Memoirs Books

 Born in Leicester in 1947, Anna has led a busy life raising her three children and enjoying her nine precious grandchildren.For the past 22 years, she has made Bedfordshire her home, where she enjoys her retirement from nursing and teaching. Her...

Hailed by the Sunday Times as "one of the best man-managers and strategists in the rail business", Richard Brown's book is part memoir and part critique. Through the lens of his many, varied roles over a 43 year career, two thirds spent in senior...

It is Sunday morning; Brian is standing on the railway line looking over a canal where once there was a bridge. Alongside him is a huge steam crane that snorts fire and smoke and shakes the ground as it picks up the first new beam. He has been planning...

After more than 30 years of listening to the media and authorities lies and cover ups, the provable truth is in this book and my first book. I have lived my life throughout those years. A mostly happy life with lots of twists and turns. I have always...

A unique recollection of social life and changes in the Highlands of Scotland in the early twentieth century. It documents not only a personal struggle to succeed in the construction industry from straitened circumstances in Inverness before and during...

On a hot July morning in 1986 the author and his family stumbled out of an El Al flight from New York onto the Holy Land, fulfilling a two thousand year dream of his People. The Wild East would be one way of describing their new home. Transitions were...

I would hope that every primary care Residency Program Director, as well as every resident in ‎training, would consider this analysis of things past as required reading to guide necessary changes in ‎the future. ‎Jay H. Sanders, M.D., FACP, FACAAI, FATA...

"Advice from a Guy Who Got It Wrong the First Time" is a candid exploration of life's pivotal facets through the lens of hard-earned lessons. The Author is of Polish descent and grew up in Canada with 2 young parents that experienced the socialist and...

A touching and rewarding exploration of a childhood and life well lived. In her first memoir, Pam Shensky explores the pastoral Louisiana gardens and fauna that colored her experience of the world, from the early sixties to a contemporary Christmas with...

An autobiographical cum historical polemic from a Son of Two Nations, German and British, ranging from Berlin via Vienna to London. The Author's two previous publications consist of 'Who Owns Sparsholt', which deals with what's happening in the English...

'Step right in and enjoy the journey.' Brough ScottThe myth of pretty lambs gambolling around in spring sunshine is exploded as the would-be farmers struggle through the worst spring for decades with a mix of humour and ill temper, sorrow and,...

In this engaging epistolary memoir, Howard Burton describes his early experiences of moving with his family to a medieval hilltop village called Le Pouget in Languedoc after years of running Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. The...

At a tender age, Ellen Higgins got inspired by her missionaries back home in Liberia, Grand Bassa County, who used to help the less privileged family and church members in their church Calvary Chapel Liberia. Three years later, her missionaries travel to...

The tin can school of a remote Aboriginal community in outback Central Australia; the earthy, stoic people of the desert; a young, bold adventurous woman from the south set free amidst it all. What could possibly go wrong?  With humour and warmth,...

"A great story and a primer on smart, creative lawyering and deep-dive forensic accounting. John Clark and Paul Regan school Howard Hughes on how to bring down even the wealthiest, most stubborn opponent."-Robert B. Thum, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw...

I thought he was there to help me heal, but his office became my prison.Prayed Upon is the story of one woman's escape from the abuse of a respected, church-going psychiatrist. Amy reaches out to Dr. Dolion for help with depression, but instead of...

New York City, 1970s. Take a walk on the wild side.1970s New York was a mecca for artists, writers, and musicians drawn to its vibrant energy and creative possibilities. It was also a place of grinding poverty and urban decay, where crime and violence...

A fiction story that will make you reflect on the road to life. It doesn't matter your age you can always reach your dreams. If you do it the right way because the land that you are at is the land of opportunity, if you know how to take advantage of it...

"Vets have a kind of double vision on the human experience. They see us as the clients who bring in the patients and pay the bill, but they also see our sins, flaws, and weirdness reflected in our animals. Dr. Skaggs recognized early on that this was a...

"Those Christians were too holy for me!""Those Muslims were too strict for me"."All I wanted to be more than anything in theworld was to be a Muslim,but my mother would not hear of it."I knew I was angry with God, but I didn't knowI was serving on the...

Leona Mae "Grandma" Moats is no ordinary grandmother. Growing up in the heartland of the great Midwest in the 1920s and 1930s, she came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ at the tender age of ten. Surrounded by loving family and especially her...

This inspirational memoir is all about one woman's journey of spiritual enlightenment. Based on Dr. Lara Tigler's life and her mystical Salvation experience with the Holy Spirit, her story shows how someone can go from having no faith to having such...

This fascinating memoir chronicles the experiences of Colonel F. Izadseta, a senior Iranian Air Force commander who spent many years serving in the pre-revolutionary Imperial Iranian Air Force, witnessing its buildup during the 1960s and 1970s, and its...

