Memoirs Books

Letting Go is the extraordinary story of a woman who retires with her husband to the mountains of North Carolina to build their dream retirement home. Just as she embarks on this fabulous new chapter in her life, her husband confesses, "I never wanted...

What happens when life looks like nothing it's supposed to? Pudgy Heather, granddaughter of the Governor of California, lives in an exclusive gated community in Los Angeles with celebrities and political figures as neighbors during the Vietnam War-era...

"Learning the craft of writing, for me, has been a way to grow in authenticity," Edward A. Dougherty writes. "And if we're lucky, these questions never resolve themselves completely or for long." In the 18 remarkable essays of Journey Work, Dougherty...

When Dawn Newton, an adjunct professor and mother of three, gets a terminal lung cancer diagnosis, the path forward appears rutted. The Great Recession has left her exhausted and juggling multiple jobs. Then she learns of her cancer’s mutation. She...

On a Wednesday morning in May of 2010, 42-year-old Rocco Versaci dipped the rear tire of his bicycle into the Pacific Ocean and began to pedal, alone, across the country. He had what he thought was a simple idea-to sort out the story of his life, which...

In this layered collage of memory within memory, Hale recreates for readers her kaleidoscopic experience of a decades-long journey to acceptance and insight. Writer, prodigal daughter, single parent, Buddhist disciple, and, late in midlife, a newlywed,...

From the decks of off-shore scallop boats in the North Atlantic to the backwoods of the Maritime Provinces, Feather White chronicles a young man's emergence from an alcoholic family and his search for his missing pieces.His quest leads to...

The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family's door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred "Mickchen" Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already...

Propósitos del Libro Yo se que para Dios no hay casualidad, el mismo Espíritu de Dios motivo a mi hijo Orlando a que me propusiera escribir, cada suceso que vivíamos en el vecindario. De allí encontraras los lugares y las fechas exactas de los sucesos,...

An innocent young girl, neglected and living in poverty in Guatemala, dreamed of one day living in America.Years passed and Esperanza's dream materialized when she married an American man and, though unable to speak English, moved to America as a new...

"... It's the most entertaining book I've read this year."-- Steve Chapman, Columnist and Editorial Writer, The Chicago Tribune • There are no pretentious pronouncements about public policy or dry conclusions from social science in these pages .....

Lived One Life to Save One Life is the riveting story of a Pastor with a street gang past. His involvement in a life of crime had included the takeover of neighborhood territories and dealing drugs. Somehow, he found a way to stay involved in church...

The author examines the controversial subject of the relationship between prostitutes and their customers from a different perspective: from that of the john. This book tells of how and why explorations lead to adventures that lead to drastic changes.The...

Little Erzsebet Kertesz was just a child when she and her family of eight were uprooted from their tiny village home in Eastern Transylvania. The onset of World War II would force the family to relocate, suffering through times of fear, poverty, and...

What do you do when your child is diagnosed with autism? Do you turn toward or away from God? Do you decide to give up or do you get on your knees in prayer? My Tears in His Bottle is the deeply personal faith journey of one special needs’ mom...

A story of hope, strength, struggles and tenacity that started with a young girl’s dream of coming to America from South Africa during the hated apartheid era.  South Africa remains etched in Helen’s heart, she recounts her stories...

From the author of Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment and Hard Love: A California Memoir, Hard Faith is Lopez's third memoir and picks up where Hard Love leaves his readers. Hard Faith describes Lopez's struggles and growing maturity as a Christian,...

Out, Out, Brief Candle! is the remarkable story of African children who have survived terrible fires and gone on to thrive at Children of Fire, a charity based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Martin Klammer recalls his time helping the children develop...

For decades, news outlets have described sexual misconduct by prominent men, ranging from indecent exposure and molestation to spousal abuse, rape, and murder. And while social movements have empowered women to add their stories to these headlines, so...

The essays included in Out of Our Past Lives II share the stories culled from the disparate lives of aging grown-ups. Reflecting a wide range of experiences, this fourth book in the series is a new collection of tales from residents of Saratoga...

