Memoirs Books

These are stories about the dreams of a German boy named Fritz and his family living in fear and anguish in the City of Wiesbaden Germany during World War II. Night after night, they would run to safety to the nearby air-raid shelter until one day...

This manuscript covers more than forty years of seeking God with a few steps forward and then interludes of many steps backward. Feelings of failure run rampant but the genuine heartfelt search for God’s will is always there. It is the...

The tragic, sudden death of their 25-year-old son left the Courtney and Sayre families devastated.Grief-stricken and searching for answers, his parents, siblings, other family members and friends began having experiences that they first passed off as...

When her marriage fell apart, Annie Chau knew she had to make a choice. She could give up and accept the way things were, or she could start her life anew at the age of thirty.In I Brag., she chronicles her decision to take the risk and everything that...

Seeking God? Addicted to drugs or alcohol? Do you know someone struggling with addiction or mental illness? Ron Alexander has written a masterfully scripted memoir, Don't Tell Me What to Do, for those who are lost, depressed, or may believe life holds no...

G.W. Foote's The Child Convict is a raw and emotional look at child abuse and how some scars never quite heal.In 1950, a young blond-haired, blue-eyed boy grows up in a small rural town. From the outside he and his family are like everyone else but,...

Flying High is a tantalizing and graphic peek into the lifestyle of flight attendants told by someone who lived it. Amanda Callaway, a flight attendant for 32 years, takes you back to the good'ol days when the word stewardess was equivalent to a VIP...

As far back as Claire Gebben can remember, her grandmother wrote letters to the "relatives in Freinsheim," relatives living in a rural wine-making town in Germany. After her grandmother died, Claire's father and family kept the tradition...

Meet an American woman who moves to Africa for six years to teach English to young adults in post-Apartheid Namibia. Trek across the Kalahari. Venture inside primitive African villages. Choosing Africa's cast of characters will capture your heart.

"Hank was privy to it all and tells all with wit and insight." - - Eva Marie Saint Read the one-of-a-kind autobiography of the producer of Dangerous Liaisons, Hooper, The Great Gatsby, and assistant director of Kismet, Jailhouse Rock, Raintree County,...

This is the diary and writings of Leopold (Leo) Berman(n), a teenage boy living through the last days of World War II and the early post-war years in Italy. The Bermanns met many other refugees along their journey, among them Jews from all over...

"Like millions of people, I've been listening to June Foray formost of my life. I remember when I first encountered Rocky andBullwinkle in their first season on TV, and falling under the spell ofJay Ward's sharply-written, wonderfully performed cartoons...

The racism distraction has always been real. See life through the eyes of Carrie Della Beason Ellis. One hundred and one years of wisdom. Balance was instilled through childbirth. She was birthed through a mixed race of black and white relatives and...

Gatluk G. Digiew is a little boy cowherd when Civil War erupts in his homeland, South Sudan, and upends his life forever. His memoir, God Threw Me Back: A Child Survives War in Sudan, tells his horrific story through the eyes of a child. Gatluk is...

One day a person is going to see your name somewhere on some piece of paper. When they inquire about you, what are they going to find out? Life is the same for all of us. We live, and we die. What makes us different is how we live it. Throughout my years...

"Her life was a song." Thus did Mom's obituary sum her up. Seventeen years before her death, however, that song began to change, shifting into darker and eventually agitated tones. Still, up until the end, it never ceased. Here is the full course of her...

This nonfiction advice guide is to aid young girls and women in believing in themselves and what they were created to be by God. Using what God did to help Sarena overcome the devasting events that befell her life, she uses what she's learned to educate...

The Gateway of HOPE will inspire you- seeing how God will redeem YOUR story in the way he will surround you with people who are hurting and desperate for HOPE to hold onto, just to keep moving forward in this journey we call life...Join me on an...

Often, travelers will be introduced to new and exciting experiences that remain impactful, long after the event itself. Impromptu participation in exotic customs of childcare without medical infrastructure, securing transport during civil unrest, or even...

Minister Lillian Makle Forbes is a lifelong resident of Southern Maryland. She is the fifth child of Mrs. Lillian E. Gray Makle and the late Mr. Joseph B. Makle Sr., was reared in Charles County, and attended St. Michael's Catholic Church in Baden,...

How do you follow the promises of God when they feel like a puzzle without the picture?Wonder what it’s like to adopt four children all at once? Or follow a promise from God for ten years before it manifests in your life? Join the Moore family...

