Biographies & Memoirs on Kindle
This specific subgenre of nonfiction writing delves into the deep personal details of specific individuals. Here, you’ll find autobiographies and memoirs of current celebrities and popular icons, as well as biographies about people both living and dead. Brush up on your history or learn more about the fascinating world around you in these tell-all true stories!
What A Body Remembers
Author Karen Stefano bravely illuminates the lasting impact of trauma in her new memoir ‘What A Body Remembers’ – An assault on Berkley campus that changed her life 30 years ago. Though traumatized by the assault, Karen Stefano went on to become a criminal defense lawyer. Her questions prompt a delayed obsession with her assailant: ... Read more
Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
Adrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager—until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers how much she wants to live. In Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, Andrea Wilson Woods chronicles her sister’s remarkable life from the time she was born ... Read more
Can U Love Me: A Memoir…A Tribute
“Can U Love Me” is a memoir about Nicholas “NinosCorner” Battle, a young black child growing up in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. A single-parent household, coupled with the “crack” epidemic, made life for this 80’s baby very challenging. The introduction of Hip-Hop gave him an outlet to cope with the struggles he faced within ... Read more
White Sheets to Brown Babies
The story of a girl raised by the Grand Dragon of the KKK and the neglect, abuse and poverty she had to overcome to eventually adopting a bi-racial baby. An intense and often raw look at a world most can’t imagine. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Perilous Play: The Real Fifty Shades
Want to know the real deal about kink and BDSM? You won’t find it in BS like “Daddy’s Little Milch Cow” or The Fifty Shades books. But you’ll find it in Perilous Play, Suz deMello’s memoir. Want to read the real Fifty Shades? $5.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Angels, Elephants and Ants
Jack Florentin is a successful entrepreneur and the son of Holocaust survivors. As co-founder and CEO of Sarah Lawrence S.A., he has introduced major fashion brands in Europe, while expanding his business exponentially. His story provides a rare glimpse into one man’s struggle to survive in a tumultuous business environment. Free on Kindle.... Read more
True Course: Lessons From a Life Aloft
From award-winning, best-selling author Brigid Johnson comes the tale of how one woman’s life in the sky forged an unforgettable destiny. Raised in a small factory town in the 1960s, when aviation was predominantly a male profession, with parents who didn’t support her ambitions, Brigid nevertheless learned to fly. Hers was a busy life of ... Read more
Forgiveness Unforgettable
A chilling tale of a southern raised musician whose horrific childhood caused her great pain and distrust. Nikki endured a life of extreme domestic violence fueled by alcoholism, sexual abuse, and poverty. Take a walk into this riveting, true story of terror, survival, faith, and finally forgiveness. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Woman In Scarlet
Told with exuberance, humor and astonishing honesty, Woman In Scarlet, is a thrilling police car ride-along, as well as a deeply personal and courageous view of one woman’s evolution from a fledgling cadet to a respected trailblazer for social and political change. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Ride the White Horse: A Checkered Jockey’s Story of Racing, Rage and Redemption
An electric jockey with a juice machine, he rode on racing’s undercard, lived inside its underbelly and became a part of its underworld. From constant bulimia, broken bones and betrayal of Boston’s infamous Winter Hill Gang, he depicts an unseen side of Thoroughbred racing. Yet the five tons of his sweat that disappeared down “hot ... Read more
Free: Pablo Escobar’s Story 2: Narcos at War
Pablo Escobar was a mama’s boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution. Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed 1000-page book reveals everything about the king of cocaine. Mostly translated ... Read more
About Black Women, My Grandmother Told Me
Having lived with his grandparents and uncles will delve his inborn wisdom and the sense of humanity’s protection in priority. In this title “About Black Women, My Grandmother Told Me: Worthy Advice for Future Generations” the author unrolls his literary style as deep, derider and sober. He practices somehow the accuracy of words that he ... Read more
The Path of Leashed Resistance: The Buddy System
