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
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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.
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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.

(2004/11: Phil Duse versus the Tyranny of DoD/DOJ) and its Intelligence and Investigative Agencies    by Phillip Duse Sr.
Price: $9.99 USD. 92700 words. Language: English. Published by Fideli Publishing on December 30, 2010. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Civil and human rights.
A David vs Goliath story, this book is directed towards law-abiding people of the Western world, particularly teachers and students. It shares horrific experiences of its author who was forced to deal with and intellectually counter unlawful actions of U.S. Government and local investigative entities. They continue to perpetrate an amalgamation of ruse scenarios in attempts to harm him. Why?

Next of Kin    by Priscilla Lalisse-Jespersen
Price: $4.99 USD. 12230 words. Language: English. Published on December 30, 2010. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Every expatriate holds a special dread of an unexpected middle-of-the-night phone call. It usually means a loved one is gone and because of the distance, there's nothing the expat can do about it. American Priscilla Lalisse-Jespersen learned that lesson the hard way. Lalisse-Jespersen, author of the novel Stockdale, is back, this time with the account of losing her father while living in Paris.

My Billion Year Contract: Memoir of a Former Scientologist    by Nancy Many
Price: $9.99 USD. 116990 words. Language: English. Published on December 29, 2010. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Scientology seemed to be just what the author was looking for; a way to attain spiritual enlightenment. But after she joined the elite inner circle and signed a Billion Year contract she discovered a dark world of fanaticism. A shocking story of abuse, imprisonment, espionage, lies, mental torture and suicide- vital reading for anyone who wants to know what goes on behind Scientology’s curtain.

Slow Boat to Pakistan: The Personal Diaries and Letters of Pegge Parker, 1951-1952    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 75450 words. Language: English. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on December 28, 2010. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Pegge Parker lived two lives. Her first as a journalist in D.C., and Alaska took her by Slow Boat to China (the first book of the series) where she landed in China. Slow Boat to Pakistan picks up after her husband Doug Mackiernan, a CIA agent, was killed. Now a mother and a widow, and needing to make a living, Pegge left their twins and began a new career as Vice Consul and Press Officer.