Memoirs Books

Where has the personal diary goneand what forms has it takenin the digital age? From the diary spaces of reality television and the how-to diary and its audience of self-helpers, in the emerging genre of the graphic diary or the online diaries of sex...

B-Day, as it came to be known, finally arrived. It was a Friday. A school day. I identified with Cinderella as I watched Dad get ready for work. Holster, check. Gun, check. Billy club, check. Handcuffs, check. . . . Saturday morning I got up early. Dad...

Conjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Violet Hilton, English twins born in 1908, speak for...

Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head. Over a dizzying two decades, he was many things teenage faith healer,...

Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half sister had endured dehumanizing conditions during World War II, as slave laborers in Siberia. War and exile created a...

States of Desire Revisited looks back from the twenty-first century at a pivotal moment in the late 1970s: Gay Liberation was a new and flourishing movement of creative culture, political activism, and sexual freedom, just before the 1980s devastation of...

Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime...

This story is about my family's experience on government benefits and other programs of the government. Do you believe government benefits and programs work for you? The answer may shock you. This book tells my family's stories and similar stories that...

Born to hustle: actor, motivator, writer, personal development speaker. My goal for this book is to inspire someone to do something great with their own life. We all go through trials and tribulations with things that happen to us. But with God we will...

As a registered nurse with over seventeen years of experience, I thought it was time to lighten the ever-increasing seriousness of the world and share my personal experiences and shenanigans traveling as a nurse. My daily situations are told to you the...

Joseph Emil Dumański was born on Nov 26, 1921, in Trybuchowce, Buczacz Township, Tarnopol Region. Just prior to the start of the Second World War, he began studies in the Pedagogical Institute in Stanisławów. He was a Boy Scout and...

After years of physical problems Deborah was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's Disease, at age 51. The following year she finds love in the form of Dan, a semi-retired researcher. This memoir documents the loving relationship of Deb and Dan, a pair...

Without saying a word to anyone I staggered to my feet, and with little to no energy left, I started my long solo walk home through the thick jungle. Stumbling through the tall dry grass trails I fell often, I swayed back and forth as the fever set in...

This is the first book of a trilogy. Each book will be a collection of short stories about: boats, cultures, blue-water cruising, some history and my thoughts.The dream was to single-hand a Vancouver 27 sailboat, Pleione, to Australia and then go diving...

Richard Kiers is a survivor of a mind controlling cult referred to as "The Move", founded by Sam Fife, in the 1960's, this repressive cult grew to hold approximately 44,000 members at its peak.Richard tells his story in a unique style,...

How has one man's life mission to make an unjust thing right - save North Dakota's native horses - changed history?Growing up in small-town North Dakota, Frank Kuntz led a typical, country life with lots of brothers and sisters, hard-working...

An accomplished former ghostwriter and book researcher who worked with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton goes behind-the-scenes of the national's capital to tell the story of how she survived the exciting, but self-important...

The shockingly honest, gripping autobiography of Loose Women's Denise Welch.

The third bestselling volume of memoirs from John Simpson.

This book is about my experiences growing up in Jamaica and some life challenges aafter migrating to Canada at 11 years old, along with my three other siblings, in hope of finding a better life in a foreign country and to reunite with my father. Little...

It seems paradoxical that a desert wilderness is an ideal environment for growth. Most of us want to grow in palaces and gardens, not in parched land. We want the mountaintop without the climb and the glory without the sacrifice. We assume spiritual...

This book is about a Canadian airman service during the length of the Cold War, the many family moves occasioned by postings and missions, and the resulting engagements on retirement. It's a book about military life, and afterwards, filled with exiting...

The fame of the river Nahanni is today spread throughout the world and it draws many adventurous souls. The author first heard this name a long time ago, still in his birth country of Czech Republic. Yet, in variation to practically all the visitors who...

A true story documenting the struggles of a father trying to parent responsibly despite the challenges of a difficult ex-partner, and the inflexibility of a family law system the gears of which never stop grinding. From some of the lowest times in his...

When the Creator calls, you listen. When archangels poke you, you feel it. When the world needs help, you answer the call. When demons hold you back, you must fight, even if those demons are the ones you love the most. You are not alone, by no means. If...

"From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a ... story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of...

From the founder of This Gathered Nest YouTube channel, an uplifting story of Angela Braniff's unusual path to becoming the mother to seven children through various methods of adoption and biological approaches, encouraging women and mothers to embrace...

"La vida de Rosie Mercado ha sido todo menos fâacil: Åcâomo es posible que haya tenido tres relaciones fallidas y dado a luz a tres hijos a solas? ÅQuâe habâia hecho ella para merecerlo? En su peor momento, llegâo a pesar mâas de ciento ochenta kilos...

"From the youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor comes an extraordinary inspirational memoir that will change the life of every reader. Moving and unforgettable, You Are Worth It is an astonishing memoir from an extraordinary young...

"A marvelous storyteller."--The New Yorker

A collection of African proverbs that illuminate the secret to peace and joy--Provided by publisher.

In this memoir, Ainsley Earhardt offers inspirational memoir on her career, faith, and family.

"[A] powerful, incredible read"--Good Morning America

"A textbook for would-be sports commentators and a pleasure for fans."--Kirkus Reviews

"Reading Kelly Sundberg's writing--fresh, luminous, spirited--is a pleasure second only to witnessing her decision to survive. Goodbye Sweet Girl is a meditation on what it takes to save your own life." --Ariel Levy

"A smart, energetic, determined woman, someone who is always shooting for greater success and who really hates it when she fails at something. A revealing and timely portrait of a professional writer and the industry in which she works." --Booklist

"A brilliant book that elegantly combines personal narrative with insights into the underlying science." --V.S. Ramachandran, author of The Tell-Tale Brain and Phantoms in the Brain

"A raunchy memoir revealing a visceral connection to the Bard."--Kirkus Reviews

"Rescuing Penny Jane is at once a compelling memoir and an insightful exploration of shelter dogs in our society; as Amy Sutherland welcomes us into her extended dog family, she reveals much about the souls of both dogs and people. This is an inspiring...

The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery, and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation.Actress and activist Maria Bello made...

"...[Gettleman] takes readers... into the most terrifying and beguiling continent in the world....Gettleman is a rare combination of dogged reporter and very fine writer...I kept catching myself wondering whether it was too late to go back and lead his...