Memoirs Books

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...

"Rhis book, filled with childhood photos and reminiscences, is an engaging look at a large, close-knit family in the 1930s and '40s, albeit one more privileged than most. No doubt some of these anecdotes have been told before, but hearing them from the...

Join me and I will take you on a journey to discover a deeper meaning and insight about life. The stories in this memoir are not intended to put forth a particular point of view, but rather a desire to share my life with others in the hope we can all...

Love, Betrayal, Commitment and Courage. A young African American soldier took an oath to defend the Constitution of his country. Today, he has kidney disease and is on hemodialysis. He needs life-saving prescription medication. But, this honorably...

This book has a special effect that draws the attention of senses and led the mind to search beyond the words of the author.Memories of a young woman shaped her life and vision of the future to challenge the contraries in order to realize the progression...

Jack Behrens is a nationally known award-winning columnist with the Associated Press and a number of newspapers. Jack's written 24 books including a 1976 best seller Typewriter Guerillas (Nelson Hall). He collaborated with Roots author Alex Haley on a...

"According to the laws of Sharia in Iran," says Roya Movafegh in this tale of murder and escape to freedom, "if a Muslim man is murdered, his family may be compensated according to the price of one hundred camels.  If the same crime...

Discover the hilarious and endearing tale of how two American city boys learn to become olive farmers in rural New Zealand. For Jared Gulian, leaving the United States and coming to tiny Wellington, New Zealand, was a big enough switch from the...

The Prosateurs celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Year's with articles, devotionals, essays, memoirs, poems, recipes & short stories, including:Be the Hostess with the Mostest! Enjoy Tasty Christmas Sausage Balls! Awake with Prayer and...

B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for...

Armed with “The Here List” and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess Thomson sets out to spend a year exploring the food of the Pacific Northwest with her family. Planning to revel in the culinary riches of the...

Here is a young boy growing up in a poor third world country, but he is full of hopes and dreams to be very successful in the future. However, his life is full of uncertainty; he can either self-destruct or rule heaven and earth. Well, he chooses to live...

The Other Side of Horsemanship is a poignant look at the connection between horse trauma and human trauma and how it influences normalized harshness in horse training. Bitten by the horse bug at a young age, Shelby was an avid horse lover from the time...

CHRO IS MY NAME This book is in part autobiographical. It is interiorly non-fiction. It recounts events in my life, in my beloved country of Kurdistan and in countries where I have sought refuge. It retails my life's journey, my transition from a land of...

It is the REAL true journey of a devoted and passionate mother who embarks on the greatest epic and tragic crusade of her life to fight for the protection and future life of her only daughter. It inspired her to create! "It's kinda fun to do the...

"A great read, even for those who don't know anything about chess. Anyone can enjoy this deeply personal story about struggling with obsession and trying to find your way."Have you ever felt obsessed?In my early twenties, I felt lost-with school, with...

In Two Sides to a Face, Chelsey Peat shares her life story with a facial difference caused by Sturge Weber syndrome. Her memoir begins with early years marked by health challenges, brain surgery, and the curiosity of strangers. As she grows, curiosity...

For more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to the National Book Award-winning The...

The highest-paid player in the history of baseball and widely regarded as the greatest in the modern game, the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez ensured his place in the record books in 2007 when, at thirty-two, he became the youngest player to hit five hundred...

"With American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson somehow manages to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence and self-importance that plague most (okay, all) Hollywood autobiographies. He has, instead, written a book that is hilarious and irrepressibly daft, yet...

From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told--the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor...

In this extraordinary memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Illuminating, revelatory, and gripping, Counselor is the...

The National Socialistic upbringing in the League of German Girls uses paramilitary-like disciplinary measures to build their loyalty and moral character. Coupled with pagan rituals, songs, and folklore, 'Through Innocent Eyes' captures the...