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Top Books (Biography & Autobiography)
2008
| Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography,Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman.Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the ....[more] |
2007
| She was the daughter of powerful Missouri politician Thomas Hart Benton and was a savvy political operator who played confidante and advisor to the inner circle of the highest political powers in the country. He was a key figure in western exploration and California's first senator, and became the first presidential candidate for the Republican Partyand the first candidate to challenge slavery. Both shaped their times and were far ahead of it, but most extraordinarily their story has never fully....[more] |
| American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. His likeness adorns, among other things, the United States' hundred-dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin was as wildly intriguing a personality as his legend suggest, and as you've always heard, as his autobiography makes plain. From his ....[more] |
1990
| Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is the now-legendary autobiography of ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1822-1885), 18th president of the United States and the Union general who led the North to victory in the Civil War. Though Grant opens with tales of his boyhood, his education at West Point, and his early military career in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, it is Grant's intimate ob....[more] |
1999
| He was not your "typical" missionary-he was an African called to serve in the United States. No one would believe the adventures of nineteenth-century missionary Samuel Morris- unless they believe in a God of compassion and grace. Samuel Morris began life as Kaboo, the eldest son of a tribal chieftain. He was a prince, but then he became a pawn-held in torturous limbo until his father could pay ransom to an enemy tribe. When Kaboo's captors became too greedy, and no amount of ivory could rescue ....[more] |
1974
| "Thoroughly enjoyable . . . an important document drawing more much-needed attention to the hidden history of a people both African and American."--Los Angeles Times Book Review. |
2005
| 1889. A course of six lectures showing the influence on the art of war of the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick, and Napoleon. These lectures were delivered in Boston, under the auspices of the Lowell Institute, in January, 1889. There conciseness needs but the apology of scant time. Little can be said about Alexander or Napoleon within the limit of an hour. The sketches are of necessity meager. They are a summary in part of a larger work, of which the author....[more] |
2007
| From his entrance into Democratic leadership circles in the 1950s through his years in the Kennedy administration and up until his last days, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was always at the vital center of American politics. For more than half a century, the master historian recorded his experiences and opinions in journals that together form an intimate chronicle of life at the highest levels of American politics and culture in postwar America. This extraordinary volume contains his candid thoughts ....[more] |
2008
| For over one hundred years in the Lone Star State, outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, William T. "Black Jack" Christian, and bank robber Reuben Burrow terrorized the plains of Texas while lawmen such as Ranger John Barclay Armstrong and deputy sheriff James W. Bell fought to rein the chaos. This is the story of two hundred of Texas' most famous Western criminals, intrepid lawmen, and some men who dared to be both. From Frank James, who settled in Dennison for a new start, to infamous gunman Billy t....[more] |
2009
| This book was written in tribute to a great woman who developed a disease called lupus. Having this illness caused her to give up her career as a registered nurse and to submit to lupus.
Alice's desire to live came from her faith in God. She knew that God has the power to heal. At times Alice would get angry over her illness and cry out to God, saying, "Why me?" Some people say we should not question God or ask why. It has been said that we should ask God for what we want and wait for the ans....[more] |
1973
| This book takes you on a journey into the life of a young girl that faced every day life, dealing with peer pressure, alchohol, and drugs. This book is to help teens going down the wrong road to look to God for help. Though you may feel like no one understands you, I want to let you know, God does understand you. Jeremiah 1:5 says Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.(KJV) God knows and understands everything we go through,....[more] |
2007
| This is a personal story of a young woman's struggles being a single mother while facing average to great dispiriting ordeals. Though her road was rocky one, she managed to see a relationship that has been divinely planned from the start. Which has kept her focused and disciplined to become a stronger person for what brings to her in the future. Note-This book contains mild language. |
2008
| Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at ....[more] |
2007
| When they were about halfway to New York, another commotion arose that swept over the ship like a tidal wave. The news concerned Archduke Ferdinand and his wife being assassinated in Serbia, which caused some to speculate that this act was a precursor to war. Toufic had never heard of these people, and it didn't occur to him that such an event would have any repercussions in his homeland. |
2007
| Fear Of a Mother's Love My mom made me lie to my Dad threatening my life. She would say to me, "Who do you think he's going to believe? Me or You? She had me believing that if I told my Dad the truth he would KILL ME. My mind would go back to the time my Dad beat me so fiercely that I bled for six weeks to the point of death. Read the story of my abuse and the run for my life because of the fear of my parents. What happened to me shaped my future and made me grow into the woman I am today. |
2000
| This book is a definitive guide to the Professional Celebrity Impersonator Industry. It acknowledges a group of unique actors and entertainers who miraculously transform themselves into recreations of Legendary Superstars. Book jacket. |
2007
| In the late 1930s, as the world moved closer to war, three Chinese women defied gender perceptions by becoming pilots. Driven by a fierce independent spirit, they realized their dream of flying, completed barnstorming goodwill missions across the Western hemisphere, and captured the imagination of all those whose lives they touched. |
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