Long Lost by Tami Asars is an honest and warm memoir about completing the rarest achievement in long-distance hiking: the Triple Crown. The author is a professional backpacking guide and guidebook author with decades of trail experience, and did not set out to earn all...

Art Phinney’s Live & Learn: Learn & Live follows his movement from a fatherless childhood in Oakland toward a renewed Christian faith shaped by the people who entered his life at pivotal moments. As a boy living with his single mother, Art receives a horrible...

In Losing It All: Houseless, with Love, Dogs and Sausages by Alexandra Lynn, readers meet a couple whose lives are turned upside down. They were living a comfortable, stable lifestyle with steady work, a nice home, great friends, and three dogs they loved like children....

Like Father, Like Son? by Alix Lee is the true story of what happened to a son who refused to conform to his father’s ideas. In the 1970s, racism and homophobia were rife, and children had no rights. Raised by a strict, authoritarian father, it...

Rachel Bennett Steury’s Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice tells the story of how she chose to become a living kidney donor for a stranger. Her family already had a connection to organ donation through her Uncle Ed, who was a deceased donor. Because...

In his memoir Livin' It, Michael Perzel grew up in Philadelphia, first in the Abbotsford Projects and then in Mayfair. When his parents separate as he turns eleven, he begins living with unusual autonomy. He starts earning money, spending nights outside the house, and relying...

Little Deaths All in a Row by Elizabeth Earley surprised me in ways I never expected with its depth and the author’s ability to communicate complex thoughts so that readers not only understand but also enjoy it. The author examines the paradoxical relationship between sex...

Lifelines by Patricia Haim will appeal to fans of historical non-fiction and memoirs. The book is based on the old letters the author's father, Walter Haim, kept since 1938. The correspondence between the Haim, Kurz, and Neuhaus families inspired the author to research the history...

In Life and How to Live It, Chaz Holesworth recounts his life story. He was raised in Kensington in a poor neighborhood. Both his parents grew up in dysfunctional families, which impacted how they raised Chaz. His father was bright, but his heroin addiction affected...

Lunches with Ed: A Dementia Journey of Love by Judy Collier is a heartfelt and deeply human memoir that tells a love story challenged by the slow, heartbreaking progression of dementia. Told through personal journal entries and reflections, the book follows Collier’s life with her...