Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General

Some of the stories from Depression Baby

• Nudity and Grand Theft on Richland Creek
• The Hog Spoon
• Every Boy Needed One
• Sorghum...

The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest.

The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at the epicentre of a new crime and empirical fears about the first inter-continental terrorist group, a conspiracy and a 'lone wolf '. In a resulting 'reign of terror' extraordinary steps were taken to...

The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest.

The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at the epicentre of a new crime and empirical fears about the first inter-continental terrorist group, a conspiracy and a 'lone wolf '. In a resulting 'reign of terror' extraordinary steps were taken to...

Sure, the stories of the Deep South during the 19th and 20th centuries are troubling. But, sometimes it's good for us to look deeper and often we find great stories of love and triumph. This is such a story. My Four Grandparents highlights the lives of four dynamic people living in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana over the span of the 20th century. This book is about those people, those times and their deep ties to northern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish and the small town Frierson. My Four Grandparents recounts the stories of these beloved figures from the perspective of "kinfolk" who loved them...

Little Boy Big World tells the tale of a young Afghan boy and his experiences growing up in war-torn Afghanistan. Hayat is that boy, and his real-world story covers his life from adolescence to young adulthood in 2015. You will be both amazed and moved by Hayat’s story, which chronicles routine family life in a male-dominated society, his village’s struggles against a violent regime, and the fight to secure education for boys and girls alike. You also see a happy and enthusiastic Hayat, one who loves his father and mother deeply and who never fails to think of...

Sure, the stories of the Deep South during the 19th and 20th centuries are troubling. But, sometimes it's good for us to look deeper and often we find great stories of love and triumph. This is such a story. My Four Grandparents highlights the lives of four dynamic people living in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana over the span of the 20th century. This book is about those people, those times and their deep ties to northern Louisiana, DeSoto Parish and the small town Frierson. My Four Grandparents recounts the stories of these beloved figures from the perspective of "kinfolk" who loved them...

As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar of the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing, which allowed him to make friends and business connections quickly in the thriving industrial city of Detroit. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the...