Biography & Autobiography, Historical
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Who's On Today?
Life in a Brooklyn Commune by Elayne Grant Archer
A Commune Grew In Brooklyn Before Park Slope became “Park Slope,” an affluent and sometimes derided Brooklyn neighborhood of “stroller moms,” entitled children, and complete lack of parking spaces, it was a community in decline. This started to...
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John Friesen: The Man Behind the Machines
A Memoir by Edna Manning
To my family, I trust that the account written here will encourage and motivate you to do your best in all your endeavours, and to help others along your life's pathway.... your dad, grand-dad and great-grand-dad.
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LIMA-3
And the Mustang Grunt by Frank McCarthy
In 1966, career Marine Lieutenant Frank McCarthy received the assignment of a lifetime when he was assigned as a platoon commander in an infantry battalion preparing for deployment to Vietnam. Following several months of training his men, whom he...
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My Life, Lessons and a Teacher Within
by Bhagat S Taggar
My life, lessons, and teacher within, provide insights and subtlety of life in simple but captivative English. The book is stimulating and inspirational. It is unique in many different aspects. The author describes the historical incidences that...
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On the Border
Twenty Life Stories From Four Continents by Paul Bennett
This is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author’s family, youth, career, and travel. Paul Bennett provides readers with his unique perspective on his grandfather’s tragic death in WWI, Canada’s 1970 October Crisis, and the...
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A Boy on the Alcan
Up and Down the Alaska Highway by R. L. Byskal
A boy on the Alcan is an intriguing story of seven year old Eddie Byskal. He was born in a small Missions Hospital on the shore of Wakaw Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. When Eddie’s mother passed away his father signed up as a carpenter on the...
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Before I Knew
A Village Boyhood on Vancouver Island by Scott Brian Montgomery
Stuey Moore is in trouble—again. When he’s not carving his initials on the family piano or stealing his mother’s prized curling gloves for dubious winter “sports,” the somewhat impulsive youngster is likely buying candy at Mr. Beck’s store, or...
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Dad Wore a Fedora and Sleeve Garters
A Life Well Lived by Salli Pustanyk Rice
How do you begin to tell the story of someone’s life when you feel you barely knew them? Is it possible to gather the biographical information about someone who has been gone for thirty years—even if that person was your own father? Dad Wore a...
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Madge Watt and the Power of Women Working Together
by R. Fenner and H. Geissinger
Married at 25, widowed at 45, head of an international organization at 65! Madge Watt led an eventful life and a successful career working with women. She had the skills and attitude that would have made her a success anywhere but she chose to...
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Laughter Growing
a Mennonite-Mexican boyhood by Esther Penner
Hair-raising escapades ranging from the heights of a windmill to utter darkness in a deep well. Staring a deadly snake in the eye and facing the menacing eyes of a snarling wolf. Delight over a sack of oranges at Christmas and the shame of...
