Memoirs Books

At its core, Freedom Warrior is a collection of stories or snapshots from childhood to motherhood that explore the author’s attempts at discovering freedom in situations when she felt trapped. Some of these snapshots explore why...

A biography of Dr. Kazem Fathie, written by Dr. Sanaati.  Dr. Fathie was born in Iran and emigrated  to the United States in 1956 to pursue neurosurgical training.  He practiced Neurosurgery in the United States for over 40 years...

Like Son is the autobiographical story of a runner looking for the meaning behind his compulsive running habit.  Through races, travel, coaching and explorations on foot that pushed the boundaries of what he thought possible for himself, the author...

The words of Bronx Rhapsody move to the beat of Maria Meli’s heart and the wrenching of her core. In her poems, one senses her relief and ecstasy for having been able to let go. This second-generation Sicilian American takes us on a long journey,...

The Human Behind the Controller is an autobiographical approach as to how the average Super Smash Bros. competitor lives in the world of esports. For nearly a decade, Kevin, or "iDK," has been dedicated to improving at this game, traveling...

I had $0.06  in my bank account and $5 in coins in my purse. As I sat in the car, the reality of this season of my life just hit me……homeless.I am homeless.​I looked at myself in the mirror and the conversation in my mind began...

Pearlita's story is one of a country girl rising from poverty and brutish conflictual forces, to become a successful entrepreneur, wife, mother and citizen. The reader gets deep insights into life in Trinidad in the middle of the 20th century, as Pearl...

In My Mother's Shadow is a reflection on a childhood overshadowed by a mentally ill parent, in a strictly Brethren home in 1960s―70s Dunedin, New Zealand. Not shared till now, Debby's story is one of loss, suffering, abuse and ultimately,...

Step into a farrier's boots and experience funny, thrilling, sad and unusual stories featuring a host of lively characters, both equine and human.Whether you're a true-blooded horse-person or are simply interested in people and their animals, you will...

  Frances was born in the Wairarapa, New Zealand, in 1948—a post-war baby-boomer. She was raised in Northland. Her varied careers have included bun-running, journalism, radio presentation and tour leading.Her dad always said she was of...

The experience of twenty-eight years of flying gave Patrick Harrington plenty to remember. Rather than 'disappearing in the ether' which, as he says, happens with many retired pilots, he explains how he began to be interested in flying, how he...

The Wild Side: Betrayal. Grief. Meth-addiction. Paranormal Activity. Redemption.There is hope for the addicts, the rebels, and the broken-hearted.Sitting in prison on a raft of charges including kidnapping, guns, drugs and counterfeiting was very...

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...

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...

A grieving mother searches for signs of an afterlife.Reba's daughter, Hannah, was a lively nine-year-old when she was diagnosed with brain cancer. The next three years were taken up with painful treatments, hopeful periods of remission, and the nightmare...

God's faithfulness was the constant that brought us through the difficulties and uncertainties . . .In 1959, a year into their marriage, Sharon Meisenheimer and her husband, Lester, experienced a steep learning curve when they moved with their...

No one at the library she worked at knew about Kristy Cooper's other job.On the surface, it seem that being a librarian and a stripper are polar opposite jobs, but in practice Kristy found that they were not nearly as different as most people would think...

In You Are Loved, artist Alex Cook intimately relates his creative and spiritual adventures in his quest to create beauty and know God. Anyone longing to bring their own precious vision into reality will find solace and inspiration in these very human...

The Raising of a Rebel is a heart-wrenching & heart-warming story of a young man who grew up as a product of the moonshine industry in the mountains of North Georgia. His Daddy was a moonshiner, and his Mom helped in the business as well.They were...

Should and Shouldn't. These two words have defined so much of my life. I'm guessing that's true for most people. This is my story of wrestling with the expectations that come with those two words. Letting Go of Should is part memoir, part leadership, and...

Maureen Spataro's smile was the one to light up every room. She was the parent running into the classroom with cupcakes, the friend who you could lean on, the "Team Mom" for her daughter's softball team. What no one knew, was behind...

After more than twenty years in the Secret Service, Ron Williams has a lot of stories. Five Point Star: My Life as a Secret Service Agent shares them, from his beginnings as a young man who came from a tough childhood to, as a federal agent, working the...