If you have ever wondered how extensive health systems can move past rigid leadership, Why Not? by Robert C. Garrett and Jose M. Azar offers a fantastic answer. They explore growth and real-world milestones at Hackensack Meridian Health, showing how a simple, challenging question can...

In Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All, when Glen Cantrell leaves the Bay Area for Twain Harte, California, he expects mountain life, not responsibility for keeping a business community afloat. Then he becomes president of the volunteer Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce as...

David Haldane’s A Tooth in My Popsicle is a fascinating look at what happens when an American expat packs up and moves to the Philippines. The book begins with a major financial crisis that costs Haldane his job at the Los Angeles Times, leading to...

In Leave the Kid Alone: A Fractured Remembrance, author Steve Zettler welcomes readers into the chaotic childhood of young Stevie during an unforgettable year in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Growing up right above a family-owned saloon and country inn ensures that Stevie’s daily life looks nothing...

Rabble Rouser is John L. Skosey's firsthand account of the fight to save the University of Illinois Hospital in 1989, a battle he led as President of the Medical Staff. The trouble begins one week before Christmas 1988, when University President Stanley O. Ikenberry announces...

Dementia In The Raw by Lisa Berlanga is her uncensored account of becoming a full‑time caregiver after her mother’s stroke changes everything at home. A diagnosis of dementia altered everything for her, turning her life upside down, sideways, any way but upright and facing forward....

Hidden Medicine is a remarkable and coherent account of a psychiatrist and devout Christian who combines medicine and spirituality. This extraordinary doctor is Thomas McCormack, a faith-driven American who, after graduating in medicine and specializing in psychiatry, decided to treat mental illnesses through a method...

In He Feeds Dinosaurs, Daniel and Kristan Dow recount the birth of their son Elijah, who enters the world after a prolonged delivery followed by seven minutes of not breathing on his own. After his NICU recovery, Elijah comes home to San Francisco, where his...

That Will Never Do! by Ralph V. Clayman, MD, is a thoughtful medical memoir that explores the unique career of a surgeon whose ultimate goal was actually to make traditional incisions obsolete. Shaped by a demanding childhood and a constant search for his father’s approval,...

Telling Dixie Goodbye by Scott Oglesby opens a window into the author’s turbulent, wandering life as he tries to distance himself from his conservative Southern upbringing. Growing up in a strict household in the shadow of a demanding father, Oglesby has a profound sense of...