Memoirs Books

Romanen er baseret på virkelige hændelser, om at blive voksen, holde fester, være forelsket - OG BLIVE UDSAT FOR OVERGREB i en alder af 14 år.Gennem bogens handling illustreres hvordan Gitte i en ung alder gennemgår følelser, som ulykkelig kærlighed, at...

Eine Mutter berichtet vom Alltag in der unberührten Wildnis von Kanadas hohem Norden während der ersten drei Lebensjahre ihrer Tochter.

8386 Tage mit der RingkircheEin Stück Lebenszeit von Ralf-Andreas Gmelin, 2001 bis 2024Eine Biographie der Evangelischen Ringkirchengemeinde während der Amtszeit des Autors.

Die Autorin entführt sie in diesem Buch in die Kindheitserinnerungen eines Mädchens, das in den 60er und 70er auf einem Bauernhof im Bergischen Land aufwuchs. In 14 Kurzgeschichten erfahren sie, wie das Mädchen ihren Alltag auf dem elterlichen Hof...

Von jetzt auf gleich verändert ein Brief im August 2018 das Leben der Autorin grundlegend. Der Befund und die anschließende Diagnose Brustkrebs treffen die ehemalige Grundschullehrerin völlig unvorbereitet. Nach dem ersten Schock und inmitten nicht enden...

In einer Zeit, in der die Menschen in Deutschland begannen, einem Führer zu folgen, der einem ein Leben in Frieden und Freiheit versprach, wuchs der Autor heran.Wie Millionen anderer seiner Generation, wurde er sich erst als Erwachsener bewusst, dass er...

Maria Pustejovsky: Drei Scheiteln Holz - Erlebnisse einer Zuagroastenneu herausgegeben von Dr. Otfrid PustejovskyIn einer Neuauflage der "Drei Scheiteln Holz" veröffentlicht Dr. Otfrid Pustejovsky mit einem neuen Vorwort die autobiografischen Texte...

„Die Geschichte von jemand, der auszog, auf Teneriffa sein Glück zu suchen"20 Jahre Leben im ewigen Frühling mit all seinen positiven und negativen Aspekten - erlebt und aufgeschrieben von Monika Kühn-GörgSonnenblendeDie Sonne erzeugte zu Beginn nur...

Sidelined and derailed. That's how Suzanne Kelsey felt three decades ago after her husband of fourteen years announced his decision to become a Methodist minister. They were thirty-four and had two young sons. An independent free-thinker who believes in...

Not a Through Street is a compilation of stories telling of the amazing individuals that I encountered during my thirty-four-year teaching career. The students who have become the significant members of our country and the world, the teachers who...

"My mother's land has a million fudge trees on it," my husband told me. I giggled and pointed out his mistake, but he brushed it aside. His English was good, but delightfully imperfect. How could he mix up fudge with figs?"The figs are sweeter than any...

As a wife and mom, church volunteer, and small business owner, Ann Van Hine prided herself on being in control of her life.Until 9/11.Pieces Falling is Ann's story of navigating the very personal loss of her husband, Bruce-a New York City firefighter who...

Adversity and negativity can doom most children to a life of despair and failure. However, a few dedicated adults willing to offer love and support can make the critical difference. That's the lesson Sid James learned through an extraordinary life of...

If Butterfly Kisses Is What I'm Remembered For When I'm Dead-I Can Live With That. Songstory, written by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Randy Thomas, is a writer's room narrative of "Butterfly Kisses," "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That?" and...

Before becoming a mother, Leah Witman Moore would zoom through the day with her to-do list in hand, happily teaching high school students, and returning home to her loving husband, Zachary. Then their first child, Jordan, was born with an...

Kamala, The Motherland, and Me, a captivating memoir by Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey, takes you on a journey of self-discovery and political revelation. Join him aboard Air Force Two, where he accompanies Vice President Kamala Harris on a historic...

This is the journey of a young woman who was profoundly affected by the war in her home country of Vietnam. She was thrown into the tragedy of the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975, escaped alone to the United States and established her life here as a...

Awards:2023 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Gold Medal for Memoir2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (Winter) Third-Place Winner Best Non-Fiction Book2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (Winter) First-Place Winner in Family2023 Outstanding Creator...

"Are you somebody?"I was asked again and againin the glamorous city of angels,Los Angeles.Was I unseen as I was,and seenonly for who I might be?Life had been filledwith challengesand change,dangerous, glorious, absurd and terrifying.Trained to conform,I...

Sarah Birnel was not supposed to end up the multi-millionaire owner of a chain of "bikini barista" coffee shops that have attracted national attention. A child drug addict whose early life was marked by tragedy, Birnel careened through life, looking...

This diary of the late Ms. Gertrude Kabatalemwa, from Uganda East Africa, chronicles her experiences in faith with God on a spiritual journey that led her from working in the office of the President to building schools and training...

