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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

We expect inspiration in sunsets, blooming flowers, and mountain-top views. And in turn we’ve come to not expect it elsewhere: in the tragic or mundane. This essay collection challenges this categorization of wonder, light, and beauty. Fourteen...

Everyone's most beloved titanium cowgirlfriend Michelle R. Scully is back with a new book: Horsemanship and Life, A True Story.Michelle shares more from life "beyond the black Sharpie line" in this follow-up to Broken, Tales of a Titanium Cowgirl...

MANY YEARS AGO ON A FARM in Lee County, seven miles northwest of Keokuk, Iowa on December 24, 1916, at approximately 6:00 A.M., I arrived into this world with the aid of Dr. Lee Coffey. He had stayed the night attending my mother for the arrival of her...

Nigerian playwright DIPO KALEJAIYE relates an educator and writer’s experience of living in Nigeria and the United States in his latest memoir, Some Memories of California. The book charts the author’s formative years as a lecturer in Nigeria...

The story of my uncle, William Rudolf Larson- nicknamed "Lucky" by his fellow pilots, is the account and authentic voice of a WWII TBF pilot told in his own words from more than 60 family letters and postcards to his proud parents and his...

The world sometimes asks what we're made of. It sometimes dishes out problems that put our characters and strengths on display.I was a white female who grew up in a small California town, with a brilliant and popular college professor father and a...

For Centuries our fore fathers from the “Old World” have used truly powerful philosophy and symbols to define and explain the Truth. Stating what is right and wrong with words even beautiful Portraits that have taken the form of frescos and...

Hold on tight!  “Always Cedar Point, a Memoir of the Midway” gives the reader an insider’s view of the operations of the world’s greatest amusement park, Cedar Point.  From a summer as a 20-year old ride operator on the...

It’s Not All About ME? - One Woman’s Struggle With Brain Fog & Wading Through TreacleAlison felt that her life was perfect. She had an amazing husband, had just stepped back from a stockbroking job in the City of London after 12...

Oranje Tractor Farm is home to a micro-boutique vineyard, orchard, house and cellar door near Albany on the pristine south coast of Western Australia.  The owners, Pamela Lincoln and Murray Gomm, acquired a cow paddock in 1996 and have gradually,...

Walking in the Clouds is a true story about events experienced by an American writer who lived and worked in Colombia in the 1980s, a painful period of political upheaval, violent cocaine wars, and leftist guerrilla uprisings.As a freelancer, Michael...

This collection of family stories tells of many repeat performances--over more than one hundred years and in places all over the United States. We call these repeat performances "companion stories" told by a dozen family story­tellers. There are...

Playback theatre is an original form of interactive, improvisational theatre in which audience tell true stories from their lives and watch as their stories are enacted on the spot by a team of trained improvisers. Founded in 1975 in upstate New York,...

"There is great tension that so many of us feel within our private, inner spaces. I am deeply worried by our tendency to repress our emotional struggles and then unleash them into the environment with our behaviour, affecting the lives of those...

At the end of the 19th century Finland is a dark and repressive place. Pacifist and political dissenter Karl Johan Back is conscripted to fight for the Russian despots that occupy his country. In 1899 he flees to an untamed land on the far side of the...

Through a decade of challenging hikes up Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, the Fourteeners, with his father, Richard J. Foster, Nathan Foster navigated his twenties - finishing college, choosing a career, a possible cross-country move, the early years of...

Margot Starbuck's story begins with a woman looking for her biological father. But it doesn't end when she finds him. Instead, his rejection punctures her soul and sends her on a different search--one that leads to a different Father. This Father did not...

Mary Poplin's chronicle of her volunteer work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta provides an inside glimpse into Mother Teresa's life of service to the poor. Transformed by the experience, Poplin discovered how all of us can find our own places...

The gap decade is that sometimes difficult transitional season young adults face in their twenties and early thirties. In this quirky and honest chronicle, Katie Schnack explores the common experiences of these unpredictable years between adolescence and...

This candid and humorous chronicle shows how one woman goes from casual observer to obsessive bird nerd as she traverses Louisiana's avian paradise. In Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, readers follow Marybeth Lima across her adopted state in search of...

Here is a story of  political prisoners, prisoners in addition to Flynn; white, black and Puerto Rican—and the reactions of fellow inmates and personnel to them. Her book is an early expose of the conditions that are now brought to wide public...

Dr. Lee McMurrin's memoir discusses the rich experiences of a well-lived life, starting with his Great Depression-era youth, through his education, sports, military service, marriage and family, faith, career as an educator and school superintendent,...

Three generations of women born from the same ancestral line; yet separated by vastly different and inequitable life experiences.  Beverley, the youngest, was raised in the U.S. during the late 40’s and 50’s in a relatively stable...

Graham Bowra describes a frenetic lifestyle during his time as a radio announcer.  Commencing in the late 1950s in Perth, he draws vivid pictures of life in commercial radio during its ”Golden Era.”  His descriptions of other...

Authentic, and inspirational is Vic’s real to life account of the transformation that he has experienced – taking him from hopelessness to hope, from suicidal to purposed life and atheist to believer!‘I AM ARRESTED’ brings hope...

An ordinary life unfolds as not so ordinary, and has readers asking, ‘What happens next?’Writing with candour and wry humour Audrey reflects on her early years in Kenya lived during the Mau Mau uprising, her return to England after her...

Screen's Queen is a biography of a woman battling mental health and racial biases while working as a professional housekeeper in Australia. Raised between Italy and Russia, Deborah's story brings attention to her unstable childhood, touching on the lack...