“I loved that tractor like I would have loved a horse and rode it many long days. I traded it and $3,500 for a Case 730, also bought a hay tedder at auction for $982.”-George Kempton“We all went to church and then after dinner cut boys...

Here is a heartwarming collection of a country boy’s stories of life lived way back before technology so dramatically changed our world. You will be taken back to a time when you had to work really hard just to live, especially when you were living...

This book is a series of short stories that give a glimpse into the life and adventures of some little mountain rascals that grew up in the years between 1942 and 1952. Life in the Appalachians was haphazard—sometimes dangerous, sometimes a lot of...

In 1999 life was good for Martin Toe, the son of an affluent family in Ivory Coast. This reality of happiness and certainty was soon devastated when news from BBC spread about rebel forces making their way in town. In a twinkling of an eye, Martin was...

Leeanne Creech’s book “I Didn’t Know He Wanted More” is a great read for those who are seeking to live a more purposeful and meaningful life. Leeanne has a real gift for communication, and her writing keeps you captured through...

This isn’t just a book about cancer, but it’s about God’s strength in the midst of suffering and uncertainty. Laura shares her real struggles, all the while weaving hope and trust throughout the story.“Whether you have had cancer...

Healing and forgiveness from the other side, life transformation through the music of the Beatles.                                           ...

All his life, John has been moving around. His fathers job as a surveyor takes them all over Australia, but his most recent place of employment is in Queensland. The journey was hard what with all the flooding, but they eventually make it. While...

Navin's gripping account of our times and culture is marked by a sincere wish to heal and a remarkable capacity to balance compassion and criticality.

This is a warts-and-all account in letter form of a five-month-old baby afflicted with one of the worst forms of meningitis and surviving but being left with two thirds brain damage. This happened in Fiji, and the family traveled to the US to seek...

I thank my readers and I hope it encourages you to write your story. Our children should have our legacy.

Carolyn D. Redl's memoir of growing up on a northern Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s and '50s captures, in the vivid memories of one girl, a way of life that is a vital part of Canada's social history. But it is much more than a recollection of rural life...

How do you survive WWII? Growing up, my parents (especially my dad) have retold their experiences all through my life. It's not until you get older that you begin tounderstand the scope of extreme pain and suffering. A rose's stem has many thorns as it...

The Leaky Raft: A Village Raises a Child is a true story about a village; a time and place where the story of being human is unfolded before our very eyes in the lives of two boys, James and David. It’s a larger story of how a community (a...

God's Mighty Movement is a concise and moving account of the continuing Christian journey of Pastor Dr. Hazel Hanson, and the many ways in which God shaped her life and used her to save souls by manifesting His will through her. In addition, some aspects...

When Greg Johnson was interviewing for a job at a mental health center his interview was interrupted by a police officer with a naked woman in tow. "I was looking for an adventure," he says, "and this looked like it." In A Very Famous Social Worker the...

The world's oldest man, 113-year-old World War I veteran Henry Allingham, died Saturday July 18, 2009. It was reported by AP that he spent his final years reminding Britain about the 9 million soldiers killed during the conflict. My father was a teenager...

The book Rosebudd the American Pimp is about the choices one has to make in order to go to the highest plateau in that lifestyle. Rosebudd did all that was in his power to become a legend. His day to day activities and mental savvy and toughness is...

Comic novelist's laugh-out-loud funny memoir of his nerdish, fantasy addicted youth in 80's Coventry

The inspiring story of Jack's journey from drug and alcohol addictions that nearly killed him to his remarkable recovery.

This classic book contains the touching diary of a Confederate girl in the American Civil War, and will prove an emotional and enthralling read to anyone with an interest in the history of America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating...

Have you ever seen a group of motorcycles traveling down the highway and wished you could be out there with them? Have you dreamed of a cross country tour with no set destination in mind and no worries? Come along with Jim and Rose as they travel to...

Play Me A Song is a historical retrospective of the unusual circumstances of the lives of my parents. Both of Italian descent, each struggled with poverty, physical ailments and limitations, and the lack of education. From his miracle birth in 1917, the...

"Possibly the most important task a survivor of the Nazi horrors can face is also the hardest: To write a memoir that causes later generations not to look away but to know and feel the truth of what happened to one person. Helen Studley has done all that...