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An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness and fortitude of a community determined to survive between the wars. 'When I look back, I can picture the...

Born in Vancouver, the author of this unusual memoir initially attended school in Australia. Getting to Australia was one thing - getting back to North America in the middle of World War II, aged now seven, was a different kettle of fish. He and the nuclear family of which he was the smallest part...

The spiritual world is invisible for most of us. Having the ability to communicate with it is a Gift, and this handbook and memoir will help you understand that all types of people and children can open the floodgates to messages. This handbook explains the different types of avenues to obtain intuitive...

I love your book! It should be required reading for every twenty year old, as a way to look at life and learn how to move forward with whatever comes. Its truly beautiful in spirit and well-written too! Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers This memoir is a primer...

The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp need writers like Rousseau, Woolf, Orwell, Nabokov,...

Step through the looking glass and into her world. With transparency, intimacy and candor, the authoress shares her inspiring life story in this incredibly honest and poignant memoir. In reading her memoir, you will get a glimpse of the first 30 years of her life as she witnessed firsthand the greatest...

There is no mystery to writing a book, although there is magic. That magic comes from you, from your imagination and your insight. No one can create a book exactly like yours because no one is exactly like you. "Ten Easy Steps to Writing Your Memoir" guides you through the process...

Me & Him: A Guide to Recovery is an empowering memoir and practical self-help book for the recovery of bipolar, bullying and mental illness. Karen Tyrrell author reveals shock discoveries casting Karen Tyrrell’s first memoir Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness in a new light. An Australian teacher, Karen...

Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams Josiah Quincy III, educator and political figure (1772-1864) This ebook presents «Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams», from Josiah Quincy III. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table...

In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where “deaf” meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his acceptance at Gallaudet College far away in America....

CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice of a life . . . a complex, intelligent, beautiful, thoughtful, rather lyrical book' -Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love 'A moving treatise on inheritance, not just of a disease...

Observing What Is Not Happening is a continuation of the author's first memoir, Where Your Knowledge Ends Is Where Mine Begins. Six chapters of this second memoir are ageless; they stem from the Word of God. They are predicated on the Word of God. Observing what isn't happening is a remark first made...

In this nonfiction memoir, My Father's Daughter From Rome to Sicily, we are captivated by a trilogy travel adventure, with ancient sites of Rome, contrasting the landscape of a picturesque countryside, the seaside villages of Sicily, and olive trees in the valley of Mount Etna. This Novello Literary...

The life of an abused child is filled with pain and self-blame. And there is the never-ending question of why one of the people who is supposed to love you is also responsible for hurting you. Millions of children experience abuse and neglect every day. For most, their stories go untold. In author...