Shelter Stories by Mark Eaton is a collection of 14 stories from his time in the United States, where he lived for 30 years after losing his passport and becoming homeless. To survive, he lived on the streets and entered the world of homeless shelters...

Cut to the Essence by Sneha Villalva is a self-help book that pulls apart the modern lie that doing more equates to being more. Villalva shares her life as a high achiever who looked successful on the outside but felt broken on the inside. She...

On Easter in 1990, Anselm Ezemson's uncle visited him at school and took him back to his village. Anselm found out that his mother had already been buried in her grave three days before. After his mother's passing, Anselm discovered that her pain and suffering...

Joan T. Seko’s Toshio: My Nisei Father’s Journal follows the life of Toshio Morishima, a Nisei born in Fife, Washington, in 1910, through journal entries gathered by his daughter. His childhood begins on a vegetable farm before the family returns to its estate in Hiroshima,...

Barksdale Chronicles in America, Vol. 2, by Robert A. Groves traces the genealogy of the Barksdale family across more than two hundred years of American history. The first family member explored is William D. Barksdale. He was a Virginia landowner and Revolutionary War veteran. From...

Ari Schneider’s Stolen Headstones is a compelling memoir where the author reconstructs his grandfather Louis’ actual experiences during the Holocaust by cross-referencing family documents with official international archive data. The book details how Louis fabricated heroic stories about shooting soldiers and eating rodents to mask...

Make Up Your Mind, What Do You Want? by R.A. Dillow shares the life of Dillow's father, Donald, a Minnesota farm boy who learns adulthood through paid work after a childhood where major lessons were left unsaid. Raised as one of nine children on a...

In January 1879, thirty Ponca set off on a six-hundred-mile journey. Earlier, the United States government had forced the Ponca to leave their Nebraska homeland and move to the so-called “Indian Territory,” or what would become Oklahoma. There, with inadequate government support, the Ponca suffered....

People in Black History: Famous African Americans by Hugh Smith is a collection of stories and fun facts about Black people who have made outstanding achievements in various fields. The book covers Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and many others remembered as icons in the arts...

In A Warrior of the People, Joe Starita reveals the extraordinary life of Susan La Flesche. Born in a tipi in 1865 to parents of Indigenous and White ancestry, Susan La Flesche spent her life straddling two worlds. Her family insisted that she and her...