Quotables from NotablesBobby you have a hit here [Mulholland Drive Cafe]. Do you know why you have a hit? Look at everyone here, they are looking at the people at the bar. Everyone at the bar is looking at the people in the dining room. They are looking...

Praise for Coming Together, Coming Apart""Interesting conversation is Israel's most ingratiating commodity, and this is an especially interesting one. To read Coming Together, Coming Apart is to be engaged in an ongoing dialogue with one of Israel's most...

作者和合从4岁开始涂鸦写绘本，以日记的方式记录了自己14年以来的成长：从美国幼儿园到中国小学，再到美国高中，在两种不同文化中的成长烦恼，亲情与友情，喜爱的宠物，坚持学习中文与中国文化的趣事，以及疫情以来的成长，也可管窥一个美国华人家庭中的亲子关系和家庭成长故事。和合儿时辗转中美之间，先后在上海、北卡、芝加哥和圣地亚哥上学，经历了中西文化的冲突，中美教育体制的差异、不同成长阶段的烦恼以及与父母的代沟。然而，在父母"爱"的滋养下，她成长为一个身心健康，阳光有爱、中西合璧的女孩。全书图文并茂，爱心满满，文字或古...

《五零后的回眸》是一部自传体散文集，分上、下两卷，涵盖两个不同的时代：“面包会有的”时代与“一切都会有的”时代。上、下卷由各自的“三部曲”组成。上卷“面包会有的”时代涵盖大陆上世纪五、六、七十年代。由《国府大院》、《北辛庄》、《桂春园/ 编译局》“三部曲”组成。下卷“一切都会有的”时代涵盖大陆自1978 年12 月18...

The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn't know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Berthot. In that single evening is the entire world...

This book was made to raise awareness about terminal illnesses and what they can do to people. I wrote this book because not only I have an illness called Multiple Sclurosis but my best friend from primary school had cancer but she unfortunately passed...

What happens to seed when planted in fertile soil? In a natural sense when a farmer plants seed in fertile soil, he expects his crop to yield fruit according to the seed planted. The soil was chosen by the farmer as was the seed. When a farmer plants he...

This book tells my life's experiences and even though I had both parent's in the home it doesn't mean that you won't go through anything. Opening up about being raped, emotionally abused, broken in heart wasn't the hardest part; forgiving was. The...

"Ms. Annobil's book is a spiritual buildingsoman in the tradition of St. Augustine's Confessions. Her account of her perseverance in the face of adversity and her finally having a spiritual awakening that changed her life and allowed her to change it for...

I remember my first day of school first as a student and then as a teacher. I was even more nervous as a teacher. I knew the material. I understood what I was supposed to teach. But I felt unprepared. When I walked into that classroom, I had no idea how...

This book chronicles a young girl looking for love in all then wrong places and then finding God when everything else has failed her. Brittney finds herself struggling with low self-esteem, self-hate, and rejection throughout her teens and young adult...

Through a series of stories and memories, this book presents a firsthand account of the author's family experiences as missionaries in West Africa, dating back to the early 1900's.The stories give a unique view of history from the perspective of an...

Hello, world. I'm Ola Ray, a small-town girl from St. Louis, Missouri, who reached international fame, as the co-star in what became the biggest music video of all time. Thriller! Whenever I am in public, people seem to find a way to approach me, wanting...

Who was Sydney Rinard?God loves everyone. He does. But sometimes he sends someone to us who channels that love so well that their life revolves around sharing it. Not in fancy lights or productions. Just by being them.This book is about one such person...

On August 12, 1995, James Abernathy, fifteen-year-old son of Larry and Diane Abernathy, was playing Marco Polo in a neighbor's swimming pool late one night when he dove into the shallow end, breaking his neck and becoming permanently paralyzed from the...

Damico's debut novel is groovy prose through the mind of an overachieving perfectionist on her journey to inner peace. A quirky collection of memories, observations, and life's aha moments; this book is about a woman speaking her truth while giving a nod...

After Kyomi O'Connor lost her husband, Patrick, to metastatic melanoma in the brain, she was overcome with grief and at a loss for how to cope-until she began writing. Already a devoted Buddhist practitioner, O'Connor found that writing was a new kind of...

A hilarious peek into the Catholic school experience through the eyes of Kathy Gereau-who, by learning to laugh at the ridiculous bits of dogma, eventually finds the spiritual message within.

For fans of true crime memoir comes a gripping tale of one woman's harrowing and spiritual journey of resilience after she learns that she was a victim of a sex crime--and her husband was the culprit. At sixteen, Caroline longed to meet the man who owned...

"If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we...

This is a recovery story about a Micmac woman named Melody Paul. She is from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in an island called Cape Breton, famously known for its beautiful trails. She was raised in Eskasoni. Eskasoni is one of the largest native...