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!
French Illusions
“A French fairy tale without the storybook ending.” Twenty-one-year-old Linda Kovic contracts to become a nanny for a wealthy family in France. To secure the position, she pretends to speak French, fully aware her deception will be discovered once she arrives at her destination. Linda’s memoir, based on her diary from 1979, details her challenges ... Read more
Breakfast for Alligators
A sharp-shooting SWAT team, a Venezuelan producer of love potions, and an audacious subway rat inhabit this work of “succulent travel writing” (Publishers Weekly) by an award-winning author. From surviving a journey in a homemade submarine off the coast of Honduras to receiving a lesson in aging from the street art of Valparaiso, Chile, Darrin ... Read more
Tears of the Silenced
When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish. For the next twelve years, my sister and I were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and severe physical violence. In my late teens, my parents feared we would escape and took us to an Amish community where we ... Read more
A Dark Journey Into The Light
Josef is lost in a secret world of sexual gratification, a true-life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, unable to halt the “roller coaster of conflicting emotional extremes that never stopped long enough for me to get off.” For sixty years, Josef lived a secret double life. The only people who knew about this other life were ... Read more
Biography Of Famous People: Alexander Hamilton
This book is a detailed tale of this actual material concerning the contentious person in the history of America: Alexander Hamilton. The adventure of Alexander Hamilton is an experience of adolescence denial and advancing struggle. Don’t miss it. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Three Kitties That Saved My Life
Love was then. Love is now. Love is forever. 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 love once again brought romance and laughter back into my life. FINALIST for the 2014 RONE AWARD. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Trading Places- Becoming My Mother’s Mother
Filled with touching and uplifting true stories, Trading Places: Becoming My Mother’s Mother is one woman’s memoir about the role reversal she experienced while caring for her ailing mother. This heartfelt look at the trials and tribulations of that decade offers powerful insight and encouragement for anyone entering into a similar period of life. Smith’s ... Read more
Ship the Kids on Ahead: Short Stories by Bill Stokes
We all have that one older funny family member. You know the one, he tells stories from his experiences and usually has people rolling in the eyes. Bill Stokes is that person! He presents a delightful collection of memories that are truly life lessons even today! Stokes, through his memories and wit provides opportunities to ... Read more
True Confessions of a Libertine
True Confessions of a Libertine is Creole Gaudet’s memoir. It is eight cleverly detailed vignettes filled with conflict, sex, eroticism, deceit, betrayal, and romance. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Tears of the Silenced
For 12 years my sister and I endured horrendous abuse. In my late teens, my parents feared we would escape and took us to an Amish community. I was devastated to once again find myself in a world of fear, animal cruelty and sexual abuse. Going to the police was forbidden. Based on a true ... Read more
American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal? Pablo Escobar or George HW Bush
Set in a world where crime and government coexist, AMERICAN MADE is the mind-twisting true story of CIA pilot Barry Seal that the Hollywood movie starring Tom Cruise is afraid to tell. Barry Seal flew cocaine and weapons worth billions of dollars into and out of America in the 1980s. After he became a government informant, ... Read more
My Heart in My Hands
They say we are each our own Devil… A harrowing coming of age tale that delves deep into one person’s psyche. From sickness to relationship ups and downs, broken hearts, true crime, court and custody battles and betrayal, this is a gripping and heart wrenching true story from start to finish. A must read for any teenager ... Read more
Moment of Surrender
When Pj suffers a back injury at work, it marks the start of a nightmare eleven-year journey through prescription drug addiction, withdrawal and recovery. Dysfunctional and at a loss on all levels, she battles to break free from her dependence and fights to retrieve her true self. “Moment of Surrender” is a brutally honest and ... Read more
Forgiveness Unforgettable
A true story of terror sexual abuse and extreme poverty in the horrific childhood of Nikki Lee Brannon. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
My Journey Through War and Peace
“My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker” is based on Melissa Burch’s experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she ... Read more
Free: My Journey Through War and Peace
“My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker” is based on Melissa Burch’s experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she ... Read more
Running from the Mirror
Shortly after his birth, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that consumed half his face, and his parents abandoned him at the hospital. With unflinching candor, he recounts the remarkable journey he took to overcome his tragic beginnings, going from a bullied outcast in foster care to a successful entrepreneur and family man. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Alzheimer’s Daughter
Alzheimer’s Daughter details a caregiver’s journey with both parents diagnosed on the same day. It is written with wincing honesty about the cruel affects of the disease, but a WWII love story held together by faith and family is contained within the pages. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Forgiveness Unforgettable
A true story of the horrific childhood of Nikki Lee Brannon. A tale of extreme poverty , domestic abuse and terror. $0.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
Dear Mom & Dad, I Have Anxiety
Ever wonder what’s really going on inside your child’s mind? Dear Mom & Dad, I Have Anxiety gives parents a glimpse of what it’s like to be a child struggling with anxiety. The book includes the author’s personal narrative as a child who grew up with anxiety, while also offering advice for parents about what ... Read more
Everything Will Be All Right
Everything Will Be All Right provides a moving memoir for any general lending library, telling of a child determined to free himself from his family’s long history of poverty. Abused by an alcoholic, unemployed father, the author and his seven siblings barely survived childhood – and was determined to make major changes in his own ... Read more
