Memoirs Books

I once read that your words are the receipts you leave behind when your time is spent. These are your proofs of lived experiences. Many people find getting older to be a humanizing experience and one that brings into sharp focus what is and what is not...

"Guy's life was a living adventure: he was a mariner and navigator of the first order, a character with the bravery of a Viking and the kindness of Robin Hood. Generous to a fault, he could never turn his back on someone in need, and would risk his life...

From non-verbal to radio announcer . . .Good Morning, Blake: Growing Up Autistic and Being Okay lays bare-from cradle to adulthood-the myriad steps Blake has taken to find his voice and rightful place in society.Eighty-five percent of Blake's autistic...

This is a personal memoir about growing up and my career of forty-seven years in banking. Growing up will take you back to the fifties and sixties. The banking material is humorous. It is entertaining for the reader with some anecdotes about my work...

This story is one that needs to be told. I was raised in the shadow of my mother's love and madness in Québec. Towards the end of 1970, I escaped to England and Ireland where I stayed for 20 years. There, I fell head-first, heart-first, I should say,...

"As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France amid heavy anti-aircraft fire. Many of his fellow paratroopers died, but Henry...

In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000...

What if you had heard a single message all your life: that you shouldn't even be here? Would you fight to prove yourself worthy of love or turn to more hateful things?The victim of "unusual abuse" that went unrecognized by the authorities, Nicole Salter...

This is a story of heartache, and the adopted teachings in life we all absorb as part of our character. Be warned, its honesty is rare and shocking.Mr. Young takes you on an emotional rollercoaster that will leave you for him or against him. Why do we do...

How does Barbara (Barry), a Dutch immigrant, reconcile her past with her present? Growing up a lonely girl in Sarnia, Ontario, she seems to fall behind everyone and everything, while facing many challenges tossed her way. She spends a good portion of her...

I flew fifty feet and knew it was my time to die. I found out for sure I do not want to die. This is a true story of adventure and survival. It took us three years to get our boat into the water. That was an amazing feat. Boats come alive once they go...

A battle to decide the fate of Mexican Texas...and Rory MacHugh finds himself stuck in the middle of it. Arriving in Texas with hopes of spending the remainder of his middle years in a life of domestic bliss, Rory MacHugh believes he's found the perfect...

Enjoy this memoir of my happy days, growing up in Toronto and Leaside. I paint a picture of Toronto's exciting events, like the Santa Clause parade, Marilyn Bell's swim, Barbara Anne Scott's skating career, Hockey and Tonight in Canada and...

"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out,...

God knows what is best for His children, and no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Therefore, it is revealed in Family Kills that the devil has his children going to church and being married to God's children.

Have you ever experienced being caught at a crossroads, confused which road to follow?This is the stage in one's life where an important decision has to be made. Have you asked God's guidance and wisdom? All the time, I had! To be a nun or a married...

At seventy-one years of age, she hears her son's voice for the first time.After forty-six years spent carrying a heavy secret, Yolande has built a good life for herself. A few days after arriving from an exciting trip to Japan, she stops at the local...

"The book is an honest, heart-wrenching, personal account of life in an abusive situation. At times it felt like I was reading a private personal diary. But at the same time, through all the heartbreak, there is a strong sense of healing, family, and...

AS a mental health clinician, Rebecca Brown has been a safe place for many to seek shelter from their secrets, silence and shame. Inspired to finally slow down, stop running from herself and share her own story, she found ways to seek and savour her own...

I have always been active and healthy, a normal person who never thought they would get cancer. I thought I had been doing everything right. But then it happened: I got the diagnosis after a routine exam. Follow my journey , all the tears and laughter,...

Research efforts to discover cancer therapies for kids dates back to the end of World War II after many experiments with mustard gas and nitrogen mustards. In 1947, Dr. Sydney Farber's group published a paper on the effects of a folic acid antagonist,...

From the Series . . . Silently Said by Diana LeeNestled in a quiet and quaint small town, just down a dusty gravel road, lived a family plagued with a mystery they can't solve. Diana, born in March of 1978, the youngest of four children all born within...

"A painfully beautiful memoir....Written with such restraint as to be both heartbreaking and instructive." --E. L. Doctorow A revered, many times honored (George Polk, Peabody, and Emmy Award winner, to name but a few) journalist, novelist, and...

When identical twin brothers Logan and Noah Miller's homeless father died alone in a jail cell, they vowed, come hell or high water, that their film, Touching Home, would be made as a dedication to their love for him. Either You're in or You're in the...

"Mornings with Mailer is a tender and affectionate view of the protean author at the end of the Big Novel that was his life. Dwayne Raymond's book offers a uniquely intimate perspective on one of our literary giants. Applause." -- Tom Piazza, author of...

In a mythical time, in an unnamed land, the shepherd Joshua is troubled by the harsh code of "an eye for an eye" that governs his world. Called by a dream, he sets off on a journey to find "the new way." Accompanied by Elizabeth, a former slave, and...