Best Biographies And Memoirs Books
Best Seller Free Biographies And Memoirs Books of 2023
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Twelve Years a Slave Book Reviews
Solomon NorthupIn 1841, Solomon Northup was a free black man, married with three children and living in upstate New York, when he was tricked into going to Washington DC. There, he was drugged, k...
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Alexander the Great Book Reviews
Jacob AbbottAlexander gained the world, but at what cost? This book is an easy but fascinating read, providing insights and details into the life of one of history's most prominent, yet p...
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Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl Book Reviews
Harriet JacobsIncidents 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...
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Book Reviews
Ulysses S. GrantThe 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 ...
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Hero Tales from American History Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltIt is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of thei...
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero Book Reviews
CiceroThe period covered by the letters of Cicero is one of the most interesting and momentous in the history of the world, and these letters afford a picture of the chief personages and...
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Saint Bonaventure Book Reviews
Laurence CostelloeSaint Bonaventure, O. F. M. (Italian: San Bonaventura; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. He was born at...
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Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltIn 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...
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Book Reviews
Benjamin FranklinFranklin 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...
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Coral Comes High Book Reviews
George P. Hunt"AT 0830, September 15, 1944, the First Marine Division attacked the Japaneseheld island of Peleliu in the Palau Islands and engaged an estimated 10,000 Japanese in one of the...
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499 Powerful Hypnotic Affirmations and Spiritual Self-Care for Black Women Book Reviews
Easytube Zen Studio2 Books in 1 Feminine Positive Affirmations for Black Women Finally Live the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of and Feel Prepared for Anything Life Throws Your Way A Positive Affirmati...
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The Confessions of St. Augustine Book Reviews
Saint AugustineThe young Augustine does, however, catch a passion for the pursuit of Philosophical truth, learning the doctrines of Manicheism, skepticism, and Neoplatonism. This last philosophy ...
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Marriage Covenant 7 Book Reviews
Oluwagbemiga OlowosoyoTwo individuals who are afraid of having sex with their spouses who are prophesied to be demonically involved, wrote letters to Dr. Olowosoyo. This is his counsel to both of them. ...
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Rise Book Reviews
Rebecca K. O'ConnorLIFT, Rebecca K. O’Connor’s arresting memoir of love, loss, relationships and one impossible peregrine falcon is further illuminated with this collection of writings on the world o...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Book Reviews
Various AuthorsIt is a biographical book. Many years ago, the few readers of radical Abolitionist papers must often have seen the singular name of Sojourner Truth, announced as a frequent speaker...
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom Book Reviews
T. E. Lawrence, Sydney Carline, John Cosmo Clark, Frank Dobson, Gertrude Hermes, Eric Kennington, Colin Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Paul Nash, William Nicholson, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Spencer & R. M. YoungSeven Pillars of Wisdom is Lawrence’s memoir of his involvement in leading a portion of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I. The empire had joined the sid...
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The World I Live In Book Reviews
Helen KellerThe beautiful writing of the inspiring Helen Keller, a woman who overcame the obstacles of being deaf and blind from infancy.  This masterful work includes essays, poetry,...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Fredrick DouglassThis autobiography is the first book from the brilliant writer, advocate, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Relating the story of Douglass’ life from his birth into slavery to h...
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Book Reviews
Sojourner TruthAn 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...
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Socs and Greasers Book Reviews
Rob LoweA scene taken straight from Rob Lowe's New York Times bestselling memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends , a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary li...
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Pain Book Reviews
Jason Wallace PoetryI thought I'd murder... Hurt her. I loved it. My first love first earned I learned to not trust. I fd my life I nearly lost my life For her For her. Whenever I saw my fuse sho...
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The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons Book Reviews
Henry Steel OlcottTHE thoughtful student, in scanning the religious history of the race has one fact continually forced upon his notice, viz., that there is an invariable tendency ...
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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Book Reviews
Thomas JeffersonThe opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound sense of his patriotic services,...
