Memoirs Books

Beyond the House of the Lama, now in paperback, traces Crane's adventures as a writer, wanderer, and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It begins in 1996 at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, where he and his teacher and friend, Zen...

Did you ever want to impact your world for God?Leave behind your mark?Eddie Cairns was a man who dared to change his prayer from 'Lord, send laborers into the harvest field' to 'Lord send me!' God took him at his word and showed him that if he dared to...

Angelena Davies had seven years of study under her belt, two young children at home, and a fisherman husband away for weeks at a time. Life was manic like a triple shot latte, but she relished in the busyness of Motherhood. Those tiny little fingers were...

Part social commentary and very much a memoir, Half-Caste: Decidedly Brown in a Black or White World, describes and examines the contemporary pressures that many people from multiracial and mixed ethnicities face in developing their racialized social...

Young Donny experienced a summer like no other: hanging with his buddies, spending time with family, and falling in love for the first time with a wonderful girl. Little did he know how that summer love would play out so many years later.Reminiscing, if...

This patient creature, otherwise known as a leaf in the library of life, tells about the love a father feels for his son, upon his ever fleeting graduation from childhood to adulthood, both of them hopelessly ablaze with the primal fire that were their...

This book is about growing up in London during the World War II, mandatory army service for two years in Germany after the war, obtaining a degree in engineering and within six months, marrying, and emigrating to Canada on a freighter. After three years...

For the first time, rock music icon Gregg Allman, one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, tells the full story of his life and career in My Cross to Bear. No subject is taboo, as one of the true giants of rock 'n' roll opens up...

How I Became The Love of My Life, is a memoir of one queer woman's self-excavation and voyage into a new life. After her world implodes the night her wife admits to cheating, Labris begins to trust her gut again. She finds the strength to leave her...

As the fourth daughter of a prominent Orthodox Jewish family in New York, I was expected to attend a religious seminary for girls, date the suitors that my father arranged, become engaged by 19, marry within six weeks, and have as many children as I...

The title of this book is quite a misnomer.  It may give you the sense that I elegantly danced into an unknown truth, but let me assure you... the stage was the only place I was graceful.  The rest of my life was filled with missteps, mistakes,...

Jim Blackwood, Jr. has lived with mental illness for most of his life. From surviving childhood bullying to the sudden appearance of Panic Disorder as a young adult to learning he had been living with PTSD all along, his search for a cure is a story of...

A redemptive story of family, forgiveness, and the journey to self-acceptance. "Our adopted angel"-that's what Danielle's adoptive parents called her.  She grew up adored, doted on, unconditionally loved. It wasn't until she was in college...

This is the journey of Ruth Mwikali Malinda, my grandmother, whom I fondly call Wainyaake. She is a rare gem to her generation; a life that has impacted her family and community by vast measures. During her life, Grandma Ruth has worked hard through...

Imprisoned in her bedroom she sings from her window to the blue bird and red bird that flew into her backyard each day as she tries to hold on to her sanity, all the while praying God would deliver her from this hell on earth. She declared: I'll sing...

All he wanted was another 1920s Hollywood Utopia!The Winds of Malibu is the true story of a boy whose father (a computer engineer with a grudge against Hollywood) has held on to a house in the movie colony of Malibu, California, after a bitter divorce...

What happens to the mother (who coincidentally was for many years a prison ministry volunteer) when her OWN son becomes a ward of the criminal justice system and ends up in the last place she expected-a Prison. Blind-sided she was indeed!G...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...