutrition Doctor's Journey from Empty to Full
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Starved differs from other “dysfunctional childhood” memoirs in its theme of “filling an empty heart,” by providing a unique viewpoint on how the author turned early adversity into a strength and set of skills that would later help her deal with the demands of medical training and practice.
Memoir,...
by Frances H. Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business...
by Catherine DeVrye
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
‘Hope as My Compass’ is a best-selling memoir set in Canada and Australia...a stranger than fiction, true life story nominated for the National Biography Prize- first published by Random House Australia as ‘Who Says I Can’t’ and then McArthur Press in Canada as ‘Serendipity Road’...
Elizabeth Macarthur
A Life at the Edge of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘An intimate portrait of a woman who changed herself and Australia…Michelle Scott Tucker makes Elizabeth Macarthur step off the page.’ David Hunt , Author of Girt
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer....
by S.F. Briggs, II
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
This is a biography and memoir of the founder of Briggs & Stratton & Outboard Marine. One of two individuals to have started two New York Stock Exchange companies prior to 1970. It is a real insight into the life of a remarkable inventor with over 100 patents many developed in the early days...
Westward
The Walk of a Bahamian Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
1. This is unusual, a memoir written by someone under fifty years of age. What made you write?
My parents were growing old, and I wanted to record their stories for my children. My father, who is halfway through his ninth decade, was born during the heyday of Prohibition, twenty years before the discovery...
Self Impression
Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valéry, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and...
The Crocodile by the Door
The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home.
When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina's uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor,...
Seagoing
Essay-memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"The great virtue of McCormick's memoirs is their blunt honesty. He writes with a persuasive directness about what happened to him and what he believes..."--Arts and Letters
The title of John McCormick's autobiographical book, may be taken both literally and symbolically. In a literal...
Long Loop Home
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
**A prize-winning memoir, a tender evocation of a world, a place and a time.**Born in 1950 to sporting parents and sharing his brother's homosexuality, Peter Wells decided at the age of eleven that his family could not 'afford' two homosexual sons. The problems this led to complicated his youth but...
by J. W. Etheridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
The example of a life like that delineated on the following pages is too precious to be allowed to fade into oblivion; and, in recalling attention to it in this new narrative, the curators of the Methodist press believe that they are fulfilling a duty to the church and to the world.
It is...