Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs

Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady    by Jane Hertenstein
Price: $3.99 USD. 57900 words. Language: English. Published on November 14, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Tens of thousands of homeless people walk the streets, forgotten, yet each with their own story to tell. Marie James, a 69-year-old bag lady, and a frequent guest at an inner-city mission in Chicago, sat with Jane Hertenstein through the summer of 1995 and recorded this shocking and moving story of life filled with sorrow, loss, mental instability, and hope.
Odd Road to Kabul    by Patricia Keen-Diaz
Price: $3.99 USD. 106080 words. Language: English. Published on January 8, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
This is the remarkable story of survival and a child’s unique ability to pull through a harrowing fourteen-year cycle of neglect and abuse.
Telling Teddy (Dear Teddy: A Journal Of A Boy (Volume 2))    by JD Stockholm
Price: $2.99 USD. 52500 words. Language: English. Published on May 17, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Mr. Ted holds the hand of his six-year-old friend as they share more of his deepest secrets. Poignant and bold, the boy’s courageous words are detailed and real. He takes you farther into his abusive life and broken mind as he survives the tangled deceit and lies of his everydays. Sit alongside him. Hear his voice and listen with your heart as he opens it up once more. His story continues…
Keep Swinging: A 75 Year Journey    by Raymond O. Kechely
Price: $2.99 USD. 53760 words. Language: English. Published on November 13, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Diverse, often humorous stories and anecdotes tracing the author’s ancestors and then spanning 75 years from the Great Depression to the fall of 2012.
An Ugly Secret    by D.A. Ayers
Price: $2.99 USD. 50380 words. Language: English. Published on June 21, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

(4.00 from 2 reviews)
The candid story of D.A. Ayer's struggle with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, also known as BDD.
The Silence of Clouds    by Isla Nutbrown
Price: $2.99 USD. 53370 words. Language: English. Published on May 10, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

A true life account of Isla, an actress who is kidnapped on vacation, raped and left for dead in South America. It journeys through the hell of ambush, the devastating effects of violence, a friendship destroyed and the breakdown of love. Yet ultimately it’s a story of hope, showing the beauty of healing which occurred when Isla met Sal,a cockney market trader, and an unusual friendship is born.
Ghost Trails: Journeys Through a Lifetime    by Jill Homer
Price: $2.99 USD. 78200 words. Language: English. Published on May 26, 2011. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Bicycling.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
"Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the suburbs of Salt Lake City - and her unlikely route to one of the most difficult bicycle races in the world, a 350-mile epic along Alaska's frozen Iditarod trail. Through her struggles and intimate confrontations with her fears and weaknesses, she discovers the surprising destination of her life's trails.
Lives Shattered: One Mother's Loss at the Hands of the Legal System    by Celine Zabel
Price: $2.99 USD. 67240 words. Language: English. Published on April 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
An incredible tale of survival, this shocking story shows how one woman overcame soul-crushing pain and loss at the hands of an inept legal system while refusing to leave hope behind.
Walking and Wondering: Living Under the Sign of the Cross in the Shadow of the Swastika    by Robert Salomon
Price: $2.99 USD. 86630 words. Language: English. Published on September 30, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

(5.00 from 7 reviews)
One man's quest to be reunited with his family during years of persecution, exile and jailings.
Rising Above the Wave    by L.E. Muesch
Price: $2.99 USD. 57540 words. Language: English. Published on June 8, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

As L. E. Muesch bear-hugged his wife, Helen, vowing to never let go, the surge of the tsunami engulfed them and their lives would never be the same. In Rising Above the Wave, Muesch not only takes readers through how they were able to survive such a horrendous event on Phi Phi Don Island, but, maybe even more importantly, shares how that moment in time has consumed him in many different ways.