Memoirs Books

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...

"The question hung in the air as if she'd typed the words on a manual typewriter and left that one sentence on a blank sheet of paper for all to see."She was just eighteen. A naïve country girl all alone in the big wide world for the first time. Soon,...

This inspirational short story is a creative non-fiction showcase of memoir. Emotional and poetic memories of a father who loved, and left are contrasted with our Heavenly Father who loves and stays. These father's impacts on one child's heart are...

The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land in Woolwich, Maine since 1778 and Roberta Ames, the author of this memoir, is the last member of the...

"BLIND DEMOCRACY: The Shame of Hypocrisy," a sequel to "MISGUIDED BADGES: A Personal Memoir," explores the impact of Racial Hypocrisy, Political Extremism, and Implicit Bias in American Democracy and Law Enforcement. This compelling book shares news...

Many of us have been holding trauma from our childhoods. Overcoming this trauma can be an incredibly difficult task, and for some can prove to be impossible.Successful life coach Kenneth Godbolt offers a chance to explore and overcome that trauma in his...

A Farmboy's Upper Peninsula Memoirs: Thirty days after the Great War ended, Clifton Nixon was born. It was a time of migration as people were taking advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862. An amalgamation of Protestant and Catholics-Irish, Scotch,...

These times were destined to be left to the past as fossilized gems in my memory. The only way to return to them is a story, and because of their oddity, I cannot refuse chronicling them. Nothing will be able to fully capture the feeling of these times,...

The perfect antidote to the angst created by the widespread pandemic. Uplift yourself now with this book's messages that are both timely and timeless. Bid good riddance to being unhappy, disillusioned and mundane! Happiness becomes you. Through the...

I BROKE THE CURSE is a book about how the devil tried to destroy me, he tried to take my life through depression, a broken heart, illness, loneliness, desperation and so much more. But then came Jesus, He completely changed my life from abandonment and...

We know what God is calling us to do, so how do we overcome our tendencies to hold back, procrastinate, and come up with good excuses? How do we do the work that needs done, cooperate with change, and find joy in the process?We abide. God knows we want...

STILL DIETING? STILL FAT?    The little book with Big Answers.Get slim. Stay slim....CJ Knapp Tells All   

An experimental memoir styled as a play, Confessions of a Part-Time Monk shares the ups and downs of one man's quest for truth. Starting from boyhood and his early years as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church and moving through the events leading to...

When Mary purchased a condo and moved into a senior community, she began hearing music, and later, voices. She suffered from sleepless nights, and the unseen beings speaking to her said things that were untrue. They were mysterious and perplexing, and...

An intimate memoir by the daughter of one of Oregon’s earliest wine families.In 1968, California cabernet and French wines ruled the world. That was, at least, until the Ponzis and a handful...

Cynthia F. Davidson came of age in the vibrant city of Beirut, Lebanon, once known as the Paris of the Middle East. But when civil war breaks out in 1975, this young American woman and her expatriate family are caught in the crosshairs. After her sister...

In My Agape’, Author Shawna Brooks reveals her life experiences from the perspective of love.  Her journey is filled with relatable highs and lows that bring light to defining moments in every young woman's life. These moments, are...

WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN FIRST NONFICTION BOOK • FINALIST FOR THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION • IPPY SILVER AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR • NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR (OVERCOMING ADVERSITY)A violent...

The Walkthrough offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the secretive video game industry from an unlikely perspective, that of a career strategy guide writer. For eighteen years, Doug Walsh was one of the most prolific authors of officially...

A Transgender’s Faith tells the remarkable true story of Walt Heyer, a man plagued since childhood with thoughts and feelings that he should have been a girl. The torment intensifies as he grows up, marries and starts a family, and builds an...

St. Augustine, Florida photographer and writer Rick McAllister takes you on five journeys he has made during his lifetime that he feels were not only instrumental in guiding him into and though manhood, but continue to shape his path through senior...

