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Documents tagged with autobiography

Squawk 7700, Scribd

Squawk 7700 is a timely, eye opening, must read aviation autobiography. The author, Pete Buffington, tells us what it takes to become an airline pilot. Growing up in the Midwest and learning to fly...
  • Word_16x16 225 pages
  • $12.95
  • pandj2000 published this 4 days ago
  • 15 reads
  • 0 comments

A Writer Comes Home

  • Pdf_16x16 3 pages
  • poeticcat2003 published this 5 days ago
  • 39 reads
  • 0 comments

My Demographic Sean Monahan ©2008

A series of short stories populated more by stereotypical disaffection, political ambivalence, and casual morality than developed characters, My Demographic explores the generic ennui that plagu...
  • Pdf_16x16 17 pages
  • smonahan published this 5 days ago
  • 30 reads
  • 0 comments

High Society by Donald Spoto - Excerpt

Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood’s legendary actresses. ...
  • Pdf_16x16 30 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 11/05/2009
  • 1,868 reads
  • 0 comments

James D. Watson - The Double Helix (1968)

An epic book, enlisted by Discover magazine as one of the 25 greatest science books of all times, which inspires you and tells all the ups and downs faced during the discovery of DNA's helical stru...
  • Pdf_16x16 81 pages
  • ggyanwali published this 11/04/2009
  • 96 reads
  • 0 comments

Inside Out: Self and Society in Comic Art

A panel at the 2008 Howl Festival discussed trends of autobiography, journalism and social critique in graphic novels. Moderated by Calvin Reid [Publisher's Weekly] and featured David A. Berona, Ja...
  • Word_16x16 16 pages
  • Edward Carey published this 11/03/2009
  • 61 reads
  • 0 comments

Sarah Palin's Book "Going Rogue: an American Life" As Installation Art (Not Autobiography Or Memoir)

As the title says this is not a book by Sarah Palin. To be completely honest - this is not Nigel Tomm's book either. It is a drama "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen (premiered in 1891) with a differen...
  • Pdf_16x16 208 pages
  • Nigel_Tomm published this 11/03/2009
  • 397 reads
  • 0 comments

Secret Life

  • Txt2_16x16 125 pages
  • Igortsiigh published this 11/02/2009
  • 176 reads
  • 0 comments

The Opposite Field by Jesse Katz - Excerpt

Here is one of the most remarkable, ambitious, and utterly original memoirs of this generation, a story of the losing and finding of self, of sex and love and fatherhood and the joy of language, of...
  • Pdf_16x16 42 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/27/2009
  • 198 reads
  • 0 comments

Will Max Reach 100?

Max Bowser is almost 100 years old. He has been asked to write a book about how this happened and here reveals his secrets to reaching the age of 100 while still feeling and acting like a young man.
  • Pdf_16x16 47 pages
  • $4.95
  • JillBee published this 10/24/2009
  • 44 reads
  • 0 comments

A Smile

An autobiography I wrote for feature writing class around the time the gunman was on the Virginia Tech campus.
  • Openoffice_16x16 2 pages
  • kaerahis published this 10/22/2009
  • 68 reads
  • 0 comments

Speech-less by Matthew Latimer - Excerpt

Despite being raised by reliably liberal parents, Matt Latimer is, from an early age, lured by the upbeat themes of the Reagan Revolution and, in the tradition of Mary Tyler Moore, sets off from th...
  • Pdf_16x16 35 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/20/2009
  • 253 reads
  • 0 comments

A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy - Excerpt

In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside...
  • Pdf_16x16 21 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/14/2009
  • 268 reads
  • 0 comments

Press Release: The Kids Are All Right by Liz & Diana Welch

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Harmony Books; 9/29/09) by Liz and Diana Welch with Dan and Amanda Welch is just such a book. Intimate, compassionate, inspiring; this is the story of four siblings who are ...
  • Pdf_16x16 2 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/13/2009
  • 399 reads
  • 0 comments

American Prince by Tony Curtis with Peter Golenbock - Excerpt

He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned hi...
  • Pdf_16x16 36 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/09/2009
  • 299 reads
  • 0 comments

American Rebel by Marc Eliot - Excerpt

As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest livi...
  • Pdf_16x16 26 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/09/2009
  • 5,209 reads
  • 1 comment

Moonwalk by Michael Jackson - Excerpt

With original Foreword by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a new Introduction by Motown founder Berry Gordy, and an Afterword by Michael Jackson’s editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart. “I’ve always ...
  • Pdf_16x16 11 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 10/08/2009
  • 5,272 reads
  • 3 comments

Summers Long Ago

This book is for families – for grandparents to read aloud to their grandchildren, for beginning readers to read to their parents, and for parents and children to read together. It is also for teac...
  • Pdf_16x16 110 pages
  • $16.95
  • BerkshirePublishing published this 10/08/2009
  • 125 reads
  • 0 comments

Autobiography of Sivananda Swami

Sivananda Swami, the Great Hindu Saint, describes his life story.
  • Pdf_16x16 115 pages
  • drschander published this 10/04/2009
  • 57 reads
  • 0 comments

Antarctic 2041 by Robert Swan and Gil Reavill - Excerpt

In 1985, when Robert Swan walked across Antarctica, the fragile polar environment was not high in his mind. But upon his return, the earth’s perilous state became personal: Robert’s ice-blue eyes w...
  • Pdf_16x16 26 pages
  • CrownPublishingGroup published this 09/30/2009
  • 1,548 reads
  • 4 comments
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