Biography & Memoirs on page 3

Georgina L. Cardoza looks back on her life and relationship with God. Asking, "God, where is your secret chamber?" Filled with beautiful Bible scriptures and personal/family history.

Two countries, France and America. Two careers, pastry chef and truck driver. Philippe Vandorme was born in Lille, France and at age sixteen became a pastry apprentice. His experience and expertise would ultimately lead him to the finest hotels in Bermuda, the Caribbean and America. Follow him from Lambersart, France to Atlanta, Georgia as he narrates the story of his life. His memoir spans over sixty years and includes a wealth of unique personal experiences, from walking on the frozen North Sea, which occurs an average of once every hundred years, to baking a birthday cake for Henry Ford II.

In "Kid Show: My World of Imagination," Bill Jackson (B. J.), legendary creator of some of the most innovative local children's television in America, takes you on a fascinating journey from the surprising beginning to the inevitable end of his exceptional career. Along the way, Bill creates some of the most compelling puppets in the history of children's TV, including smoke-billowing Dirty Dragon, prissy Wally and wacky Weird, and the quite exuberant Mother Plumtree. And, oh, yes, there was The Blob -- that large, bizarre lump of clay B. J. sculpted that spoke unintelligible "mood talk" that only B. J. could understand. Bill's most popular shows - "Cartoon Town, B. J. & Dirty Dragon, ...

Stories that inspire and uplift you, for those moments in life when you think you can't go on.

Life itself is a string of stories, held together by the river. The older you get, the more profound and interesting the stories become.

Since Otto Wood was seven years old, he had been in trouble with the law, and was notorious for his escapes from the law. He wrote his life history while serving a thirty-year sentence for killing a man in 1923. His hopes were that the book would help a lost soul from going down the same road as he. While, he did not take his own advice, for the last time, he again escaped prison and was killed in a shootout with the Law on December 31, 1930.

A memoir chronicling five decades in the life of a tobacco-growing farm family in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwest North Carolina. Written by Dr. Cleve Hollar, former superintendent of schools in Yadkin County, this book draws not only from his own experiences and memories but also from those of many of the members of his large extended family to provide an intimate look at everyday life on the farm and in Yadkin’s historic communities of Huntsville and Courtney. In addition to the raising of tobacco and other crops, activities such as hunting, moonshining, cooking, gardening, and beekeeping are all vividly described, as are local schools and religious and social li ...

For years the author slept in a tent, whizzed in a can, up in the dark, battling nerves and heat, chasing birds, boar and deer . . . What was it, he wondered? Among roadrunners, ex-dinosaurs, bump-in-the-night visitors and infernal temperatures, a narrative ensues. Only then is a sense of gratitude and revelation found in the dry wash of a season’s finale. John Graham is a California artist, oral historian and the creator of the El Fornio Story Cycle where Junipero Serra’s heart can be found in a jar. WWW.ELFORNIO.ORG

The life experiences of David Lineberger from early childhood to retirement, including his faith journey from a conservative Christian literalist to an open minded moderate.

In 2005 at the age of 46, I experienced what Western Medicine would most likely classify as a “nervous breakdown”. Seemingly out of nowhere, my whole body began to tremble and shake and my mind became overwhelmed with feelings of intense anxiety and panic. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. I could barely breathe. My heart rate, which was usually around 65 or so, began pounding at rates as high as 105 beats per minute and my blood pressure soaring to readings as high as 178/100. Needless to say, I was terrified. And yet, as hard as I tried, I couldn’t figure out what was causing all of this midlife upheaval. “Still don’t know what’s happening in my brain…am I dying? Am I going crazy…Or ...