Memoirs Books

When a troubled teenage sex worker replies to a casual job ad, little does she know she will soon find herself pulled further into the world of the adult sex industry. With no experience or understanding of adult sex chat, will the vulnerable teen prove...

On 22 March 2020, seven days into lockdown Cyril Duff started an isolation diary on Facebook. The aim was to cheer up family and friends during a difficult period. They shared it with their families and friends, with the result that the diary was read...

'An Accidental Headship' is a warts and all account of a life spent in education, both as a pupil and a leader. From a lively three-year-old with an eye for adventure to a battle weary fifty-plus-year-old looking for new purpose, these memoirs chart the...

Motherhood is amazing and the devotion you encounter is staggeringly strong. But when you're in the eye of the shitstorm, veering between love and lunacy, wondering how this tiny, adorable human can wreak so much bedlam in your life, I believe you need a...

An Italian city girl living in Chicago has to adjust to life in the 'burbs when she and her husband move and leave her beloved city behind. A no-holds-barred commentary on everything that is wrong with the suburbs ensues, as tales of suburban life...

Langevin Snippets ... from A to Z consists of sixty-four short pieces written in the ten years since Roger Langevin's memoir, The Langevin Legacy, was published in 2008. They encompass a range of topics including noteworthy experiences, memorable...

Marietta Davis was a young woman who, aged twenty-five, went into a deep slumber that lasted nine days: upon waking, she told those present of religious visions she had experienced whilst asleep.The visions Marietta attested to have experienced were...

So you want to own a racehorse? is an account of one very ordinary person's quest to become a racehorse owner and his growing obsession with and love for the sport. This is not a book about famous jockeys, trainers and horses. It is a story of the...

Geoffrey Israel Abrahams was born in 1933 in the east end of London to Romanian and Russian parents. A man of character or perhaps a character in this book? What is fact, what is fiction we will never know, he certainly did his national service in the...

Thumbs Up – Over the Hill and on the Road takes the reader on a hitchhiking adventure across southern England where we follow Tom, who has hit the road after a stress meltdown.Thumbs Up is a light-hearted road-movie where we meet the drivers who...

The tight-knit community of the Shetland Isles is the setting for this engaging, often humorous and always revealing and informative autobiography of an engineering technician's career path. Billy Williamson paints a vivid picture of adaptability and...

River Town is the second book in a quartet of poetry and memoir centered along the Mississippi River in Pepin, Wisconsin by artist/poet/activist/visionary dougie padilla. "Dougie Padilla's poetry settles into you with the scent of new hay, the din of the...

My legacy is important to me. I want to leave a legacy that my children and grandchildren could be proud of. A legacy that would be a blueprint for future generations to tweak and make better.I write this book for future generations to learn, grow, and...

Journey Through Baca is an anthology of poems that documents the life of a young man who bounced back from trauma and abuse, homelessness and a failing marriage to discover purpose and meaning in life. It follows his failures and successes in sharp...

This is a thematic collection of sincere thoughts and opinions born out of deep convictions, unique experiences and interesting observations from the author's childhood to youth and experiences of others. Experiences at home, in school, on the street,...

Before you decide to buy this book, please don't expect any hero type action. You will find none. If you're easily offended then save your money, This is the side of the Air Force you will not read about. Its full-on alcohol fueled antics on and off duty...

I was born a normal baby girl but ended up getting very sick at age four with a condition. However, the doctors didn't understand the reason of the condition, the symptoms. First, it was cerebral palsy, but as I got older, they took more tests and gave...

In 2011, Rafael Polo, an officer in the Venezuelan Military Aviation, was appointed to fulfill a state mission in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Upon completion of the mission, he chose to visit the city of Guaratinguetá in the interior of São Paulo,...

En el 2011, Rafael Polo, siendo oficial de la Aviación Militar Venezolana, fue designado a cumplir una misión de Estado en la ciudad de São Paulo, Brasil. Después de concluir la misión, decidió visitar la ciudad de Guaratinguetá en el interior de São...

We welcome you to pick up this book and read of the adventures and challenges spanning ninety years in the life of Esther Fitzstevens. You will cross continents with her, facing seemingly insurmountable odds. Is the outcome divine intervention or...

Prayer of Faith"A great mixture of stories that remind you of the flavor of life, that will season your soul as experienced through a precious friend and faithful saint. This collection is so heart-warming. I laughed. I cried. I was swept up in the...

 Last Man in the Q is the stand of one man amongst millions, one of those many alone and lost in a world of service, in solidarity against injustice. This book is a narrative by a doctor who, with gratitude for the free government education he...

