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  • Abdullah Bin Mubarak reviews

    Abdullah Bin Mubarak Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Abdullah bin Mubarak was a pious Muslim of early Islamic history who is known for his zeal for religious knowledge with an emphasis on Hadith sciences. His transf...

  • The Life of Kit Carson reviews

    The Life of Kit Carson Book Reviews

    Edward Sylvester Ellis

    The United States has more than its share of folk heroes and Kit Carson was one of these. Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson (18091868) was a frontiersman, Indian fighter, explorer, ...

  • Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete reviews

    Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Book Reviews

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    This includes the completed memoirs of U.S. Grant which are beautifully penned down and includes a vast work of american literature and military.

  • The Story of My Life reviews

    The Story of My Life Book Reviews

    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was just nineteen months old when, in 1882, she was struck with an illness that rendered her deaf, blind, and unable to communicate beyond basic signs. When she was se...

  • The Confessions of St. Augustine reviews

    The Confessions of St. Augustine Book Reviews

    Saint Augustine

    The young Augustine does, however, catch a passion for the pursuit of Philosophical truth, learning the doctrines of Manicheism, skepticism, and Neoplatonism. This last philosophy ...

  • Porodica Kurt iz Mostara, historija i rodoslov reviews

    Porodica Kurt iz Mostara, historija i rodoslov Book Reviews

    Ahmet Kurt

    Cilj ovog rada nije da promoviše porodične predaje kakvih kao i u drugim porodicama ne manjka ni kod Kurta, nego da usmenoj historiji suprotstavi činjenice iz dostupnih dokumenata ...

  • The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte reviews

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Book Reviews

    William Milligan Sloane

    The portion relating to the period of youth has been somewhat expanded, the personalities of those nearest to Napoleon have been in some cases more broadly sketched, new chapters h...

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass reviews

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews

    Frederick Douglass

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Selfeducated speaker and author. 1872 vicepresidential nominee. The 19th century’s most photographed man. Frederick Douglass, an enslaved man, went ...

  • The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte reviews

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Book Reviews

    William Milligan Sloane

    Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814 and again in 1815. He implemented a wide array of liberal reforms across Europe, including the abolition of feudalism and...

  • George Washington reviews

    George Washington Book Reviews

    Woodrow Wilson

    "George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twentyeighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes ...

  • The Hazeley Family reviews

    The Hazeley Family Book Reviews

    Alfred Edwin Johnson

    This is a biographical book. Sixteenyearold Flora Hazeley stood by the table in the dingy little dining room, looking down earnestly and thoughtfully at a shapely, yellow sweet pot...

  • South Atlantic Sojourn reviews

    South Atlantic Sojourn Book Reviews

    Richard Cousens & Christopher Cousens

    More than just a tale of adventure, it’s a story of joy, terror, hope and survival which bonds a family into a closely knit team fighting against potential oblivion as they struggl...

  • John the Baptist reviews

    John the Baptist Book Reviews

    Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    Mary, the mother of Jesus was a relative of Elizabeth, the mother of John. After the angel appeared to Mary telling her of the coming of Jesus, she went to see Elizabeth and learne...

  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete reviews

    The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete Book Reviews

    Thomas Paine

    The pamphlet appeared, after the Revolution had started. It was passed around, and often read aloud in taverns, contributing significantly to spreading the idea of republicanism, b...

  • Malcolm-X quotes reviews

    Malcolm-X quotes Book Reviews

    Kamal Taouabit

    MalcolmX quotes in an easytofollow illustrated booklet

  • Anne of Avonlea reviews

    Anne of Avonlea Book Reviews

    L.M. Montgomery

    Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that sh...

  • Walt Disney reviews

    Walt Disney Book Reviews

    Mike Wood

    This is a short Bio of Walt Disney and his many accomplishments. I did not have time to write a full biography of the man, this is just to get you interested in finding out more ab...

