Memoirs Books

From 1975 to 2014, Les Ellis worked in the oil industry on six continents. Starting as a roustabout on a North Sea rig, he worked his way up to operations manager in the Far East for an American international oil service company.This book contains forty...

During the making of Mother India, Nargis is trapped in a circle of flames and Sunil risks his life to save her. They recuperate together, and fall in love. Nargis has been in a long but futile relationship with the mercurial Raj Kapoor, and in Sunil she...

In this exchange of letters dating from an extremely turbulent period of their lives, Nayantara Sahgal and E.N. Mangat Rai, two very public figures who had remained at the same time intensely private, broke their self-imposed silence for the first time...

Hi. I am Teo. Teo with a migraine. I know how it is to feel lost, hopeless and especially in pain. Physically and Mentally. That`s why please let me tell you something. This is a real-life story with real-lifeways to improve, evolve...

Geboren in einem kleinen Dorf im Hohenlohekreis in Baden-Württemberg, studierte Rainer Werner in Tübingen und Berlin Germanistik, Geschichte und Politische Wissenschaft. Wie viele Studenten seiner Generation beteiligte er sich an der antiautoritären...

Die wahre Geschichte von Ingrid wird nicht nur Stoma-Patienten Mut machen, sondern auch vielen anderen Lesern, die schwierige Lebensphasen meistern müssen. Das Buch erzählt authentisch, lebhaft, witzig und humorvoll, wie sich von einen Tag auf den...

Bis heute bleibt rätselhaft, warum es zum Ausbruch einer Schizophrenie im Leben eines Menschen kommen kann. Zahlreiche Mythen ranken sich um diese Geisteskrankheit. Man kann sie bis heute noch nicht befriedigend erklären.In dieser wahren Geschichte,...

Im März 2020 brachten die Corona-Maßnahmen der Regierung unser ganzes Land in einen nie dagewesenen Ausnahmezustand. Unsere Gesellschaft geriet in eine Situation, die für mich bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt unvorstellbar war. Unter diesen Bedingungen wurde auch...

Lola Montez war eine der bekanntesten und interessantesten, aber auch umstrittensten Frauen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Künstler, Offiziere, Studenten, selbst Fürsten und Könige machten ihr den Hof. Andere sahen in ihr eine egoistische Hochstaplerin,...

Wenn Joachim Görnitz im DRK-Alten- und Pflegeheim Haus Sonnenschein Besuch von seiner Tochter Sonja bekommt, wird nicht nur zusammenhangslos drauflos geklönt. Die beiden betreiben seit Monaten akribisch ein Biografie-Projekt.Es geht um das bewegte Leben...

Hiermit erzähle ich die Autobiographie meines Lebens und wie schwer es ist, Christ zu sein.

Rapping into a hairbrush, breakdancing on the kitchen floor, carrying around the world’s smallest, quietest ghetto-blaster: In 1980s Britain, long before the world has heard of Eminem, how does an aspiring white teenage rapper keep going in the...

Brian was asked by his daughter to write a book about his childhood on the farm so his grandchildren knew more about the family history. People born in 1946 until 1964 are called "baby boomers". I was born in 1946 and left the farm in 1964. It seemed...

If These Hands Could Talk: The Girl who Touched the World is an uplifting memoir that reads like a novel, told with humor, heart, and soul. British-born massage therapist Mandy Urena educates and entertains in a narrative embroidered on a global...

All of this is based on the day I got hit by a car. The things I'd personally witnessed as each one literally fell into play around me. All that'd both, before and after it'd taken place. Which, I will explain rather distinctly as chapter one progresses...

Diane Papalia's world was turned upside down when she met Bob Zappa, "the man with the chocolate brown eyes," in 1986. They were immediately drawn to each other. Over the course of 27 years, their stars would cross again and again, but it was...

Long Exposure is a lively and probing self-portrait by Joe Kirkish, a living legend of Michigan's Copper Country. Renowned as a photographer, a Michigan Tech humanities professor, a pioneering public radio producer and film series organizer, as well as...

"Deeply moving and hilarious attempts to make sense of life, faith, friendship, romance, and a dysfunctional family." -Roberto Loiederman, co-author, The Eagle MutinyA rollicking follow up to his first book, Paterson Boy, this story collection continues...

"A road-tripping travel memoir that's graced with humor, adventure, and wisdom." -Foreword Clarion Reviews A Transcendental Journey is the insightful and often humorous account of playwright and author Stephen Evans' journey across America, exploring...

Joan T. Randall is an award-winning international multi-bestselling author, business coach, and CEO of Victorious You Press Publishing Company. She is the visionary author behind this incredible anthology, where she put together an incredible team of...

With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. - Matthew 19:26We live in tumultuous times, nearing a dangerous tipping point. We have a country to save. In this world of constant change and a seemingly endless degradation of culture,...

Do you channel your dog?That is, do you speak to your dog and then respond as your dog? In Bedtime with Buster, author Brooks Eason does. And does he ever!In this hilarious, insightful new book, the author and his handsome hound Buster debate a number of...

"At 8:30, I somehow manage to fall asleep. I do not dream. I never dream."Full Moon Reaction is a piercing, comedic, and unnerving glimpse into the rot of American culture. Justin Geoffrey's literary debut, his book delves into the "secret history" of...

Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, delights us with this second volume of her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings...

A must-read for anyone who grew up in America during the 50s and 60s. Revenge on a teacher. Saturday nights at the Drive-In. Fast cars, midnight shopping, and teenage sex. You'll recognize the characters. They might have had different names in your town,...

These are true stories of how John Cronin, CPA, spent 33 years at the GAO, investigating fraud against the U.S Government. He saved taxpayers untold millions of dollars. His travels took him from Congress to the White House to European capitals to...

This personal made book list many four year limit jobs, classifications, occupations, responsibilities held by Professor Roy Yonce during his 76 years. He was a Commercial Multi-engine rated pilot. He was also a college department Engineering Director...

Cele Keeper's memoir, It's Never Too Late to Grow Up, an unflinchingly honest and irreverent history of a life well lived, is an enthralling read. Ms. Keeper never extinguishes the bright light of her candor. From the death of a beloved child to...

Told with love and a profound appreciation for a time, place and people, this series of engaging vignettes explores six years in the life of a young girl in 1930s Florida. Nameless and faceless, the little girl wanders through these stories filled with...

Eric Hoffer-one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer-lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge-history, science, mankind-formed the basis of his insight to human...

Deep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a...

After midnight, almost every night for five years, Joseph Zitt walked the security rounds at Grace North Church in Berkeley, California. This journal documents the spaces through which he passed, the things that he found, the people that he encountered,...

What does a new diver do when he's left in a cloud of sand and doesn't know where to find his guide? What reaction should he have when he swims over a sand dune only to come face to face with a four-foot barracuda?When I first started scuba diving,...

This book is a personal story of life on board aircraft carriers during WWII. The author starts his story reminiscing about joining the British Navy and then continues with battles fought and time spent in various ports around the world."The morning of...

Wanderings of a Ten Pound Pom is about an English emigrant to Australia beginning almost 50 years ago in 1966, until his marriage in 1977. The stories revolve around his work as an electrician in this new country and his travels throughout the world...

Khoa Nam Tran was born with a grin he can't wipe off. He's likely to smile in the face of a lion's roar while joking about its bad breath. Along with his inexhaustible humour, Khoa Nam Tran is a rare survivor. With a healthy dose of muscle, a truckload...

This unforgettable story has become an Australian classic describing how an Australian bush girl saved the lives of 1,000 Polish and Jewish children in a daring escape from the Nazis. This updated edition contains an important eye-witness account of the...

Leaving Macquarie Island and the 1979 expeditioners was a mixed bag ofemotions. I witnessed the grieving of some of the expeditioners from the loss oneof their mates, a biologist. I felt for them and wondered what wintering on theIsland was going to be...

Emma McAuliffe is a certified NLP coach who has been supporting people all over the world to self-heal from chronic conditions. Emma came to a point of desperation herself in her early 20's, after being diagnosed with a degenerative spinal condition...

Create and Grow Your Own Damn Wealth!My Romance With CryptoHave you ever heard of, or been curious about 'Bitcoin'?Have you found financial stresses are building in your life?Does it seem too techie and overwhelming?This is my personal journey from where...

As a young child of divorced parents, Annette Pearson's dreams were high in the sky, filled with mansions, corvettes, and diamonds. She lived in the land of sunshine and trendy plastic dolls. She believed, with all her heart, that whatever her...

"I left my home for a reason; security and dignity are worth it"Ali is a Sudanese man who fled his country to seek refuge in Libya, where he was treated as a slave, beaten close to death, payed ransom to militia and witnessed many murders...

At the time of being born, there was no such thing as the wonderful NHS as we know it today, hence my flying start.After that my life has been quite a roller coaster, I do hope you enjoy my life experiences with me, no one was hurt, only my pride mixed...

A detailed memoir of a highly traumatic time where a fight for life was taken on by an observant and caring family, a professional hospital team and the patient himself. This story starts with a dramatic awakening in a hospital bed with, initially no...

Who are you going to call if it all goes wrong on holiday?Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane. His job is to bring people back to Britain after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong...