Memoirs Books

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...

On The Trail of Baden-Powell  Al Rose was born in Saskatoon Saskatchewan in 1929 at the start of the "dirty thirties" and the Great Depression.  His parents were essentially uneducated but his dad worked for the Federal...

Ten years after Big Alex MacDonald leaves his home in Ashdale, Nova Scotia, in the 1880's to find his fortune, he amasses fabulous wealth almost overnight in the Yukon and becomes known as "The Klondike King".  At his death a decade...

An ordinary task like grocery shopping becomes far from ordinary when there are warplanes roaring and diving overhead.  From 1942 to 1945 Madzy Brender à Brandis recorded what life was like for herself and her two small children in the...

In this truly inspiring memoir, Janet Hatch shares her compelling story of raising her strong-willed daughter who, at age eleven, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. From the beginning of her life, Zandra experienced being different as a result of...

A light-hearted romp through Tom's personal, work and family life, he looks at life through the funny-bone lens. This book comprises short stories and anecdotes, many of which include lessons learned. Because Tom spent almost 20 years in the Department...

Growing up as a Jewish teenager as the Nazi state pursued him through Croatia, Andrew Duic survived as a result of his own resourcefulness and adaptability, and the good judgement and courage of his parents. His trenchant observations of the Communist...

Picture a single domino wobbling in a sea of dominoes inside my mind. A traumatic event triggers an emotional reaction that knocks it over, crashing into two more dominoes. They each create two thoughts that trigger two more emotions that knock down two...

Isabelle has bought a bat in the market and she is trying to remember how her mother used to cook them. This poses a problem for the author, who is working in Madagascar to protect the same animals that Isabelle likes to eat. The adventures of thirty...

Although Gail was the instigator on going cruising, it was Henry who worked on her while sailing in the Caribbean to head into the Pacific.At a weak point, she agreed to go.When they left Canada's East Coast, telling family and friends that they would...

After a forty-year career in eldercare, Grace Sweatman has stories to tell! From receptionist to CEO and nearly every role in between, Grace has a truly rare perspective on this growing service industry. In this book, Grace shares some of those...

Une vie, un destin est l'histoire de Florence Bandu Emeneya, la dernière épouse de l'artiste musicien congolais, le feu Jean-Baptiste Emeneya Mubiala, avec qui elle a eu quatre enfants.   Elle relate sa vie, partant de sa...

Aminia grew up in a supportive family. At a young age, she fell in love with a man she believed was the man of her dreams. He courted her relentlessly, and she thought nothing could destroy their relationship; they'd be partners through thick and thin...

This critical edition of Princess Fatima Massaquoi's memoirs begins with her birth in southern Sierra Leone, continues through her childhood in Liberia, moves on to Hamburg, Germany, where she lived and experienced the rise of the Nazi movement, and ends...

This memoir explores the beginnings of a long and eventful life, tracing inner and outer journeys that began in England on April Fool's Day 1937. As a babe in her mother's arms, Gillian was soon travelling on the Orient Express to Istanbul just before...

"One ember glowing in the dark to spark 10,000 candle flames" . . . sometimes that's all it takes, the spark of a memory to illuminate a season. Bitter or sweet Christmas is perhaps the most evocative of all, especially when it brings with it 'four...

A man by the name of Sheldon Penner has a closet heaped high with skeletons that he's kept under lock and key for many years. Shame, would be a good word to describe how he feels now. It's much too late to change course, the damage has been done. His...

B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for...

Armed with “The Here List” and a Type-A personality, Seattle-based writer and cookbook author Jess Thomson sets out to spend a year exploring the food of the Pacific Northwest with her family. Planning to revel in the culinary riches of the...

Here is a young boy growing up in a poor third world country, but he is full of hopes and dreams to be very successful in the future. However, his life is full of uncertainty; he can either self-destruct or rule heaven and earth. Well, he chooses to live...

The Other Side of Horsemanship is a poignant look at the connection between horse trauma and human trauma and how it influences normalized harshness in horse training. Bitten by the horse bug at a young age, Shelby was an avid horse lover from the time...

CHRO IS MY NAME This book is in part autobiographical. It is interiorly non-fiction. It recounts events in my life, in my beloved country of Kurdistan and in countries where I have sought refuge. It retails my life's journey, my transition from a land of...

It is the REAL true journey of a devoted and passionate mother who embarks on the greatest epic and tragic crusade of her life to fight for the protection and future life of her only daughter. It inspired her to create! "It's kinda fun to do the...

"A great read, even for those who don't know anything about chess. Anyone can enjoy this deeply personal story about struggling with obsession and trying to find your way."Have you ever felt obsessed?In my early twenties, I felt lost-with school, with...

In Two Sides to a Face, Chelsey Peat shares her life story with a facial difference caused by Sturge Weber syndrome. Her memoir begins with early years marked by health challenges, brain surgery, and the curiosity of strangers. As she grows, curiosity...

The biography of Anishinaabe trans knowledge keeper, Mona Hardy, Lost Between The Cracks is the tale of resilience, determination, and the space between two cultures. Follow Mona from her childhood to the end of her life, from the remote forests of...