  • The Letters of Samuel Rutherford reviews

    The Letters of Samuel Rutherford Book Reviews

    Samuel Rutherford

    Another quality eBook from Chapel Library.  Like John Bunyan in the Bedford jail, Samuel Rutherford did his best work while suffering imprisonment for the Gospel. His oppo...

  • The Life of Captain James Cook reviews

    The Life of Captain James Cook Book Reviews

    Arthur Kitson

    A biography of one of the most famous and influential mariners of history of Captain James Cook FRS RN.

  • Roughing It in the Bush reviews

    Roughing It in the Bush Book Reviews

    Susanna Moodie

    Roughing It in the Bush (Full title: Roughing It in The Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada) is an account of life as a Canadian settler by Susanna Moodie. Moodie immigrated to Canada ...

  • The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers reviews

    The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book Reviews

    Diogenes Laertius

    These brief biographies of more than eighty philosophers of ancient Greece were assembled by Diogenes Laërtius in the early third century. He based these on a variety of sources th...

  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth reviews

    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Book Reviews

    Sojourner Truth

    An Apple Books Classics edition. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth was first published in 1850a dozen years before the Emancipation Proclamation. At the time, this rare, firstperson...

  • George Muller My Journal reviews

    George Muller My Journal Book Reviews

    George Müller

    Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. George Müller: My Journal shares many incidents from his life that are most instructive for the Church today. Müller remains one of histo...

  • The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral reviews

    The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral Book Reviews

    Elbridge Streeter Brooks

    This "True Story of Christopher Columbus" is offered and inscribed to the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series especially designed for their readin...

  • Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman reviews

    Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman Book Reviews

    Anonymous

    This is a collection of narratives of women slaves. The collection includes: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured woman, taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year; Lucinda Dav...

  • Queen Esther, Mordecai and Jewish Purim Feast reviews

    Queen Esther, Mordecai and Jewish Purim Feast Book Reviews

    Dr. Heady Delpak

    Esther[a] is described in the Book of Esther as a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. In the narrative, Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, refuses to obey ...

  • Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson reviews

    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Book Reviews

    Mary White Rowlandson

    This is the story American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several moments of offcolor humor. Mary, the wife of a minister, was captured by Nati...

  • El Legado reviews

    El Legado Book Reviews

    Alfredo Román

    Proveniente de una familia humilde y con escasa educación formal, Alfredo Román logró convertirse en uno de los más importantes empresarios de la Argentina y de América Latina. A l...

  • The Education of Henry Adams reviews

    The Education of Henry Adams Book Reviews

    Henry Adams

    One of the most wellknown and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind...

  • Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography reviews

    Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography Book Reviews

    Theodore Roosevelt

    In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only...

  • Indian Boyhood reviews

    Indian Boyhood Book Reviews

    Charles Alexander Eastman

    Indian Boyhood is the autobiographical work of Eastman's memories as a free Dakota Indian. At the age of fifteen, he was reunited with his father and embarked on a life in whi...

  • The Life of Buffalo Bill reviews

    The Life of Buffalo Bill Book Reviews

    William F. Cody

    The popular history of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody remains more myth than anything else, yet it’s undeniable that he was a central figure in the American Old West. Pony E...

  • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands reviews

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Book Reviews

    Mary Seacole

    Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the w...

  • Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution reviews

    Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution Book Reviews

    Charles Francis Adams

    Thirtyfive years ago a collection of letters written during the period of the Revolution and later, by John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, came into my hands. They interested m...

  • Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant reviews

    Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Book Reviews

    Ulysses S. Grant

    The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Simpson Grant are an American classic. In them Grant, the most able General of the Civil War, tells the story of his life and experiences, covering ...

  • The Diary of a Young Girl reviews

    The Diary of a Young Girl Book Reviews

    Anne Frank

    Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classica powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloq...

  • Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson reviews

    Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson Book Reviews

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United...

