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
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who…
Daddy-Long-Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl…
Fighting the Flying Circus
This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th "Ha…
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…
Sergeant York and His People
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…
A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf
Muir was a preservationist and naturalist. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness…
Recollections of the Civil War
Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes…
The Road
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
All of Grace
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike d…
Anabasis
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave hi…
The Mutiny of the Bounty
In Bligh's own words, we hear about the lead-up to the famous mutiny and what happened afterwards with the mutineers and the castaways. This…
The Bruised Reed
Richard Sibbes was a Puritan pastor and theologian in the 17th century. His best known work, The Bruised Reed, is based on a Scripture verse…
South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition
Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …
Ester Ried's Namesake
In Ester Ried's Namesake, Esther Ried Randall grapples with the weight of her name and the expectations that come with it. As she navigates …
Ourselves, Book I. Self-Knowledge
This is Book I of the forth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled O…
Wise and Otherwise
Wise and Otherwise follows the journey of Mr. Tresevant, a young and somewhat immature pastor, as he and his spoiled wife arrive in the town…
The Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one …
My Life on the Plains
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…
The Maine Woods
On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …