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!
Free: Amelia’s Story
This is a powerful true story of one young girls struggle to survive the state-care-system in the 70’s and 80’s. Amelia has just one wish, to make it to adulthood, to hold her destiny in her own hands. This is a harrowing true story, one of survival and human strength. Amelia has been tragically separated ... Read more
Free: Once I was a Teenager
In parts funny and nostalgic, this book about being a teenager in the 60s, brings back the food, fads, fashions, music of growing up in Australia. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed ... Read more
Wounds of the Father: A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption
In the bestselling tradition of Smashed and Glass Castle, this raw, eye-opening memoir tells the powerful story of Elizabeth Garrison’s fractured childhood, descent into teenage drug addiction, and struggle to overcome nearly insurmountable odds. Elizabeth invites the reader behind the closed doors of a picture-perfect Christian family to reveal a dark, hidden world of child ... Read more
Free: “How Many Planes to Get Me?”
The is the true story of a family who adopted children of various nationalities. When thwarted from adopting an abandoned baby boy in Romania, Jonquil found two baby girls languishing in an orphanage. The mothers agreed to the adoption, but the courts accused her of wanting children for slave labor on the family’s kiwifruit orchard, ... Read more
Free: “I’m Just Sitting on a Fence”
I’m Just Sitting on a Fence chronicles Dax Flame’s travels in India, Hollywood, Rome, Mexico, San Francisco, and the Grand Canyon, where he volunteers at an orphanage, auditions with a movie star, falls in love, kills a fish, goes through a nervous breakdown, and has an epiphany-inducing near-death experience. It is Dax Flame’s debut memoir. ... Read more
Out of the Cage
Many people’s minds live in cages. People are limited to what they will accept and are stuck in their way of thinking. Seeing what I’ve seen and overcoming all that I’ve overcome has allowed me to be more open minded and look at life from different angles. To be “Out of the Cage” means to ... Read more
Free: “25 Years in the Rearview Mirror”
What were you doing 25 years ago? Where would you like to be 25 years from now? This collection of lively essays will get you thinking about your past and future and inspire you to make the small steps that will take you down the right path. Fifty-two authors give a sneak peek into their ... Read more
Contact
In “Contact” the author recounts his experiences of two tours in Northern Ireland (in Belfast and Crossmaglen) as a Commander with Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment during the blood soaked 1970’s. Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan comment on how relevant the book still is today, as the dangers, political agendas and religious roots underlying the conflict are eerily and ... Read more
My Other Ex
An anthology of 35 true stories of friendship breakups and friendship loss written by female writers. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Double Happiness
An award-winning memoir of a journey across China and through the soul of a young American, Double Happiness not only paints a fascinating portrait of life in the Middle Kingdom but recounts a groundbreaking story of coming of age in today’s era of globalization. Tony Brasunas’s rugged road brings daunting perils, unexpected romance, and wild ... Read more
A Garland for Ashes
When little Hannelore (Hanna) Zack left Cologne, Germany, on a train bound for London as a seven-year-old Mädchen (young girl) on July 24, 1939, she had no way of knowing that she was part of the Kindertransport, an epic rescue effort that would save 10,000 Jewish children from Hitler’s Nazi regime by granting them safe ... Read more
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B005IQZB14″ desc=”0″ locale=”com”] At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by ... Read more
A Life Stolen: My Father’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s
Sometimes you just need to feel like you’re not alone. To everyone caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, A Life Stolen, as told by someone on the front line, provides invaluable guidance and insight to hopefully make the road an easier one to travel. Learn more.... Read more
Memoirs of a Starving Artist
What if you risked everything to follow your dreams… and they didn’t quite come true? Would you regret having tried at all? How about if those choices led to a life full of freedom and adventure? This is the story of one man whose 25 years as a struggling writer meant learning to accept near ... Read more
Kill Daddy
Trauma from the past becomes a part of who you are. It weighs down on the present, suffocating life and preventing you from healing and moving on. If you continue to carry this baggage around long enough, you will eventually become who you are not. Believe in the essential goodness of your true self, however, ... Read more
Pony Tales
Pony Tales is based on the true life adventures of Peta, a young woman trying to establish a riding school in the wilds of Canada. Read about her escapades and those of her students as they battle their way through eccentric characters, poverty, and the treachery of those mothers willing to do anything to win! ... Read more
Autobiography of Charles R. Barefoot Jr.
Charles R. Barefoot Jr. the World Imperial Wizard for The Church of the Nation’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had everything, fame, wealth, good friends and a great marriage. Then one day things began to fall apart. This first episode tell how all his troubles began, as well as giving insight into his childhood ... Read more
Home
This book is in tribute to my father. It brings into focus all the longing we have for an ideal place, the home of our childhood. The idea for it came to me during the mourning period for his passing: This is the place where he put pen to paper… But clung to the wall, ... Read more
Funny Things Happen When you Work for a Mouse
After years of telling the stories of my experiences while working at Disneyland to friends, family members, co-workers, or anyone that would sit still long enough to hear them, I decided to write them down for posterity. In addition to my stories, I was able to dig up many photos to enhance the true tales, ... Read more
The Life and prayers of Saint Jude the Apostle
One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Jude the Apostle is an essential book for any Christian. The Life and Prayers of Saint Jude the Apostle is the tenth book in this wonderful series. Also known as Saint Jude Thaddeous, Saint Jude is known as the most powerful Patron ... Read more
It Rains in February: a Wife’s Memoir of Love and Loss
On the 24th of February 2007 my husband, Stuart, drowned himself at sea, leaving me widowed with two young daughters aged six and four. I knew it wasn’t an accident, even though the medics and police never suspected suicide. Stuart had been talking about ending his life for a year. His most recent suicide attempt ... Read more
The Life and Prayers of Saint Paul the Apostle
The Life and Prayers of Saint Paul the Apostle is the ninth book in this wonderful series. One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Paul the Apostle is an essential book for any Christian. It is through the ardent work of Paul that we know the path to Salvation, ... Read more
Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir
“As I walked up the giant stairs, the hallway seemed to get brighter and brighter. I emerged onto the balcony. The sunlight was so blinding to my eyes that had been locked closed from insanity and pain or the weight of the Seroquel that I did not take in the whole scene at first. I ... Read more
What Doesn’t Kill You
I was sent away. I was scared. I was eight years old. ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ is a sometimes sad, sometimes horrific and sometimes humorous account of my first year at boarding school beginning in September 1971. In the days before the abolishment of corporal punishment, this expensive school found many opportunities to wield slippers, ... Read more
