Memoirs Books

"Guy's life was a living adventure: he was a mariner and navigator of the first order, a character with the bravery of a Viking and the kindness of Robin Hood. Generous to a fault, he could never turn his back on someone in need, and would risk his life...

From non-verbal to radio announcer . . .Good Morning, Blake: Growing Up Autistic and Being Okay lays bare-from cradle to adulthood-the myriad steps Blake has taken to find his voice and rightful place in society.Eighty-five percent of Blake's autistic...

This is a personal memoir about growing up and my career of forty-seven years in banking. Growing up will take you back to the fifties and sixties. The banking material is humorous. It is entertaining for the reader with some anecdotes about my work...

This story is one that needs to be told. I was raised in the shadow of my mother's love and madness in Québec. Towards the end of 1970, I escaped to England and Ireland where I stayed for 20 years. There, I fell head-first, heart-first, I should say,...

In 1931, Gustav Becker and Erna Kohen married. He was Catholic and she was Jewish. Erna and Gustav had no idea their religious affiliations, which mattered so little to them, would define their marriage under the Nazis. As one of the more than 20,000...

What if you had heard a single message all your life: that you shouldn't even be here? Would you fight to prove yourself worthy of love or turn to more hateful things?The victim of "unusual abuse" that went unrecognized by the authorities, Nicole Salter...

This is a story of heartache, and the adopted teachings in life we all absorb as part of our character. Be warned, its honesty is rare and shocking.Mr. Young takes you on an emotional rollercoaster that will leave you for him or against him. Why do we do...

How does Barbara (Barry), a Dutch immigrant, reconcile her past with her present? Growing up a lonely girl in Sarnia, Ontario, she seems to fall behind everyone and everything, while facing many challenges tossed her way. She spends a good portion of her...

I flew fifty feet and knew it was my time to die. I found out for sure I do not want to die. This is a true story of adventure and survival. It took us three years to get our boat into the water. That was an amazing feat. Boats come alive once they go...

A battle to decide the fate of Mexican Texas...and Rory MacHugh finds himself stuck in the middle of it. Arriving in Texas with hopes of spending the remainder of his middle years in a life of domestic bliss, Rory MacHugh believes he's found the perfect...

Enjoy this memoir of my happy days, growing up in Toronto and Leaside. I paint a picture of Toronto's exciting events, like the Santa Clause parade, Marilyn Bell's swim, Barbara Anne Scott's skating career, Hockey and Tonight in Canada and...

God knows what is best for His children, and no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Therefore, it is revealed in Family Kills that the devil has his children going to church and being married to God's children.

Have you ever experienced being caught at a crossroads, confused which road to follow?This is the stage in one's life where an important decision has to be made. Have you asked God's guidance and wisdom? All the time, I had! To be a nun or a married...

At seventy-one years of age, she hears her son's voice for the first time.After forty-six years spent carrying a heavy secret, Yolande has built a good life for herself. A few days after arriving from an exciting trip to Japan, she stops at the local...

"The book is an honest, heart-wrenching, personal account of life in an abusive situation. At times it felt like I was reading a private personal diary. But at the same time, through all the heartbreak, there is a strong sense of healing, family, and...

AS a mental health clinician, Rebecca Brown has been a safe place for many to seek shelter from their secrets, silence and shame. Inspired to finally slow down, stop running from herself and share her own story, she found ways to seek and savour her own...

I have always been active and healthy, a normal person who never thought they would get cancer. I thought I had been doing everything right. But then it happened: I got the diagnosis after a routine exam. Follow my journey , all the tears and laughter,...

Research efforts to discover cancer therapies for kids dates back to the end of World War II after many experiments with mustard gas and nitrogen mustards. In 1947, Dr. Sydney Farber's group published a paper on the effects of a folic acid antagonist,...

From the Series . . . Silently Said by Diana LeeNestled in a quiet and quaint small town, just down a dusty gravel road, lived a family plagued with a mystery they can't solve. Diana, born in March of 1978, the youngest of four children all born within...

Country Girl is a telling of my journey through my childhood years in an isolated northern farming community in Manitoba, Canada, all the way through to my quiet and peaceful senior years. Life was so simple and innocent as a small child, sheltered from...

