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
Walking In Faith
My open-heart surgery had failed and the doctor’s told me that nothing more could be done. At age 45, I was diagnosed with terminal heart d…
A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates
This thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy, young French girl who was kidnapped at sea. After setting sail …
The Trail of the Tramp
This book, written by the famous hobo and author, Leon Ray Livingston aka A-No. 1, is built on his own experiences on the road. The first ch…
The New Life
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…
De Profundis
This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …
Deciphering the Golden Flower
JJ Semple doesn’t just wake up one day and say to himself, “I’m going to crack the coded mysteries in The Secret of the Golden Flower.” He s…
The Heavenly Footman
A description of the man that gets to heaven: with directions how to run so as to obtain - Summary by John Bunyan
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for…
The Stark Munro Letters
"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
Across the Plains
The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both …
Letter from China
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…
The Friendly Road
My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather bin…
Idle Days in Patagonia
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …
Martyred Armenia
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…
The Spring of Joy
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapt…
The Autobiography of a Clown
This "as told to" autobiography of Jules Turnour is based on a popular article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1909.…
Twenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…
My Mother and I
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's A…