Memoirs Books

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...

Leaving the Confederate Closet: A Southern Lesbian's Journey is a story of survival and persistence. It's a story of a woman, born in the South during the Great Depression to a poor family with deep Confederate roots and how she instinctively knew that...

It's the summer of 1973. Steve Williams, recently terminated Peace Corps Volunteer, is being treated for paranoid schizophrenia by his doctors in Iowa. But Steve knows that the real problem is evil Zar demons and only his Ethiopian lover Abebech can...

Breast cancer survivors have pink bands. Our troops, yellow ones. Healthy hearts and AIDS awareness is designated with red. White bands typically symbolize peace. Major awareness groups are easily recognizable by their respective colors, which is clearly...

Despite the smile on his face and confident facade, Ben hobbles through life a broken man, suffering from decades of pain and daily struggles with anxiety, panic, and depression. He plans a weekend getaway to Trakehner Inn for his wife birthday, but...

Short's Stories, Moose Dropping, is the fourth in a series recounting the author's life and travels. Ronan Short was born in London, England in 1940 and raised at the British National Institute for Medical Research, where his father was in charge of the...

Many people today live their lives trapped inside themselves. The streets became my refuge, as my home was caught up in the Jehovah's Witness dogma and became my hell. I was tried and convicted - as an adult for armed robbery and murder - at the age of...

A New York Times Notable Book - Lambda Literary Award Winner - Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award"Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age." -- Washington Blade"[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting."...

What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination...

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...

Visions of her Cherokee grandmother, Cordie flashed through Sarah's mind as her abusive husband brutally raped her repeatedly shortly after giving birth. He took what he wanted, leaving her bloody body to be filled with years of physical pain and...