Climb the Mountain by David R. Beshears is a memoir that recounts a father’s determination to help his son recover after a life-changing medical crisis. Much of the book unfolds through emails as the family navigates the long, uncertain process of rehabilitation. David, once active...

Life Skills: A Handbook for Parents & Teachers of the Intellectually Disabled by Shari Pierce is one of those books you wish you'd found sooner if you're working with or raising someone with developmental needs. Pierce spent decades in the classroom, and you can really...

The Wilds of Cancer: A Life-Affirming Journey by Rick Lamplugh takes readers on a journey through Rick’s struggle with and recovery from prostate cancer. Rick begins by describing the circumstances leading up to his diagnosis while on a hike with his wife, Mary, and a...

Meredith Rutter Marple's I Live You For Ever is a memoir that documents her husband Gary’s descent into dementia and her role as a caregiver. The memoir captures her experiences, thoughts, and reflections, starting on May 14, 2010. She notices the mild slips, like memory...

In her memoir Keep the Flowers: Tell the Healing You're Coming Home, Ellie Williams describes being nine years old when menstruation begins, with severe pelvic pain. Yet every medical appointment ends the same way, as doctors review normal test results and send her home without...

A Couple Notes, Actually: Your Favorite Friends with Autistic Kids asked Me to tell You This by Chenae Goodson gives realistic and essential advice to teachers, doctors, family, and friends who interact with families raising autistic children. Goodson writes this book from conversations where parents...

Three Letters by A.L. Mengel is a deeply personal memoir chronicling the author's journey with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic metabolic disorder. The book opens with Mengel's early years, detailing the challenges his family faced after his diagnosis as one of the first PKU babies...

Open Water by Alex Dean is a brutally honest memoir of a young man trapped in a mind and body that would not do what he wanted. The author describes his journey through mental and medical misdiagnoses, bullying, and periods of severe depression and uncertainty....

Reflections on Being a Physician by Robert G. Hooper, M.D, is aptly named, for that is exactly what this book is – a thoughtful reflection based on one man’s many years of experience in the medical field. It’s broken down into three distinct sections. Each...

Perimenopause Clarity is a practical guide for women seeking to understand the bodily changes that occur before menopause and to place those changes within a defined biological process. Karen Herrera explains how perimenopause is an extended transition driven by hormonal variations and shows how recognizing...