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My Reminiscences Book Reviews
Rabindranath Tagore & The Macmillan CompanyRabindranath Tagore, sometimes referred to as the Bard of Bengal, was a poet, composer, and artist active in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th cent...
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999 Powerful Affirmations for Black Women Book Reviews
Easytube Zen StudioDear black woman, You are beautiful, powerful, effervescent. Yet the weight of the world seeks to dim your glow, gnaw at your strengths, and dull your spark. Whenever you feel alon...
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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson Book Reviews
Thomas JeffersonThomas 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...
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Broken Angel Book Reviews
Jason Wallace PoetryI wish you could find the same Because in your brain You seem to think that it's ok To leave someone hurting in such a way Breaking hearts, tearing apart All inclination To mo...
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Imam Bukhari Book Reviews
Naima SohaibImam 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...
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Hunting the Grizzly Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltAt 3 a.m. on the morning of February 14, 1884, Theodore Roosevelt’s mother Mittie dies of typhoid fever. Eleven hours later his wife of four years, Alice, dies of an undiagnosed ca...
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My Bondage and My Freedom Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassMy Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass,...
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Anne of Avonlea Book Reviews
L.M. MontgomeryFollowing 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...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Book Reviews
John BunyanCome and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done unto my soul. (Psalm 66:16) This is a short and honest account of how God demonstrated His exceeding great ...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Book Reviews
Thomas JeffersonThe most comprehensive onevolume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography", "Notes on the State of Virginia", public and private paper...
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Life of Spinoza Book Reviews
Francis GoodeSpinoza was a radical Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas still retain the ability to inform, shock and guide. His first biography was written by Jean Lucas shortly after his dea...
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A Day Trip To Beijing Book Reviews
Julia BrightlyJulia Brightly is a writer, musician, painter, illustrator, broadcaster, producer of radio and records, and a transgender lesbian. She was the guitar player in the groups Bim, The ...
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes Book Reviews
TidelsTidels makes way for Exceptional Learners. With over a million books downloaded worldwide, Tidels empower kids to learn, read and explore the world.   Everyone ne...
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The life I chose Book Reviews
moses devossThis book is written as an autobiography about the life of Moses Devoss, to portray the whole journey of Moses Devoss, it is aimed at inspiring the young people living in the ghett...
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My Life and Work Book Reviews
Henry FordThis is the autobiography of Henry Ford. Written in conjunction with Samuel Crowther, it chronicles the rise and success of one of the greatest American entrepreneurs and businessm...
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John Brown Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassJohn Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United...
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Theodore Roosevelt Book Reviews
Edmund Lester PearsonThis book is about the bigography of "Theodore Roosevelt" written by "Edmund Lester Pearson".
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Spiritual Self-Care for Black Women Book Reviews
Easytube Zen StudioA proactive approach to aligning your spirituality with healing, growth, and success is here Find out how you can become the wellrounded badass you’re destined to be! "Spirit...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most...
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My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. Book Reviews
AnonymousMy 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...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Reviews
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThis 1902 biography of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow draws information from three new historical sources: “First, much additional material is here drawn from the manuscript corre...
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Logan Book Reviews
Tim VescoFor the past 25 years, students at Frank Layden Elementary School in Frontenac, Kansas have created some amazing stories as part of the annual Celebration of Writing: Young Authors...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln Book Reviews
Henry KetchamAs a young man, Lincoln stood out from the crowd, tall and lanky at sixfeet fourinches. He arrived in New Salem and landed a job as a clerk in a general store. Soon thereafter, Lin...
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The Spirit of the Age Book Reviews
William HazlittThe biographic historical type of book. Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that "A prophet has no honour, except out of his own country". His r...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassAn Apple Books Classic edition. Selfeducated speaker and author. 1872 vicepresidential nominee. The 19th century’s most photographed man. Frederick Douglass, an enslaved man, went ...
