Dierdre Wolownick’s Success in 7 Steps begins with the difference between a dream and a goal. A dream can live for years as something wished for, but Wolownick’s method begins when the reader decides what the destination actually is. First comes what must be learned....

Bud Megargee’s SOUL Octopus Analogy introduces a New Age model of the soul as an octopus whose head holds a central spiritual consciousness while each arm carries a separate incarnation. Those lives may exist across different eras at once, gathering experience for the same larger...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

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...

In his memoir Six Weeks, William Ledbetter follows the final illness of his sister, Nancy, after doctors find that cancer has reached the area around her brain and spine. Nancy asks to leave the hospital and spend her remaining time in her adult daughter's New...

Shameful Silence: What You Don’t Know About Domestic Violence by Alexandra Lozano examines an often-overlooked aspect of intimate partner violence: male victims and the barriers they face in seeking recognition, support, and justice. Drawing on her experience as an immigration attorney, Lozano shares stories of...

Parenthood is a unique experience. You have someone to share both the good and bad times with, and you have the privilege of watching your children grow and teaching them life lessons, such as how to have confidence in themselves. However, every family is different,...

Douglas Y. Park’s Starting Startups talks about how startups become sustainable only when the founders continuously keep People, Product, and Position connected to the same business goal, even as customer behavior changes over time. Park’s message is that founders frequently damage startups by treating an...

Most non-profits fail within the first five years due to financial decline, operational collapse, lack of leadership, legal troubles, etc. According to Ryan Dewey Smith, you have to be a pragmatic optimist to run a non-profit organization. Smith is the founding chairman and CEO of...

Edouard Prisse’s Sleeping With the Enemy is a political and economic commentary that examines China’s rise as a global power and argues that Western trade policies helped create the current imbalance between democratic nations and the Chinese government. The book centers on the belief that...