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!
An Officer’s Journey
This is a story of one junior officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and how he came of age during a two-year tour of duty, one at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and one in Vietnam. Most Vietnam books are about the policy debacles or about the nitty-gritty of combat. This one is different. This ... Read more
Kyrie Eleison
Expect the unexpected in this intense life story about one artists harrowing journey to seek a safe lifestyle while along her tumultuous life’s path. M. Martin’s artwork is displayed in each chapter.. A survivor of sexual assaults; nothing deters her spirit to be creative as the destined sculptress that she becomes. $9.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: That’s Why You’re Here
How does a once harried soccer mom, who managed a 25 year State career, get flung out of her wheelhouse to become a Tarot reader and an author? For Erin Burrell, that life-altering moment began with a jarring knock at the door. A solemn detective delivered the news that a loved one had died. The ... Read more
Unlock Bliss: A Memoir Of Getting Happier
An inspiring memoir of a cancer survivor, who began competing in triathlon and surfing waves in his sixties, demonstrating that age doesn’t matter! $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Forever Haze of After: My Story of Resilience, Strength, and Companionship While Navigating My Afters
Every person has experienced a moment that changed them forever. Whether it was positive or negative, when it happened, you were never the same as you were just one second before. The Forever Haze of After is the realm you enter after that moment. Hilary Marsh takes readers on a journey through her life-changing moments—the ... Read more
The (un)Lucky Sperm
The (un)Lucky Sperm is a funny memoir—a collection of honest, harrowing, and absurd accounts. If you like stories full of sarcasm and observational humor, then you are going to love this book. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
KING OF X
The True Story of an Ecstasy Empire. One man’s crazy journey through the underground drug world. $9.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Tall
“This is the real tall girl triumph. Indeed, it’s an everygirl triumph.” (Catherine Moore, author of Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht). After a failed engagement and another serious boyfriend, she meets the man of her dreams, who is two inches shorter. She marries him anyway. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Hollywood Hollyweird – How People Survive And Make It!
Hello Everyone! First I would like to say that I am African-American & my book “Hollywood: Hollyweird How People Survive And Make It!” is about my nearly Decade stay in good ‘ole HOLLYWOOD, CA!! There as a bodyguard that got to network in & around such Celebrities as Paris Hilton, Chris Rock & Oscar-winner Jamie ... Read more
Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles
A quiz sparked Rivvy Neshama’s decision to live a different kind of life — and in this unique memoir, she shares the encounters that taught her how. “Written in the spirit of Elizabeth Gilbert or Anne Lamott, Neshama’s stories (and a few miracles) are uplifting, witty, and wise.” (Publishers Weekly) $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Craving London: Confessions of an Incurable Romantic with an Insatiable Appetite
“Read Jessica Stone’s evocative memoir and prepare to be dazzled. When I grow up, I want to write like Jessica!” -Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Big Leap What if you could make anything happen…except the one thing you wanted most? Still single five years after a broken engagement, 29-year-old food ... Read more
Free: The Singing Widow of a Buddhist Priest
When Sarah Green discovers her destiny is to tie her life with Japan, nothing can stop her. As she climbs up the corporate ladder in her Tokyo-based, Japanese firm, everything else in her life falls apart. Only the singing widow of a Buddhist priest, a white Persian cat, an ex-sumo champion, and a handsome mystery ... Read more
To Argue With Oblivion
An emotional roller coaster of a read – Fifteen operations, two radiotherapies, a week in a coma and a month in a wheelchair. He died once, was crippled, brain-damaged and nearly blinded. Seemingly broken beyond repair, he desperately wanted his life back. But is it possible to defeat oblivion? This personal story of healing and ... Read more
Free: Bored on the Wild Side
Forty-five years of stumbling, bumbling, and striving to make the American dream a reality. Beginning in the mid-1970s and hitting the brakes days before the 2020 elections, this compelling memoir shows us where we’ve been and where we might be headed via one man’s memories and experiences. While it may read like a novel, every ... Read more