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Benjamin Franklin Book Reviews
John Torrey MorseIt is a lamentable matter for any writer to find himself compelled to sketch, however briefly, the early years of Benjamin Franklin. That autobiography, in which the story of those...
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Abraham Lincoln, Volume II Book Reviews
John Torrey MorsePartly because of that fact, it makes for very enjoyable reading. The style of language is a bit more "flowery" then we are used to. The author gives you a very good sens...
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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 ...
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Abraham Lincoln, Volume I Book Reviews
John Torrey MorseThe book contains account of Lincoln. The years of the civil war constitute an episode rather than an independent period in our national history. They were interposed between two e...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Book Reviews
Ulysses Simpson GrantThis includes the completed memoirs of U.S. Grant which are beautifully penned down and includes a vast work of american literature and military.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, his Life, Art, and Work Book Reviews
Johann Nikolaus ForkelThis book is aimed toward a musical audience, those who understand what makes a concerto great, or how harmony and melody differ, rather than one looking to understand more about B...
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Leonardo da Vinci Book Reviews
Sigmund FreudLeonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci, 1910) is an essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci's childhood...
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Maria Woodworth Etter Book Reviews
Steven PhippsMaria WoodworthEtter is one of the bestremembered evangelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This enigmatic woman was the subject of controversy and persecution through...
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The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete Book Reviews
Thomas PaineThe 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...
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Twelve Years a Slave Book Reviews
Solomon NorthupAn Apple Books Classic edition. In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free, educated Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New Yorkuntil the day that two men kidnapped him and sold him in...
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The Life of Flavius Josephus Book Reviews
Flavius JosephusNow, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the...
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Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century Book Reviews
J. C. RyleBiographies of George Whitefield, John Wesley, William Grimshaw, William Romaine, Daniel Rowlands, John Berridge, Henry Venn, Samuel Walker, James Hervey, Augustus Toplady, and Joh...
Best Seller Paid Biographies And Memoirs Books of 2023
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Twelve Years a Slave Book Reviews
Solomon NorthupIn 1841, Solomon Northup was a free black man, married with three children and living in upstate New York, when he was tricked into going to Washington DC. There, he was drugged, k...
-
Alexander the Great Book Reviews
Jacob AbbottAlexander gained the world, but at what cost? This book is an easy but fascinating read, providing insights and details into the life of one of history's most prominent, yet p...
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Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl Book Reviews
Harriet JacobsIncidents 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...
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Book Reviews
Ulysses S. GrantThe 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 ...
-
Hero Tales from American History Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltIt is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of thei...
-
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero Book Reviews
CiceroThe period covered by the letters of Cicero is one of the most interesting and momentous in the history of the world, and these letters afford a picture of the chief personages and...
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Saint Bonaventure Book Reviews
Laurence CostelloeSaint Bonaventure, O. F. M. (Italian: San Bonaventura; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. He was born at...
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Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltIn 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...
-
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Book Reviews
Benjamin FranklinFranklin 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...
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Coral Comes High Book Reviews
George P. Hunt"AT 0830, September 15, 1944, the First Marine Division attacked the Japaneseheld island of Peleliu in the Palau Islands and engaged an estimated 10,000 Japanese in one of the...
-
499 Powerful Hypnotic Affirmations and Spiritual Self-Care for Black Women Book Reviews
Easytube Zen Studio2 Books in 1 Feminine Positive Affirmations for Black Women Finally Live the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of and Feel Prepared for Anything Life Throws Your Way A Positive Affirmati...
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The Confessions of St. Augustine Book Reviews
Saint AugustineThe young Augustine does, however, catch a passion for the pursuit of Philosophical truth, learning the doctrines of Manicheism, skepticism, and Neoplatonism. This last philosophy ...
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Marriage Covenant 7 Book Reviews
Oluwagbemiga OlowosoyoTwo individuals who are afraid of having sex with their spouses who are prophesied to be demonically involved, wrote letters to Dr. Olowosoyo. This is his counsel to both of them. ...
