Write Your Story: A Self-Start, Write Your Own Biography is a nonfiction instructional guide for writers written by Jennifer Carlson. Dr. Carlson is an author and professional photographer, whose main career field is emergency management. She’s also a keen collector of inspirational quotes that make...

War Nightmares by Michael Montero is a memoir set in Madrid, Spain, in the midst of the bloody Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. A seven-year-old boy is thrust into the struggle between the right-wing Nationals and the ruling left-wing Republican government that...

If it hadn’t been for the fact that I have a daughter currently studying law and security and considering a career in the police force or similar, I might not have selected Woman in Scarlet by Karen L. Adams. What a shame it would have...

I loved Warrior: From Nazi Occupied Holland to the Jungles of Vietnam...An Immigrant's Story by Leonard Deege. A line from a book I read years ago kept popping into my mind. The Grim Reaper is talking to a man whose soul he is about to...

Who Could Forget? Adventures With a Phenomenal Memory by Frank Healy is the extraordinary true story of a young boy's ability to remember every day of his life from the age of six. He can recount not just the major events, but personal ones too;...

What Daddy Didn't Know: Letters of a Fatherless Child by Lance Brazelton is an autobiography that is gripping, as entertaining as it is informative. Here is a story of a 21-year-old Afro-American who grew up in the absence of his father. In this spellbinding autobiography,...

Susanna Janssen is a foreign language educator who lives and teaches in Northern California. Thanks to Wordstruck!, we all can now enjoy the words of humor and learning that have benefited the readers of her column, A Word in Edgewise, published by the Ukiah Daily...

Wasabara: Brothers in Arms is an autobiography written by Elan Wasabara. The author made some mistakes as he was growing up. His childhood was dominated by his love of classical music and the close relationship he enjoyed with his mom. He did, however, fall into...

Trevor MacDonald was once a woman, now a man. When he and his husband decide to start a family, they begin a unique journey through pregnancy and childbirth that will take them face to face with all the typical questions new parents are familiar with:...

Eva Maze’s book, With Ballet in My Soul: Adventures of a Globetrotting Impresario, is an unforgettable memoir. Ms. Maze’s childhood home was in Bucharest, Romania. As a little girl, her dream was to become a ballerina. However, this dream was ended by her parents after...