Eris Rising
Courtney Ramm was one of 229 offspring born from the controversial “Genius Sperm Bank”, a genetic experiment that existed in the 1980s and ’90s. With a predisposition for “genius”, Courtney found herself driven toward success. Eris Rising is a story of breaking deep karmic patterns, grappling with the calling of destiny, and changing long-held karma ... Read more
Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love
Growing up, they didn’t believe they had a future. Together, they are building forever. Alexis Black persevered through her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman ... Read more
From Startupper to Cancer Fighter
Hamza Aboulfeth, a young Moroccan serial entrepreneur, publishes his first book, an autobiography. In the account of his life, this singular businessman tells the story of how he founded his first business—one that continues to thrive today—at the age of 17, and reflects on how his intrepidness and resolve to follow his dreams against all ... Read more
Just South of the Solar Plexus
Just South of the Solar Plexus, a memoir, is a story about finding voice and power, and then abandoning them in the red dust of the road when the world made it too hard to find her place. The place for her voice. So many of us—especially women—give up our voices, leaving who we are, ... Read more
My Wild and Precious Life (Memoir)
My Wild and Precious Life shares the tough realities of living alongside families in desperate poverty, while highlighting the extraordinary warmth of the African people. $4.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Hood Diamond
Hood Diamond is an Urban Drama based on a true story. Chanel is a product of Her environment In Detroit, MI. This book is raw and exposes secrets in the streets and in the Black Community. $9.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Ascension
In Ascension Dalton Lewis suffers a complete mental breakdown, unable to work or even communicate with loved ones and ranting at the walls. This realistic look at life with paranoid schizophrenia is harrowing, brilliant, and shows the real emotions and thoughts behind this terrible illness. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Other Side of Success
The Other Side of Success is the unvarnished account of one man’s search for meaning as his professional life is constantly challenged by the impact of love, family, religion, and race. In this intimate memoir, Sawa strives to find home in the truest sense, while struggling with the unforeseen costs of making it. $0.99 on ... Read more
Without: Body, Name, Country
“Pick up this book and eat it, I mean love it, I mean eat it.” —Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) “…we see that perfect world crumble with her diagnosis of Guillam-Barre syndrome in which a person’s immune system attacks the nerves.” —Martha Engber In Meg Johnson’s third full length collection, Without: Body, Name, Country, strange ... Read more
Free: The Japanese Part of Me
Through six essays describing the lives and careers of globally active Japanese public figures Yoko Ono, Shinya Yamanaka, Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani, Yoshiki, Yoky Matsuoka, and Marie Kondo, The Japanese Part of Me offers a refreshing, hopeful take on life to readers. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Becoming American
Becoming American is the inspiring story of the author’s transformation from a child of Holocaust survivors in post-war Europe to an American lawyer, academic, and activist associated with such famed political leaders as Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, Jerry Brown, and Tom Hayden. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
You’re Welcome: A Dog Lovers Novel
You’re Welcome is an Amazon Best Seller. This heartwarming, inspiring and laugh-out-loud memoir of a dog is inspired by true events, and narrated by our furry best friend. Ludo, a German Shepherd and Melody, a young high-spirited woman, find each other needing one another more than they know to make it through the perils life ... Read more
Brian’s Journey
An emotional memoir by a mother who shares the harrowing experience of losing her son to suicide. A very inspiring story of love, loss, grief and spiritual awakening. See price on Kindle.... Read more
The Unexpected Mother
You know the pregnancy was a mess…when Oprah hears your story and wants it for O Magazine…twice! Would Susan, a single mother of two, survive the oddest surrogate motherhood debacle ever? It wasn’t her first time carrying the couple’s baby. Their son, Evan, was healthy and delightful. When the couple decided they wanted a second ... Read more
