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The Pencil Case    by Lorraine Cobcroft
Price: $2.99 USD. 123870 words. Language: English. Published on March 28, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Neither wrongful incarceration nor childhood abuse and deprivation could break Paul Wilson’s indomitable spirit, but survival means an endless battle against the system that stole him from his family and denied him his identity.
Kings, Killers and Kinks in the Cosmos    by Robert Egby
Price: $4.99 USD. 146940 words. Language: English. Published on September 21, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Robert Egby’s great-grandmother, an English Seer, predicted his life. A teenage atheist, he refused to believe her until doors started opening like magic. The strange journey took him into the company of kings,journalists, news photographers, in the Middle East, Germany and western Canada where a radical change took place in Cosmic Consciousness. Autobiography with over seventy photographs.
The Lid is Lifted    by Paul D Kennedy
Price: $4.17 USD. 129040 words. Language: English. Published on December 1, 2011. Nonfiction » History » Middle East.

(5.00 from 1 review)
What happens when you are held a gun-point, friends are raped, others are killed, your life destroyed? You get scared, really frightened. Then ... You get angry! And you learn to focus that anger ... to survive and fight back as best you know how. This is the true story of what happened in Kuwait in August 1990 when Iraq invaded. A terse narrative, it is based on the writer's diary.
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.

(5.00 from 1 review)
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.
Trucking in English    by Carolyn Steele
Price: $3.99 USD. 106090 words. Language: English. Published on November 8, 2012. Nonfiction » Travel » Essays & Travelogues.

(5.00 from 1 review)
This is the tale of what happens when a middle-aged mum from England decides to actually drive 18-wheelers across North America instead of just dreaming about it. She learns how to hit a moose correctly and how to be hijacked. She is almost arrested in Baltimore Docks and survives a terrifying winter tour of The Rockies. Nothing goes well, but that’s why there’s a book.
Misfits, Mercenaries & Missionaries    by Peter Mclaren
Price: $9.99 USD. 180550 words. Language: English. Published on November 15, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

(4.00 from 1 review)
An unemployed ex special forces soldier applies for a job as a humanitarian aid worker in northern Iraq. Despite the bombs bullets and bad intentions from agents within Saddam's Baath party, he finds the real enemy, are the other charities. Petty jealousies, big egos and some low intellects combine to make this mission the hardest he has ever encountered.
How Was I Supposed to Know? The Adventures of a Girl Whose Name Means Lost    by Lorna Lee
Price: $2.99 USD. 114680 words. Language: English. Published on January 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

(4.00 from 1 review)
Lorna is like everyone you’ve ever known. She is also like no one you’ll ever meet again. She’s just an ordinary person trying to make the best of the predicament du jour. What makes her different? The answers are revealed in this, her first, book. Here’s a hint: Lorna finds herself in more knotty predicaments than a novice knitter yet she tells her often grim life story with a grin.
The Patriotic Art    by Martin Rickerd
Price: $5.50 USD. 126490 words. Language: English. Published by Memoirs Publishing  on May 3, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

(4.00 from 1 review)
The FCO gave Martin Rickerd a fascinating career, which took him to some wonderful parts of the world – and some less wonderful, but they too were immensely interesting and memorable. No retired member of the Diplomatic Service can claim to have been entirely happy about everything throughout their career. But neither can they say they did not enjoy some marvellous benefits in terms of experience.