Autobiography: General

Through humour and observation, Epilepsy: Live or Die shows how the author has had his life shaped by epilepsy. He believes that awareness is the ...

A journey beyond fears and stereotypes The memes. Because Florida jokes. Florida Man stories. Tyler Gillespie was once embarrassed to call Florid...

A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds...

In 1959, Harold M. Koenig was discharged after his first year at the U.S. Naval Academy because of progressive hearing loss and went on to colle...

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the Black Patti likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a disting...

At times heartbreaking, at times harrowing, All the Leavings navigates the rugged terrain not just of the rural Oregon land where Laurie Easter has...

Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuch. Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this list cannot c...

Jean-Yves Soucys story and encounter with my Dad provides a charming glimpse into a changing world, for us all.- Romeo Saganash.Its 1963, Jean-Yves...

Irreverent and iconoclastic, Nigel Coates has been agitating the architectural scene for over 40 years. In this warm and compelling autobiography...

In 2010, Don Waters set out to write a magazine story about a surfing icon who had known his absentee father. It was an attempt to find a way of co...

Its been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the creator-recorder-embodiment of her generations mythology. But how did a middle-class...

With Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon, Glenn May makes a major contribution to the literature on Oregon and Chicano history.On ...

Do you believe someone can read your mind? Lior Suchard can. He can delve into your innermost thoughts, and know what you are going to say even bef...

This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20t...

John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780-1852) and provides a penetrating...

In 1874, the Texas legislature created the Frontier Battalion, the first formal, budgeted organization as an arm of state government of what histor...

The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Sovi...