The Schepp Family Chronicles    by Frances Schepp Ruh
Price: $5.95 USD. 75970 words. Language: English. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 12, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Fredrick Schepp stepped off a steamer in 1853 to seek his fortune on American soil. The dream led him and his mail-order bride to Kansas where their investment bought a piece of prairie that remains in the family to this day. Scattered to Nebraska and Oklahoma, Schepps live the American dream. But getting there, the family has experienced success, failure, wealth, poverty, kidnapping, and murder.

Bygones    by Alexander Kotlarevski
Price: $6.50 USD. 117240 words. Language: Russian. Published by Iouri Haller on January 11, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Memoirs of Alexander Aref'ev

Odd Road to Kabul    by Patricia Keen-Diaz
Price: $3.99 USD. 106080 words. Language: English. Published on January 8, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
This is the remarkable story of survival and a child’s unique ability to pull through a harrowing fourteen-year cycle of neglect and abuse.

Manhood From The Hood    by Bill Roddy
Price: $9.99 USD. 33020 words. Language: English. Published on January 7, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
As I continue to navigate life as a mature man, I wonder: With all my efforts, am I truly leaving a vital legacy for the next male generation? Should I, could I do more? Or is my influence running out of strength and time? I’m just one man. Then again, so was my grandfather. So are millions of men throughout our land—grandfathers, fathers, uncles, brothers.

United Press Invades India: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent, 1944-1952    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 127900 words. Language: English. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
How does a Midwestern boy end up reporting world events from India for United Press? He comes by way of boat, after reporting from China during the Communist takeover. Such is the life story of John Hlavacek, correspondent for NBC and Time-Life. John left his career reporting from China to join United Press as a war correspondent. He reported world events from India from 1944-1952.

Letters Home: An American in China: 1939-1944    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 101380 words. Language: English. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
After graduating from Carleton College in Northfield, MN in 1939, John Hlavacek sailed to China to the Carleton-in-China Middle School in Fenchow, Shansi Province. As John describes it, many Midwesterners had little knowledge of China, other than famine, disease, and war. After weeks of training in Chinese in Peking, John traveled to the compound in what was then Japanese-occupied China.

Freelancing in Paradise:The Story of Two American Reporters Who Supported Their Family by Covering Turbulent Times in the Caribbean, 1958-1963    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 129890 words. Language: English. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 5, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
After living and working in India during the first years of their marriage, John and Pegge Hlavacek moved their children and Indian nanny to New York when John accepted a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. When the fellowship ended, the Hlavaceks moved to Jamaica and supported the family by providing news and photography services to print, radio, and TV.

Journey to Freedom - Moroccan Stories    by Sascha von Bornheim
Price: $4.99 USD. 32030 words. Language: English. Published on January 3, 2011. Nonfiction » Inspiration » Personal inspiration.
In 'Journey to Freedom - Moroccan Stories' Sascha von Bornheim tells of his childhood, which came to an abrupt end when his family -including his certifiably insane stepfather- moved from his native Germany to Rabat, Morocco. Adapting to life in the Muslim country with its unfamiliar customs and traditions was made almost unbearable by Sascha's mother and stepfather.

Alias Pegge Parker    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 93270 words. Language: English. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on January 3, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
During World War II, Margaret Lyons, a small-town Pennsylvania girl, had a taste for adventure. She began her career as an advice columnist, adopting the pen name Pegge Parker. She began literally writing her way around the world. Before long, she was headed for China where she met and married Douglas Mackiernan, an undercover CIA agent. The couple became the proud parents of twins, Mike and Mary.

Bread From the Sky    by Marie McCarthy
Price: $4.99 USD. 96460 words. Language: English. Published on January 2, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
How many cat heads do you have to eat before you acquire the characteristics of a cat? Why do you hang a snail shell in a tree? How do you get a curse removed? And who buried a gri-gri in the yard? These and other questions are answered in Bread From the Sky, a Peace Corps memoir.