Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Yesterday's Sorrow
Writing my way to a new life by Akeba G Canning
At four years old, Akeba Canning saw the world as a paradise. Born to Grenadian parents in Trinidad, she spent much of her early childhood eating mangoes, chasing butterflies, and idolizing her older brothers. But at age eight, a sudden upheaval...
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Crescendo to Becoming
A Memoir of My Life by Francesco Fiorentino
This book is truly Cav. Francesco Fiorentino's labor of love. It was originally written around 2010 but was abandoned when the author lost his forty-four-year-old daughter to cancer. Thanks to the insistence and inspiration of his twelve...
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Reinventing the Past
Memories of a Dry Land by Monique Layton
Armed with nothing but the flimsy evidence of a Bata shoebox filled with her mother's old photographs, Monique Layton reconstructs her colonial childhood in Morocco in the 1930s. Nothing is as it seems as the author guides her readers through a...
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You Did What?
The Unusual Musical Odyssey of Burl Ronald Brinnon by Ron Brinnon
At the fresh age of fifteen, Ron Brinnon launches his professional saxophone career and plays gigs that land him amid a hotbed of Russian missiles, an FBI chase, and a levitation session with Depak Chopra. Performing for greats like Desi Arnaz,...
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Down on the Farm, Way Back When
by Stephen Nelson
Dad would warn me to stay back from the barn door when he let the cows out for the first time at the end of a long winter. After taking a few steps outside, you might see a mature cow do something you wouldn’t expect: Jump in the air! Quite a...
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada by Judy Ann
In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
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Stories at the Kitchen Table
by Katherine Brady
In this captivating and often humorous collection of short stories, Katherine Brady recounts the true stories of her late father Terry, bringing them to the page from the table around which the family used to gather. The tales come from Terry’s...
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The God We Serve is Awesome
by Olina F. Bailey
Olina F. Bailey has been through trials and tribulations as far back as she can remember, both in her time spent in the United States and her life in Liberia. God brought her through these with flying colors, performing many miracles for her. In...
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Not So Normal
Memoirs of a Gay Boomer From Wild Rose Country by Tom Symington
Growing up in post-World War II Alberta in a stable, loving home, Tom Symington didn’t feel that he was “different.” Evading early pressures of romance and sexual exploration, repressing instances of name-calling (“femmy”), and hostility from...
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From Daylight to Dark
Finding Work in an Inaccessible World by Valerie D. Maidment
When Valerie Maidment was a baby, doctors diagnosed her with hydrocephalus, a condition that causes excess fluid to build in the brain. After the second surgery at age 9, she was declared healthy; she lived a happy, normal life, graduating from...