  • Imam Abu Haneefa reviews

    Imam Abu Haneefa Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Abu Haneefa was an Islamic scholar and an expert on Islamic law. His juristic pronouncements have held sway over the entire Muslim world for almost twelve centuries. His popularity...

  • Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains reviews

    Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains Book Reviews

    Charles Alexander Eastman

    EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of...

  • JAY Z reviews

    JAY Z Book Reviews

    S. Smart

    This is a short biography of Jay Z, created to demonstrate the use of iBooks Author to my grade 9 English class.

  • My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. reviews

    My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. Book Reviews

    Anonymous

    My Secret Life' is perhaps the most infamous of all underground Victorian erotica. It is the sexual memoir of a welltodo gentleman who began at an early age to keep a diary of...

  • Autobiography of a Yogi reviews

    Autobiography of a Yogi Book Reviews

    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his chi...

  • Klee Wyck reviews

    Klee Wyck Book Reviews

    Emily Carr

    An Apple Books Classic edition. One of Canadian artist Emily Carr’s paintings sold for more than $3.3 million in 2013, setting a record for work by a Canadian woman. And Carr was j...

  • Autism Awareness reviews

    Autism Awareness Book Reviews

    Stefanie Krowinnus

    A little present to my host family to celebrate Autism Awareness Month with people from all over the world.

  • Make Something Wonderful reviews

    Make Something Wonderful Book Reviews

    Steve Jobs

    A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entreprene...

  • Bruno reviews

    Bruno Book Reviews

    Steven Lunardi

    A visual history of Bruno Lunardi's artwork, paintings, photography, architecture, family, and travel.

  • Men of Invention and Industry reviews

    Men of Invention and Industry Book Reviews

    Samuel Smiles

    Industry puts an entirely new face upon the productions of nature. By labour man has subjugated the world, reduced it to his dominion, and clothed the earth with a new garment. The...

  • The Simple Guide To Eminem reviews

    The Simple Guide To Eminem Book Reviews

    Chris Scott

    How does someone who wears clothes that are at least three times too big for him, who has been condemned by so many still stay at the top of his game. Talent. Eminem works hard at ...

  • Imam Bukhari reviews

    Imam Bukhari Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Imam Bukhari is the most prominent name among the Islamic scholars of Hadith sciences. Born in Bukhara (now part of Uzbekistan), he travelled all over the Islamic world, l...

  • Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl reviews

    Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl Book Reviews

    Harriet Jacobs

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl An Apple Books Classic edition. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery on a North Carolina estate, where she remained for the first six years of...

  • Christopher Columbus reviews

    Christopher Columbus Book Reviews

    Mildred Stapley Byne

    Spain, as every one knows, was the country behind the discovery of America. Few people know, however, what an important part the beautiful city of Granada played in that famous eve...

  • Imam Ghazali reviews

    Imam Ghazali Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Imam Muhammad Ghazali is one of the most celebrated scholars in Muslim history. One of the greatest jurists, theologians and mystics of the time, he is unanimously considered as th...

  • Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James reviews

    Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James Book Reviews

    J. A. Dacus

    J. A. Dacus’s biography of Frank and Jesse James chronicles all the major events in their lives, including train robberies, courtships, and gunfights, and is complete with photos a...

  • Mary Queen of Scots reviews

    Mary Queen of Scots Book Reviews

    Jacob Abbott

    This is biography of Mary Stuart of Scotland, was queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567. Mary the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland. In 1567, she was forced...

  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin reviews

    Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Book Reviews

    Benjamin Franklin

    Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions for good living which makes this work Am...

  • The Diary of a Young Girl reviews

    The Diary of a Young Girl Book Reviews

    Anne Frank

    The Diary of a Young Girl , also known as The Diary of Anne Frank , is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years...

