In Wrong Side Out: Madness Misdiagnosed, Benton Savage looks back on the first bipolar episode that overtook his life at twenty-five, when a belief that marriage would cure his unhappiness became fixed on Lane Johnson, a woman he had once dated. After she declined two...

Full Circles by Kenneth D. Thompson Sr. tells a deeply moving story that starts in a tiny, struggling home on East 13th Street. This memoir walks us through the author’s childhood, where he dealt with forced school busing to Burnet Junior High and the hurt...

Living with Strangers a memoir by author Robin Rosenbluth, describing moves between the life that formed her in New York and the year that tests her in Songa, a remote Kenyan settlement where Friends World College places her as an unpaid teacher. After her mother...

In her memoir Rabbi, Your Cleavage Is Showing, Michal S. Mendelsohn details growing up in a New York City hotel apartment, where Jewish holidays are observed within a small household marked by family silence. Her mother, Charlotte, keeps Passover and Rosh Hashanah, but no other...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

Donna Hills Patrick and Raymond Hills’s The Town I Crow About is an honest window into the real history of East Millstone, New Jersey. It takes us through the memories of a man who lived there for over ninety years. The book relies on raw...

In Moon Weaver’s Autobiography of an Ordinary Polish Man, the author speaks about his childhood spent tending cows with a loving mother who tragically died of cancer when he was just nine. His memoir maps out a lifetime of trying to escape poverty by reading...

When Amber Black was six years old, she heard the story of Cain and Abel. The story moved her so deeply that she has sought to maintain a close relationship with God ever since. After going through various life experiences, she has come to understand...

Alan Shayne's And It Only Took 100 Years... is his memoir from a Brookline boyhood into a public life built through acting, casting, producing, and studio leadership. Shayne enters the theater as a young man looking for a future beyond family expectations, then learns how...

Vevian Delalamon Salahid’s passion for teaching special needs children took her from her home and family in the Philippines to America, where she began a new life. She shares her journey in The Heart of a Special Education Teacher: A Journey of Resilience, Inclusion, and...