Memoirs books

This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris. Paris: A Love Story is for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended.

In this remarkably honest and candid memoir,...

A blind man and his guide dog show the power of trust and courage in the midst of devastating terror.

It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michael's bedside. A thunderstorm was headed east, and she could sense...

Unfolding within the narrative of a long-distance ocean voyage, the story begins as Hurley leaves Annapolis, Maryland, aboard an ageing, 32-foot sloop, the Gypsy Moon. After the end of his 25-year marriage, Hurley is short of...

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it.
--Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June...

Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf - she wants to fall in love and find her faith. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque Imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route...

Ever wonder just who that person in the chair opposite you in the therapist's office is, and how he or she got that way? Wonder no more. This is a compelling memoir about the stressful, yet never less than exciting, education of a...

Bennett's journal is a fascinating account of the daily life of an author's author in the late nineteenth century, someone who lived on twenty-four-hours a day. Bennett wrote fiction, plays, self-help columns and books on...

An unusual and touching memoir chronicling a life discovering the joys of discarded treasures. The white elephant stall is a standby of all summer fetes and car boot sales. The bring and buy table of odd, old and discarded objects...

A compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.

A hilarious and politically charged memoir from immensely popular comedian Jimmie J. J. Walker, best known for playing J.J. Evans on the classic sitcom Good Times

Bestselling author Koontz tells the story of how he and his wife, Gerda, unexpectedly met and fell in love with a golden retriever named Trixie. The author relates how this former service dog renewed in him a sense of wonder that...

Originally published in French: Paris: Albin Michel, c2011.

On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood north of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn's closest friend and teammate on the high school swimming team is found murdered on his living room floor. As the crime goes...