Memoirs
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Voices of War: Memoirs from the Battlefield
- Voices of Faithful Servants
- Faithful Journeys: Christian Memoirs
- Voices of Resilience
Behind the Scenes
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…
Our Cats and All About Them
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
In this insightful memoir, George Washington Plunkitt, a prominent figure in New York City's Tammany Hall, offers a firsthand account of the…
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…
My Trip Abroad
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…
Certified - The True Story of David Harris
Certified is the pacey, true life account of David Harris; how he went from typical Aussie kid to mentally deranged criminal, then experienc…
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck
"A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting…
The Mother and the Child
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …
Briefe aus dem Gefängnis
Rosa Luxemburg war eine bedeutende Vertreterin der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung und des proletarischen Internationalismus. Sie geh&oum…
Take it From Dad
Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…
The Man Who Found the Truth
An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so chara…
Autobiography of a Seaman
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…
Five Years of My Life
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…
History of the Inquisition of Spain
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…
Tagebuch eines halbwüchsigen Mädchens
In Form eines Tagebuches wird die Entwicklung des in gehobenen Wiener Verhältnissen aufwachsenden Mädchens Grete Lainer vom elften…
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…
Child Life in Colonial Days
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…