Alexander the Great: The Macedonian Who Conquered the World

by Sean Patrick

If you want to learn about one of history's greatest military commanders and uncover some of his secrets of drive--drive that enabled him and his small army to first subdue all of Greece and then the mighty Persian Empire--then you want to read this book. Some people like to think that geniuses are so inherently extraordinary that they navigate their journeys with clairvoyant ease. This simply isn't true. Greatness does not come lightly. It requires that you make sacrifices of time, interests, and--sometimes--possessions. The further you move toward greatness, the more greatness demands from you. But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat. Few stories better illustrate this better than the life o...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Oculus Publishers
Size: 49 pages
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Dancing Bare

by Rigby Taylor

Dancing Bare is an amusing and unconventional autobiography. Rigby, an impossibly innocent young man, swaps the suffocating confines of middle class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London and Europe. Revelling in the freedom conferred by anonymity, he becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, lover, teacher and dedicated traveller through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, where travellers were uncommon and countries still retained many of the differences that made travelling so interesting. Rigby meets with a wide variety of people, life styles and customs, eventually settling in Paris where the state did not consider his sexuality to be a criminal offence. A moving and amusing story of hope and love, sex and sexuality, theatrical showmanship and artless innoce...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 320 pages
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High Tide: A Story of Football, Freefall, and Forgiveness

by Bill Searcey and Kelly Wittmann

"An incredible life story!" —Rich Wingo, Green Bay Packers linebacker On March 7, 2011, Bill Searcey appeared on the A&E television show "Heavy" and shared with its viewers his tale of football glory, substance abuse, personal devastation, debilitating obesity, hard-fought weight loss, and longed-for redemption. The audience response to Bill’s honesty and humility was overwhelmingly positive: his harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story propelled "Heavy" to its highest episode rating to date, with over 1.2 million viewers. But an hour-long show can only contain so much; Bill now feels ready to tell his story—his whole story—in HIGH TIDE: A STORY OF FOOTBALL, FREEFALL, AND FORGIVENESS. Football fans will get their fill of wild and crazy adventures as he recounts his rise at ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Sara Camilli Literary Agency
Size: 166 pages
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A Child's Walk in the Wilderness: An 8-Year-Old Boy and His Father Take on the Appalachian Trail

by Paul Molyneaux and Asher Molyneaux

Imagine a 7-year-old boy asking his father if they can hike the entire length of the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail together. Then imagine that the father says yes. Now think "What are they getting themselves into?" For the author of this deeply felt book, the planned hike is an opportunity to bond with his son and be what he calls "Barbarians"--in touch with natural processes far from the comforts of home. It's also a chance for nature to do some healing in his life, too. For the boy, it's a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. They start in West Virginia and head north, through cold and wet spring weather, carrying only what they need and picking up resupply boxes along the way. The boy is entranced by the freedom, asking questions nonstop and pointing out every interesting bug, bird, and blossom...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Size: 224 pages
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Get Poi? Childhood Memories of Hawaii during World War II

by Lowell Uda

Get Poi? Childhood Memories of Hawaii during World War II Get Poi? is creative nonfiction in which I remember and recreate my experiences as a child in wartime Honolulu. I wanted to touch, see, hear, smell, and taste the world that shaped my growing up and acquiring of language. It was a world of growing ethnic diversity, a polyglot culture in which the ability to speak Standard English was a touchstone of one's trustworthiness and loyalty to the United States of America, and in which my second generation Japanese-American parents did their best to raise me and my increasing number of siblings to become the human beings we would need to be. The task of Americanizing us was complicated and enriched by my mother who was entrusted as an infant to a native Hawaiian family. This family rec...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Rice Universe Publishing
Size: 58 pages
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some through the flood