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Rise Book Reviews
Rebecca K. O'ConnorLIFT, Rebecca K. O’Connor’s arresting memoir of love, loss, relationships and one impossible peregrine falcon is further illuminated with this collection of writings on the world o...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Book Reviews
Various AuthorsIt is a biographical book. Many years ago, the few readers of radical Abolitionist papers must often have seen the singular name of Sojourner Truth, announced as a frequent speaker...
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom Book Reviews
T. E. Lawrence, Sydney Carline, John Cosmo Clark, Frank Dobson, Gertrude Hermes, Eric Kennington, Colin Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Paul Nash, William Nicholson, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Spencer & R. M. YoungSeven Pillars of Wisdom is Lawrence’s memoir of his involvement in leading a portion of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire during World War I. The empire had joined the sid...
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The World I Live In Book Reviews
Helen KellerThe beautiful writing of the inspiring Helen Keller, a woman who overcame the obstacles of being deaf and blind from infancy.  This masterful work includes essays, poetry,...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Fredrick DouglassThis autobiography is the first book from the brilliant writer, advocate, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Relating the story of Douglass’ life from his birth into slavery to h...
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Book Reviews
Sojourner TruthAn 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...
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Socs and Greasers Book Reviews
Rob LoweA scene taken straight from Rob Lowe's New York Times bestselling memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends , a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary li...
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Pain Book Reviews
Jason Wallace PoetryI thought I'd murder... Hurt her. I loved it. My first love first earned I learned to not trust. I fd my life I nearly lost my life For her For her. Whenever I saw my fuse sho...
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The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons Book Reviews
Henry Steel OlcottTHE thoughtful student, in scanning the religious history of the race has one fact continually forced upon his notice, viz., that there is an invariable tendency ...
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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Book Reviews
Thomas JeffersonThe opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound sense of his patriotic services,...
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My Reminiscences Book Reviews
Rabindranath Tagore & The Macmillan CompanyRabindranath Tagore, sometimes referred to as the Bard of Bengal, was a poet, composer, and artist active in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th cent...
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999 Powerful Affirmations for Black Women Book Reviews
Easytube Zen StudioDear black woman, You are beautiful, powerful, effervescent. Yet the weight of the world seeks to dim your glow, gnaw at your strengths, and dull your spark. Whenever you feel alon...
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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson Book Reviews
Thomas JeffersonThomas 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...
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Broken Angel Book Reviews
Jason Wallace PoetryI wish you could find the same Because in your brain You seem to think that it's ok To leave someone hurting in such a way Breaking hearts, tearing apart All inclination To mo...
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Imam Bukhari Book Reviews
Naima SohaibImam 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...
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Hunting the Grizzly Book Reviews
Theodore RooseveltAt 3 a.m. on the morning of February 14, 1884, Theodore Roosevelt’s mother Mittie dies of typhoid fever. Eleven hours later his wife of four years, Alice, dies of an undiagnosed ca...
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My Bondage and My Freedom Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassMy Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass,...
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Anne of Avonlea Book Reviews
L.M. MontgomeryFollowing 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...
-
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Book Reviews
John BunyanCome and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done unto my soul. (Psalm 66:16) This is a short and honest account of how God demonstrated His exceeding great ...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Book Reviews
Thomas JeffersonThe most comprehensive onevolume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography", "Notes on the State of Virginia", public and private paper...
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Life of Spinoza Book Reviews
Francis GoodeSpinoza was a radical Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas still retain the ability to inform, shock and guide. His first biography was written by Jean Lucas shortly after his dea...
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A Day Trip To Beijing Book Reviews
Julia BrightlyJulia Brightly is a writer, musician, painter, illustrator, broadcaster, producer of radio and records, and a transgender lesbian. She was the guitar player in the groups Bim, The ...
