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!
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE “I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.”When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right ... Read more
OinK! Only in Korea!
OinK! Only in Korea! tells the story of a young intelligence officer stationed on the DMZ in Korea in 1980. He experiences infiltrators, defectors, minefields, spies, artillery and something much worse: bad choices in women. After being wounded, the rest of his tour and his life were never the same. Read this extraordinary account from ... Read more
Where Memories Meet: Reclaiming my father after Alzheimer’s
Christine Grote’s memoir of losing her father to Alzheimer’s, and her father Jerry’s account of the defining moments of his life from birth in the 1930’s are two stories interwoven in one book. Grote invites us into her parents’ home where accommodations are continually made for her father’s declining condition, and she allows us into ... Read more
Marley & Me
The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Last day at $1.99.... Read more
This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
A touching and hilarious memoir by the author of Carrie and Me: A Mother Daughter Love Story, This Time Together is 100 percent Carol Burnett – funny, irreverent, and irresistible. $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The ... Read more
My Life Before: Memoir of a Lost Royal
A quick nap turns into a walk down memory lane as Terrell Frazier is taken to another place and time in his sleep. While in a state of unknown, Terrell uncover memories of a past life in ancient Egypt.Terrell learns more about himself than he ever knew. $3.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Throwaway Children
Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage, not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle ... Read more
The Brave Ones: A Memoir of Hope, Pride and Military Service
How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the trigger—and lives on the line—in America’s War on Terror? Michael J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the ... Read more
Yellow Crocus
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads ... Read more
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church’s highest ministry, speaks of her “disconnection” ... Read more
Tears of the Silenced
One freezing morning in early March I made a dash for a tiny police station in rural Minnesota. I was a frightened Amish girl with no where to go, a second grade education and no ID or social security card…… Based on the authors tragic true life story. When I was six years old my ... Read more
Reflections of a Successful Wallflower: Lessons in Business and Life
Who Is Andrea Michaels? What Does She Know that We Don’t? Andrea Michaels is literally one of the backbones of the special events industry. Launching her business when there was no formalized or defined marketplace, she was and still is a trailblazer, pioneering the way for others to follow. Always on the cutting edge of ... Read more
The Stolen Dog
A New York Times Bestseller with an ending that will make you cry tears of joy! When Briggs, a Boston terrier, is stolen from his family’s deck and shoved into a waiting car, a chain of events unfold that shakes the city. The Stolen Dog follows Tricia and Josh, Briggs’ owners, as they fight a ... Read more
The Toaster Oven Mocks Me
The Toaster Oven Mocks Me is a humorous memoir that chronicles Steve’s discovery, concealment, and eventual acceptance of synesthesia; a peculiar condition where one sense is stimulated, and two senses respond. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Daily Hazards of a Middle Eastern Wife
From wedding night traditions to meeting the mother-in-law, this semi-autobiographical read takes an often fun and fascinating look at the issues Middle Eastern women face in married life…and beyond. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Forgiveness Unforgettable
A true story of survival and forgiveness. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
My Grape Year
My Grape Year takes fans of Laura Bradbury’s ‘Grape’ series back to where it all began. In a last-minute twist of fate, Laura is sent to Burgundy, France for a year on an exchange. She arrives knowing only a smattering of French and with no idea what to expect in her first foray out of ... Read more
Too Young to be Old: From Clapham to Kathmandu
When Frank starts working with old people, he rediscovers a young dream. And sets about making it come true. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia
*2015 Finalist High Plains Book Awards Faced with caring for both parents after their dual diagnosis, author Vicki Tapia watched helplessly as her mom and dad both descended into the rabbit hole of dementia/Alzheimer’s disease. Her memoir, Somebody Stole My Iron, weaves their family’s struggle into an engaging story, filled with humor and pathos. The ... Read more
Whisper My Secret
Whisper My Secret is the true story of a devoted mother of seven children who carried a heartbreaking secret with her to her grave: the secret of three children she had been forced to abandon. $0.99 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
Free: A Towering Experience
K.D. worked at the legendary Tower Records on Sunset Blvd, and this short story details some of his tribulations there, 3 years before they went out of business. Not only do you get various stories about celebrities who came into the store, but the fact K.D. was homeless and living in his van during this ... Read more
