Biography Books
Alice's Evidence - A New Look at Autism
This replaces the earlier Looking Autism in the Face: Two New Perspectives on Autism. It is the expanded combination a pair of items I wrote about autism. Part of it looks at the relationship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, and marshals the evidence that Dodgson was not...
Lord Byron - Coincidence or Destiny
I recall an excitement of discovering the Brig Hercules was being constructed a short six miles north of Seaham Hall, where Lord Byron and Miss Milbanke were about to be married. The Byrons left Seaham Hall, four months later, which was about the same time as the Hercules was...
Reflections: Sweet and Sour Memories of the Prasad Family
A historical journey of the Prasad Family from Uttar Pradesh in India to Fiji and then to Australia. Over a hundred years of history and development of an immigrant family.
I Trusted Him
Teen relationships are often controversial and severely misunderstood. In some cases these relationships can escalate into what is commonly known as domestic violence or intimate partner violence (IPV). The more tragic of these cases sometime lead to murder . As was the case for 16-year old Anna...
Kenna - A Transgender Life
The true story of one person's lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria. Intriguing, highly informative and funny, this memoir takes the reader on the journey from initial self-awareness at age six through years of resistance and denial to final acceptance and the ultimate decision to assume a...
The Queen's Escape, Memoirs of a Lightworker
Paula Liebe is a successful Dutch businesswoman who escapes her boring corporate career and boldly moves to the Mexican Riviera Maya to study the Mayan prophesies, become a yoga teacher and start a spiritual center. Paula also escapes the pain from her childhood abuse in continued battles with her...
The Interviews
This Cold War-Era story begins with Air Force first lieutenant Ken James being called into the Commanding General's office. After this tense interview Ken receives a letter from his girlfriend, Jane, who saved his life during his tour of duty in Greenland. Jane tells him that she is going to marry...
Crosscultural Doctoring on and off the Beaten Path
This is about career change and early retirement. The death of my best friend at a young age made us (my wife and I) reflect on the many other things in life we wanted to do besides work. Thus at age 55 I resigned from my successful academic career and started working intermittently in many...
Lots and Lots of Sugar: A Memoir of South Africa
Join Maria in her bittersweet telling of a South African woman’s coming of age: Of dawn patrols as a child with her Oupa (grandpa) for rogue lion in the bush veldt; of mischievous boarding school life with its insatiable prankishness; of a hitchhiking tour in cold war Europe, sweet romance...
Sad Reflections
A gripping story following a child's life in and out of the care system.