  • MOM reviews

    MOM Book Reviews

    Elizabeth Banfield

    My hope is that this project could shed a little light on one of the most important jobs in the world. One issue that truly touches us all, valuing the moms in our life.  ...

  • Alexander the Great reviews

    Alexander the Great Book Reviews

    Sean Patrick

    If you want to learn about one of history’s greatest military commanders and uncover some of his secrets of drivedrive that enabled him and his small army to first subdue all of Gr...

  • How to be Happy - Happiness Hacks reviews

    How to be Happy - Happiness Hacks Book Reviews

    J. A. Powell

    How to be Happy Book One is a series of happiness hacks relating to daily personal life.  These are tips and tricks proven to make a difference in people's lives. &a...

  • De Profundis reviews

    De Profundis Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    From his cell in prison, Oscar Wilde wrote "De Profundis, " the detailed and unsparing revelation of his love and tragedy.

Best Paid Biographies And Memoirs Books of 2024

  • Abdullah Bin Mubarak reviews

    Abdullah Bin Mubarak Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Abdullah bin Mubarak was a pious Muslim of early Islamic history who is known for his zeal for religious knowledge with an emphasis on Hadith sciences. His transf...

  • The Life of Kit Carson reviews

    The Life of Kit Carson Book Reviews

    Edward Sylvester Ellis

    The United States has more than its share of folk heroes and Kit Carson was one of these. Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson (18091868) was a frontiersman, Indian fighter, explorer, ...

  • Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete reviews

    Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Book Reviews

    Ulysses Simpson Grant

    This includes the completed memoirs of U.S. Grant which are beautifully penned down and includes a vast work of american literature and military.

  • The Story of My Life reviews

    The Story of My Life Book Reviews

    Helen Keller

    Helen Keller was just nineteen months old when, in 1882, she was struck with an illness that rendered her deaf, blind, and unable to communicate beyond basic signs. When she was se...

  • The Confessions of St. Augustine reviews

    The Confessions of St. Augustine Book Reviews

    Saint Augustine

    The young Augustine does, however, catch a passion for the pursuit of Philosophical truth, learning the doctrines of Manicheism, skepticism, and Neoplatonism. This last philosophy ...

  • Porodica Kurt iz Mostara, historija i rodoslov reviews

    Porodica Kurt iz Mostara, historija i rodoslov Book Reviews

    Ahmet Kurt

    Cilj ovog rada nije da promoviše porodične predaje kakvih kao i u drugim porodicama ne manjka ni kod Kurta, nego da usmenoj historiji suprotstavi činjenice iz dostupnih dokumenata ...

  • The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte reviews

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Book Reviews

    William Milligan Sloane

    The portion relating to the period of youth has been somewhat expanded, the personalities of those nearest to Napoleon have been in some cases more broadly sketched, new chapters h...

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass reviews

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews

    Frederick Douglass

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Selfeducated speaker and author. 1872 vicepresidential nominee. The 19th century’s most photographed man. Frederick Douglass, an enslaved man, went ...

  • The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte reviews

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Book Reviews

    William Milligan Sloane

    Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814 and again in 1815. He implemented a wide array of liberal reforms across Europe, including the abolition of feudalism and...

  • George Washington reviews

    George Washington Book Reviews

    Woodrow Wilson

    "George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twentyeighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes ...

  • The Hazeley Family reviews

    The Hazeley Family Book Reviews

    Alfred Edwin Johnson

    This is a biographical book. Sixteenyearold Flora Hazeley stood by the table in the dingy little dining room, looking down earnestly and thoughtfully at a shapely, yellow sweet pot...

  • South Atlantic Sojourn reviews

    South Atlantic Sojourn Book Reviews

    Richard Cousens & Christopher Cousens

    More than just a tale of adventure, it’s a story of joy, terror, hope and survival which bonds a family into a closely knit team fighting against potential oblivion as they struggl...

