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.

The Rise and Fall of A Modern-Day Icarus    by A Wilson
Price: Free! 136300 words. Language: Canadian English. Published on October 31, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
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Are you lifting weights because you want to develop more muscle mass? Why do most think that more muscle mass leads to an increase of resting fat metabolism? When you hypertrophy your muscles, you are enlarging Type IIb muscle fibres, which are glycolytic. There is an increase of carbohydrate metabolism, not fat metabolism. I have had problems with stress. Read my life-struggle to understand why.

The Emily Updates (Vol. 1)): One Year in the Life of the Girl Who Lived    by Thomas PM Barnett
Price: Free! 52370 words. Language: English. Published on October 13, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
Seventeen years ago, authors Tom and Vonne Barnett were suddenly confronted with every parent’s worst medical “bolt from the blue”: their only child, 30-month-old Emily, was diagnosed with an advanced – meaning metastasized – pediatric cancer. At the time, the thirty-something couple was living in northern Virginia. What followed was the defining crisis of their now 26-year union.

Fulton Avenue - Growing Up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970's    by JP Myers
You set the price! 52660 words. Language: English. Published on September 30, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
My parents moved my brother and I from Minneapolis to LA in 1968. Little did they know what would happen. This story are the highlights of my childhood, the good the bad and the traumatic. My parents were party animals. My father was a drummer and my mother was secretary. They both loved to drink and smoke and listen to Sinatra. Living with them and seeing them divorce and growing up.

Vietnam: A Soldier's Journal    by Jack Durish
Price: Free! 59300 words. Language: English. Published on October 24, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
Vietnam: A Soldier's Journal by Jack Durish is a personal memoir of the author's tour of duty in Vietnam during the war that tore America's heart in half. It is a tale of his adventures and misadventures while serving in the rear echelons of the 9th Infantry Division. This telling of the Vietnam story is not politically correct, just true.

Soup By Volume    by Lisa Southard
Price: Free! 53200 words. Language: British English. Published on October 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Visionary & metaphysical.
Quirky attitude, luminous words: warm, soulful, worth a few pence. Conveniently packaged collection of the best prose from the Wishbone Soup Cures Everything blog. Feel like you're hungry for something but don't know what? This could be the cure. Observation and imagination transform the world into a place of sustainable happiness.

Becoming a Superhero: Based on a True Story    by Oliver Galang
Price: Free! 84500 words. Language: English. Published on April 10, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
Oliver was a lost child. Even though he had a good background, he managed to screw up his life. He was a military brat. His father served 24 years in the US Navy. His mom was loving and kind, but very strict. Maybe too much discipline was too much for him?

The Shiny Red Honda    by Tom O'Brien
You set the price! 50340 words. Language: English. Published on October 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.
Growing up in rural County Waterford in the 1950/60's with my beautiful red Honda. The Mass path, crossroad dancing, travelling shows, being an Altar Boy, memories of an age of innocence. It is also about dreams and aspirations; a young man's entry into the world of work, and his brief flirtation with the music business. A story told as it was - warts and all

A Place in the Shower Schedule: 101 Favorite Columns    by Roger Aylworth
Price: Free! 65030 words. Language: English. Agented by Dystel and Goderich Literary Management on January 17, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
For over two decades Roger Aylworth has written a weekly humor column based on his own large family. Over time he has gathered hundreds of columns on all kinds of subjects from the "death" of the family washer to the passing of a beloved granddaughter. Each has been warmly welcomed by readers who have laughed and cried with the Aylworth family. This book is a collection 101 of those favorites.