When My Heart Broke: A Journey Through Loss by Brenda Carroll Jarvis details her grandson Michael Caleb Chavarria’s life, and the spiritual record she kept after his death at age twenty-five while serving in the United States Air Force in Okinawa. The author shares...

A Past That Lies Before Me by Steve Clark, PhD, recounts the unexpected collapse of a stable professional life after a series of misguided decisions led to his arrest and imprisonment. The memoir begins with the moment Clark’s life changes dramatically when the police arrive,...

In her memoir Keep the Flowers: Tell the Healing You're Coming Home, Ellie Williams describes being nine years old when menstruation begins, with severe pelvic pain. Yet every medical appointment ends the same way, as doctors review normal test results and send her home without...

Play From Your Heart: A Journey Through Loss, Resilience, and the Beautiful Game by Scott Martin, with Coryanne Hicks, opens with the confident stride of a rising college soccer coach at the height of his career. In the summer of 1993, Martin is thriving, invited...

Welcome Darkness by Aubrey E. Drummond is an intimate poetry collection written after his wife's passing. Through unfiltered poetry, Drummond shares his thoughts about grief, love, and the memories that stayed with him. Some poems focus on the pain of missing someone, while others reflect...

Three Letters by A.L. Mengel is a deeply personal memoir chronicling the author's journey with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic metabolic disorder. The book opens with Mengel's early years, detailing the challenges his family faced after his diagnosis as one of the first PKU babies...

Angels of Paradise is a memoir by Barbara Murphy. Barbara finds herself in prison on her birthday for the crime of kidnapping her own son. She had taken Valentin to the Bahamas to save both of them from a horrible life. In the Bahamas, she...

The Diary of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Alcoholic follows Elli Rose Cikovic as alcohol becomes the fixed driver of her decisions from adolescence into adult life. After starting to drink in her teens, she began experiencing recurring blackouts that reshaped how she moved through school, relationships, and...

Open Water by Alex Dean is a brutally honest memoir of a young man trapped in a mind and body that would not do what he wanted. The author describes his journey through mental and medical misdiagnoses, bullying, and periods of severe depression and uncertainty....

In his memoir Livin' It, Michael Perzel grew up in Philadelphia, first in the Abbotsford Projects and then in Mayfair. When his parents separate as he turns eleven, he begins living with unusual autonomy. He starts earning money, spending nights outside the house, and relying...