  • John the Baptist reviews

    John the Baptist Book Reviews

    Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    Mary, the mother of Jesus was a relative of Elizabeth, the mother of John. After the angel appeared to Mary telling her of the coming of Jesus, she went to see Elizabeth and learne...

  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete reviews

    The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete Book Reviews

    Thomas Paine

    The pamphlet appeared, after the Revolution had started. It was passed around, and often read aloud in taverns, contributing significantly to spreading the idea of republicanism, b...

  • Malcolm-X quotes reviews

    Malcolm-X quotes Book Reviews

    Kamal Taouabit

    MalcolmX quotes in an easytofollow illustrated booklet

  • Anne of Avonlea reviews

    Anne of Avonlea Book Reviews

    L.M. Montgomery

    Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that sh...

  • Walt Disney reviews

    Walt Disney Book Reviews

    Mike Wood

    This is a short Bio of Walt Disney and his many accomplishments. I did not have time to write a full biography of the man, this is just to get you interested in finding out more ab...

  • The Letters of Samuel Rutherford reviews

    The Letters of Samuel Rutherford Book Reviews

    Samuel Rutherford

    Another quality eBook from Chapel Library.  Like John Bunyan in the Bedford jail, Samuel Rutherford did his best work while suffering imprisonment for the Gospel. His oppo...

  • The Life of Captain James Cook reviews

    The Life of Captain James Cook Book Reviews

    Arthur Kitson

    A biography of one of the most famous and influential mariners of history of Captain James Cook FRS RN.

  • Roughing It in the Bush reviews

    Roughing It in the Bush Book Reviews

    Susanna Moodie

    Roughing It in the Bush (Full title: Roughing It in The Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada) is an account of life as a Canadian settler by Susanna Moodie. Moodie immigrated to Canada ...

  • The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers reviews

    The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Book Reviews

    Diogenes Laertius

    These brief biographies of more than eighty philosophers of ancient Greece were assembled by Diogenes Laërtius in the early third century. He based these on a variety of sources th...

  • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth reviews

    The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Book Reviews

    Sojourner Truth

    An Apple Books Classics edition. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth was first published in 1850a dozen years before the Emancipation Proclamation. At the time, this rare, firstperson...

  • George Muller My Journal reviews

    George Muller My Journal Book Reviews

    George Müller

    Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. George Müller: My Journal shares many incidents from his life that are most instructive for the Church today. Müller remains one of histo...

  • The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral reviews

    The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral Book Reviews

    Elbridge Streeter Brooks

    This "True Story of Christopher Columbus" is offered and inscribed to the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series especially designed for their readin...

  • Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman reviews

    Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman Book Reviews

    Anonymous

    This is a collection of narratives of women slaves. The collection includes: Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured woman, taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year; Lucinda Dav...

  • Queen Esther, Mordecai and Jewish Purim Feast reviews

    Queen Esther, Mordecai and Jewish Purim Feast Book Reviews

    Dr. Heady Delpak

    Esther[a] is described in the Book of Esther as a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. In the narrative, Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, refuses to obey ...

  • Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson reviews

    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Book Reviews

    Mary White Rowlandson

    This is the story American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several moments of offcolor humor. Mary, the wife of a minister, was captured by Nati...

  • El Legado reviews

    El Legado Book Reviews

    Alfredo Román

    Proveniente de una familia humilde y con escasa educación formal, Alfredo Román logró convertirse en uno de los más importantes empresarios de la Argentina y de América Latina. A l...

  • The Education of Henry Adams reviews

    The Education of Henry Adams Book Reviews

    Henry Adams

    One of the most wellknown and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind...

  • Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography reviews

    Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography Book Reviews

    Theodore Roosevelt

    In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only...

  • Indian Boyhood reviews

    Indian Boyhood Book Reviews

    Charles Alexander Eastman

    Indian Boyhood is the autobiographical work of Eastman's memories as a free Dakota Indian. At the age of fifteen, he was reunited with his father and embarked on a life in whi...

