Memoirs Books

In the late spring of 1991, dedicated health professional, football nut, devoted father, and angling obsessive Ken Barlow upped sticks from his home in Tyneside and took off for south-west Scotland in search of a new life.He certainly found it.Ken and...

The many thoughts and gratifying memories recounted in this volume began in 1924 and ended in 2013. The memories are of the author's development as a songwriter and the many talented and likeable people he got to know. The locale is mainly New York City,...

'What you are thinking about me is right,' says I, 'and it's wonderful and beautiful, and if you make it ugly for me I'll hate you for the rest of my life!' So flopping down and turning my poor brave face to the wall ... I'm...

Bernard Marin, a successful Jewish accountant, was almost fifty when he was suddenly struck down by crippling headaches. The problem, however, was not just physical. Bernard’s distress was the result of years of denial over his poor relationship...

Crossings in Realitas, is a 16-year tale of family cruising. The story is, like the Mitchell’s boats, a no-nonsense and honest look at life.Four years cruising around the world during the 1970s (Two in a Top Hat) and the addition to the family of...

A Lesson in Patience is an honest, informative and personal story about parenting a child with significant developmental delays.  As a first-time mother, Loretta Wellard, shares her experiences to bring awareness, knowledge and understanding,...

Funny, touching, sad, with a light of hope at the end of the tunnel.There are thousands of working actors in this country and only a handful will ever make it as rich and famous International Stars. This story is not about one of the handful.This is the...

Sucked into a whirlpool…Discovering pre-Inca tribal remains…Breaking an ankle 5000 metres up the side of a volcano…These are just a few of the unexpected circumstances Lindsey Porter found herself in as she travelled to some of the...

Holding on in a loveless marriage. I want my boys’ lives to be better than mine. Can I endure Javier’s possessive behaviour to bring change for my family?Something keeps informing me of impending death. Why am I sensing such...

These are the memoirs of Ben Lans, who joined the Army as an officer cadet with little military background and a vague military ambition to work with soldiers and seek adventure. It is a story of action and adventure during postings at home, overseas and...

From the harsh reality of war a father’s PTSD is borne, casting his child into a continuum of torment and profound terror. This is the story of her survival through the power of hope and of imagination. More than a memoir, it is the story of the...

Lisa Locks is an author and hairdresser who is sharing her client's stories anonymously in this book."I have always told my clients, 'What is said in the chair, stays in the chair' and that it is a safe space to share.. Of course, until now. But I...

It Happened in the SeventiesFrom the author of 'Do You Believe in You' comes an intriguing story of personal risk-taking, self-discovery and profound change.At only twenty-one, Dieter started his own thriving business and lived the good life in Hamburg,...

Exciting, diverse, moving and uplifting, this exquisite collection of memoirs and short stories packs an emotional punch. The selected authors share their deeply authentic truths. They unfold their hopes, express their hurts, reveal memories and offer...

Why does my mother, Anna Kurovcova, have two different birth dates that are two years apart and no birth certificate as proof of identity?Born during WWI into a middle-class farming family in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, Anna grows up during the halcyonian...

Lorna Ramirez wrote this book to give inspirations, reach people and encourage people to have a positive perspective in life. This is a book that can be re-read many times to grasp clearly what the writer is trying to convey to all readers. The book was...

Are you struggling to rise above adversity?Looking for the deeper purpose for your life? Don't Just Fly, SOAR: tells a deeply personal account of an immigrant conqueror. Markey unveils her own fractured heart, coherent to the sound of humanities...

In a simple style that gives a dog's perspective of the world from a foot off the ground, Foxy shares his life story and his views on topics that a dog knows best. Lost, mistreated and abandoned, he is fearful of people, noises, and sudden movements...

Chosen by Jane is a memoir of a highly successful principal of two arts magnet schools from 1986-2003. First taking over the failing Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jane Condon quickly shepherded the program to national...

First and foremost, it is my greatest desire to provide inspiration to women faced with painful challenges who don't realize they have choices. Their potential choices should not necessarily follow my example because I made mistakes; nevertheless,...

There's an old saying that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story is that a fairy tale starts off with "Once upon a time" and a sea story starts off with "This is no shit."Here in these pages is a heaping pile of "This is no shit" and it...

