Memoirs
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Voices of War: Memoirs from the Battlefield
- Voices of Faithful Servants
- Faithful Journeys: Christian Memoirs
- Voices of Resilience
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…
Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…
Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer
Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are …
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…
Practing The Presence Of God
Practing The Presence Of God Brother Lawrence Conversation - Nicholas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite monk. Compiled by Father Joseph de B…
John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
Despite the trouble and dangers John G. Paton had faced on the island of Tanna (as recounted in the first part of his autobiography), his tr…
Green Grey Homestead
This book describes the experiences of Dick Gall, a young Australian countryman, from the time of his first application for ‘a homestead sel…
Why Crime Does Not Pay
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…
My Trip Abroad
"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…
Over Prairie Trails
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …
The Real Latin Quarter
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
A pilgrimage to my motherland
Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the …
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take h…
The Long Ago
The Long Ago offers a reflective glimpse into the boyhood of Jacob William Wright, a lesser-known American poet whose life was shaped by the…
From Baca to Beulah
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…
You Never Miss the Dopamine
He's quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's Disease.
In a series of hilarious essays, Bill Schmalfeldt (author of "No Doorwa…
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at…
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front
The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1…
Five Years of My Life
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney
Frances Burney’s early diary records her experiences in the literary and courtly worlds of Georgian England, offering a first-person view of…