Memoirs Books

The author was once presented with a book entitled: The Nothing Book, which asked the question, "Wanna make something of it?" This started the process of compiling short anecdotes about life in Bangladesh (former East Pakistan). Written from memory and...

How do you keep faith in God and still have a positive outlook on life when you are in a never-ending battle with difficulties that come at you, wave after wave?My Blessed Struggle is an honest and deeply moving account of Raena's struggle to stay afloat...

I hope this book and story inspires you. Almost everyone, without exception, knows someone with cancer or has had it themselves. I promise that all your relationships will change. Some people will show more love to you, others won't. Please read this or...

I decided to write this book because I want to encourage you-especially women!-to learn how to be your true authentic self and find your ultimate potential in life. The earlier, the better. I want to dare you to drop your fears, insecurities, and any...

For years friends have listened to me tell them things and have encouraged me to write a book. I spent almost ten years in the Northern Outpost, so the knowledge here is first hand. Now, I have put everything into print and it includes what happened...

Every relationship has a story to tell. "So, how did the two of you meet?" seems like a simple enough question, but Doris Romano has always found it difficult to tell the truth about how she met her husband for fear of being judged and misunderstood...

Every fly fisher comes to the sport eager to learn but with limited knowledge. Gaining more understanding and developing skills is best accomplished by finding a mentor, being studious, and/or joining a group of like-minded individuals. This book...

This memoir of a childhood in constant flux and readjustment is this woman's candid perspective on life, uncertainty, and the struggles and joys of a large family that included a brother, Felix, who was born mute and with hydrocephalus. Entering...

Dark Night Of The Soul, Spirituality, Ascension. These were all new concepts to KR. A whole new world had opened up to him. Willing to explore this new world, KR embraced the future with an open mind. And then there was Theresa, the catalyst that...

Mental illness is like being in a boxing ring with Mike Tyson. There is nowhere to hide and often the opponent seems impossible to defeat. If anyone that has suffered with or is close to someone that suffers through can attest to, 'Mental illness cannot...

H. Downing Lane has been a retired educator, tutoring business owner, private high school teacher, sailing coach and school administrator. Born and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore, H. Downing taught sailing on Long Island Sound, raced...

Born in Winnipeg to Icelandic immigrants in 1890, Laura Goodman Salverson embarked on a life marked by contradiction and cultural exchange. Her 1939 memoir braids the strands of her parents' intellectual life in Iceland with a hardscrabble existence on...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the YearFrom the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one...

Rachel Held Evans shares her experiences growing up in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Exploring everything from evolution to religious pluralism to heaven and hell, Evans challenges readers to separate faith from false...

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographicalBest of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric LitA New York Times Editor's...

In CinderGirl, Christina Meredith shares the faith and determination that brought her from abuse and homelessness to being crowned Ms. California and helping other girls reach up from poverty to find their voice and purpose.

During the turbulent 1960s in Birmingham, Alabama, civil rights attorney Arthur Shores and his family came under repeated attacks by the KKK. Now for the first time, in The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill, Shores' daughters tell their story of a man...

MINUS 38 is a story of personal family tragedy mixed with the uncertainty of what actually happened. Grieving early parental loss and coping with the distress resulted in childhood trauma for each sibling and its challenges. The events that unfold...

Lorsqu'elle avait sept ans, en Tunisie, son père lui a impose le port du voile. Un mari violent a par la suite continue l'ouvrage de destruction d'une femme qui voulait vivre, et vivre libre.L'asile politique et l'immigration au Canada n'ont pas réussi...

<i>Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror</i> weaves together heart-warming and humorous stories focused on characteristic aspects of Italian culture-its traditions and rituals, its food, and of course its people and their engaging approach to...

As Kon Georgiou sits in his Supermax (HRMU) cell one night, he recalls the last two years prior to the shooting. He goes from a life of drugs, girls, partying, loyalty and brotherhood to a life behind bars in one of Australia's hardest prisons. This book...

This book has been a self-reflective journey of a medical doctor as an ordinary person going through ordinary life's ups and downs. In epistolary form, its articles were written during the special time of her first year of training to become a general...

This book contains the life story of a young man born in England in 1932, his many adventures in life as his restless spirit brought him to Canada at the age of 19, the many incidents and "near-death" experiences that made him wonder if there...

This a guide for surviving a brain injury, which are so prevalent today, by someone who has actually survived one. Brain injuries can be obtained by the simplest of means, such as driving, playing sports and even tripping while walking. This is not a...

"Stroke is a life-altering event. When Angie Collins-Burke suffered a devastating stroke that injured the right hemisphere of her brain at the age of forty-six, her life was suddenly changed forever. Once a registered nurse taking care of patients,...

At age 27, with a degree in Liberal Arts from Georgetown University, and without any scientific background, Bob Iversen decided to become a marine biologist by studying fisheries at the University of Hawaii. The U.S Navy had positioned him to do this by...

A personalized journal to store important information. This journal prompts for numerous items related to personal, family and business affairs. Store information including important contacts, instructions, routines, wishes, and so much more. This...

Pete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history of the...

"Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and...

A new superstar appeared on the American sports landscape in the spring of 2006. Barbaro, a three-year-old racehorse, won the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory in sixty years, stirring talk of a possible Triple Crown. But in the opening...