In The Promise We Made, Larry and Sherry Swank recount how losing their young son led them to help children in South Bend. Sherry longed to become a mother when she married Larry, the owner of the Indiana company where she worked. Their son Jaxson...

Cape Con tells the true story of Aster Amelia, a daughter who decided to come home and care for her father, ending 20 years of estrangement. Aster was known as the daughter who abandoned her mother while she was dying, when it was actually orchestrated...

Restored by Jeremiah Isaiah Cain tells the story of the author’s life, his experience with adoption, and the challenges he faced around mental health. For years, his adoptive family kept his adoption a secret, worried he might feel rejected or unloved if he knew the...

Your Good Death by Karen Spencer is a non-fiction book on grief and hardship that focuses on end-of-life care. This book would be a useful resource for people entering end-of-life care or for their friends and family members. Many people want control of how their...

Always Here: Widowed With Young Children by Jesse Kuhn is a grief companion written specifically for parents raising kids alone after losing a spouse, a narrow, deeply specific audience that most grief books overlook entirely. The book unfolds across four parts, from understanding grief in...

When Tony Stewart and his wife Lynn received the news that she had cancer, it completely changed their lives. Many of their friends were concerned and wanted to know more so they could support the couple. For this reason, Tony started a journal about Lynn...

What I Wish I Knew Years Ago by Sam Brady is a personal self-help guide written as a letter to her own younger self, covering everything she learned on the way from a difficult childhood and rough young adulthood to a life she now calls...

Where the Air Grows Thin by Nicole LoBiondo chronicles the author’s mountaineering experiences in which she endeavors to climb the seven summits, the highest mountain on every continent, including some of the most widely known, such as Aconcagua in Argentina, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Denali...

The Good Death: A Guide for Supporting Your Loved One Through the End of Life by Suzanne B. O’Brien, RN, is an end-of-life planning guide that helps families understand dying and prepare in advance. O’Brien begins with the physical process of approaching death, then explains...

Kaya Gibson’s Released is the story of her extraordinary life, beginning with her early childhood when she was born as Rhonda Baker in Flint, Michigan. Her troubles begin at six when she loses her mother to Hodgkin's disease and survives abuse after that. Diagnosed with...