Biography Memoir category: 96853 books

Brave, a Memoir of Overcoming Shyness the first major memoir about shyness, takes the reader on a complete journey, from early life and overwhelming, inexplicable shyness to later years of gradual comprehension, social

Have you ever been haunted by the slightest wisp of a memory? Seen shadowy, familiar figures hover then evaporate at the back door of your mind? Nothing Vanishes, Memoir of a Life Transformed offer an intimate family history in which the question persists: Am I Enough?This debut memoir presents...

WARNING: Explicit violence and sexual situations.Amazon Review sample:This book is like some kind of sharpened nightmare, filled with giddy turns, the outcome of each impossible for a reading mind to predict, yet its violent grip morphs into some kind of lulling, hopeful embrace.World's...

Author Jean Rikhoffs life often reads as if it were fiction instead of an actual catalog of facts. Shes had no interest in settling down into what would be described as a normal life. In this memoir, she recaps her lifes out-of-the ordinary adventures against the backdrop of water, earth, fire, and...

Our families and communities serve as the threshold we cross into our lives. Whether it’s a metaphorical threshold or the actual physical threshold that marks our front door, the crossing informs who we choose to become. This memoir is a series of twenty stories about one ordinary American family’s...

Man on the Move is the story of a man, Larry French, born in Northern Ontario (thus his fondness for winter and its gift of snow), whose career in education took him from Northern Ontario to Kingston, Paris, Copenhagen, Latin America and Queen's Park in Toronto. There a Cabinet Minister called him...

The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored. In her harrowing, defiant, and unforgettable...

“There are few books that explore the complex relations between famous parents and their children. I knew Claudio and his Nobel-laureate father, Emilio Segrè; in this honest, angry, loving memoir I hear their voices again, speaking across the gulf that all families struggle to bridge.” — **Richard...

The revealing memoir of one of Israeli's most respected statesmen. Moshe Arens is one of the last surviving members of the founding generation of Israelis. He is a political insider who has worked with every Israeli prime minister from Menachem Begin to Benjamin Netanyahu, serving in a variety...

I wrote this memoir because many of my colleagues suggested, while I was working for Lao and Hmong communities inside and outside Laos for decades, that I should tell the young generations what happened and why some five hundred thousand Lao citizens became refugees and immigrated to Western countries....

“More than a memoir—this book is a promise of hope for anyone who was abandoned as a child, to anyone who woke up hungry and went to bed hungrier every day, for every wife who has loved a husband who left bruises on her heart and on her body.” Somewhere between stealing cold cuts from...

Blessings of Failure is a memoir of a physician – a child of communism where failure was guaranteed. She receives the Romanian secret police files about her father, code-named “The Prophet.” Stunning revelations by these documents reframe the daughter’s self-understanding.The story moves from...

House of Blue: Luminosity Beyond the ShadowsA Memoir is US writer Paige Millars relevant debut memoir chronicling her lifelong battle with major depression and the hurdles she jumps over to live symbiotically with the harrowing disease. Millar connects her depression to hormones in disarray and to...

A Finalist in the Memoir Category for the 2017 Indie Excellence Book Awards A Finalist in the Autobiography/Memoir Category in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Carol D. Marsh founded, directed, and lived at Miriam’s House, a Washington, DC, residence for homeless women living...