FBI Snitches, Blackmail, and Obscene Ethics at the Supreme Court by Alex Charns is one of those rare books that reads like a legal thriller. Charns, a criminal defense attorney who spent over four decades pursuing secret FBI files through federal courts, reveals how J....

The Rogue's Confession by Serge R. Pospelov carries an unusual disclaimer on its opening page: all the people are fictional; all the events are real. That tension is what makes this book so gripping. Written by a former Russian Army officer who later escaped from...

Spun by Glenda Toews is the true story of what happens when a con man finds his way into the life of someone who genuinely believed in him. Glenda is a bartender at Corky's Pub in British Columbia, a woman of sharp instincts and warm...

In The Long Journey Home, Wes Lewis opens up about the exact moment he realized his decades of military discipline and career success were just walls hiding a deep emotional distance. After a lifetime of constant moving, broken marriages, and a chaotic phase where he...

In John Wesley Wilson’s Straight to Hell: Memoir of an Ex-Evangelical Pastor, Wilson grows up in rural Alabama inside a world shaped by Pentecostal religion, family violence, poverty, and fear of divine punishment. After becoming a pastor, husband, and father, he spends years trying to...

In Selina Co’s explosive memoir, I’m a Romance Scam IT Detective, Selina, an IT consultant in Australia, begins a steady online exchange with Frederick Chong, who claims to be a civil engineer working from New York. She quickly fixes their future around a meeting overseas,...

In his memoir Poking Fun at My Pusillanimity: A Queer Southern Becoming, Kenneth Cupp describes living with his mother and step-father in MawMaw Elsie’s house after leaving a crowded trailer, sharing space in closely monitored and conservative routines. At school, he's repeatedly bullied by Rob,...

The Jezebel Tracks by Gardner Landry is a tale of dysfunction, narcissism, addiction, and psychopaths. This may seem to be an unlikely vehicle for humor, but Gardner Landry carries it off with precision and style, while painting a bleak picture of his dysfunctional family. The...

Lorrie Parise's 25902: Homemade with Love is a long look back at a house that meant everything to a family. Lorrie starts at the point where she has to leave, and from there she rewinds into how her parents, Alice and Fidel, made it happen...

Salvaged From the Flood by Brian Paige is a collection of personal stories that journey through his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, offering snapshots of a life shaped by memory, ambition, and unexpected twists. The book starts with his reflections on growing up in Louisville, where...