by Ronald Masters and LaVonne Masters

This book is about how faith enabled a couple to face, be sustained and recover from the tragic death of their three sons in a horrific flood that took 238 lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. They share with humor, candidness and healing from grief with openness....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Masters Publishers
Size: 133 pages
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Ronald Fino: The Triangle Exit (organized crime collection)

by Ronald Fino and Michael Rizzo

FBI’s Foremost Undercover Operative Goes Viral Ronald Fino, the FBI’s foremost undercover operative does not scare easily. Which is why he’s not afraid to name names in this true-to-life undercover expose. For years, Fino wanted to write about his exploits, but each time the FBI managed to stop him. Even requests from major authors like Tom Clancy had to be placed on the back burner. Today, Ronald Fino, is retired from his service to the FBI and is ready to tell his story. Because of his unique position as the son of a Mafia Godfather, Fino got to know the ins and outs of organized crime from the ground up. He learned how they control members of Congress as well as local officials, and their ties to presidents, politicians and law enforcement officials. “If the public ever put this...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Contento De Semrik
Size: 2.79 mb
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Celebrity Biographies - Mel Gibson - Biography Series

by Biography Series

This is a short biography of Mel Gibson. Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born on January 3 1956 in Peekskill, New York to Hutton Gibson and Ann Gibson. He was actually born as the sixth of 11 children. When he was 12 his family moved to Australia and he was forced to develop an Australian accent after he was teased at school for his American twang. Grab your copy now!...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 238 kb
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Nelson Mandela Biography: The Life of a loved Legend - Historical - Presidents - Memoirs - Nonfiction - Consumer...

by Anthony Beckham

Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela Autobiography - Biographies: People all over the world are familiar and fascinated by the freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. He has inspired and touched millions of people worldwide and will be remembered in history as the first black president of and the man who fought for his own freedom and ultimately the freedom and uniting of his country. It all occurred during a depressing time when the world was in turmoil and unrest and people all over the world are feeling anxious due to not knowing what lay in store for them. After all it is the late Forties in Southeast Africa. It all starts when new regulations, affecting national segregation, usher in a threatening future for all people of color who live at the southern tip of the African region. Ove...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 111 kb
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Bad Sponsors

by Tolessa Gurmessa

In a nation built by immigrants that remains the world's beacon of success, the issue of immigration is a controversial one. In this memoir, Tolessa Gurmessa shares his journey from the Horn of Africa through the suburbs of Washington, D.C.; the rugged terrain of Kentucky; the plains of Texas; the mountains of Utah, and finally to Ohio, and it was not a smooth ride. Yet, despite his disappointment in his sponsors, the welcoming and generous culture of America restored his faith in humanity. In this story, little-known facts about the motivators for people who immigrate to Europe and America come to light. Even though economic factors are a major impetus, the search for freedom plays a significant role. Ethnocentric dictators have used the War on Terror as a tool to oppress their own peo...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 274 pages
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How I Wrote, Published and Promoted 100 Books In as Fast as 5 Years with 10 Simple Principles Without Having to...

by Daniel Marques

Upon publishing “How to Write, Publish & Promote Your Own Book In As Fast As 3 Hours With 10 Simple Steps” and “Creative Souls”, I thought readers, and especially writers, would appreciate my gift to them, as I came forward in revealing personal secrets about how to write a good book at lightning speed. Instead, these two books ended up generating the most hateful attacks and derisions I have ever received from writers and bloggers. They described me as a drug addict and a psychopath, doing pretty much more than what anyone could have done, even if they hated the devil. Such amazing reactions surely prove that these books are great! Because only amazing books can generate fear! On the other hand, many of my frustrated friends and followers are struggling to write their first novel,...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 146 pages
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Taxiing

by Joshua Wise

Taxi rides around the world. This is a lighthearted but honest accounting of my life set around the various experiences I've had with taxis. From California to Florida, Australia to Japan, covering more than 20 years of travelling, mostly just trying to get to and from home, wherever home may be....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 62 pages
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Lost On A Train In France

