Biography Memoir category: 96853 books
by Ruth Scurr
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind...
Forgiveness
The biography of Ferdinand Christiaan Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
“Be quiet, be quiet!” my mother was saying. “I can’t,” I replied. “I don’t want to die!”
This memoir recounts a silver-spoon childhood suddenly shattered by war and incarceration in a Japanese concentration camp.
Set in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia during World...
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Holmes’s inspiration for this engaging biography of John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), was his personal relationship with the American historian and diplomat who wrote the incomparable Rise of the Dutch Republic. Holmes also studies Motley’s correspondence.
I Am White
Eagle Woman Flies with Raven
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
I Am White: Eagle Woman Flies with Raven shares the biography of Rita Makkannaw, who immigrated from Denmark to Canada at a very young age with her family. After enduring a sexually charged incident with her father, she ran away from home at age sixteen. She entered into an abusive marriage, but managed...
Unfinished Business
Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life
I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.
Unfinished Business: Notes of a...
Looking for the Phoenix
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
W.H. Oliver, a central figure in New Zealand’s intellectual landscape, reflects on the decades of his own life and the history that has shaped him.The first editor of The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the author of The Story of New Zealand, Oliver tells of his Cornish upbringing, the influences...
by IDP Research Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2019
If we look to the purpose of the message of Islam, we find that it can be summed up in the purifying and nourishing of the soul, and this takes place by knowing and worshipping Allâh, as well as strengthening the ties of brotherhood to spread justice between the slaves of Allâh. The means of doing...
The Private Correspondence of Ambrose Bierce
A Collection of the Letters sent by Ambrose Bierce to his Closest Friends and Family from 1892 up until his Disappearance in 1913 - Including a Biography and a Memoir of Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, United States in 1842. Bierce is critically best remembered for his fiction and many other writings are also generally regarded as some of the best war writings of all time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's...
by Red Haircrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
An imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved, he loved with all his heart and soul.
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by A.H. Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
The best and most interesting method of obtaining historical information is the biographical. This is equally true whether the reader is studying a particular period relating to his own country or is taking a broad survey of universal history. Biography, especially when supplemented by extracts from...
The Sage in the Cathedral of Books
The Distinguished Chinese American Library Professional Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The biography of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, who was awarded the highly prestigious Melvil Dewey Medal by the American Library Association in 2015, will be welcomed by readers interested in knowing not only more about Lee’s personal achievements and contributions in librarianship but also about the rapid changes...
by James G. Hershberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
James B. Conant (1893-1978) was one of the titans of mid-20th-century American history, attaining prominence and power in multiple fields. Usually remembered as an educational leader, he was president of Harvard University for two tumultuous decades, from the Depression to World War II to the Cold...
An Imperfect Pilgrim
Trauma and Healing on This Side of the Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
After suffering multiple traumas and shattering losses, Suzanne Ludlum found herself in the depths of blinding depression and unimaginable despair. She spent nine years bouncing between psychiatric hospitals and psychologists' offices, suffering further at the hands of the very people who were supposed...
Like a Dove
A memoir and biography in honour of Sione Tavo Manukia
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Short Description
What was life like for a Tongan migrant in New Zealand in the 1970s and onwards? In this tribute to Sione Tavo Manukia, his daughter Ruby tells of his early life in Tonga and his experiences in New Zealand, as he sought a prosperous life and further education for his children....