Forced to stay home during the world pandemic in 2020, Delores Wardell turned from writing novels to using the time to reflect on the people she'd met and incidents stemming from her work as a clinical psychologist as well as her world travels. She...

Is based on a true story of Tasha Cato Who lived in a project's in Brooklyn n.y. She lived her lifethough depression, fear, abuse struggles, heartaches and pain! Her life struggles begin as achild who was violated abuse and rape. Tasha struggled for...

On Rockingham Street explores, in memoir form, how assimilation of Jewish immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe was shaped and affected by the culture of Southern suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s. It probes the key questions of Jewish survival,...

You don't often hear of elected officials who are battling mental illness. Social, professional, and political stigma are the problem, yet a quarter of our population has anxiety, depression, or both, and continue to be productive and effective on the...

The heart of God the Father is revealed by allowing this author to become the parent of two adopted girls. This series of parenting stories spans 30 years of experiences. Each story concludes with a personal letter to God the Father. This book will...

We all have stories, and it is so important that we share them. They reveal a lot about us, especially our faith. There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under heaven- A time to be born and a...

Surviving to see another day was always the mission. Before she was able to hit puberty, Kwanna found herself making adult decisions. The pressure from the streets was on. While the pot of dysfunction was broiling at home. There was nothing else left for...

City girl moves to the country, seven miles from asphalt. Lisa was smitten with her now husband, and he wooed her to the farm. She hated Girl Scout camping trips growing up because they were outside. What you do for love!God really has a sense of humor...

Golden-haired Irma grew up in Imperial Austria believing that wars and prejudice were fading-only to have her life upended and her identity challenged to the core by two world wars.History confronts Irma time and again. Arch-Nazi Adolf Eichmann plays a...

"A fascinating look behind the media mirror that reflects celebrity and power ... incredible." —Bob Dotson, New York Times bestselling author, former national correspondent, the Today showAward-winning investigative reporter Matthew...

Winner, Best Autobiography, International Latino Book Awards"... a gut-wrenching memoir that captures the rollercoaster of horror and hope."-Shelley Ross, former executive producer of Good Morning America As a journalist he dug up the truth. But...

No. No. No. The state troopers had finally figured out where Jacob was-the morgue. Would we lose Caleb too? Oh, God. Please, no. We can't lose them both in one night.  Having survived stage 4 cancer, Jenny Leavitt thinks she's endured the...

We all have them. Some are visible, obvious and seen. Others are invisible, hidden, and unseen. But they all are powerful, with the ability to affect our identity, value, and worth. They are our scars. Our hurts. Our wounds.  Denise Ann...

Nine Decades with Jesus was chosen as the title because I believe, without a doubt, that Jesus has been with me from before my birth and throughout the nine decades of my life.Closer than a brother, Christ was always there to pull me back during my...

A Fireman's Edge is about the life of a career firefighter. As a Christian from an early age, the author felt a calling to serve his fellow man through the fire service. Through many circumstances and many close calls throughout his career, the...

Olivia was a townswoman of Haiti whose life has been persecuted in all aspects. She talked about how in her childhood, she has become a friend of nature, which has impacted her life and abetted her throughout the diversity of many encumbrances. Through...

Vol. II- I Get Serious ...About Communications How, after only playacting my way through college, I used a stint teaching high school journalism to launch a career in the newly emerging field of Organizational Communications was covered in Vol. 1 of this...

The Rock & Roll Stories is a coming of age memoir that follows the author from school dances and cruising hamburger stands, to Vietnam. Along the way, Yeager struggles with relationships and his own courage in the face of adolescent aggression. His...

Willie Earl Porter, Jr.--better known as Will Porter--has constructed one of his finest portraits to date. A chronological portrait of himself and his experiences commissioned by society’s dire need for honest introspection and self-defining text...

Sticks and bones, and dislocated homes.And parasites, and insights,And just let me make it to the mic.And you will see,There is a real mystery,To life, to love, to longevity.The poem above was written during recess, at a chartered school where I was...