  • The Life of Buffalo Bill reviews

    The Life of Buffalo Bill Book Reviews

    William F. Cody

    The popular history of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody remains more myth than anything else, yet it’s undeniable that he was a central figure in the American Old West. Pony E...

  • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands reviews

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Book Reviews

    Mary Seacole

    Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the w...

  • Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution reviews

    Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution Book Reviews

    Charles Francis Adams

    Thirtyfive years ago a collection of letters written during the period of the Revolution and later, by John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams, came into my hands. They interested m...

  • Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant reviews

    Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Book Reviews

    Ulysses S. Grant

    The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Simpson Grant are an American classic. In them Grant, the most able General of the Civil War, tells the story of his life and experiences, covering ...

  • The Diary of a Young Girl reviews

    The Diary of a Young Girl Book Reviews

    Anne Frank

    Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classica powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloq...

  • Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson reviews

    Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson Book Reviews

    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United...

  • Imam Abu Haneefa reviews

    Imam Abu Haneefa Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Abu Haneefa was an Islamic scholar and an expert on Islamic law. His juristic pronouncements have held sway over the entire Muslim world for almost twelve centuries. His popularity...

  • Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains reviews

    Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains Book Reviews

    Charles Alexander Eastman

    EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of...

  • JAY Z reviews

    JAY Z Book Reviews

    S. Smart

    This is a short biography of Jay Z, created to demonstrate the use of iBooks Author to my grade 9 English class.

  • My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. reviews

    My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. Book Reviews

    Anonymous

    My Secret Life' is perhaps the most infamous of all underground Victorian erotica. It is the sexual memoir of a welltodo gentleman who began at an early age to keep a diary of...

  • Autobiography of a Yogi reviews

    Autobiography of a Yogi Book Reviews

    Paramahansa Yogananda

    Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his chi...

  • Klee Wyck reviews

    Klee Wyck Book Reviews

    Emily Carr

    An Apple Books Classic edition. One of Canadian artist Emily Carr’s paintings sold for more than $3.3 million in 2013, setting a record for work by a Canadian woman. And Carr was j...

  • Autism Awareness reviews

    Autism Awareness Book Reviews

    Stefanie Krowinnus

    A little present to my host family to celebrate Autism Awareness Month with people from all over the world.

  • Make Something Wonderful reviews

    Make Something Wonderful Book Reviews

    Steve Jobs

    A curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entreprene...

  • Bruno reviews

    Bruno Book Reviews

    Steven Lunardi

    A visual history of Bruno Lunardi's artwork, paintings, photography, architecture, family, and travel.

  • Men of Invention and Industry reviews

    Men of Invention and Industry Book Reviews

    Samuel Smiles

    Industry puts an entirely new face upon the productions of nature. By labour man has subjugated the world, reduced it to his dominion, and clothed the earth with a new garment. The...

  • The Simple Guide To Eminem reviews

    The Simple Guide To Eminem Book Reviews

    Chris Scott

    How does someone who wears clothes that are at least three times too big for him, who has been condemned by so many still stay at the top of his game. Talent. Eminem works hard at ...

  • Imam Bukhari reviews

    Imam Bukhari Book Reviews

    Naima Sohaib

    Imam Bukhari is the most prominent name among the Islamic scholars of Hadith sciences. Born in Bukhara (now part of Uzbekistan), he travelled all over the Islamic world, l...

  • Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl reviews

    Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl Book Reviews

    Harriet Jacobs

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl An Apple Books Classic edition. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery on a North Carolina estate, where she remained for the first six years of...

  • Christopher Columbus reviews

    Christopher Columbus Book Reviews

    Mildred Stapley Byne

    Spain, as every one knows, was the country behind the discovery of America. Few people know, however, what an important part the beautiful city of Granada played in that famous eve...

  • Imam Ghazali reviews

    Imam Ghazali Book Reviews

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