In Life and How to Live It, Chaz Holesworth describes being seventeen in 1995 Philadelphia after CIBA, the born-again Christian school that shaped his days, expels him. The same week, Laura, the girlfriend whose future has become part of his escape plan, is forced by...

Is it possible to live a life far from the mundane and conventional demands of day-to-day living? June Burn’s classic memoir Living High answers this question with a resounding, “Yes!” First published in 1941 and recently published as an ebook in its eighth edition, June...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...

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...