Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Sketches From Siberia
The Life of Jacob D.Sudermann by Werner Toews
A poignant biography of Jacob Davidovitch Sudermann, a teacher and artist from a Russian Mennonite community who, like so many others, fell victim to the bloodthirsty paranoia of the Stalinist purges and died in a Siberian gulag in 1937. Sketches...
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Red Fred's Dead
An autobiography of a Kid from San Diego by Angelo La Jolla
This is a highly entertaining, fast -moving, vibrant account of the life of a man who didn't always take the obvious pathways, but always made the most of the pathways he found himself along. This book offers a great deal of colorful detail about...
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Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
by Michael R. Gaudet
In 1979, at age 19, Michael Gaudet was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. Thanks to a kidney transplant from his brother, Michael survived and later rose to prominence as a Canadian painter of monumental murals. Dancing With Rejection: A...
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Sent to the USA
by Sebastian "Chany" Almazan
About the Book Sebastian "Chany" Almazan was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on August 9, 1945, the day the atomic bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, Japan. Little did he know the role war was going to play in his life. Chany enjoyed a carefree life as a...
