Sol Luckman has eloquently written a witty, insightful memoir in Musings From a Small Island: Everything Under the Sun. As an art major, I thoroughly enjoyed Sol’s humor and philosophical thoughts on the elusive purpose of art and his expression of life on his small...

Never Summer: A Thousand Rainbows by Stan Nicholas is an absorbing memoir about spending summers with his family as migrant laborers. They spent over fifteen summers of Stan’s youth driving on road trips to the North West from early June to early July. The family...

Canela con Miel y Clavos: Cinnamon with Honey and Nails is an introspective anthology of poems, short stories, personal anecdotes, and an essay by Dr. Robert J. Woodbine. Born in Queens, New York, to two Caribbean immigrants, Robert was still a child when he was...

Ten Lanterns: Light Your Way—Lighten Your Pain by Evagoras Evagorou is a motivational memoir and self-help book that traces the author's journey to his personal transformation through decades of experiential learning. Evagorou uses a train journey as a metaphor, recounting his encounters with illuminating individuals...

Hangmen: Riding with an Outlaw Motorcycle Club in the Old Days is a raw and gritty memoir that takes readers into motorcycle gangs in the 60s and 70s. Dale E. Arenson was a high school dropout from a broken family. His two options were enlisting...

Bipolar: A Gift of Thorns is a deeply insightful memoir by Dale Zurawski about coping with bipolar disorder. Her husband, Geoff, is battling prostate cancer, which propels her to seek a psychiatrist. She is diagnosed as bipolar, which leads her on a path to understanding...

Quilt of Souls: A Memoir by Phyllis Biffle Elmore is the inspiring, touching story of how young Phyllis was left at her grandmother Lula's house at age four and how her journey went from feelings of loneliness and abandonment to love and fulfillment. While quilting,...

Better Lucky Than Good (From Outlaw Biker to Airline Pilot, And Beyond) by Dale E Arenson is a memoir about the author’s unconventional path to becoming a commercial pilot. Dale narrates his life as an outlaw biker and the events that led him to change...

Walking While Black is a heart-wrenching first-hand account by Polly J. Runyon-Sanders and Anthonii Sanders of a horrible night in 2009 in which Anthonii, aka Nii, was violently and viciously attacked by the Downers Grove Police in the suburbs of Chicago. Without warning, police used...

In her delightful travelogue, Honeymoon at Sea: How I Found Myself Living on a Small Boat, Jennifer Silva Redmond documents her journeys with her husband, Russell, threading intriguing bits about her life before their marriage into the story. In 1989, the newlyweds began their journey...