Orphans of an Angel
A tragic, but true story of Evelyn Dalton’s struggle to survive, burdened by destitution and deteriorating health. Unexpectedly, Evelyn collapses with abdominal pains and is admitted to hospital for immediate surgery. The misdiagnosis of symptoms leaves Evelyn in a coma unaware of the perilous danger she faces. At midnight, she became an Angel. Her four ... Read more
Fallible
Nearly 1 in every 5 Americans deal with mental illness in a given year, and the rates are climbing. Among physicians, the rate is even higher as the time spent in medical training significantly increases the risk of poor mental health. None of us are fully immune from the ravages of mental health problems. ... Read more
Setting Sail for Golden Harbor: A Humorous Memoir About the Final Years of Life
In this memoir, which speaks to all of us who have experienced the challenges posed by aging parents, laughter serves not only as an antidote to depressing reality but also reminds us that the deceased has lived, has amused, has warmed our hearts, and will remain alive through the memories of words said and actions ... Read more
Free: In Too Deep: How an American Teen Became a Pioneer Boss of the International Drug Trade
The true story a how a young teen becomes the Boss of the Largest Marijuana Smuggling operation in US History. Being described by the Detroit Free Press as the Billionaire Boys. Living among the Rockstars and flying their Private Jets around the Globe. With money laundering and drug payouts under the protection of Panama’s General ... Read more
14 days in May: A Farewell to My Father, a Man who Should Have Died Sixty Years Ago. A True Story.
On May 1st 2011, I traveled from Ecuador to my native country to say goodbye to my dying father. Two intensive weeks followed, where death was constantly looking around the corner, while life was still the focus – his life. About sixty years earlier, my father survived a serious accident. He was hit by a ... Read more
Free: I Ran the World
IF YOU COULD CHANGE THE WORLD, WOULD YOU? In this rollercoaster true story, Chris Long describes how he staged the biggest mass participation demonstration in history, in an effort to help change the world. How he worked with rock stars, politicians, royalty, celebrities and 20 million people in 89 countries – and all before the ... Read more
Free: Orphans of an Angel
A tragic, but true story of Evelyn Dalton’s struggle to survive, burdened by destitution and serious health conditions. Social Services become concerned as her four boys may be taken into care if conditions do not improve. As if matters couldn’t get worse, husband Eddie abandons the family and plunges her life into dire straits and ... Read more
Brian’s Journey
An emotional memoir by a mother who shares the harrowing experience of losing her beloved son to suicide. The mother talks about how her son loved life and about the sudden mental illness that takes over her sons life. She shares her efforts to heal after the sudden and horrific loss. This is a story ... Read more
Architect of Death at Auschwitz: A Biography of Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Höss, the SS officer appointed to create and serve as the commandant of Auschwitz, has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. From 1940 to 1945, more than one million men, women, and children, mainly Jews and Poles, were put to death at Auschwitz. Höss’s testimony at the trial of major Nazi defendants ... Read more
Stop Killing Us
USA Today Bestselling Author Terry Keys takes aim at the racial divide facing America today in this breathtaking memoir. Terry Keys takes you through his journey of being a black man in south Texas. Travel with him as he discusses being in an inter-racial relationship to his days in law enforcement. Keys revisits some of ... Read more
Alaska Unwilling: How One Woman’s Reluctant Adventure to the Yukon Wilderness Challenged Her Faith & Changed Her Life
Alaska Unwilling is the story of how life in the harsh and unforgiving wilderness of bush Alaska brought about peace, how being still in a lifestyle that shunned busyness and personal comfort enabled Jennifer to hear the very real, clear voice of God. And how she learned to listen. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
Like an Egg in a Bowl of Cherries
Like an Egg in a Bowl of Cherries is partly a travel memoir, and partly an illustration of the transformative power that culturally immersive experiences can have on expanding cultural humility and facilitating healthy identity development. Drawing from hand-written journal entries and emails sent home while living and working for a year in Dalian, China ... Read more
