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
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 …
I, Mary MacLane
Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a yo…
Letters of John Keats
These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family, close friends and others during his brief, eventful years as an artist. (However,…
From the Darkness Cometh the Light
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a fr…
The Bee-Master of Warrilow
"Is it true that a bee can only sting once?" I asked him, as he bent again over the crocus beds.He laughed."What would be the…
The Life and Adventures of Venture
Venture Smith was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased h…
Dallam's Travels with an Organ to the Grand Signieur
Queen Elizabeth the First of England, the Grand Turk at Constantinople, and an organ builder named Thomas Dallam—quite a trio. In 1599, E…
Habits that Handicap
Habits that Handicap delves into the complex world of addiction, exploring the psychological and social factors that contribute to alcoholis…
Just Me
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…
The Go-Getter
The Go-Getter tells the inspiring story of a determined disabled veteran who navigates the challenges of civilian life with unwavering persi…
The Humbugs of the World
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…
A Young Girl's Diary
The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…
My Brilliant Career
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…
Exotics and Retrospectives
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…
Far Away and Long Ago
William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Ai…
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…
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which…
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…
The New-York Gardener
A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not t…