Memoirs Books

COLOR PHOTOS INCLUDED!A retired boxer sets out in search of her daughter, Shyloh, an addict living with mental illness on the streets of San Diego. In Fort Unicorn and the Duchess of Knothing, Nelson tries desperately to find - and save - her...

John Muir’s Memoir of How He Became The Wandering NaturalistThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir’s 1913 The Story Of My Boyhood And Youth is Muir’s memoir of his earliest years and the influences that led him to...

From Cabbage to Cauliflower offers a testament to the power and capacity of education to open the doors of opportunity and accomplishment to even the poorest and least likely of the nation's citizens. Born to a working-class Irish American family in...

You know how I can tell God has a sense of humor? Just follow Vicki for a few days. You will see for yourself. Travel with her into the world of growing up in a trailer park, raising kids in the South, and being married to the poster child of ADD...

The book begins during the Second World War in Italy and leads up to the modern time, with a flashback to Italy's Independence war in 1861. The author follows historical facts by describing the lives of his colorful family and friends. It is the point of...

Most people have been misinformed about hospice care and hospice nurses. This book will put their minds at ease and enlighten them to the fact that hospice nursing comes fully staffed with caring and highly educated individuals, and that, hospice is not...

Let the Light of Hope Shine The book “Who I Was and Whose I Am” takes the reader on a journey of one person’s life from downcast to deliverance. One recurring comment from those reading the manuscript has been “That could...

December 6, 2017 I'm in Church. The Blessed Sacrament is exposed; it is the season of Advent, and the alter is decorated in purple it is so beautiful! The peace it brings when I look at it, is what life is all about. It's not about me or you! It's...

The reason I titled the book "Those Good Old Days" was that it seems those days are no more. I know times change but seems some of those times would still be. Lots of times I'd love to go back to those good old days but can't. But they...

My Friend You is a true story chronicling a young Afro-American man's four-year tour of duty in the marine corps during the Vietnam War era. The book contains its share of wartime drama, but upon reading further, it doesn't take you long to...

Christians and Conservatives have been left out of the conversation when it comes to politics and religion for decades. This book takes on all those topics about God and politics from the author’s Christian Conservative point of view. The...

Meet Mawatani, an exceptional 12-year-old Oglala boy. His village considers him to be a future leader. Soon after this story begins, he experiences a life-changing event that impacts him to such an extent, that it challenges everything he has been taught...

Sin saber por qué o qué estaba pagando, doña María de la Paz recibió un Terrible Adagio, el cual la llevó a reflexionar sobre el valor y brevedad de la vida, viviendo injustamente con su hija un desmedido calvario, quien a su corta edad compartió un...

Where is the point of no return? She almost found out.J. J. Maze’s Walk Until Sunrise is a raw observation of her experience as a fifteen-year-old runaway and the circumstances leading up to that crucial brink.Her theatre of life was beautiful and...

The Adventures of Captain Pels is about a family covertly defending a small beach town from a constant onslaught of pirate attacks. To all appearances, the family is simply enjoying a nice day on the beach - but the pirates may see through their disguise...

"This book is a page turner, indeed. I was completely taken in by the beauty, the clarity, the intimacy and the honesty of the story and the individuals McIIroy brought to life so vividly. I am so glad to have had the opportunity to share in this...

Raised in abject poverty, terrorized by a boarder who lived in the root cellar, a California career woman repressed the memories, condemning her to a life of melancholy and despair-until a powerful spiritual experience opened doors into other dimensions.

In this intimate memoir of a life of excess, Barbara Santarelli explores her yearnings and desires as an isolated and often deprived child who grew up always wanting more. Ultimately it took fifty years, eight homes, and a three-hundred-mile road bike...

When Laraine Burrell's father dies unexpectedly, she is left bereft and guilt ridden, and questioning whether she made the right decision in leaving their home in England so many years before.

In this #MeToo tale of single mothers and fatherless children, a Rust Belt farm girl escapes poverty, weds, has a son, is widowed and then falls in love with a young man whose Jewish mother opposes their relationship. Follow their love story, struggles,...

When Nancy was offered a summer job at a Christian host camp in the North Carolina mountains, she jumped at the chance. Her mother’s former boss and his wife were leaders at the summer camp and suggested that she work as a waitress. She had never...

Nobby Clark was the original lead singer and founding member of The Bay City Rollers. He sang on all the early hits, including "Keep on Dancing," "We Can Make Music," "Manana," "Remember," and the No.1 song in America, "Saturday Night." He recorded many...

