Memoirs Books

The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy legend Richard PryorRain Pryor was born in the idealistic, free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a tribe of rainbow children, and her father was Richard Pryor,...

Do you have sexually humiliating stories where you would rather die in a horrific way than share? You know, the ones that would make your parents immediately disown you or wish they had used contraceptives. Well, Liam has dozens. And he spills ALL of his...

Let's use our wounds to show others a way through their pain, to give them hope, to help them find strength and perseverance. Debbie allows the reader to see into her lifetime of abuse. She shows how she slowly let go of anger, sadness, grief and trauma,...

This is a story of a person who experienced an extraordinary life during and after the Second World War. He was a Displaced Person (DP) who came to Australia, the promised land, from Germany by the famous USAT General Stuart Heintzelman the first migrant...

The nuisance of On-Line dating, recounts the experiences of a well-travelled woman delving into the game of love and coming out a little wiser, knowing that sometimes taking risks ends up making you stronger. Her career has taken her too many parts of...

Dave Hart was born in LaSalle in southern Ontario in 1935 and moved to the lake country of northern Ontario when he was 10 years old. He was a guide at his parents new tourist lodge and was educated through correspondence courses. He did three years of...

Beyond the Castle provides entertaining and enlightening stories from a Disney insider's three-decade career. This look behind the castle doors offers playful and practical principles that will guide readers on the path to their own "happily ever after."

In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro's rule of their Cuban homeland, the González family--an auto mechanic, his wife, and two young children--landed in Miami with a few personal possessions and two bottles of Cuban rum. As his...

Awakening Memory is a practical, encouraging guide to exploring your life experiences and expressing these in your own voice through memoir writing. Based on workshops for non-professional writers led by the author, this book will inspire you to start...

This is a personal account of how Warren Lemon pursued his calling through turmoil and success, and the impactful guidance of others. In July of 1963, at the age of 19, he left the familiar surroundings of Chipman, New Brunswick, to go west to Ontario...

"Faith, Love and Family" takes a look into the life of William Bonds Moore's life as a child and throughout his adulthood, showing some of the struggles he faced while experiencing public recognition, love and heartbreak throughout his 79 years of life...

"It has a hopeless millennial vibe. We're all so lost and clueless that it's comical. Super relatable."- Shae, close friend and fellow adventurer"This book gives you the opportunity to see life and adventures through Kristi's optimistic and jovial lens...

Why is this book entitled Travels and Travails? Through the stories I hope to amuse and inform the reader against a background of experiences and thoughts recounting my travels.  Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, some show anger, and some...

As you read, you will feel like you are part of the story, right there with us in the logging camp up north. Playing "chicken" on the streets of our small home town of Cadogan; or on a road trip taking you through several states and provinces,...

It's been said that we cannot choose our family members, but what do you do when the drama they bring becomes more than you want to deal with? You hop on the train that will take you to the land of promise, an alluring place across the mountains,...

Like Proof of Heaven and To Heaven and Back, a medical drama with heavenly implications in which a woman receives premonitions of her death that come true, and her discovery of the heavenly help available to all of us.When she was pregnant with her...

One of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and times in this vividly atmospheric and visceral memoir that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a...

A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite...

Follow me through memories of an adventurous, cringe-worthy and often hilarious life beginning in NZ, travelling half the globe. At 94 years old, I think it's time that I share these stories that will give you hours of entertainment.

"A monster's worst fear is being found."-Richelle GoodrichWe teach our children not to fear the monsters under the bed. They are not real. What if you are given to the monsters willingly, instead of protected? How do you battle? Travel through this...

Two months before her wedding, the unthinkable happens. Katie, a busy twenty-six-year-old marketing consultant, becomes paralyzed on the left side of her body from a migraine. Uncertain about her future, including being able to walk down the aisle at her...

When two childhood friends die of cancer six weeks apart, the shared experience of loss brings the surviving spouses together. Told from alternating points of view, The Color of Rain by Michael and Gina Spehn is a remarkable real-life Brady Bunch story...

One March morning, writer Floyd Skloot was inexplicably struck by an attack of unrelenting vertigo that ended 138 days later as suddenly as it had begun. With body and world askew, everything familiar had transformed. Nothing was ever still. Revertigo is...