Memoirs Books

Born in 1937 in an era when sexual abuse was never spoken of again, Gloria couldn't understand why her sexuality made her stand out to predators like red berries against snow. It was not until mid-life, when she experienced a full-scale flashback to...

GIRL TO CITY follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitué to fledgling musician to cult singer-songwriter who caused a sensation with...

For most of her life, Christa Hernandez had no safe place . Brutally abused, sexually molested, ritually abused, mind controlled and constantly hopping from house to house as her life turned inside out over and over again, Christa grew up without knowing...

We live in a most challenging time. Many of us struggle, emotionally, ethically, and spiritually. We seem headed toward less compassion and consideration, failing to overcome that basic instinct that often leads to evil in human...

From a small Christian school in Oklahoma to the White House Situation Room to becoming the most feared polygraph operator in the country, Doug Williams said the words "YOU'RE LYING!" to thousands of people hooked up to his lie detector. People feared...

Travel on a journey of evolution from naiveté as a child in the Jim Crow South, to self-actualization at "the Door of No Return," on Goree Island, in Senegal, West Africa. Experience some of the travails of the lawyer as solo practitioner, the last of...

THU. APR. 10, 2008 - Better frame of mind than yesterday. Today, just confused. Could be aging process. Times when the mind is clear. Other times, it's a blur. Curious. Other thoughts. Wonder if I'm revealing too much in conversations? Thoughts unending...

Rachel Held Evans shares her experiences growing up in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Exploring everything from evolution to religious pluralism to heaven and hell, Evans challenges readers to separate faith from false...

Elisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographicalBest of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric LitA New York Times Editor's...

In CinderGirl, Christina Meredith shares the faith and determination that brought her from abuse and homelessness to being crowned Ms. California and helping other girls reach up from poverty to find their voice and purpose.

During the turbulent 1960s in Birmingham, Alabama, civil rights attorney Arthur Shores and his family came under repeated attacks by the KKK. Now for the first time, in The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill, Shores' daughters tell their story of a man...

MINUS 38 is a story of personal family tragedy mixed with the uncertainty of what actually happened. Grieving early parental loss and coping with the distress resulted in childhood trauma for each sibling and its challenges. The events that unfold...

Lorsqu'elle avait sept ans, en Tunisie, son père lui a impose le port du voile. Un mari violent a par la suite continue l'ouvrage de destruction d'une femme qui voulait vivre, et vivre libre.L'asile politique et l'immigration au Canada n'ont pas réussi...

<i>Italy Through the Rear-View Mirror</i> weaves together heart-warming and humorous stories focused on characteristic aspects of Italian culture-its traditions and rituals, its food, and of course its people and their engaging approach to...

As Kon Georgiou sits in his Supermax (HRMU) cell one night, he recalls the last two years prior to the shooting. He goes from a life of drugs, girls, partying, loyalty and brotherhood to a life behind bars in one of Australia's hardest prisons. This book...

This book has been a self-reflective journey of a medical doctor as an ordinary person going through ordinary life's ups and downs. In epistolary form, its articles were written during the special time of her first year of training to become a general...

This book contains the life story of a young man born in England in 1932, his many adventures in life as his restless spirit brought him to Canada at the age of 19, the many incidents and "near-death" experiences that made him wonder if there...

This a guide for surviving a brain injury, which are so prevalent today, by someone who has actually survived one. Brain injuries can be obtained by the simplest of means, such as driving, playing sports and even tripping while walking. This is not a...

"Stroke is a life-altering event. When Angie Collins-Burke suffered a devastating stroke that injured the right hemisphere of her brain at the age of forty-six, her life was suddenly changed forever. Once a registered nurse taking care of patients,...

At age 27, with a degree in Liberal Arts from Georgetown University, and without any scientific background, Bob Iversen decided to become a marine biologist by studying fisheries at the University of Hawaii. The U.S Navy had positioned him to do this by...

A personalized journal to store important information. This journal prompts for numerous items related to personal, family and business affairs. Store information including important contacts, instructions, routines, wishes, and so much more. This...

Pete Jordan, author of the wildly popular Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, is back with a memoir that tells the story of his love affair with Amsterdam, the city of bikes, all the while unfolding an unknown history of the...

"Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn't just tell the story of her family's brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and...

A new superstar appeared on the American sports landscape in the spring of 2006. Barbaro, a three-year-old racehorse, won the Kentucky Derby by the largest margin of victory in sixty years, stirring talk of a possible Triple Crown. But in the opening...

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...