Biographien, Tagebücher, Briefe

During the War I Rode a Horse

Lyle Vincent Murphy

The book tells the story of the 10th Australian Light Horse during World War One. It takes the reader on a journey with the first enlisted men from West Australia from their enlistment, through tr...

Planned Obsolescence

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

<p><b>Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013</b><br><br><b>A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishing</b><br>...

Little Girl Lost

Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford

The Whaler of Scotland Yard

Jock Murray

Jock Murray looks back over an extraordinary and varied life in this entertaining autobiography.From humble beginnings on a croft in the Outer Hebrides, at the age of fifteen he went on to work in...

John Oliver Killens

Keith Gilyard

Alfred Russel Wallace

Peter Raby

In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selecti...

Pavel's Letters

Monika Maron

Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordina...

One Sports Fan Left Behind

William D. Butler

Nearly everyone in America is interested in sports. However, many people are becoming disenchanted. Media coverage is dominated by scandalous stories involving many of Americas best known figur...

A Most Unusual Life

Wes Harvey

THE TEN TRUTHS(BY K.B.)1.THE COSMOS, UNIVERSE, OUTER SPACE, ETC. ARE REALLY THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 2. THE GREATEST TRUTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS THE GOLDEN RULE. 3.EARTHLINGS ARE SOULS WITH BODIES,...

Appalachian Child

Bea B. Todd

Bea grows up dirt poor among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in central West Virginia. Theres lots of work to do, and amenities such as indoor plumbing and central heating are nonexist...

Swygert

Jeffrey Harold Utterback

Growing up in a tiny rural town may not be appealing to everyone, but in this collection of short stories, author Jeffrey Harold Utterback shows that he can at least laugh about it. Each chapter i...

Detour

Lloyd Sparks

This is the story of the authors excursion into the complex and contradictory world of the Bible smuggler in the 1970s. In it the author relates how he became involved through his church as a cour...

No Time to Cry

Vera Leinvebers

Every story has a beginning, a journey, and an end. Author Vera Leinveberss story begins in her beloved homeland of Latvia, just prior to the outbreak of World War II. Her early childhood is fille...

Nearly Famous: Adventures of an After-Dinner Speaker

Bob Bevan

When Kids Kill

Jonathan Paul

The Cradle King

Alan Stewart

As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his fathe...

Moscow Memoirs

Emma Gerstein

In the early 1960s Anna Akhmatova encouraged Emma Gerstein to record her own memories of the renowned Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam. But Gerstein's vivid and uncompromising account was not at...

Matilda

Tracy Borman

Philip Sidney

Alan Stewart