Author: Meyler, Peter Publisher: Natural Heritage Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Captured in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around 1744, Pierpoint escapes slavery, finds freedom in Canada, and is involved in the War of 1812.
Description: Denis Lipman left London's East End for Washington, DC more than 20 years ago, but made an annual pilgrimage year after year to visit aging parents, a pair of cantankerous, real-life Cockneys. He endu...
Author: Morara, Omosa Julius Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: AFRICAN AMERICANIZED is an actual safari of African immigrants, depicting the sort of struggles, challenges and experiences in which they are constantly hounded in, while in America, as a result of th...
Author: Hyde, Michael Publisher: Port Campbell Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Michael Hyde spent the sixties opposing Australian and US involvement in the Vietnam War - a conflict at the heart of that turbulent decade. As opposition to the war grew exponentially, tens of thousa...
Author: Tan, Yuci Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born in Beijing, China in 1955, Yuci Tan and her "American-spy" father lived through very difficult times together during the Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966 and lasted for ten years. Her Ch...
Author: Twain, Mark / Clemens, Samuel / Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Publisher: Classic Biography Bookshelf Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain Within your hands is a glimpse into the life, mind, soul, and "truth" of cherished American icon, Mark Twa...
Author: Twain, Mark / Clemens, Samuel / Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Publisher: Classic Biography Bookshelf Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "We are all alike, on the inside."- Mark Twain "All modern American literature," said Ernest Hemingway, "comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'" Many Americans know Twain as the ...
Description: An intimate look at the heartrending struggle for freedom and identity in Iraq, from a female American Muslim aid worker who witnessed the chaos firsthand
Description: Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met Leela, a beautiful and charismatic bar dancer with a story to tell. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombay's dance bars: a w...
Author: Chappelle, Vera Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the compelling memoir Beauty and Truth, Vera Chappelle shares her personal journey beginning in 1938 at a creek in Moscow, Texas, traveling through five continents, and ending in San Francisco, Cal...
Author: Keckley, Elizabeth Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Behind the scenes formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House is an autobiography of a former slave who obtained...
Author: Keckley, Elizabeth Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Elizabeth Keckley's post-Civil War life story is part slave narrative, part gossip column, part Horatio Alger story. It blends autobiography with - is there a word to describe a biography that dispara...
Author: Pope, Kitty Publisher: Amber Communications Group, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: BESIDE EVERY GREAT MAN profiles thirty-one African American women who chose to work beside their husbands in their mission to become successful, powerful and spiritual African American men, including:...
Author: Maxwell, John A. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A shocking reality all parents should read" "Jocelyn challenges parents to question themselves as to who is ultimately accountable for the interest of their children." - Dr. Daniel Moses, Founder...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps...
Author: Birabiro, Meti Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born into a life of constant financial, physical, and moral threat, Meti Birabiro takes refuge in literature and the fantastic. Blue Daughter of the Red Sea is Birabiros poetic account of the harsh ...
Author: Rosalie, Christopher Publisher: The Nazca Plains Corporation Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Bullied to Death, It almost happened to me" touches on the perilous years that lead from childhood to maturity, for gay people, for gay people who are relentlessly and mercilessly bullied...simply be...
Author: Eyerman, Ron Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experie...
Author: Stockley, Grif Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the m...
Author: Mahvi, Pascal Publisher: FriesenPress Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every once in a while, someone with unprecedented access to the truth, lifts the veil in a memoir so stark and revealing that it has the power to reframe history and our perceptions of those who defin...
Author: Kelley, Pierce Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is about Jorge Frias, a Mexican from the Yucatan Peninsula. For almost twenty years he lived and worked in the United States without proper papers and was, therefore, an illegal alien. After...
Author: Chai, May-lee Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl ("hapa" is Hawaiian for "mixed") their daughter tells the story of th...
Author: Jacobs, Harriet Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...
Author: Eastman, Charles Alexander Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A collection of biographical sketches about Native American leaders. The work dwells on their lives and various aspects of their personalities. In the background, is also a detailed information about ...
Author: Alizadeh, Ali Publisher: Transit Lounge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Iran, My Grandfather is a work of recovery, resistance, and affirmation. I think one can say without risk of hyperbole that it is one of the most remarkable texts ever to have been published in Austr...
Author: N/A Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a history-breaking book. This important book contains autobiographies of seven Korean youth in the United States, with differing immigration experiences. This book provides important prim...
Author: N/A Publisher: The Hermit Kingdom Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Korean-American teenagers from New Jersey write about their own experiences and reflections. This book, containing 9 essays by Korean-American youths from Junior and Senior High Schools in New Jersey,...
Author: Duff, Diana Publisher: Rebel e Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With humour, eloquence, empathy and delightful Gaelic charm, Diana, as a child, travels from Johannesburg to Ireland to a stately home with world-famous gardens. While the talk above stairs was of hor...
Author: Stricklin, David Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's p...
Author: Stricklin, David Publisher: Ivan R Dee Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's p...
Author: Wang, Yupin Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Manchurian American is the personal tale of Yupin Wang, who was born in Northeast China (Manchuria) in the 1930s. He is a witness to the Japanese invasion of China and brutal civil wars, an escapee to...
Description: Knowing little more than that all four of her grandparents were born in Sweden and then met and married in Chicago, Joanne set out to find out all she could about her father's mother who came to Ameri...
Author: Murray, James Publisher: Transit Lounge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: James Murray recounts nine days spent in the remote and beautiful landscapes of the Northern Territory, yet this is much more than a book about bushwalking. A delicate hymn to the wilderness of Northe...
Author: Stroyer, Jacob Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born into slavery in 1849, My Life in the South is Jacob Stroyer?s engrossing first hand look at his life as a slave. After the Civil War, Stroyer moved to Salem, Massachusetts and became a minister....
Author: Bibb, Henry Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave (1849) is an early slave narrative about the life history and experiences of the author, who escaped his owners and was recaptured...
Author: Reid, Kim Publisher: Kensington Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this compelling memoir, Kim Reid hauntingly transports readers to the innocent world of a childhood protected by a loving home, yet threatened by a danger beyond any child's understanding... Thi...
Author: Reid, Kim Publisher: Kensington Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this compelling memoir, Kim Reid hauntingly transports readers to the innocent world of a childhood protected by a loving home, yet threatened by a danger beyond any child's understanding... Thi...
Author: Wilson, Harriet E. Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasin...
Author: Henry, Neil Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery. In it, Neil Henry-...
Author: Riley, Robert E. Publisher: R. E. Riley Associates Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In his part memoir, part historical narrative, investment industry leader Robert E. Riley reveals his experience of climbing his way from the bottom rung at Putnam Investments-one of the largest inves...
Author: Tryman, Naima P. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Naima Tryman's life was a disaster. She endured an abusive childhood, severe ethnic and gender identity issues, the tragic deaths of numerous loved ones, and a near-fatal car accident all before she g...
Author: Triana, Sarah Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Remanso is the gripping true story of how Sarah Triana and her family gave up everything in the quest for freedom. It provides a revealing account of what life was like in Cuba during the first decade...
Author: BOSWELL, RUBY BOUNDS Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is one woman's observations and views of what she perceives to be the downfall in American society. Citing her views from child rearing, healthcare, police brutality and the overall lack of ...
Author: Nemeti, Attila Publisher: First Edition Design ebook Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Attila Immigrates across the Soviet Union remembering his earlier life as a child in Hungary. Japan-The Gift. Arriving in Yokohama Attila discovers the "magical" life and the dark side of Japan by del...
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