Gladys H. DeClouet’s memoir, A Layered Life, follows her story from the projects of Jacksonville, Florida, to her roles as an engineer at Conoco. At Jack in the Box, Gladys oversaw more than 900 company-operated restaurants and $1.8 billion in sales. She accepted a position...

In A Body of Evidence: Disbelief, Hidden Disability, and Systemic Harm, S. M. Korhonen opens a bookcase packed with twelve years of reports about her son and begins reconstructing the history obscured by professional conclusions. His hidden disability has been recorded as defiance since infancy,...

Dr. Ronda Beaman's A Life in Letters begins with a bout of “Swedish death cleaning.” While sorting through decades of memorabilia, she discovers that in the midst of corsages and yearbooks destined for the trash, there is one kind of keepsake that remains sacred: letters...

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...

Admitted and Afraid is a memoir by Maggie Boday, a trader whose sudden throat pain becomes a medical emergency after swelling alters her voice, then makes swallowing almost impossible. Her sister brings her to the emergency department, where a CT scan rules out a throat...

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...

A River Still Runs by Fran Coughlin is a memoir that unfolds through self-contained moments from the author’s childhood and early life in Lowell, Massachusetts. Rather than following a strict chronological arc, the book presents memories as a collection of snapshots, moving fluidly across time...

Ascending America: Five Kidney Donors, 50 Peaks in 50 States, One Record-Breaking Journey by Matt Harmody, MD, follows a team of living kidney donors as they attempt to climb the highest point in each of the fifty states in record time. The narrative introduces each...

Adventures of a Looney Scot: From a Glasgow Urban Warrior to a Professional Geologist by Dr. Ian McFeat-Smith is a comprehensive memoir that traces the author’s life from his early years in Glasgow through his personal and professional growth into a geologist. The book combines...

A Past That Lies Before Me by Steve Clark, PhD, recounts the unexpected collapse of a stable professional life after a series of misguided decisions led to his arrest and imprisonment. The memoir begins with the moment Clark’s life changes dramatically when the police arrive,...