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes Book Reviews
TidelsTidels makes way for Exceptional Learners. With over a million books downloaded worldwide, Tidels empower kids to learn, read and explore the world.   Everyone ne...
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The life I chose Book Reviews
moses devossThis book is written as an autobiography about the life of Moses Devoss, to portray the whole journey of Moses Devoss, it is aimed at inspiring the young people living in the ghett...
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My Life and Work Book Reviews
Henry FordThis is the autobiography of Henry Ford. Written in conjunction with Samuel Crowther, it chronicles the rise and success of one of the greatest American entrepreneurs and businessm...
-
John Brown Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassJohn Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United...
-
Theodore Roosevelt Book Reviews
Edmund Lester PearsonThis book is about the bigography of "Theodore Roosevelt" written by "Edmund Lester Pearson".
-
Spiritual Self-Care for Black Women Book Reviews
Easytube Zen StudioA proactive approach to aligning your spirituality with healing, growth, and success is here Find out how you can become the wellrounded badass you’re destined to be! "Spirit...
-
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most...
-
My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. Book Reviews
AnonymousMy 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...
-
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Book Reviews
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThis 1902 biography of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow draws information from three new historical sources: “First, much additional material is here drawn from the manuscript corre...
-
Logan Book Reviews
Tim VescoFor the past 25 years, students at Frank Layden Elementary School in Frontenac, Kansas have created some amazing stories as part of the annual Celebration of Writing: Young Authors...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln Book Reviews
Henry KetchamAs a young man, Lincoln stood out from the crowd, tall and lanky at sixfeet fourinches. He arrived in New Salem and landed a job as a clerk in a general store. Soon thereafter, Lin...
-
The Spirit of the Age Book Reviews
William HazlittThe biographic historical type of book. Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that "A prophet has no honour, except out of his own country". His r...
-
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Reviews
Frederick DouglassAn Apple Books Classic edition. Selfeducated speaker and author. 1872 vicepresidential nominee. The 19th century’s most photographed man. Frederick Douglass, an enslaved man, went ...
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Benjamin Franklin Book Reviews
John Torrey MorseIt is a lamentable matter for any writer to find himself compelled to sketch, however briefly, the early years of Benjamin Franklin. That autobiography, in which the story of those...
-
Abraham Lincoln, Volume II Book Reviews
John Torrey MorsePartly because of that fact, it makes for very enjoyable reading. The style of language is a bit more "flowery" then we are used to. The author gives you a very good sens...
-
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 ...
-
Abraham Lincoln, Volume I Book Reviews
John Torrey MorseThe book contains account of Lincoln. The years of the civil war constitute an episode rather than an independent period in our national history. They were interposed between two e...
-
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete Book Reviews
Ulysses Simpson GrantThis includes the completed memoirs of U.S. Grant which are beautifully penned down and includes a vast work of american literature and military.
-
Johann Sebastian Bach, his Life, Art, and Work Book Reviews
Johann Nikolaus ForkelThis book is aimed toward a musical audience, those who understand what makes a concerto great, or how harmony and melody differ, rather than one looking to understand more about B...
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Leonardo da Vinci Book Reviews
Sigmund FreudLeonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci, 1910) is an essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci's childhood...
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Maria Woodworth Etter Book Reviews
Steven PhippsMaria WoodworthEtter is one of the bestremembered evangelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This enigmatic woman was the subject of controversy and persecution through...
-
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete Book Reviews
Thomas PaineThe 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...
-
Twelve Years a Slave Book Reviews
Solomon NorthupAn Apple Books Classic edition. In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free, educated Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New Yorkuntil the day that two men kidnapped him and sold him in...
-
The Life of Flavius Josephus Book Reviews
Flavius JosephusNow, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the...
-
Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century Book Reviews
J. C. RyleBiographies of George Whitefield, John Wesley, William Grimshaw, William Romaine, Daniel Rowlands, John Berridge, Henry Venn, Samuel Walker, James Hervey, Augustus Toplady, and Joh...