Memoirs Books

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...

At age two years, five months, and six days, my son had a surgical procedure that forever rocked our world. This procedure resulted in the drastic loss of my son's developmental skills in seven days. Due to the severity of developmental loss, his...

La historia de un hombre que vivió la mayor parte de su vida atrapado en las garras de las drogas y el alcohol hasta que tocó fondo y esto lo llevó a vivir en las calles. Parecía que su destino era morir sin Dios, sin fe ni esperanza. Pero un día pasó...

Follow the journey of a Khmer woman who, as a young girl, faced unending obstacles in order to survive. She saved her family from almost certain death as they escaped the Khmer Rouge regime and traveled to the Thailand border. She managed to keep her...

The title Jeff Cop is a tribute to the author’s father. Billy Fleeman retired from the Jeffersonville Police Department in the 1970s. While the author was growing up, it was common for the author’s friends to comment that his father was a...

For a world recovering from a paralyzing pandemic, this book reminds us of the power of hope, determination, courage, and the value of supportive friendships.Running Dreams is a memoir of a man raised in a humble, hard-working family, outside Lima, Peru,...

Red has been in recovery since 2009. Her personality reflects who she is as a person, not the illness. She is a beautiful person from within. She loves God and cherishes her family, especially her three granddaughters and three grandsons. She has four...

It's a big world out there; go and make the best of it.Have you ever noticed that across North America and even the rest of the world, when you fly into a city a great adventure always begins with travel on an interstate highway with six or more lanes,...

A Hummingbird's Awakening is the memoir of a woman-the author-who has shared her story of a lovely childhood, struggling teenage years, and hardships of adulthood, as a single mother, in a provocative manner that could evoke an emotional upheaval...

Two things were true about Stephanie Snell.First, she did not like going to school. This was mostly because she hated wearing dresses every day and worried about other kids teasing her for being so different.Second, Stephanie was angry! She continually...

This interesting and thought-provoking memoir contains a series of short stories and vignettes based on Dr. Jeffrey Wiseman's experiences during his education and medical practice. They follow his path of learning the science and then art of medicine,...

I died and went to hell.Tangier, Morocco, North Africa, 1972, prison for the insane, life sentence.While buying hashish, the Moroccan dealers would say, "Hash makes you crazy." We hippies knew better and laughed. For two years, I smoked hash every day...

Where do I begin to tell this fiasco of a journey that once was my life? How do I sum up 38 years living on a tiny island that was well known for drug trafficking, rape, incest, and political corruption? And what might be the consequences of unravelling...

Care to take a ride? This book takes a tour through my life. From the halls of Congress to the Middle East and many points in between - these stories are the mile markers of my life. The fare is reasonable, the scenery interesting, and the conversation...

Readers are Leaders is the biography of the Reader family: author Fred Reader, his great-great grandfather, his great-grandfather, his grandfather, and his father. Readers are Leaders tells the story of a family whose ancestors from Germany settled in...

THIS BOOK IS MANY THINGS AT ONCE.It is a guide to: avoiding cancer; managing side effects and thriving during cancer treatment; complementary treatments that can supplement and make traditional Western treatments more effective; staying sane, alive, and...

Margaret Lemberg spent time with many people during her years as a hospice volunteer and as a mental health counselor. She was often impressed with the overlap in those experiences. She learned more about being a counselor from hospice patients, and more...

She could hear her dad’s words.“If you’re so bored, why don’t you just go play on the railroad tracks.”Going back home is never easy especially when you’re making the trip because a parent is ill. And so the journey...

This book is a memoir of a minister and peace activist in partnership with a whimsical ant to show a lifetime of artifacts in a room that uncovers thinking about peace and justice issues, such as in the following themes:- The values of Jesus and biblical...

An individual's life story can provide insights into the character of a particular nation, the events of a specific time period, and the hopes and challenges faced by human beings as they strive to live a life that is consistent with the ideals that they...

