American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pe...
A true-life story of my upbringing as a girl living with cerebral palsy and the discrimination that I've faced, not only by members of the public but worse still, by my own family, leaving me wi...
If you want to know what being an engineer is like, then you need answers from someone who has worked in the field and been successful.
Tim Strecker, Ph.D., looks back at an engineering career spa...
Every person has experienced a moment that changed them forever. Whether it was positive or negative, when it happened, you were never the same as you we...
The Girl From Mumbai is an inspiring migrant story of purpose, people and passion. It outlines and incredible journey in India and Australia in the communit...
Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life, resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also sp...
The author says “It has been my object in these pages of astronomer biography to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the ma...
A condottiero, nobleman, politician and cardinal, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's great quest...
Inside the pages of this compelling read, Barton credits Jesus with his meteoric rise. More to the point, he portrays Jesus as the world's greatest business executive and master entrepreneur who...
Submarine stories have a long and rich tradition of harrowing escapes and the sinking of enemy ships.When I first saw the boat I would be serving on for the next three and a half y...
THE PINK MARINE is set in the Marine Corps in the 1980s. Our unlikely hero is a gay teen who joins the Corps with his straight best friend. And yes,...
A tumultuous story with the invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 by Nazi Germany; A Polish soldier, Franciszek endures the total humiliation of a paradox and bizarre situations be...
Where was Jesus and what was he doing from ages 12-30? Why does the Bible leave out this important information? Is there any truth to the myths and legends that proclaim that Jesus visited many oth...
THEODORE ROOSEVELTTheodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, and proved to be one of the most popular and progressive President’s in his...
In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on w...
This is the first book of a trilogy. Each book will be a collection of short stories about: boats, cultures, blue-water cruising, some history and my thoughts.The dream was to ...
Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war—a mi...
The first thing that the reader may notice about this memoir is its short chapters-on average, about 700 words. That is because, originally, each chapter was a blog post, and was submitted through ...
A journey of a child born into a world of turmoil and violence who must assume adult responsibilities, deprived of his youth and innocence in the midst of a political battle for control of the v...