This book is a hilarious and heartwarming look into the life of a remarkable family that fell into canine rescue completely by accident, but now lives to protect and care for their dogs absolutely on purpose. An awe-inspiring read for anyone who loves dogs! When Robert and Beth Hading-Yostlot rescued Buddy Lee, they had no ... Read more
Free: Me and The Japanese beauty standards
“It’s terrific as a combination of autobiography and professional wisdom. I appreciate your emphasis on helping people avoid a “one size fits all” mentality. As you agree, human dignity is based on one person living one’s own life. No other standard is possible, and to try to live otherwise always leads to disaster. About the ... Read more
My Courage to Tell
My Courage to Tell is the story of one woman’s struggle to overcome a childhood of abuse at the hands of her cruel, bullying brother. Memories of this abuse remain deeply buried until an Aunt dies in Manhattan, leaving an estate Laura Corbeth must settle with her estranged brother. As she tries to administer the ... Read more
The Three Kitties That Saved MY Life
“This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.” When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet ... Read more
Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad
The Amazon Best seller and #1 on Amazon Hot New Releases Chart for Children’s Autism Category. This Five Star book was written by the hand of someone who has Autism. $1.24 on Kindle.... Read more
Smuggler
2019 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner follows a group of Americans into the heroin trade. When twenty-something post-grad Nick Fillmore discovers the zine he’s been recruited to edit is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling conspiracy and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ... Read more
Finishing Off the Bottle: A Memoir of Addiction and Self-Discovery
For Bruce, alcohol was the solution to every problem. From stress and anxiety to real loss, booze was his magic elixir that made it all disappear. But the constant blackout nights brought with them even more trouble. Despite the perpetual cycle of drunken mistakes and continued escalation in drinking, he found new ways to rationalize ... Read more
Free: The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward: A Workplace Memoir
Follow the wryly-told embattled adventures of a socially isolated, non-conforming union leader as she battles toxic management and co-worker idiocy in a well-meaning Social Services office. Chock-full of insights, foul language and The Five Stages of Grief, The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward is relatable to any and everyone who has ... Read more
Free: 90 Days to Live
When an out-of-the-blue cancer diagnosis quickly turned into a 90-days-to-live death sentence from his doctor, Rodney Stamps and his wife Paige defied the medical establishment and drew their line in the sand. With both a growing family and business–and given that their doctors promised only to briefly extend his life with chemotherapy–the Stamps gave a ... Read more
Free: A Hero’s Heart
A Hero’s Heart is a true story of victory, captivatingly told for the first time, from the survivor herself. It is a story of brutality, cruelty, and loss. It is a story of demons, heartache, and agony. It is a story of love, joy, and abundance. And lastly, it is a memoir told with fervor ... Read more
Free: Fractured Grace: How to Create Beauty, Peace and Healing for Yourself and the World
Fractured Grace is a prescription for individual and collective healing—a resounding call for wholeness in today’s escalating state of chaos, separation and fear. With a unique and intimate journey into the author’s own healing process, from an early childhood Near-Death Experience to a freak accident with several broken bones, you are invited to step outside ... Read more
Waking up Cattywampus: Memoir of a Transplanted Southerner
This inspiring new memoir examines a life well lived. Joyful and heartbreaking in turns, Cattywampus details the search for self – and provides a roadmap in seven delightful appendices. The search for meaning is a life-long quest and never straightforward. We are all born “cattywampus.” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Devil In The Wind
Devil In The Wind is an account of catastrophic fire and its immediate aftermath. In February 2009, wildfires burnt through entire communities, taking 173 lives and injuring hundreds, while destroying thousands of houses and other buildings. Up to 400 fires destroyed 450,000 hectares of forest, native fauna and habitat, livestock and farmland. In the aftermath ... Read more
Free: That’s Why You’re Here
A journey from grief to metaphysical awareness. A desire to improve her intuition took the author down an unexpected path. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: So Big the Land