An Angel Watches Over Me is based on a sad, true story of a mother who finds the courage with the love of her daughter to move forward in life after the tragic death of her newborn baby changes her outlook on life forever.

In March of 2008, a tumour the size of a grapefruit was found resting on twenty-five-year-old actor and comedian Daniel Stolfi's heart. The diagnosis: stage III acute non-Hodgkin's T-lymphoblastic lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer that would require...

This short novel shares all the personal highs and lows of one B.C. teacher and her husband upon entering into retirement. It is a humorous look at elderly parent care, selling the family home, dealing with disgruntled siblings and estates, and suddenly...

The Garden of Eden, now referred to as the Kingdom of God here on earth, is looking less and less like a Paradise. Yet how many, whether Catholic or Protestant, are aware that the current-day warfare to destroy this Paradise has reached the height of a...

It can't be true. He can't be dead...I didn't even get to tell him I loved him. Forty-nine years ago, Brad was born. He will never celebrate his 50th birthday. When someone you love dies by suicide you are left with so many thoughts and...

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answerA bird sings because it has a song"-Joan Walsh AnglundApropos of Joan's brilliant metaphor, this book is not a prescription for health, an instruction for meditation, or a spiritual teaching. It is actually...

Dr. Greta Archbold was travelling on a cruise ship when it was caught in the global COVID-19 pandemic. The forrty-eight-day trip was shortened to just a few destinations before the pandemic struck. This is a personal miracle experience spanning seven...

This book is written as a personal memoir of an extraordinary life, in which the author deals with serious life challenges, including being shot, the death of his youngest son and cancer. Practising medicine in Africa as a UK trained physician proves to...

A story about an Aboriginal park ranger who uses the skills he has learned from watching the animals his grandfather uses as teaching guides to live a better life. The behaviour of animals and survival skills enhance his abilities in his career as a park...

Follow LeCren in an often humorous romp across Canada as he relates true stories of keeping the flying public safe during a career that spanned more than 33 years. From near-death experiences to practical jokes, LeCren lived and worked through an age...

ANSTEY - A Newfoundland StoryAn unforgettable story about an orphan boy and his family living in a small sleepy town in Newfoundland from the turn of the last century to present day. Life was not always easy in these outports. Whether it was the damp,...

When Julie's running nemesis asked, 'Do you want to do the Great Wall of China Marathon with me?' she laughed. How could she translate the 3-kilometre-run segment of a triathlon into the 42.195 kilometres required for a marathon? After consideration of...

A daughter of a hard rock miner. Married at the age of sixteen. At nineteen, Cathy Mulroy was hired at mining giant Inco and became one of the first women to work there since the war years in a non-traditional job.  In 1930, legislation stated it...

The Person Next To Me is the true life story of a self made Canadian real estate developer. The book takes you on a journey from his youth to his current age of fifty years old and depicts all of :the good, the bad and the ugly" that he has had to...

Part social commentary and very much a memoir, Half-Caste: Decidedly Brown in a Black or White World, describes and examines the contemporary pressures that many people from multiracial and mixed ethnicities face in developing their racialized social...

Young Donny experienced a summer like no other: hanging with his buddies, spending time with family, and falling in love for the first time with a wonderful girl. Little did he know how that summer love would play out so many years later.Reminiscing, if...

This patient creature, otherwise known as a leaf in the library of life, tells about the love a father feels for his son, upon his ever fleeting graduation from childhood to adulthood, both of them hopelessly ablaze with the primal fire that were their...

This book is about growing up in London during the World War II, mandatory army service for two years in Germany after the war, obtaining a degree in engineering and within six months, marrying, and emigrating to Canada on a freighter. After three years...

In October 1977, Marie-Thérèse Walter was found hanged in her home's garage at age sixty-eight. She was famously known as the "sleeping blond muse," whose relationship with Pablo Picasso ("Pic," as she preferred to call him) had always been extremely...

After breast cancer treatment, Peta-Ann is elegantly rebelling. She is staying flat. Being herself. Stylishly. Authentically. No boobs required.From Peta-Ann's unique view of life with giant breasts and then without, no subject is sacred in this...

This book describes what life was like for me as a boy in the village and cattle camp, and some of the brutal cultural traditions of the Mundari tribe, from growing up in an African village, to becoming a child soldier in the civil war zone that was...