French Illusions
“A French fairy tale without the storybook ending.” It’s 1979 and twenty-one-year-old Linda Kovic needs to learn a language fast to fulfill her dream of becoming a flight attendant. She pretends to speak French and secures a job as a nanny for the Dubois family in the Loire Valley, confident she’ll be forgiven once she ... Read more
Burn Zones: Playing Life’s Bad Hands
Life was good for Jorge Newbery. A high school dropout and serial entrepreneur, he built a real estate empire of over 4,000 apartments across the USA. Taking risks and working tirelessly were the ingredients to his rise. But, he took one risk too many. An ice storm on Christmas Eve 2004 triggered his collapse. He ... Read more
Trading Places: Becoming My Mother’s Mother
Trading Places: Becoming My Mother’s Mother is a heartfelt look at the role reversal that often occurs when caring for an elderly parent. The stories are touching and share heartbreaking and comical moments. Trading Places helps caregivers face many challenges with the knowledge that they are not alone. These stories amuse, encourage, and uplift those ... Read more
Forgiveness Unforgettable
A true story of the horrific childhood of Nikki Lee Brannon. A tale of terror, domestic violence and survival. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Walking the Wild Side: The Life of a Sex Tourist
A candid look at a young man as his life unfolds while he holidays in Thailand between the years 1996-2002. He meets numerous characters along the way, developing his sexual awareness and becoming quite insane as the culture shock takes effect. A string of anecdotes in chronological order, both comical and thought provoking as the ... Read more
Dancing in Heaven – a sister’s memoir
Annie never outgrew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Her parents fed her, changed her clothes, and carried her in their arms from bed to chair and back every day of her life. Annie rewarded them with her smiles. Grote’s memoir of her sister Annie’s life and death is a story ... Read more
The Boy No One Loved: A Heartbreaking True Story
Justin was taken into care at the age of five after deliberately burning down his family home. Six years on, after 20 failed placements, Justin arrives at Casey’s home. Casey and her husband Mike are specialist foster carers. They practice a new style of foster care that focuses on modifying the behaviour of profoundly damaged ... Read more
Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs, and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway
“Peter Zheutlin has written a lovely, moving, important book about a subject that is both heartbreaking and joyful.” – Dean Koontz How far would you go to save a life? This is the extraordinary story of one man who has driven more than 1 million miles to rescue thousands of dogs from hunger, abuse and ... Read more
Memories Before and After the Sound of Music: An Autobiography
Agathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the Trapp Family Singers, offers readers the real story behind an American classic in her poignant and fascinating autobiography Memories Before and After The Sound of Music. The courageous family and events immortalized in the beloved Broadway musical and hit Hollywood film come vibrantly alive in these pages, ... Read more
Free: Alchemy of the Afterlife, A Memoir
This is a memoir of life AFTER death based on the author’s childhood as an orphan and her sometimes other-worldly experiences as a hospice nurse. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Out of the Shoebox
A fascinating journal that reads like a detective story, comes across as an imaginative quest into the past, yet is the true personal story of the writer, Yaron Reshef. An unexpected phone call hurls Reshef into an intensive two-year journey, during which he has to solve a mystery that took shape in the 1930s and ... Read more
It’s Not Your Journey
In her first published work, Rebecca Lombardo collects her internationally followed blog into the pages of It’s Not Your Journey. This memoir candidly details Rebecca’s two year long chronicle of her struggles with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, self-injury, and recovery from a suicide attempt. Rebecca shares her real and raw feelings on these subjects, as ... Read more
The Heart Sings: A Perfect Love
Scott Miller knows there’s something special about Maria Chavez the first time he sees her. A first kiss goes sour, but he gets a second chance when he takes her to the senior prom. Love isn’t in the cards—at least not yet—as they leave early in his 1972 Cutlass Supreme. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Oprah Queen of Media
Oprah Winfrey is an American icon. Her name and persona is known around the world. The story that has never been told until now, is how is made her billions. In this compelling biography, you will learn in detail how the “Queen of Media” triumphed over adversity and changed the world. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Forgiveness Unforgettable
A true story of the horrific childhood of Nikki Lee Brannon. A tale of survival faith and forgiveness. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Off My Rocker
From his early years as a radio DJ, music critic, and rock singer to his lengthy career as a concert promoter, Kenny Weissberg lived all his childhood dreams—some of which turned into nightmares. In Off My Rocker, he presents a rollicking backstage look at the joy and pain of a life devoted to music. Surrounded ... Read more
Running from the Mirror
Shortly after birth, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, lips, and lower eyelids, a tragedy made all the more horrific when his parents abandoned him at the hospital. As ward of New Jersey, he was placed under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face. With striking candor, Howard ... Read more
Light in Shadows
At the age of 12, Adam’s 40 year old mother left the family for her 20 year old ski instructor. With the divorce leaving his father emotionally absent. Adam’s life began to spiral downward. Living with friends and a surrogate family, he found himself threatened with a restraining order, kicked out of high school, living ... Read more
Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness
Winds of Skilak traces a young couple’s adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-tempered Skilak Lake. As the Wards adapt to a life without running water, electricity and telephones, the unforgiving, desolate environment tests their courage early on. Facing sub-freezing temperatures, unfriendly bears, and cabin fever, the Wards find ... Read more
