Memoirs Books

After breast cancer treatment, Peta-Ann is elegantly rebelling. She is staying flat. Being herself. Stylishly. Authentically. No boobs required.From Peta-Ann's unique view of life with giant breasts and then without, no subject is sacred in this...

New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist writes about unexpected loss, change, faith, midlife, and a move to New York City with her signature depth and vulnerability. In this book, she invites us to practice curiosity and self-compassion, to...

This book describes what life was like for me as a boy in the village and cattle camp, and some of the brutal cultural traditions of the Mundari tribe, from growing up in an African village, to becoming a child soldier in the civil war zone that was...

On The Trail of Baden-Powell  Al Rose was born in Saskatoon Saskatchewan in 1929 at the start of the "dirty thirties" and the Great Depression.  His parents were essentially uneducated but his dad worked for the Federal...

Ten years after Big Alex MacDonald leaves his home in Ashdale, Nova Scotia, in the 1880's to find his fortune, he amasses fabulous wealth almost overnight in the Yukon and becomes known as "The Klondike King".  At his death a decade...

An ordinary task like grocery shopping becomes far from ordinary when there are warplanes roaring and diving overhead.  From 1942 to 1945 Madzy Brender à Brandis recorded what life was like for herself and her two small children in the...

In this truly inspiring memoir, Janet Hatch shares her compelling story of raising her strong-willed daughter who, at age eleven, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. From the beginning of her life, Zandra experienced being different as a result of...

A light-hearted romp through Tom's personal, work and family life, he looks at life through the funny-bone lens. This book comprises short stories and anecdotes, many of which include lessons learned. Because Tom spent almost 20 years in the Department...

Growing up as a Jewish teenager as the Nazi state pursued him through Croatia, Andrew Duic survived as a result of his own resourcefulness and adaptability, and the good judgement and courage of his parents. His trenchant observations of the Communist...

Picture a single domino wobbling in a sea of dominoes inside my mind. A traumatic event triggers an emotional reaction that knocks it over, crashing into two more dominoes. They each create two thoughts that trigger two more emotions that knock down two...

Isabelle has bought a bat in the market and she is trying to remember how her mother used to cook them. This poses a problem for the author, who is working in Madagascar to protect the same animals that Isabelle likes to eat. The adventures of thirty...

Although Gail was the instigator on going cruising, it was Henry who worked on her while sailing in the Caribbean to head into the Pacific.At a weak point, she agreed to go.When they left Canada's East Coast, telling family and friends that they would...

After a forty-year career in eldercare, Grace Sweatman has stories to tell! From receptionist to CEO and nearly every role in between, Grace has a truly rare perspective on this growing service industry. In this book, Grace shares some of those...

Une vie, un destin est l'histoire de Florence Bandu Emeneya, la dernière épouse de l'artiste musicien congolais, le feu Jean-Baptiste Emeneya Mubiala, avec qui elle a eu quatre enfants.   Elle relate sa vie, partant de sa...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosivesCultivation of illegal crops Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activitiesPiloting of automobiles under impaired conditionsTransporting...

a cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir.

Born in the projects of Spanish Harlem to a disabled mother and an abusive father, Steve DeMasco spent most of his childhood lost and angry. Drifting from one job to another, he stalked the streets as a troubled youth, barely surviving while all of his...

One of the most beloved actors of our time shares the New York Times bestselling story of how he learned to live with an open heart. Early in his career, shortly after rising to fame as television's Dr. James Kildare, Richard Chamberlain took on the...

Fans of John Leguizamo's smash-hit one-man shows (Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-rama, Freak, and Sexaholix) have already gotten a glimpse into his life, but this book tells the whole story, carrying readers along on a wild journey from his childhood in Queens to...

Aminia grew up in a supportive family. At a young age, she fell in love with a man she believed was the man of her dreams. He courted her relentlessly, and she thought nothing could destroy their relationship; they'd be partners through thick and thin...

This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends...

This memoir explores the beginnings of a long and eventful life, tracing inner and outer journeys that began in England on April Fool's Day 1937. As a babe in her mother's arms, Gillian was soon travelling on the Orient Express to Istanbul just before...

"One ember glowing in the dark to spark 10,000 candle flames" . . . sometimes that's all it takes, the spark of a memory to illuminate a season. Bitter or sweet Christmas is perhaps the most evocative of all, especially when it brings with it 'four...

A man by the name of Sheldon Penner has a closet heaped high with skeletons that he's kept under lock and key for many years. Shame, would be a good word to describe how he feels now. It's much too late to change course, the damage has been done. His...