Biography & Autobiography Books

The heartwarming true story of the demanding and rewarding life of an animal control officer, wife and mother. Her passion to make a difference shines through during exciting animal rescues and funny situations to scary police raids and gang encounters. The story is told...

A COMPILATION FROM THE INCOMPARABLE CAREER OF ONE OF THE ORIGINAL "BOYS ON THE BUS" Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the Middle East, and traveled to a number of conflicts abroad....

The author explores the origins of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution as it centers on Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's earliest work on combustion. He shows that the main lines of Lavoisier's theory--including his theory of a heat-fluid, caloric--were elaborated well before his discovery of the role played...

In this inspiring memoir, Dr. Chris Hibbard, a psychotherapist specializing in emotional trauma, tells us stories of healing and transformation from her years traveling to many of the most troubled parts of the world, determined to help survivors of war. She has worked with...

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James Jimmie Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called out leaders in the Nikkei community for what he saw as their complicity with the U.S....

What do you want to be when you grow up? When Katherine Johnson was young, women weren't expected to go into the math and science fields. Johnson loved math, but she never thought she could be a mathematician. After studying math in school and...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought.Author: Jean...

Branson s wholesome brand of entertainment made it the nation s destination for family fun, but the vacation wonderland can t claim a spotless past. Murder and mischief dogged the town s efforts at respectability from the very beginning. The founder s own brother,...

"Why God? Why does a child have to die when murderers and rapists and terrorists get to live? Why take a four-year-old who was innocent and full of pure love?" These are the questions that haunted author Krista Bennett-Bruns after the heartbreaking loss of...

While visiting an aunt and uncle in the exotic countryside of Costa Rica, a young Southern Belle from Alabama accepted a ride on the back of a motorcycle driven by a charismatic local farmer - a ride that would propel her down narrow mountain...

Jessica Powers is one of the outstanding religious poets of our time. This is a biography of her life as an artist, a woman, and a nun. A creative journey into her world. With photos.Author: Dolores R. LeckeyISBN-10: 1556125593ISBN-13: 9781556125591Publisher: Sheed & WardLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This fast-moving memoir of T. Moffatt Burriss shows his extraordinary role as a platoon leader and company commander with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Europe and North Africa during World War II. He saw a great deal of combat on Sicily, at Salerno,...

Candid, breathless, arrogant, ambitious--here, in his own words, is Clement Greenberg, a young man of limitless intellectual appetite on his way to becoming the twentieth century's greatest art critic . Clement Greenberg was, and remains, America's most perceptive, prescient, and influential art critic. More...

Albert Fish - The Werewolf of Wysteria is a biography of Albert Fish, an American serial killer and cannibal. He is best known for the kidnapping, murder, and cannibalizing of young children. Fish was convicted on one murder, but suspected of another five, and...

On 20th August 1940 Trotsky's life was brutally ended when a Stalinist agent brought an ice pick crashing down on his head. Among the works left unfinished was the second part of his biography of Stalin. Trotsky's Stalin is unique in Marxist literature in...

As a young girl, Gail Huntley begins her life with the wide ideals and stubborn mindset that she can sail through life unscathed. One day her father tells her they are moving off the farm she has come to love. That move lands her...

Author: Martha Evans MontgomeryISBN-10: 1618630520ISBN-13: 9781618630520Publisher: Bookstand PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2011Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.27w x 0.62d

At twenty-two, Chicagoan Nadine Kenney is thrilled to meet her future husband, Jamie, while vacationing in Florida. After a whirlwind, long-distance romance, Nadine leaves her friends, family, and city to join Jamie in suburban Massachusetts. Once married, they begin trying for a baby without...

As a twin in a large Massachusetts family with a heart of gold, Eric wanted to emulate his hero when he grew up--his Police Officer father, Sgt. Edmond Caron, a former Marine. Eric's dad taught him valuable life lessons that formed his foundation and...

Author: Elizabeth RaumISBN-10: 1681516799ISBN-13: 9781681516790Publisher: AmicusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2019Pages: 32Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.60w x 0.30dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.6Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 503101 / Life of Ruby Bridges