Book 2 of My Deepest Heart's Devotions seriesThis diary of the late Ms. Gertrude Kabatalemwa, from Uganda East Africa, chronicles her experiences in faith with God on a spiritual journey that led her from working in the office of the...

This is book 4 in the My Deepest Heart's Devotions series.This diary of the late Ms. Gertrude Kabatalemwa, from Uganda East Africa, chronicles her experiences in faith with God on a spiritual journey that led her from working in...

This is book 5 in the My Deepest Heart's Devotions series.This diary of the late Ms. Gertrude Kabatalemwa, from Uganda East Africa, chronicles her experiences in faith with God on a spiritual journey that led her from working in...

This diary of the late Ms. Gertrude Kabatalemwa, from Uganda East Africa, chronicles her experiences in faith with God on a spiritual journey that led her from working in the office of the President to building schools and training...

My book, The Greatest Man I Never Knewexplains why my daddy's love is so important to me. It draws the reader in, to express how dreams are important in achieving one's heart's desire. With the help of daddy, I developed the courage...

Being married to a horse doctor requires a sense of adventure, and it will be tested again and again…Justin B. Long, author of the bestselling book, Adventures of the Horse Doctor’s Husband, returns with this sequel to his internationally...

This picture of the door on the back of my book represents my past. It’s from an old ran down apartment building in L.A. The door is a shed that is no larger than a prison cell. My dad made it into a room. At 5 years old I knew I wanted more in...

Sometimes the Safe Path isn't the Right One. As a young man, Don Redden didn’t have big plans for his future beyond raising a family, a good career at General Electric, and making it through the Vietnam War alive. His plan was simple,...

        Siv Ashley is a Cambodian refugee who escaped to Thailand after four years in a Khmer Rouge children’s work camp. There she reunited with her aunt and uncle’s family. They were brought to Jefferson, North Carolina,...

Andy Ballard comes from quite a humble background; being a working class boy from a council estate at a middle class grammar school left its marks. A career teacher with nearly twenty-five years in state education, he forged a second very successful...

In 1961 the Royal Navy came up with a brilliant idea: why not take all its rogues, thugs and malcontents and place them on board its flagship, HMS Bermuda, where hard work and continuous exercising would keep them out of trouble?Joining this colourful...

For well over a half century, Norman Whitten has spent a third of his professional life undertaking ethnography with Afro-Latin American and Indigenous peoples living in tropical forest-riverine environments of northern South America. He has spent the...

After living abroad in France, Dubai, Oman, Norway and the Netherlands, author and journalist, Jo Parfitt, has compiled here, an anthology of the poetry that has 'saved her life' during the 20 years she has been on the road. This is a memoir in poetry of...

OPEN HEART RUNNER: searching for meaning after my heart stopped When 40-year-old Gregory Marchand suffered a cardiac arrest at the end of an eight-kilometer road race and was without a pulse for 20 minutes, few thought he would survive. This inspiring...

Part memoir, part ethnography, Under Nelson Mandela Boulevardis journalist Sean Hunter Christie’s account of time spent amongst the Tanzanian stowaways who live rough under the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover, at the foot of Cape Town...

This is a true story of terrible abuse and its consequences, and of courageous survival and self-discovery. At the age of four, the author was raped and almost murdered by her father, leaving her permanently disabled. Yet the horrific event remained...

In this powerful, moving and immensely readable book, Alan describes his life as an alcoholic - the decades of battling the 'demon drink' and his eight years of sobriety. He chronicles the devastation wreaked upon him by the disease, and the damage he...

After thirty-six years as a plastic surgeon, working finally as a Consultant in Edinburgh, John McGregor was a year into retirement when fate dealt him a cruel blow in the form of a stroke.His initial misgivings at being on the receiving end of the NHS...

This is a true account of my experiences in Germany between January 1945 and December 1948. It is based on diaries I kept at the time when I was one of 8 million displaced persons.

Kapyate can run like a cheetah, which earns him respect from the feral youths known as 'Street Kings'. It also saves him from the many horrendous experiences suffered by 'streetkids', living miserable existences in Jinja, Uganda. Steven Mudusu was...

My first anthology of poems, 'Fifty Shades of Beige' was a wry and affectionate look at retirement. As I approach my three score years and ten in May 2024 this second collection looks back through my life from childhood to retirement. For those who have...

This is the story of a very close relationship. It is an account from birth, about identical twins. Twins so similar that even their mother found at times she could not tell the difference. But what happened when one of these twins died? The death is...

A Life Hidden from View is a candid look at my life through my eyes. I had a somewhat unconventional childhood, living a very secluded, mostly in solitude, life. Going to school wasn't without its dramas. Once the other children found out I was...

You can't choose your mum and dad, even when they choose you. In my early teens I had a taste for horror comics. In one strip I read of a handsome young couple at last alone in their honeymoon suite. He is crisply suited, clean-cut. She, lovely in...