Elizabeth Keckley 
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House [EPUB ebook] 

When you were young did you dream of becoming a mother? Were your dreams of protection, perfectly straight pigtails, well balanced meals, and never-ending smiles? Well, Meagan was just as surprised a …

This is a simple tale of a family of eight children (six girls and eventually two boys) who lived in a village in South Devon.There are some aspects of this story that will make you laugh and plenty …

This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity and many near-misses. Beginning in the 1960s, this book tells of the real life adve …

‘I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done.’ One heartbroken winter, Jennifer decides to act on her dream of moving to a tiny Greek isla …

Union cavalryman Boston Corbett became a national celebrity after killing John Wilkes Booth, but as details of his odd personality became known, he also became the object of derision. Over time, he w …

A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city”s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer bec …

Sir Edward Heath’s Private Secretary didn’t take retirement sitting down… At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start …

This is the first full-length biography of Sylvia Plath, whose suicide made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation. …

Originally published in 1962, Virginia Woolf, provides a commentary on the literary work of Virginia Woolf – examining not only her the novels, but also the considerable body of criticism surrounding …