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 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...

Seang/Hungering is an ode to Irish people and their struggles. In this illuminating collection of poems, Anne Casey depicts the trials and tribulations of Irish famine immigrants in Ireland and Australia. "Scarcity Commission" is a poignant poem that illustrates the devastating impact of the Great...

Stillness and Survival: A Life Between Trauma, Glitter, and the Echo of My Own Voice by Jacob Anthony Rose is a deeply personal and cathartic memoir about the loneliness, self-doubt, and trauma of a young boy growing up gay and too scared to embrace his...

Scaling the Wall by Christopher Earley is a deeply personal memoir that discusses his healing process stemming from the weight of childhood trauma. On the outside, he seemed to have it all as a successful Boston lawyer, but on the inside, there were scars from...

Stand Up Speak Up: How Survivors Created a Movement to End Sexual Violence by Tim Lennon is a powerful and deeply informative exploration of the survivor-led movement against sexual violence. Drawing from his personal experiences as a survivor of childhood abuse by a Catholic priest,...

Singing Through Fire, A Memoir: Finding Surprising Joy in Life's Darkest Trials by Lara Silverman begins with her transition from law to facing a debilitating neurological illness that forces her into near-total bed rest. She details physical symptoms like vertigo, nerve pain, jaw spasms, and...

Swept Away: A True Story of Grief & Acceptance by Becky Graff chronicles her family’s outdoor lifestyle before and during early 2020, sharing milestones like her daughters learning to ride bikes and homeschooling during the pandemic. On a camping trip at Little Wild Horse Canyon,...

Sandra Tow’s memoir, Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, offers an intimate exploration of her complex relationship with her mother, against a working-class Southern and blue-collar upbringing in the 1970s and 80s. The book traces Tow’s journey from a child who idolized her single mother to an...

Song of the Cardinal by Cynthia Waine Brandt is one of the best memoirs I have read in many years, handling loss and grief with a unique beauty of prose and ingenuity of thought. The author narrates her journey through grief after the sudden loss...