As a social worker and foster carer, I am inspired sometimes and frustrated often. In this book Adrian skilfully challenges statutory and voluntary complexities asking us to consider a simple question "does this work for this child?" For those that have...

Taking his readers through a grueling, eighteen-year-long psycho-legal odyssey, Jabari Gravy recounts the failures of our legal justice system, from legal training to jurisprudence. He also offers a breathtaking portrayal of borderline personality...

This is a poignant coming-of-age story about a young black boy, who left his northern life behind to spend his high school years in rural Arkansas in the 1950s. This story shows how the love and gentle nurturing of an elderly couple and the community...

As a boy growing up in Maryland, Scott McBrien possessed an uncanny ability to throw any type of ball with a coordinated, accurate motion. Determined to be a baseball player, Scott shunned everything about the game of football—until the day a...

Most children growing up cannot say their fathers were jockeys who rode race horses for a living. With that profession comes excitement, privilege, community status, and a vast array of Hall of Fame athletes and a host of trainers, agents, stable workers...

This memoir focuses on Rick’s senior high school basketball team – the 1967 Griffith Panthers. This team made basketball school history winning their 1st ever state tournament sectional and ending with a record of 20 wins and 4 losses. The...

Laura Sánchez Stone es intensa, y así empezó a soltar la historia de su familia en el círculo de creación literaria en donde nos conocimos: una catarata de eventos, personajes, ciudades; una necesidad inmensa de sacar...

This deeply revealing and clutching true story portrays a single-parent woman who seeks her own death after experiencing the piercing pain of the sudden loss of her eleven-year-old daughter.She struggles a dual reality of consciousness as she bears the...

DEV’S LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES Have you experienced the deep loss of a precious loved one — your son, your daughter? My son, Devon, left this earth Good Friday, 3/29/2013. He was 23 years old. Dev and I have always had a deep and...

My Cadre is a personal memoir about a nurse practitioner’s spiritual journey as she transitioned from traditional, Western based medicine to her private holistic nursing practice.  Written in a rare and authentic voice, the author tells of her...

From a very young age, I knew there was something more out there in the universe than just us. I could hear or see things that most people could not; something was guiding me through this life journey. I sought to find the answers to the questions that...

Leslie's son, Brian, was shockingly diagnosed with Stage III Burkitt Lymphoma at age fifteen, the most aggressive type of lymphoma. Brian wasn't sick; he simply had a lump under his arm. Five days later, one appeared on his abdomen. PET scan results...

Tandy, Pene's mum, wanted to go to Africa to see lions in the wild, a lifelong dream-she was seventy-nine years old. During this trip, Pene and John felt they could help a little community school, so the idea of the books took hold. They hope to use any...

In Student Of The Universe, Doc O'Toole offers a collection of situations and experiences that he has personally witnessed throughout his lifetime, sharing examples of the journeys that have shaped him. Through metaphors, symbols, signs and visions, he...

This collection of personal poems and writings stem from the author's quiet time spent with God. Colorfully and masterfully written, the author takes the reader on a literary journey through her life and experiences using dramatic imagery and passion...

He Came To Heal The Broken Hearted is about understanding God's love for us and how to counteract the enemies attacks in and on your life. Understanding spiritual warfare and how to participate in your own deliverance. I thought presenting a false front...

It's a Love Story! A Day with My Father is a true story about a little girl who grew up estranged from her father. Later at the age of fifty, her father elected to come back into her life which caused her to make a huge decision whether to accept or...

After the sudden, unexpected death of her beloved husband Greg, Emily finds herself in the middle of a life storm that she was not prepared to face. This beautiful love letter begins two weeks following her precious husband's funeral in a small Alabama...

As a single woman in her twenties, Mary never thought she would be building a house. But she felt God leading her to create a home to share with foster children. Along the construction journey, she experienced heartache and healing, frustrating obstacles...