I Cannot Forget Vietnam is a tale of how difficult it is to forget all that has happened to me. The cost of one year in Vietnam--all that happened is a result of being there. This is my account of how I was affected. Vietnam was a stark difference to...

God has taken Marlene through many times of loss, pain and grief as well as disappointments and heartaches. Her desire for this book is that as she shares what God hs done in her life, it will be an encouragement and help to those experiencing similar...

"A touching and thoughtful meditation on war and personal tragedy." -Kirkus ReviewsZ.O.S. is a memoir about sex, blood, money, and the CIA in Southeast Asia. Kay Merkel Boruff tells the story from her perspective of wife and widow of an Air America pilot...

An Iraqi bioweapons scientist has information vital to US interests. He is being hunted by insurgents and his own government. Stephen Monteiro, an ex-Secret Service agent, is assigned to find him before the bad guys do . . . but the government that...

林慰楨教授早年考取第七屆中英庚款，一九四零年與錢偉長、郭永懷、林家翹等同船前往加拿大留學。誰也沒有料想到，第七屆中英庚款奬學金化學專業得主林慰楨在麥基爾大學所選的博士專業名義上是化學，而實際是礦冶工程(Mining and Metallurgical Engineering)。誰也不會猜想到此時此刻對林慰楨「真正有價值的」東西並不是「學位」而是盡快地掌握如何從含鋁質高的礦石中提煉鋁、如何將鋁轉化成用於製造飛機的那種質輕而堅固的鋁合金(duralumin)。...

The past can predict the future, but without true acknowledgement of its impact, it can also repeat itself.Syl Johnson shares his tumultuous journey of reclaiming his ancestors' land and fighting for his own music rights. His story offers a lively...

Teresa Bravo-Cortines looks back at her harrowing life in her inspiring true story Bravo: A Memoir. She stands as a testament that when things look their bleakest, it is possible to overcome the odds.In her own words:My book talks about my father being...

Memories at Crystal Cove looks back in time at a boy's childhood summer adventures at the seashore, beginning just before World War II was on the horizon.I was five years old in 1940 when we began house sitting for a retired teacher friend of my mom's...

Old age is a time of losses- permanent, cumulative and irreversible. These losses include our loss of work in retirement, the eclipse of our past, our biological decline, dependency resulting from such decline, the foreshortening of our future, the...

For nearly twenty-five years, I have worked with a native wildlife rehabilitation organisation in all aspects of this field. During that time, I have learned a huge amount about native Australian wildlife, humans, and myself.Along with my partners and...

""For I know the plans I have for--""No doubt, you know that Jeremiah 29:11 is all about a promising future for the believer. But what about Jeremiah 29:14, which tells us God will drive his children into a treacherous exile--the very place he wants to...

If you are a cat lover and a Christian, then this book is for you. Seventeen years in the making, Meows from the Manse is a collection of remembrances and reflections from a Maine pastor about his ""cat of a lifetime"" and the years they lived together...

People diagnosed with dementia are still living and deserve the support needed to help them live as well as possible through the trauma and losses they face. To this end, the expressive arts play an important role. Enlightened by his father's artistic...

I know that every mother believes that her children are special, and they most definitely are. I am no different. I am quite partial when it concerns my children. But my daughter was unbelievably mature in her spiritual walk with the Lord Jesus from an...

Like so many others who served in World War II, Leon Granacki was an ordinary guy from a working-class immigrant family drafted into the US Army and thrust into the horrors of war in the South Pacific. But through sheer luck and pluck, he leveraged his...

"Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters-prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication-but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind...

"Reading your memoir brought back so many wonderful memories. What an amazing career you have had!" ​​-Bob Mintzer"His versatility, virtuosity and innate musicality were always on display. And it didn't hurt that he has a great sense of humor." -Leonard...

For Terese Luikens, a picture-perfect childhood it was not. Frequent moves. An emotionally absent mother and an alcoholic father. Suicide. The sixth of seven children, Terese grew up in an unstable and chaotic household-invisible to her mom yet...

A wife's devoted prayers for her husband's healing carries her through an intense cancer journey during the COVID-19 pandemic.   When Rebecca Gilham found out that her husband, Rick, had cancer, she decided to trust God, and they...

Natalie Monk went to Mozambique as a medical missionary with something to give. Through cross-cultural and personal challenges in a rural medical clinic, she discovered she was the learner; she didn't have all the answers. While she had the medical...

This work has been presented in five chapters. Chapter-I (The place I come from) gives a brief account of the village the author has come from, its beautiful features, the caste structure in the village, inter caste relationship, land ownership etc. A...