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...

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...