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...

The Big Picture by Pat Ferns follows the Canadian television producer from a childhood shaped by his family’s move from Winnipeg to England to his return to Canada in 1968, when a chance CBC appointment brings him into national current affairs broadcasting. Ferns learns television...

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 Anthony J. Mohr’s memoir, Every Other Weekend, the author tells the story of a childhood suspended between two contrasting worlds. After his parents’ divorce at a time when divorce was rare, young Tony lives between two worlds: his biological father’s world, Gerald Mohr, who...

Admitted and Afraid is a memoir by Maggie Boday, a trader whose sudden throat pain becomes a medical emergency after swelling alters her voice, then makes swallowing almost impossible. Her sister brings her to the emergency department, where a CT scan rules out a throat...