When the Lights Are Off by R.A. William is a powerful and inspiring audiobook that offers hope and comfort to readers still dealing with the effects of an abusive childhood and struggling to live through dark moments they don’t talk about. This memoir begins by...

We Learned to Live in the Castle: Stories by Theresa Griffin Kennedy is an incredibly raw, unflinching look at a side of Portland that most people never see. Kennedy doesn’t hold back as she traces her life from a childhood spent in the foster care...

In We Walk Alone, Bob Kern recounts how Alzheimer’s disease gradually reshaped everyday life with his wife, Marsha. After medical testing confirms the diagnosis, Kern is faced with a condition that destroys stored memories and alters behavior in ways neither of them expected. Marsha begins...

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...

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...

What Really Happened to Marion and Candace by Cynthia Cook is the true story of the collapse of a sister bond after dementia enters a family. Marion Horsell, an aging artist living in Park City, depends on her adult son, Shane, and his partner, Sunshine,...

Where the Air Grows Thin: Memoir of a Mountaineer by Nicole LoBiondo takes readers on an incredible journey through the world’s tallest peaks while exploring the connection between love, loss, and the human spirit. The book begins with a gripping account of LoBiondo’s survival during...

In his memoir With You in the Moment, Marcus Batterbury documents his mother Renee’s life from childhood through adulthood, sharing details of her marriage and raising children, which include his own memories as well. He talks about her travels, hospital visits, and both of their...

In her prologue to What Love Leaves Behind, Karen A. Hansen writes that her poems are not perfect. But I beg to differ. True, not all twenty-eight are perfectly rhymed, not all perfectly metered. But each one captures the kind of grief and devotion we...

Wounded Wings: One Man’s Secret Struggle by Jeanne Donovan and Ronald I. Johnson is more than just a bittersweet biography of one man’s life; it is a social documentary of the times and a hard, no-holds-barred look at the evils of childhood sexual abuse, particularly...