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...

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...

Keith Thorn’s The Life I Still Want for You is a memoir of love written for the person who may one day have to keep living after his absence. Thorn begins with Melody, the woman whose presence taught him that love is happiness joined to...

How to Show Up for the Dying and Their Loved Ones by Moriah Melín W. is one of the most genuinely useful and compassionate guides to a subject most of us avoid until we have no choice. The author is a midwife who has spent...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

Heroes, Hope, and Healing -- Accepting Your Inner Daredevil by Kenneth Rogers Jr. uses Marvel's Daredevil as a framework for understanding and healing from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Rogers draws a careful parallel between Matt Murdock's origins, a boy in Hell's Kitchen raised by a...

In Moon Weaver’s Autobiography of an Ordinary Polish Man, the author speaks about his childhood spent tending cows with a loving mother who tragically died of cancer when he was just nine. His memoir maps out a lifetime of trying to escape poverty by reading...

In his memoir Six Weeks, William Ledbetter follows the final illness of his sister, Nancy, after doctors find that cancer has reached the area around her brain and spine. Nancy asks to leave the hospital and spend her remaining time in her adult daughter's New...

The Healing Heart by A. L. Whyte is a haunting, inspiring spiritual odyssey that examines Mike Smith’s journey toward healing from trauma and pain. Mike Smith is a charismatic seminar leader who was severely abused as a child and suffered the loss of his brother,...