Drifting in the Wake traces the life of Orville Wright from a humble childhood to adventures world-wide, from testing helicopters to recovering Skylab astronauts, to blowing up mines in Hai Phong Harbor, Vietnam. He played Hollywood celebrity tennis with...

Sixteen successful black women collaborate to create a powerful anthology book filled with their individual journey and experiences with sisterhood. In this adventure called living, we are often met with the detours of challenge, adversity, and doubt...

Time Flies is an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a childhood in a remote mining village in Southern Spain, the dislocating shock of a Scottish boarding school...

This woman is on a journey. She's looking for love. What she expects is happiness, kisses, a feeling of enjoyment and deep affection. What she doesn't count on is frustration, tears and the unexpected. The question is will this deep emotional...

A journal of six lads who self-organized a ~20-day trip down the Nahanni River, NT.We were a disparate group of six who were largely unknown to each other. Yet, we went directly from the "forming stage and norming stages" of team formation to the...

The barstool.The pew of the working class.Warden of wishes. Steward of secrets.Custodian. Keeper. Protector.On it, the ordinary sit.Occasionally ... the extraordinary.When a world-class casino magnate from the Cayman Islands steps into Corky's Pub, he...

Leo Teohari was born in Constanta, Romania. Leo holds both a law degree and a degree in international economics.Leo defected from Communist Romania in 1980, and settled with his family in Toronto, Canada, where he became a businessman. Today he writes...

You only have one. From school to university to working in a global corporation, my life path had been conventional. What society has primed us to strive for. I was peaking in my career, based in Hong Kong. I was flying around Asia Pacific inside the...

In 1969, Naomi Morrisey, the sixth of eleven children raised in a traditional Australian Catholic family, became pregnant at age 19. In order to hide their shame, her parents uprooted their family and moved to Canada for six months, where Naomi was...

In this compelling memoir, author Tam MacPhee bares her soul and shares her deepest memories. As a little girl she battles through abuse, with her innocence betrayed by the males closest to her. Becoming a single parent at the age of eighteen, she is...

As a new year approaches, a twenty-four-year-old woman leaves her unfulfilling life in England to pursue her goal of moving to Vancouver Island, Canada. Upon arrival, she encounters the challenges of adjusting to her new environment, advancing her...

Were? Did? Can?Were you innocent and afraid as a child and unable to fit in and feel different inside? Were you playing with boys but dreaming about girls, all socially awkward, quiet, and reserved? Were you void of makeup, fashion, and perfume and...

A real-life story of a man, from the innocence of youth to the depth of debauchery and final reconciliation. It examines the relationships between a stoic, unfeeling father and his son, and also that of a blessed mother and her firstborn.

"You're not permitted to see your child at birth." The nurse was cold and stern as she draped a curtain across the teenager's midsection. The baby's cries echoed off the cold operating room walls and boomeranged back to the...

After being diagnosed with autism at age seven, Keara faced various challenges socially and struggled to find acceptance from her peers.  In her 20's Keara still encounters similar struggles with dating and making friends. However, the...

Inspired by an African proverb which says "Until a Lion learns to write every story will glorify the hunter", the author shares his perspective on some key issues and tells a few untold stories that will resolve some mysteries, answered some...

A man encounters a painting for sale in a small town in British Columbia. He decides he cannot live without it, no matter what the cost. He buys it, and for the rest of his life the painting accompanies him, guides him, lives within him. The man is...

"When I was around eight, we moved to the country. Plenty of room to  run and explore through woods, marshlands at water's edge. I had long  since learned to swim so it was pretty much a carefree existence, especially  during the...

Tommy Schnurmacher has written a book that could change your life. It changed his. As a writer, Montreal media icon Schnurmacher is an intense force of nature, a seismic swell of visceral empathy, laser-sharp wit and courageous self-analysis...

Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman,...

"Reading this will lead you to a better life."--Dean Nelson, author of God Hides in Plain Sight In The 100 Thing Challenge Dave Bruno relates how he remade his life and regained his soul by getting rid of almost everything. But The 100 Thing Challenge...

The bestselling author and American icon offers lessons from his own remarkable life in the form of letters to his great-grandaughter The author of The Measure of a Man and one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood offers a book that...

Alison Weaver's privileged upbringing hid the darker undertones of her childhood until her parents shipped her away, at fifteen, to the cultish Cascade School, warping her perception of reality. Upon graduation, set adrift in New York's East Village in...