As a tender young townie in the revolutionary sixties, Sue steps away from all that is familiar to spend her life with a man she has known for three weeks. With little prelude she is thrown into the deep end of a gritty farming life in a man’s world. A life of hard work on ... Read more
The Light in His Soul: Lessons from My Brother’s Schizophrenia
Call Richmond, Jr. went missing. Twenty years later he showed up on a family member’s doorstep: homeless, broken, and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For the next 14 years, his sister Rebecca took on the struggle to restore him as they faced the dark traumas and painful memories of their past together. Rebecca Schaper has written ... Read more
Ghetto is a College
The first edition story of a young man who changed his life from the streets to becoming among young respected entrepreneurs in Kenya. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Fake Papers: Survival Lessons from Grandma’s Escape
Fake Papers is a real-life escape story about a Holocaust survivor, who passes on survival lessons to her grandson, a documentary filmmaker working in war zones like Afghanistan. Free on Kindle... Read more
Free: My Name Is Bacci Bogie Frequent Flyer Extraordinaire
“My Name Is Bacci Bogie Frequent Flyer Extraordinaire”…written with love and tears about a 4-pound adorable Maltese. His human-like antics drew people to him where ever he went. People stood in line for his autograph as he performed funny tricks. Bacci traveled over 500,000 air miles as my ‘jet pet’ experiencing life in a very ... Read more
The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic
In the birthplace of the Taliban, some men lose their lives, some lose their sanity, and others their humanity. They are the Hooligans. A group of soldiers was deployed with a mission to train and advise the Afghan National Police and help rebuild the country of Afghanistan, discover how they survived the war-torn city of ... Read more
Woman In Scarlet
An inspirational memoir of one woman’s 28-year journey from aspirations of becoming one of the first female officers within the fabled Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to overcoming the harsh realities of discrimination, injustice and personal violation. Told with exuberance, humor and astonishing honesty, Woman In Scarlet, is a thrilling police car ride-along. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Desde el exilio: A Collection of Poems from the Exile
From the Exile was born as a poetic memoir to describe the experience of being born in Venezuela in 1988 to the publication of this poem collection in 2019. This period entitles the last years of the Venezuelan democracy, already bruised by the discontent caused by the different political parties in the country before the ... Read more
Precious Silver Chopsticks
The book is about Mae Adams, the narrator, who was born in Korea in 1933 as the second daughter and abandoned by her mother for she was not a son. In the Korean family system of that time, the first-born son was a blessing as he inherited the family fortune and was responsible for the ... Read more
The Results of a Failed Abortion: A Collection of Poems
The Result of a Failed Abortion is an autobiographical collection of poems by Shaun O. Smith. Dealing with issues from sexual and mental abuse to living with depression and anxiety, Shaun openly discusses the pain that has kept his mind captive most of his life. Freeing himself from these struggles, he hopes to either speak ... Read more
Final Flight Final Fight: My grandmother, the WASP, and Arlington National Cemetery
When Arlington National Cemetery refused to accept my grandmother’s last request to be laid to rest there, I refused to let her legacy as a veteran die along with her. My grandmother, Elaine Danforth Harmon, flew as a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II. Despite being part of the ... Read more
Lately Lesbian
Good Southern girls follow the rules and walk down predictable paths. Jenna predictably married Paul and believed in happily ever after. Although Jenna played by all the rules, she had no idea the tragic turns that her life would take. She needed the support of her husband, his shoulder to cry on, and strong arms ... Read more
Free: Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind
In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn’t right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the mystery of mental illness. Experience the fascinating and flawed treatment process, and learn the secret ... Read more
Beneath The Muscle: Unleash Your Inner Champion
World-renowned fitness celebrity Lauren Powers rose above debilitating addiction and became a bodybuilding champion at an age when most contenders retire. With multiple titles and film roles under her belt, Powers is living proof that you can turn your true passions into reality. Beneath the Muscle is your inspirational handbook to letting your true talents ... Read more
