Infantry School: A Soldier's Journal    by Jack Durish
Price: Free! 39480 words. Language: English. Published on June 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
(3.00 from 1 review)
A personal memoir of training to become an infantryman and an officer during the Vietnam War era. Full of humor, pathos, and the author's personal reflections on the men he trained with and their experiences.

Kara Mia    by Maryann Anglim
Price: Free! 55440 words. Language: English. Published on January 29, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
Kara Mia is the story of sudden loss and slow recovery in a teenager with Long QT syndrome - a genetic cause of an often fatal heart rhythm disturbance. Told by her mother and her physician the book combines the unique insights of both as Kara slowly recovers from a near fatal cardiac arrest.

Adventures at Apple Jack Creek: Part One    by Lonna Cunningham
Price: Free! 24440 words. Language: English. Published by Apple Jack Creek Books  on December 5, 2011. Nonfiction » Home and Garden » Green living.
This book is a collection of blog postings that narrate the adventure of building your own house in the country. Follow along as six acres of former cattle pasture are turned into a small working farm: building a house, living in a shed during construction (in the winter), dealing with scheduling problems, acquiring and losing animals ... all the chaos, the crazy times, the progress, the fun.

Juan-les-Pins Whitechapel Paris    by Margaret Turner
Price: Free! 40360 words. Language: English. Published on November 16, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
(4.80 from 5 reviews)
Growing up as an English child in Juan les Pins on the Cote d’Azur in the Thirties; working as a nurse in wartime London; beginning a career in post-war Paris. This autobiography takes us from 1928 to 1950, from the birth of the modern summer holiday to the rebirth of war-torn Europe. By turns nostalgic, exciting, tense and lyrical.

Our Dark Knight    by Bissera Kostova
Price: Free! 41150 words. Language: English. Published on July 22, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
A personal memoir by a mother about the sudden death of her 25-year-old son, a charismatic writer, thinker and athlete, who pushed himself beyond his limits. As she seeks to make sense of the tragedy in the early months of grieving, she incorporates some of the writings he left in his last few months, painting his unique and indelible character, which held his many friends in thrall.

So Long, It's Been Good To Know You    by Bert Brun
Price: Free! 36640 words. Language: English. Published on June 16, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
Bert Brun’s restlessness has kept him moving all his life from one occupation to another, sometimes in such far-flung countries as Indonesia and New Zealand. He tells of his life experiences, as well as his checkered personal life. He concludes with his take on how life in America has changed over the last 80 years.

My Wife Has Alzheimer's    by J. Wesley Sullivan
Price: Free! 36440 words. Language: English. Published by Mary E. Lowd  on August 26, 2012. Nonfiction » Relationships and Family » Aging.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The personal journey of J. Wesley Sullivan as he became the caretaker for his wife, Elsie. After fifty years of marriage, Elsie slowly succumbed to Alzheimer's, and Wes -- a newspaperman -- wrote journals to help himself deal with the growing pressures of her condition. He combined those journals into this book, hoping it could help others facing a similarly devastating situation.

Cancer Un Mensaje de Esperanza    by Jairo Alvarez
Price: Free! 37670 words. Language: Spanish. Published on February 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
Cáncer - Un Mensaje de Esperanza es un recuento preciso de las experiencias personales del autor durante seis años como paciente exitoso que ha sobrevivido al cáncer de próstata. Por largo tiempo ha sido un observador y un estudioso de esta área y es un  convencido de que su testimonio puede ser de gran ayuda para la humanidad.

Emails from the Edge: When Friendship Spans the Distance    by Kristie Leigh Maguire
Price: $2.99 USD. 93590 words. Language: English. Published on November 16, 2010. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Emails from the Edge defies today's world of political correctness where every word is carefully censored so as not to offend anyone. Kristie Leigh Maguire is open, honest, and sometimes over-the-top funny in her email correspondence with her friend back in the States with whom she shares her thoughts and feelings while living overseas as an expatriate wife during the decade of the 90s.

Exit Strategy: Depriving Death of Its Strangeness    by David B. Oliver
Price: $4.99 USD. 66590 words. Language: English. Published on February 6, 2013. Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Cancer.
Instead of crawling into a cave, or fighting to futility, David Oliver chose to use his “Stage IV” cancer diagnosis as an opportunity to help others. Although given a death sentence, he has written this compelling and inspirational story that has reached around the world. It will make you laugh, cry, and want to rise up and give him a standing ovation.