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International Book Award Finalist--E-Book Autobiography/ Biography/Memoir.Global E-Books Honorable Mention--Parenting/ Family Non-Fiction"Letting Go and New Beginnings: A Mother's Poetic Journey" is a compelling, personal story told through insightful, accessible poetry and evocative photographs...

"An engrossing biography about the marital breakdown of a major literary figure, of particular interest for what it reveals about O'Neill's creative process, activities, and bohemian lifestyle at the time of his early successes and some of his most interesting experimental work. In addition,...

Angelina Jolie, the sex symbol of Hollywood has involved over the years. There isn't a person who did not hear of her and the Tomb Raider's franchise, which was the exploding point of her career. In this biography, we are going to explore the life of Angelina Jolie over the years and how she...

Sarah Bernhardt Starts right here. This book is your ultimate resource for Sarah Bernhardt. Here you will find the most up-to-date 173 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Sarah Bernhardt's...

Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology...

*Includes 25 pictures of Davis and important people, places and events in his life.*Includes Table of ContentsJefferson Davis (1808-1889) holds a unique place in American history, as the man best remembered for being the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. While other famous Confederates...

Over 99% of the Danish Jews were rescued in WWII by the Danish people. The Red Umbrella is a young girl’s memoir of life during WWII Nazi occupation of Copenhagen, Denmark during 1943-1945. Little Johna Christensen lived with a Jewish Mother’s family, a Danish Father’s family, a birth defect...

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality,...

North of Hollywood: WINNER in the Biography category for the Los Angeles Book Festival 2012Take a Roller Coaster Ride Through the Life of a Real Hollywood ActorRick Lenz is an actor who has made it in New York and Hollywood. You have seen him countless times on TV and in the movies. He has...

I Never Had A Proper Jobis a charming memoir which covers many subjects: the Catholic Church's power over society; corporal punishment in schools; poverty; war-time rationing; and the general innocence of children at the time. However, it avoids falling into the category of yet another biography set...

The definitive biography of Sir Ian McKellen from an acclaimed biographer In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a...

If you enjoyed Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood, a memoir by former movie press agent-turned-film critic/producer Nat Segaloff, he now unlocks the La La Land Laundromat to show the dirty laundry left behind. More celebrity stories, as well as richer anecdotes, reveal how the television,...

This book is all about the authors life from his early days as a child in Hawaii, in the mid 1930s, through his days at West Point, his war tour in Vietnam and military career with two additional retirement careers: First, with he and his wife creating an import and retail operation and later as an...

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. Intended for her daughter Rachel, she shares them with her readers as well in this warm-hearted recounting of the problems and pleasures facing women alone in a world suddenly...