When Tony Stewart and his wife Lynn received the news that she had cancer, it completely changed their lives. Many of their friends were concerned and wanted to know more so they could support the couple. For this reason, Tony started a journal about Lynn...

Martin Terrell’s memoir, You’re Only Innocent Once And Once Is Not Enough, is a moving account of a man navigating the courts and using the classroom to leave prison behind. When a long sentence for a burglary conviction came down despite his innocence, he decided...

Stephanie Gurley’s Love Grows Stronger introduces Gurley as a young mother whose plans for a court-reporting profession are altered by a brain tumor discovered after unexplained episodes. Surgery is followed by years of seizures as damaging medication leaves her searching for a way back to...

Talk Numbers to Me: A Surprisingly Simple Guide to Loving the Language of Money by Erica Ash is a business finance book built specifically for women entrepreneurs. The book opens at a lakeside bar in Tahoe, where Ash watches a table of confident, chatty women...

Waiting for the Kick: A Midwife's Grief and Rebirth in Africa by Sheila Kimble-Haas is a memoir that opens in the rawest place possible: the months after the sudden death of the author's husband, Ric, when grief becomes a constant, buzzing presence she can't outrun....

The Tenacious Leader: Your Map to Overcome Change Fatigue by Michelle Smeby is a business guide for executives and managers stuck trying to drive transformation through teams exhausted by too much of it. The book opens with a personal moment on a hiking trail in...

What I Wish I Knew Years Ago by Sam Brady is a personal self-help guide written as a letter to her own younger self, covering everything she learned on the way from a difficult childhood and rough young adulthood to a life she now calls...

Directions in Paradox Comix by John F. Elliott presents stories, wisdom to live by, and humor. You can read it as a philosophical manifesto or therapy guide. Some readers will simply enjoy the illustrations, which are very symbolic. The author cleverly builds maxims into templates...

Contentment: How to Attain Lifelong Peace and Well-being by an anonymous author is a candid, personal account of a childhood and young adulthood of great unhappiness, which continued across several generations of the author's family. From there, the book widens into something closer to a...

Need It, Don't Want It by Jay Avigdor is a business memoir with a clever structural twist. It opens with the author at the peak of success, running his financing company Velocity through a stretch so busy that IPO talk is buzzing through the office,...