Self Memoir

Today’s busy, noisy, and fast-paced world can be full of challenges that stress us out and bog us down, sometimes to the point of leading us down a path of despair, desolation, and depression. 'The Healing Swords of Love and Innocence: Be Brave Be Bold This Is Your Moment' is a complete guide to discovering how to slow down, reset the mind, and begin to achieve the love, innocence, peace of mind, and resilience we once enjoyed as children. Based upon the author's years and experiences as a contemplative nun, a probation officer, and a counselor, author Elizabeth Upton shows us how to ...

Life can be tough—but it helps to know other people have come through hard times with a smile on their face. In Make Your Own Sunshine, Janice Dean shares inspiring stories that will lift your spirit and touch your heart. Good people are all around us doing selfless deeds, from a firefighter who bravely battled for his colleague’s health after 9/11 to a good Samaritan who secretly pays for the coffees of everyone in line behind him. You can’t help but smile hearing about the teacher who cut her hair to make her student feel better.

CEO Lisa Messenger shares an insightful account of her rollercoaster ride as the creator and founder of the globally popular Collective Hub, the hip magazine of inspiration for disrupters and innovators of all stripes - with bold ideas on how you can stay on track and remain true to whatever your passion may be. Speaking to the new generation of innovators, this book is a personal and honest chronicle of Lisa Messenger's various business endeavors. Exuding honesty and energy, Lisa blends these wonderfully insightful stories with important business lessons.

An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans "how to win friends and influence people."

Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a best seller worldwide, and Lifemagazine named him one of the "most important Americans of the twentieth century." This is the first full-scale biography of this influential figure.

Falling to Grace – A Powerful Journey from Brokenness to Purpose What if the lowest point in your life was the very place you were meant to rise from? Falling to Grace is a deeply personal and inspiring testimony of transformation, redemption, and faith. From a strict and conflicted childhood to serving in the U.S. Navy, from becoming a bestselling science fiction author to finally stepping into true identity, this memoir traces a remarkable path of struggle, discovery, and healing. Told with raw honesty and heartfelt conviction, this is the story of a life that seemed to fall apart—...

Self-Elected is a story of abundance. Part memoir, part business guide, and part manifesto, it invites the listener to explore the convergence of social justice and profit.

A remarkable teenager who went from public assistance to a million dollar net worth shares his story and offers nine key principles to success. Farrah Gray is no ordinary teenager. He wears a suit and tie; he has an office on Wall Street and another one in Los Angeles...and he sold his first business at the age of 14 for more than a million dollars.

I Return to Versions of Myself: A Reckoning by Gary Troia is a deeply introspective memoir that delves into the complexities of self-discovery, mental health, and the pursuit of authenticity. This powerful and raw narrative explores the different versions of the author—some hidden, some lived openly, and others that embody darkness, depression, and self-doubt. Troia’s journey reflects the struggle to reconcile these conflicting selves, ultimately seeking the elusive, authentic version that lies beneath the surface. In this poignant memoir, Troia confronts the difficult and often painful...

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.

How to wipe out self-doubt and step out with confidence. Jessica Bettencourt knows what it’s like to face rejection, feel like she doesn’t belong, and second-guess big decisions. But she also knows that we have to face fear and risk failure to live out our calling. In I Almost Cancelled, Jessica shares how one scary decision after another led to a life she couldn't even imagine.

Pulling Weeds and Patching Life: Confessions from a Crooked Garden What do tangled hoses, runaway chickens, and zucchini the size of toddlers have in common? Apparently—your emotional wellbeing. In this laugh-out-loud and deeply relatable collection of essays, author and accidental philosopher Debbie Danielsen digs into the messy joy of tending both garden beds and soul wounds. With dirt under her nails and humor in her heart, she explores how compost can teach you about grief, mint about boundaries, and why talking to your tomatoes isn’t all that weird (especially if they talk back). ...

As little girls, we dream of one day becoming a ballerina, a doctor; or a lawyer. We dream of having it all - a wonderful husband, beautiful children, a dog, the perfect house with a picket white fence. You know, the classic fairy-tale that most little girls fantasize about with their friends. This might not be your story, but is definitely mine. Maybe you can relate to some things or none at all. The end result of this story is an unhealthy, unhappy relationship that mutates into abuse.

In this memoir, DC proves that the universe may have thrown him curveballs, but he hit them out of the park! With humor, vulnerability, and a healthy dose of sass, he share his journey of overcoming obstacles and the valuable lessons learned along the way. Think of it as a battle-tested guide to life and business, written with heart and humor. If you're looking for a story that will inspire you to tackle your own challenges with courage and wit, this book is the universe's way of giving you a high-five!

A young New England woman with roots in northern Maine leaves her Connecticut childhood home, escaping first across the country after college, then across the ocean - chasing her inner demons. After returning to her country, landing in New York City in the mid 1980s, then purchasing a family home in northern Maine in 1997, she is finally able to dissolve the demons, sharing the tools that helped her along the way through first teaching and then, creating a retreat in the home of her roots of northern Maine - the whole journey about discovering and living your inner truth.

Jonathan Rigsby spends his days as a crime intelligence analyst and his nights as an Uber driver. Reeling from his divorce and struggling to pay rent while caring for his autistic son, Rigsby became a rideshare driver, joining the millions of people with a side hustle just to make ends meet.

These incredible memoirs began in 1899 by 15-year-old Gaither Stevens soon after he joined the Navy as an Apprentice Boy. It was a different world and a different Navy. His extraordinary experiences were captured in a typed manuscript kept safe and unpublished until now. In these writings, you’ll find adventures of a lifetime highlighting encounters with a grizzly bear, bar fights, a train robbery, murder, boxing, fiestas, abduction as a sex slave, turtle races, wild shipmates, an Eskimo prostitute, and other savory scenes. Gaither’s chronicles of fellow “blue-jackets” and places he...

In Whistled, Dawn Duhamel shares her story, chronicling the events that shaped her. Living under the belief that working hard always pays off, and experiencing success that proved her theory, Duhamel was unprepared when, at the age of 50, an anonymous, contrived whistleblower complaint was filed against her, ultimately resulting in her controversial termination. Blindsided by being fired for the first time, the ensuing self-doubt suffocated her spirit until, after 24 months of questioning and processing, she discovered what truly mattered, and the reasons to love herself again.

From an unconventional upbringing in Baltimore, to an unconventional marriage to one of the most famous men in the world, adhering to the status quo has never been a familiar road for Jada Pinkett Smith. In Worthy, Smith strips herself of all the labels and stories crafted by others, and reclaims her narrative with radical self-love. Worthy teaches us who Jada is, and how to embrace our most authentic loveable souls.

We all have hurt in our lives. Luis Scott knows this truth firsthand. He was overlooked for athletics growing up. Eight of his businesses failed, and he almost went bankrupt. With his house being foreclosed upon and his vehicles being repossessed, Luis had to take on debt to survive. On top of that, his marriage failed. But despite facing hardship at every turn, Luis persevered. He played Division I college baseball, helped grow a law firm to over 200 employees, remarried, and turned his financial life completely around. Every negative experience prepared Luis for success. In It Has to Hurt...

Dear Diary, It Got Weird Again The Works of Mr. Joe This isn’t a diary. It’s a legacy stitched from the strange, the sincere, and the sentences that refused to stay quiet. Inside are fragments that became foundations—moments of insight, humor, heartbreak, and clarity gathered over years and held together by a single thread: the need to make meaning in a world that doesn’t always offer it freely. This collection speaks to those who feel everything a little too deeply, think a little too sideways, and laugh in the middle of their most serious questions. It’s for anyone who’s ever ...