Step into the heart of a turbulent era with Vaccines & Bayonets, a gripping historical memoir that chronicles one woman's extraordinary journey through Africa. In this vivid recounting-which one Pulitzer nominee says, "reads like a political...

These reflections by activist and pastor, Brandan Robertson-recently named to Rolling Stone's "Hot List" of artists, creatives, and influencers "giving us reason to be excited about the future"-come at one of the most divisive times in American history...

Nineteen reflections and a dozen intentional spiritual practices for the growing number of people living at the intersection of contemplation and justice. Each chapter is a teaching of engaged contemplation. Adam Bucko, a contemplative and cofounder of...

"It was time to heal. I had to stop creating a life that I could not live. It was time for the pain and suffering to stop. There was too much pain. I will die if the pain continues. Why does my life keep ending up in the same place? Abusive...

As Syria confronts an uncertain future, A House in Damascus seeks to balance the Western view with the lives and views of the everyday people living in the world's oldest continuing capital city Drawn from the author's experiences occurring immediately...

Sometimes you have to risk baring it all.Christine Amoroso did everything right to achieve the perfect life. Falling for a sandy-haired surfer and landing pregnant at seventeen, she knew the "right" thing to do. She could have it all, even if in the...

God wants to transform your life from purposeless to powerful. In Destination DC: A Modern Day Jonah? author Ann Rich Duncan tells the story of her husband, Don Duncan, who experienced God’s amazing grace along his journey of restoration. After...

Let's face it, in this life, each and every one of us, you included, will suffer hardships. However, hardships do not define you. It's how you deal with them when you are going through them, how you recover, and how you can move past them and help others...

Do you believe in love at first sight, while maintaining a long and loving marriage?Two Lives Put on Hold is a true story of a man and woman who fell deeply in love at first sight and didn't know it. There was a lot of good and bad memories within our...

With the advent of secularism, atheism, and relativism in this modern world, author Nemsy Gubatan felt the need to bring the simple and universal tenets of the teachings of Jesus. Hoping to bring to others the inner peace and joy that he has found, he...

Dr. Charles T. Crabtree BiographyThe Rev. Dr. Charles T. Crabtree, former president of Northpoint Bible College (formerly Zion Bible College), Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was raised in Bangor, Maine, in a...

Take a break from life and sit down with a child and read him or her a story. Relax in the valley of La Misión with Bob, Tricia, Tim, Rosi and their new baby sister, Leah. Come with them as they make new friends and share God's good ways. Attending...

This book is the story of a girl born in Oslo, Norway, in the middle of World War II. Karin Sham Poo came from a working-class family, married early, and had a daughter but still managed to have an extraordinary careerfirst in her home country of Norway...

Being born again is salvation, but what does the term “born again” mean? This book describes in a unique way how to fully understand the term. Also included are controversial beliefs that religions disagree on, which are completely explained...

"You'll be dead or in prison by the time you're eighteen."Born into a family of addicts and abusers, Nick Darland knows what it's like to be stuck inside chaos. Physical and psychological trauma fill his childhood. He self-medicates with alcohol and...

Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They're not punchlines. They're not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain.Trauma and...

"I'm sorry to have to break this to you. Mr Selamat, it is cancer." Just a week after the initial scan, the doctor at the ENT Centre at Singapore General Hospital, sadly broke the news. I went blank for like 3 minutes. Just how does 1 react to this? What...

A Japanese graduate of SDSC and retiree from AAL writes about his childhood experience in order to thank Americans and their democracy.

An adventure based on our true stories and the lies we told our mother to cover those stories up. A laugh out loud modern day Tom Sawyer with a twist of Harry Potter and a dash of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. A novel full of mischievous...

It’s entirely projected on life in Nepal.It explains the quality and life expectancy. It covers a period of nearly nine months from July 2002 until April 2003.The activities and developments are details that are worth learning about how many people...

And Time Will Darken It is a memoir written in a nonlinear style-warts and all. From love and loss to family triumphs and tragedies, to friends and enemies. It is about a life in journalism, union activism, and the sporting world. It includes experiences...

Not Just a Montana Cowboy is a factual memoir of a youthful cowboy who becomes a scientist and businessman.This family story began in pre-WWII America in western Montana. The family was dirt-poor, and hard work was constantly engrained. The expectations...

This is a true account of my life during the span of more than a decade in the '60s and '70s when I was lured into the life of a drug dealer. As a poor young boy from the barrio in the small border town of San Ysidro I wanted to make something of...

Thrust from a university campus into the coal mining country of Eastern Kentucky in the 1950s, the young author faced many challenges. She and her mining engineer husband found themselves foreigners when they arrived; the mountain people, who had been...