Lewis Kempfer’s 120 Seats in a Boiler Room: The Creation of a Courageous Professional Theater is a non-fiction drama that would appeal most to a diverse audience of adults and young adults with an interest in learning about how the Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin,...

The Rio Grande Sniper Killings by John Primomo is a true crime book that chronicles the events surrounding the summer of 1980 in South Texas. The book focuses on an amateur assassin's failed attempt to kill a federal witness, resulting in the accidental deaths of...

Walking While Black is a heart-wrenching first-hand account by Polly J. Runyon-Sanders and Anthonii Sanders of a horrible night in 2009 in which Anthonii, aka Nii, was violently and viciously attacked by the Downers Grove Police in the suburbs of Chicago. Without warning, police used...

Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir by Judy Haveson is a life story portrayed with resilience amid joy and tragedy. Raised in a loving family, Haveson navigated teenage years marked by familial illness and endured a horrific assault. In college, she mourned her sister Celia's death...

The Last Man on Earth: A Lonely Battle Against OCD is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, autobiographical writing, and mental health issues subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience owing to difficult discussions, strong language, and self-harm references. Penned by...

The Virgin Chronicles is an engaging memoir by Marina DelVecchio about a young woman’s complex relationship with her adoptive mother, Ann. Kathy is used to her mother calling her “putana,” a Greek word with two meanings; a dirty word for the vagina and whore. Little...

My Incarcerated Life by Qiana Riley-Jones is her autobiography as a prison wife. Raised in an environment with rising drug use and violence, she came across a drug dealer called Vandrick. There, their relationship started off with flings to fill their time and desire for...

Click Click Click is about a murder that occurred in the hometown of sisters Anne Varner and Karen DeVanie. Anne and Karen are the hosts of the true-crime podcast Sugar Coated Murder. They were contacted by a producer from Investigation Discovery after doing an episode...

Fractured Suture by Kerry ONeal follows the story of a lifelong serial killer. At the tender age of nine, Thomas Allen Matthew instigated a fire that led to the brutal deaths of his neighbors. Since he was young, he was plagued by headaches that would...

Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance by Martin Bodek is a captivating tale of self-discovery and perseverance. Set in northern Romania, in the territory of Transylvania, the story follows Benzion Malik, a member of the Malik family,...