Memoirs Books

In 1986, Collette Schoenegge camped across the U.S. on her own. The most significant item she felt she packed wasn't her sleeping bag, but a small spiral bound notebook. She had decided to start journaling, and would end up keeping journals for the next...

This raw and thought-provoking short memoir centers around Ethel Smiter's life as the victim of domestic violence and her determination to survive. Domestic violence is not the victim's fault. It can happen to anyone, but no one on earth should be abused...

<p>The Man to Be is an astonishing experience that follows Vivaan Jadhav, an Indian teenage Transman, through his transition.&nbsp;</p> <p>Vivaan was biologically a female. At the age of 16, he realized he was a Transman. His...

For what gave me strength was the Word of God, the Bible. Read Psalm 91, the book of Proverbs, and the book of Ecclesiastes. Heck, just study the Word; it will give you strength beyond measures.

This is a true crime and corruption story. I was born in California. My father killed someone and went to jail, so my little sister Charlotte and I were adopted by a wealthy aunt and uncle in Fort Worth, Texas. My father beat his case in court by...

No Longer Sick chronicles the latter stage of a young man's decade-long illness with End Stage Renal Disease. Told from a mother's heart, the account reveals not only the physical aspects specific to kidney disease--multiple hospitalizations, dialysis,...

After thirty-plus years of youth ministry it would be easy to imagine that you've seen it all--and that there is nothing left to learn. The truth is, however, that if we just pay attention, God loves to surprise us with unexpected moments of joy and...

A myriad Muslims and Hindus mortally yearn to know a God of love. Will circumstances, complacency, or comfort cushion the Callaways at home? Or will Christ's love propel Beth, Merrel, and Arlene to reach these Uttermost with the good news before it's too...

Yesh Ballon's mother died two days before the 9/11 attacks. Always an iconoclast, even in death, Jean Hymson Ballon found a way to make things more interesting than they had to be. With air travel halted, the rituals for honoring and mourning her death...

Have you ever thought about your past so much that memories from years ago were as vivid as if they happened days ago? Have you ever been surprised at what you found upon another look? This collection of poetry stirs through deep memories, mixing the...

What is it like to resuscitate a baby on the cusp of viability, to purposely induce hypothermia, to remove and replace twice a baby's blood volume within a few hours? How do you confront the turmoil of emotions when everything goes wrong?Every year half...

This book traces the intellectual journey of a Christian minister and theologian. Starting with his discovery of God through a love of the natural world, David Peel's encounter with thinkers from his Reformed tradition and extensive ecumenical...

This book is a broad overview of the most important lessons and wisdom gleaned by the two authors during lifetimes of growing up, from childhood to adolescence, adulthood, and beyond, through good times and bad, successes and failures, pride and remorse...