Memoirs Books

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...

In April of 2017, Jayden M. Semotan's life changed greatly. After learning his mom was being deployed for more than six months, he had so many questions. Would she die? Would she go to war? As a nine-year-old boy, he didn't know how to handle his...

Every time Matthew Altobelli tried to picture his life after high school, he couldn't see anything. But a conversation with his guidance counselor in January 2006 gave him clarity: He would join the Air Force.But after returning home from Afghanistan, he...

A jet fight over Syria. A Cold War listening post in Turkey. An overland trek from Denmark to Thailand. A thriving weapons marketplace in remote Pakistan. An exotic Maasai Star Wars-style saloon in Kenya. Ultra-luxury casinos in Macau. Only in Miami...

At seventeen, Ross MacInnes stole a car and was caught. At nineteen, he was sworn in as a member of the esteemed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. And by his thirtieth year of police service, he was a commander in the organized crime division of a major...

Being able to connect with and hear from the spiritual world as a young child helped Laurie to endure an abusive childhood, but even this special connection cannot protect her from the pain of her husband leaving her for her stepmother. Left financially...

A young girl climbs up on her grandfather's knee, looks up at him with her big eyes and says, "Granddad, tell me another story." And Granddad is happy to oblige. These are the tales of Wayne Sherrard. Some are homespun, workaday little family stories and...

This book, although not academic will certainly give the reader a glimpse of prewar Holland and a much more detailed account of the German Occupation, 1940-1945. The author now resides with his wife in Oregon and is a retired Assistant Professor of the...

Enlarge My Coast tells of Pastor Blackstone's return to India to see the completion of a project inspired during his first trip to the subcontinent of Asia in 2006. This time his traveling companion will be a church deacon of the Emmanuel Baptist Church,...

This is a collection of thoughts I have had over the past ten years since retirement. They are mostly in poetic form--some rhyme, others don't. I am bringing them to print mainly for my children and grandchildren. As the name of the book implies, they...

Here is the true story of a man from India who comes to the United States to go to seminary, which he finds to be both a demanding social environment and a vigorous philosophical and theological world. After four years of seminary he gets married and...

This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes...

In summer of 2008, Aaron J. Nicholson set out to complete the unthinkable: a 460-mile solo backpacking trip across the State of Oregon without resupplying food or gear. Carrying an immensely heavy pack containing an unappetizing variety of calorie-rich...

This is not a history of the Korean War. It is for anyone who would like to read a memoir rich in dialogue, replete with humor, and the horror we faced as infantrymen. The reader will get a personal view of what it is for a young man to go to war. It...

Sharrae and Diamond quickly become the best of friends after meeting at an interview, but then they lose contact with each other for ten years.Fate ultimately reunites the two friends, but it's not the happy reunion Sharrae would have expected: She finds...

Though I Don't Deserve It, God's Hand of Protection Watches Over Me: My Story spans sixty-four years in the life of a believer in Jesus Christ, telling how God has watched over him and his family.Arthur Luke begins with his childhood in Georgia, follows...

This is a true story about the boy Shirley Curtis Rangell. He had a brother who shared many of his incredible experiences. At the time of his mother's death in 1925 his world changed drastically. From this time he never really had a home. He was eight...

Larry Smith got some strange looks as a boy when he told everyone he wanted to join the Roller Derby, but he'd go on to have the time of his life living out his dream.As a member of the International Roller Derby League, he engaged in a style of play...

The military service of millions of Americans is reflected in these stories. They will put you in the middle of the action of our nation's wars.Through firsthand accounts of veterans who served during World War II, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War,...

The picture of the young soldier with the ears sticking out graced my mother-in-law's kitchen forever. When asked, she would reply that her younger brother Donnie disappeared during the Korean War at the tender age of eighteen. In 2010, my wife, Sandy,...

James S. Oliver grew up on the southern Philippine Island of Mindanao-hiding from World War II aggressors with his Filipino mother and three siblings.He did not know it then, but war would become a constant in his life, even after he moved to the United...

My brave wife is a victim of a D.U.I. collision, a common tragedy Americans suffer and tolerate.  Why?  Americans conditioned by perception management crave alcohol!  The culinary industry insists beer, wine or a cocktail is necessary...

Tim lives life believing every experience is the next story. No matter how difficult, embarrassing, or exasperating, he takes a heart picture. "Okay, this will make a great story...someday!" Tim believes each moment is an assignment from God. A charge, a...

"Hwa Chong Junior College (华中初级学院), established in 1974 is one of the top junior colleges in Singapore. Its’ bilingual (English and Chinese) and bicultural junior college programme prepares enrolled full-time 16 to 18 year-old students for the...

Judy Stipsits was born and raised in Brockville, Ontario, and now resides a little further west in Burlington. She has spent her working life in many different fields like nursing student, factory worker, telephone service rep, and homebuilder. Now...

“Happy Mother’s Day,” everyone said with delighted voices. But wait; could I say the same thing to my mommy? No, because where was my mom? On lock down, hundreds of miles away. “Can someone bring my mommy to me, please?!”.....

In the midst of life's difficulties, Brenda has found that God is faithful! It is His kindness and strength that has brought her this far. Brenda is known as a storyteller. And God has given her lots of stories to tell. When she's not writing or sharing...

When Donna Snively Hulsey found out in July 1989 that shed be the first principal of a state-of-the-art elementary school, she teamed up with the community and got to work.It didnt matter that the school in Jacksonville, Florida, would not open until the...

Telling stories of growing up in postwar Britain, starting a new life in Canada, raising a family, working in a major corporation, experiencing an active retirement, and enjoying the pleasure of grandchildren, Cuckoo’s Nest tells the life story of author...

Laura Johnston Kohl was a teen activist working to integrate public facilities in the Washington, D.C., area. She actively fought for civil rights and free speech, and against the Vietnam War throughout the 1960s. ...

The book tells about Alton being born and growing up in the South to a family of eight in a two-bedroom house. It also tells of how his family & he survived as sharecroppers; eating & living off what the land produced. It tells how at an early age,...

In telling his life story, Rev. Aaron Johnson takes us to the front lines of the fight for civil and human rights in our country over the last fifty years. Whether being beaten and dragged from a dime store lunch counter, standing blindfolded before a Ku...