Biography & autobiography / Personal Memoirs

The Leopard Hat: A Daughter's Story

by Valerie Steiker

In this tender loving memoir, Valerie Steiker evokes a magical childhood on the Upper East side of New York with a woman whose own losses led her to delight in family, beauty and life itself.

Valerie Steiker’s...

Return to the Big Fancy: A Riotous Descent Into the Depths of Customer, Corporate, and Coworker Hell

by Freeman Hall

Bigger, Fancier, and more cutthorat than ever!

When Freeman Hall left The Big Fancy to pursue his screenwriting dreams, he thought the horrors of working in a handbag department were finally over. But instead...

Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life

by Eileen Harrison & Carolyn Landon

A frank and powerful memoir of the life of an Aboriginal woman, from her early years on the Lake Tyers mission to discovery of her talent as a painter.

Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War

by Niromi de de Soyza

Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was...

Confessions of a Coffee Group Dropout

by Eleanor Black

A candid and engaging take on the struggle to come to terms with life as a new parent.

Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Life on the Farm

by Carol Altmann

A hobby farm south of Hobart sounds idyllic but author Carol Altmann discovers a tree-change is sometimes not all it is written up to be.

Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat

by James R. Mcdonough

A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'

"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced...

Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress

by Lee Woodruff

On the heels of her acclaimed book In an Instant, the #1 New York Times bestseller she wrote with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and with the same candor and charm, Lee Woodruff now chronicles...

Passion for the Park: A Leeds Education

by Stephen Wade

Passion for the Park is a celebration of the ordinary lover of the beautiful game, the dedicated lads who turn out week after week in the hope of beating another works or pub team. In Park Football the kit is...

Straight From The Force's Mouth: The Autobiography of Dave Prowse

by David Prowse

Everyone has heard of Darth Vader, the infamous Star Wars villain we all love to fear, created by George Lucas and brought to life by Dave Prowse MBE, but people may not be so familiar with the story of the...

Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

by Emily Prager

In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first...

Question

by Lee Hoyle

Lee Hoyle - philosopher, man on the street or genius? Perhaps after reading this book you will make your own mind up. Unedited from his original manuscripts, this eBook contains a large number of 'mini articles'...

Rudy: My Story

by Rudy Ruettiger

The inspirational real-life story of the man behind the beloved movie Rudy, his continued determination to make his dreams come true, and how you can dream big too.

How does a lower middle class kid, who suffered...

Dear Miss Landau

by James Christie

Every morning James Christie puts on a blue rugby shirt and jeans. His wardrobe is full of identical outfits. Every day he eats the same meal and drinks from the same mug. These are not ingrained habits, but...

Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family

by Patricia Volk

Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’re never just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never just full–you’re...

Out of the Canyon: A True Story of Loss and Love

by Art Daily & Allison Daily

On a crisp winter’s day in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, Art Daily suffered a terrible tragedy. While driving home with his family from a youth hockey game, a large boulder dislodged from the canyon wall and...

An Irish Country Childhood: A Bygone Age Remembered

by Marrie Walsh

This is the heart-warming story of Marrie Walsh, growing up in the 1930s and 40s as part of an idyllic community in the beautiful County Mayo, West Ireland. Her memoirs take the reader to a time and a way of...

The Package Deal: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom

by Izzy Rose

Meet Izzy Rose–a hilarious and chic new stepmom trying to come to terms with the package deal. A single “middle-class socialite” living in San Francisco, Izzy loved her career as a successful, Emmy Award-winning...

Lighting Up

by Susan Shapiro

In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new memoir, Lighting Up, she rejects five...

Twisted: A Minneapolis Tornado Memoir

by Marie Porter & Michael Porter

After a morning spent running errands for their new home, Marie and Michael Porter's lives were turned upside down -along with the lives of thousands of others. On the afternoon of May 22, 2011, North Minneapolis...