This is the story of a family in a small community whose journey of life took a severe turn when the eldest child discloses her nine year heroin addiction. This disclosure sets into place a whirlwind change in all family dynamics as each member tries to...

As an LA tween in the mid-1960s, Jamie Johnston-free-spirited, fiercely independent Hollywood brat and daughter of '40s/'50s actor-singer Johnny Johnston ("Rock Around the Clock")-had two significant events forever frozen in her mind.The first of these...

Educated during the American Army occupation in Japan, the author begins with her childhood memories describing the postwar era of Japan -- how General Douglas MacArthur saved a doomed nation and reformed it to a democratic state. Being raised in a...

Don't let your wheelchair be an obstacle in your life. It doesn?t define who you are. After all, it?s only a means of transportation. Share my journey through life, as I have surpassed my hopes and dreams of living a normal and rewarding life.

Encounters from the Life of a Foreign Missionary“Would I take a bullet for Christ? Was I willing to lay my life down for my beliefs?” Those were questions to be answered by living most of those years in the politically unstable country of...

Author Melinda Worth Popham left home for Yale Divinity School at age fifty-six after a barrage of painful life events brought her to her knees and led to the discovery that pain is the Miracle Gro of spiritual growth.Grace Period recounts the spiritual...

<p>From the time she was a little girl, author Marion R. Shapiro had wanted to become a teacher. But that didn’t become a reality until after she spent twenty-nine years in the business world. In 1994, Shapiro was afforded the opportunity to...

Grow Where God Plants You tells the story of a man, born sixth out of eleven siblings in a family that lived in a remote mountain community in western North Carolina, who settled on education as his pathway to discovering the wider world. As Dale G...

Author Elvin C. Bell began life as the fifth of ten children in a migrant farm labor family. From a one-room cabin in a cotton camp to the White House, and everything in between, he’s lived a rich and colorful life. In A Life beyond Infinity, he...

Amusing, inspiring and touching. 50 YEARS OF RESUMES AND PASSPORT STAMPS shares Elizabeth Lydia Palmer’s journey through life. Go to work with her as her career in data processing follows the development of computers–from mechanical...

This book is meant to express the world and its challenges through a young person’s eyes. It is meant to highlight what we’ve lost throughout all we’ve added to our world and what that means for the young people meant to be the future...

In the unique work Six Eves Prevail through the Garden of Nutrition, six African-American nutrition professionals share their individual stories about becoming nutritionists and dietitians during the ‘60s and ‘70s. These professions have...

From the time he was a little boy, born the second of six siblings, D. L. Israel found his place as a leader. He was raised by a single mother on welfare and worked throughout high school to help his family. By the time he was in his midtwenties, he had...

<p> <b> <i> “I am what I am today , not because of, but in spite of, the past.” </i> </b> </p><p> For author Stephanie Harrington, that statement encapsulates a life story that she shares with you in...

Andreas Gruentzig performed the first coronary artery balloon angioplasty (plasty) in 1977. Shortly after that, Doug completed his medical education and training and determined to contribute to the field Gruentzig's work had spawned. In 1984, just as...

When Marsha Barrett is six years old, her mother dies of cancer. The youngest of three sisters in a Jewish family, she goes through a turbulent youth during the 1960s and 1970s, rebelling against her demanding and often absent father. Barrett depicts the...

This book is about John Williams's life,and how he faced the many challenges and obstacles throughout his life.Sometimes the choices he made thought out his life, were not always in his best interest, as he would usually find himself in a place where he...

Four-year-old 'Wolfi' Herminio is happily growing up in Berlin with his six-year-old brother Roni, his German mother Klara and his Spanish journalist father Pascasio. But on the day that Hitler invades Poland, a panicked Pascasio rushes home, burns all...

This book is an account of his personal journey from the dark and irrational abyss of a faith and excruciating customs towards a wide spectrum of humanistic values and reason. He performed an enchanting evaluation and assessment of his former faith...