by J.W. Northrup

English is pretty much a universal language in the world today, and most places you go, you can find someone who speaks a little English and get along fine. But one a dark night, lost somewhere in the suburbs of Paris, when I really needed somebody’s help, nobody spoke English and everybody, it seemed, was antagonistic to stupid Americans, particularly if they were stupid enough to be lost. J.W. Northrup is author of several books including the bestselling and highly acclaimed Science-Fiction novel "The Gold Slaves"....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 13 pages
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Yellow Green Beret : Stories of an Asian-American Stumbling Around U.S. Army Special Forces

by Chester Wong, Paul Mozur and Jeff Hsiao

For Special Forces officer-turned-writer Chester Wong, being a Green Beret was tough business. Okay, there were a few laughs—in fact, there were countless random acts of hilarity, but maybe it’s how Wong looks at life that makes the difference. In Yellow Green Beret: Stories of an Asian-American Stumbling around U.S. Army Special Forces, one thing is certain: becoming an Asian American Green Beret is a calling only the wild should answer. Whether or not you’re in the Army, there’s a whole lot of adventure and a whole lot of “who’d have thoughts” and “imagine thats” in this military memoir. With short stories like “Johnnie Walker Brown,” “Wily Filipino Cell Phone Thieves,” and “Sniper School: Extending the Range of Personality Lethality,” Wong pokes fun at th...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Yellow Green Beret
Size: 331 pages
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The Adventures of Bindi Girl: Diving Deep Into the Heart of India

by Erin Reese

Erin Reese is a one-of-a-kind travel writer—a spiritual seeker and solo backpacker who dropped out of a successful career in corporate America, hit the road, and never looked back. A SPIRITUAL TRAVELER'S SASSY TALE Packed with plenty of spicy curry, cows, and comedy, Bindi Girl takes us on one heck of a wild ride across India. From Dharamsala and the Dalai Lama to ashrams, yoga schools, and meditation melodramas, Bindi educates and entertains as she goes. We discover the Hindu deities, the tourist trap mafia, and the beach havens of the hippie trail. From “Guru Disney” to the holy hell of Varanasi, Bindi’s got us clamoring for more masala chai all the way. When Bindi meets an attractive young stranger who is more than her mental and physical match, her fiery spirit is put to the...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Travel and Soul Media
Size: 261 pages
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Until the Twelfth of Never - Should Betty Broderick ever be free?

by Bella Stumbo

Soon to go into production as a major Hollywood motion picture. They were two of the most notorious and controversial murder trials of the last twenty-five years, splitting American public opinion in half. Before dawn on November 5, 1989, Betty Broderick got into her car and drove over to the house in San Diego of her lawyer ex-husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, and his new wife, Linda. Arriving at 5:30 a.m., she used a key that she had obtained from one of her children to enter the house by a back door and climbed the stairs to Dan and Linda’s bedroom. Five shots rang out in the dark, three hitting their targets. Linda died instantly. Dan lingered on for several minutes. As he tried to call for help, Betty stamped on his hand and tore the phone from the wall. The prosecution claimed i...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Taylor Street Publishing
Size: 668 pages
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Delusions of Grandeur

by Jason Najum

“Reads almost like a poem . . . An earnest, soulful book about the world’s woes.” — Kirkus Reviews A book that asks the big questions facing today's generation DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR is part dark and humorous memoir, part relentless cultural critique. How can a people who have so much still feel dissatisfied? How does an educated but jaded society reconcile what they know with what they see happening around them? These and other big questions are examined and updated for today. If you have ever felt that more should be happening – in your life, in this culture we give ourselves to – then this book is for you. Thousands protesting in the streets of New York. Revolutions across the Middle East. Millions of people plugged into social networks, searching for a connection, longin...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Jason Najum
Size: 150 pages
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Escape from Communism

by Dumitru Sandru

Life under communism is cruel and inhumane. Commit the smallest political infraction, and the secret police will arrest you. The only ray of hope is the West, but getting out from communism is difficult. Communist countries have a “Berlin Wall” around them. It is a crime to escape by crossing the border illegally, and anyone caught is beaten and imprisoned, sometimes even shot. I was eighteen, and I was living in hell. However, I would rather have died than keep living as a communist slave. This is my story of what happened and how I reached freedom....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Chivileri Publishing
Size: 220 pages
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Fifty Dead Men Walking

by Martin McGartland

For more than four years, Martin McGartland lived the astonishing double life of a secret agent. To the IRA, he was a trusted Intelligence Office and an integral member of an active service unit. To the British Government however, he was known only as 'Agent Carol'. Martin McGartland is credited by British Intelligence with saving the lives of at least fifty people. Every time he tipped off the authorities, he risked detection and yet, heroically and fearlessly, he continued to pass on life-saving information. Finally, his cover was blown. Martin was taken from Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast to an IRA safehouse for questioning and almost certain execution. Though guarded by armed men, in a desperate bid for freedom, he dived from a third floor window...This breathtaking story is now a m...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Martin McGartland
Size: 324 pages
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THE JADE LOCKET AND THE RED STAR: AN UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE INVASION OF OKINAWA AND WHY KOREA IS NOW TWO COUNTRIES...

by Joan Uda

THE JADE LOCKET AND THE RED STAR: AN UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE INVASION OF OKINAWA AND WHY KOREA IS NOW TWO COUNTRIES INSTEAD OF ONE by Joan Uda Until the end of WWII, Korea was a single nation. In July 1945 as the war ended, Joseph Stalin’s Red Army had already pushed south of the 38th parallel in Korea. A group of American military officers, to prevent Stalin from taking all of Korea, drew a line separating North Korea from South Korea, and rushed American soldiers through Inchon Harbor into Seoul. This American action created the division in Korea that still exists today. South Korea has an enormously successful economy, and North Korea is still a starving military dictatorship threatening to send missiles against the USA. Major Warren W. McAllister, U.S. Army, was on the first shi...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Rice Universe Publishing
Size: 280 pages
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Quite an Undertaking: Violet Guymer's Story - True Tales from the Mortuary

by Elizabeth Lycar and Lorrie Guymer Hutton

The Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 took Violet’s young husband, leaving her penniless with a brood of small children. The youngest was not yet one year old, and she was expecting the sixth. Violet and her family had settled in a remote, isolated northern area that was booming and becoming quickly inhabited by optimistic homesteaders—most of them from England. She and her family too, had immigrated from Britain, having just arrived in Canada a few years earlier, also with high hopes for the future. The area was developing at a rapid rate; some said it would eventually be bigger than Chicago, which was the impetus for the growth and development of the railroad. But now her husband, the town’s undertaker, was dead and soon after, her unborn baby died. With her hopes dashed, she set to wor...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 132 pages
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British Executions - Introduction

by John Eddleston

An introduction to a new series of Kindle books, totalling over one million words of research on all British executions in the twentieth century....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Bibliofile Publishers
Size: 16 pages
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Reflections of a Welshman (The Confessions Trilogy)

by Lyn Clarke

This , Clarke's third book of the Confessions Trilogy , is similarly amusing and intriguing. Clarke stays true to his style of colorful stories which are interesting and extremely enjoyable. In one lifetime he has experienced so many original comedic encounters that are a joy to read and would make good fodder for any aspiring TV sitcom writer to work with. Many of us would wish to have his lifestyle and the ability to capture it in a series of hilarious moments such as these This book , like his previous two , will give the reader an attitude adjustment for the better and brighten up a dull day.as these....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Clarke Bookes
Size: 170 pages
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Strange Boyfriends

by Melissa Thomas

A newly married woman takes a brief look back at her weird boyfriends. From the weird teenage boy with facial hair, to the guy who fought a drunk magician, new author Melissa Thomas carves a humble history of the opposite sex. Witty, smartly written, yet very readable, Strange Boyfriends is a fun ride for single and married people alike....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Wisdom Press
Size: 65 pages
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Thou Shall Not Kill

by Stephen Chapendama

London 1888. Women in London, England are living in fear. Ladies of the night are living in fear of his blade. The Ripper they call him. Has he evaded capture or met his match. This is the story of Emily Akhurst *Short story*...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 152 kb
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Finding Peace in the Storms: A Wife's Journey with Breast Cancer

by Yinka Vidal

Finding Peace in the Storm Defeating the Fears of Chronic Illness A wife’s Journey with Breast Cancer by Yinka Vidal This is the story of Lisa Anderson, the wife of a wealthy man in Chicago suburb in her battle with breast cancer. This book is a rare look into the journey of a woman with her closest friend, and her husband when she is afflicted. The greatest battle she has to fight is not the cancer, or the disease as much as her FEARS that invade her soul. Instead of surrendering to her fears, Lisa learns to confront and fight those fears one by one, until she becomes triumphant over each of them setting her soul free. In the end, she lives a very enjoyable life even when facing the odds of her illness. In so doing, she finds a greater joy in living. Instead of the progressive morbi...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Lara Publications, Inc., Florissant, MO
Size: 393 pages
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Celebrity Biographies - Robert Downey Jr - Biography Series

by Biography Series

This is a short biography of Robert Downey Jr. Robert John Downey Jr. was born on April 4 1965 in Manhattan, New York. His mother was an actress and his father a director, who gave him his first acting role at the age of 5 in the film Pound. His big break came as a tragic junkie in Less Than Zero. Grab your copy now!...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 225 kb
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A Breed Apart

by Bill Graham

A True Crime Biography of a team of top UK Conmen. Vic a Scottish professional criminal and leader of an exclusive team of professional con-men is forced to sell his environment polluting chemicals business. The national press and the Scottish police are investigating his pay-offs to government and lochs authority buyers and also his involvement in the dumping of hazardous waste beneath buildings under construction in the Edinburgh area and around Scotland. The following day he meets up with the other members of the club. As each member is encountered in this story it goes back in time through their history and the various swindles and cons. Vic advises them of his decision to sell up and go into hiding. The group decide to disband but first they agree to plan and carry out one larg...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Bill S Graham
Size: 308 pages
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The Long Escape

by Jeff Noonan

The Long Escape By Jeff Noonan This is a true story; a story of survival. It tells of how a boy and his family lived a life of hellish abuse, fought back, and learned to live with the memories. It is also an adventure tale, following the boy through the military buildup to the Viet Nam War, Pacific Island love affairs, and his personal battles in the Montana mountains. As a boy, Jeff was raised in the mountains of Montana where he idolized his father, a former professional boxer. But in the early 1950s, his idol became an alcoholic and an abuser, repeatedly beating Jeff, his mother, and his younger siblings. In desperation, Jeff resorted to digging hidden bunkers where the family could hide when they were attacked. Life became a daily struggle, both physically and financially. He left ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher: Create Space
Size: 327 pages
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Harvest: Memoir of a Mormon Missionary

by Jacob Young

"This is an amazing memoir, the most realistic, true-to-life account of a modern-day Mormon mission I've ever read. It feels extremely honest and authentic, with a non-manipulative agenda to depict how it really was for this particular missionary." Christopher Bigelow, Amazon Reviewer. "If you've ever wondered what it's like to be an LDS missionary, this book will give you some terrific insight." A.J. Smith, Amazon Reviewer. "Harvest: Memoir of a Mormon Missionary is unusual in one respect. It neither vilifies the Mormon Church nor does it really applaud it. What it does instead is to show us with heart-wrenching honesty what it is like to serve a Mormon mission." Anil Okin, Amazon Reviewer...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Size: 286 pages
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