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!
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