Patient Zero Three Years to Live
Follow the true story of a 15-year-old, impoverished, illegal immigrant as she deals with a devastating disease known as Myasthenia Gravis. She grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, where she lived with her two brothers and parents. Disenchanted with failed attempts to make a living, her father moved the family to the United States, with hopes ... Read more
Free: From Sex Appeal to Self Appeal: One Woman’s Journey to Recover Her Body, Her Sexuality, Her Self
Scientist by day, stripper by night. Until she chose one job—the one she had fun at. Then her real scientific exploration began. This brave memoir chronicles a woman’s journey to self-love, self-respect and a healthy moral sexuality born of experience, not dogma or societal restraints. Free on Kindle.... Read more
I.T. Geek to Farm Girl Freak: Leaving High Tech for Greener Pastures
Have you ever wanted to ditch your suburban life and office job to move to the country? Join the author in her sometimes funny, yet always entertaining transition from an I.T. Engineer to a hobby farmer. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Avalon: a Heartwarming True Cat Story
Avalon is a heartwarming true cat story about a Turkish Van cat that was both a movie star and a cartoon character. As a follow-up to his cinematic star turn, he now has his own book. Garfield was a phenomenon in the seventies and eighties. Cat lovers are ready for the feline star of the ... Read more
Free: Ghost No More
Everyone lives with secrets. CeeCee is a child desperate for the love of her mother. Her reality is her mom’s retreating back, abandoning CeeCee in front of a burning car. With a heart full of secrets. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist
Dr. Addy Conrad, psychologist, encounters the ethical minefield common to private practice. Susan, a professional and mother with whom Addy identifies, is torn by a traumatic childhood. But Susan is more complex than what originally met the eye, having colorful interior personalities, and one tragic disclosure plants Addy squarely in a quandary. Her peak challenge, ... Read more
Saving Grace – A Story of Adoption
It started with a piece of paper—-a birth certificate, sent to the author’s parents long after her birth. There is much history in that piece of paper. For she was born to an unwed mother in the generation prior to Roe v. Wade, on a warm day in August—a small, painful beginning in which she ... Read more
Catherine: Inside the Heart and Mind of a Great Monarch
“With great skill and passion Sigrid Weidenweber unveils an epic and important historical journey, bringing to life the danger, violence, and intrigue of European royalty through the eyes of one of its most prominent and fascinating members.” – Tim Green, New York Times bestselling author. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
A Story Almost Told
All I wanted to do was get my script made into a movie. Comedy legends Dick Martin and Matty Simmons loved it. How could I know my first backer was being hunted by the IRS? How could I know the IRS & FBI would use my dream as their bait? How could I know a ... Read more
Free: When I Married My Mother
WHEN I MARRIED MY MOTHER, a national bestseller, is an unusual, unexpected love story. Jo Maeder was a high-energy, irreverent Z100 radio “ZJ” in New York City when a series of crises led her to do the unthinkable: leave New York for the Bible Belt- “Greensboring,” North Carolina-to care for her estranged, eccentric “Mama Jo.” ... Read more
I Don’t Believe God Wrote The Bible
Gerry and Jan embark upon a nomadic journey of self-discovery when they leave England and go hitchhiking around France. Bored with the prospects on offer, they go in search of inspiration and a Life they dream of. Will they find an alternative path, or will they settle for the life society is telling them to ... Read more
Maude
In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room and said, “You’ve always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. ... Read more
Kill Daddy (Nonfiction)
Take a wild ride into the heart of Africa and discover what it it really means to be free- Will Africa free Gerry of his demons , or will the past destroy him altogether? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Ever the Patriot
A compelling read, Ever the Patriot tells the story of Vincent J. Riccio and his experiences as a flyer and POW in World War II. This short book describes his escapades during training and deployment, the missions flown over Germany, and the fateful events that led to his captivity in Stalag Luft IV. It recounts ... Read more
Free: The Protest
The Protest is a novel inspired by the real-life religious hijacking of the author’s daughters, ages 10 and 12. With the help of her schizophrenic sister’s insane insights, Janey Powers breaks free from her fundamentalist upbringing after being seduced by her minister and is building a new life for herself and her daughters. But her freedom ... Read more
The Three Kitties that Saved My Life
Falling madly, head-over-heels in love not once, but twice, is one of the most fulfilling things that can happen in a lifetime. What if you suddenly lost your partner through life? How would you find the will to go on all alone? Would you ever be able to fall in love again? This is the ... Read more
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
