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...

If you find yourself bogged down and feel the need to change, Give a Shift by Carolyn J. Phinney is the perfect solution. There could be work or relationship issues, financial troubles, a toxic situation, or perhaps a personal tragedy holding you back. If you...

In My Pain Is My Wife, Mohan Kumar Thadi tells the story of his pain and how it permanently altered the course of his life. Mohan was a bright young engineering student in 2003. He had many dreams that he wanted to achieve. But a...

Alexandra Dionisio’s Learning to Say Goodbye grabs you with three devastating words: “Kathrin is dead.” They are spoken over a phone line to Dubai in 2016. Four years after cancer claimed the life of her mother, Kathrin, her best friend since childhood and the keeper...

The Marauder and His Daughter is Linda S. Cunningham's memoir built around her father's 1944 diary from his time serving with Merrill's Marauders in Burma during World War II. The book opens in 1992 as the author drives to interview her father, Larry W. Stephenson,...

Jesse Kuhn offers a remarkable and useful tool when experiencing the death of any loved one, but especially a spouse. As I read Always Here: Death of a Spouse, I took away six key points to apply to the grief process. While many people might...

Voices to Victories by Tara Peterson is a bruising, deeply personal memoir that traces one woman's path from a fractured Catholic upbringing through addiction, manipulation, and years spent inside the club scene, before achieving hard-won faith and recovery. The three words in the subtitle map...

Deadly Dilemma by Anthony Gurley opens with a suicide letter the 73-year-old author wrote in May 2023 and never sent. Instead of acting on the thoughts, Anthony chooses to take a harder look at his life. What follows is a memoir that narrates a fascinating...

A Yankee Airman and his Southern Belle by Rita Morrin opens at 3 A.M. on December 8, 1973, with a phone call in a cold Anchorage apartment that no military wife ever wants to receive. Rita's husband Ken, an Air Force man from upstate New...