Pain Management Decoded: Surviving and Thriving with Chronic Pain by Dr. JB Kirby is a non-fiction self-help book relating to chronic pain management. In this fairly short book, JB talks about her own extensive background as a medical professional and a nurse practitioner who has...

Paid to Live the Dream: A Seafarer's Tale of Life Afloat contains a series of Anthony Edwards’ fascinating accounts as he leaves his family behind for the more colorful and riveting life of a seafarer. Born in Gravesend, England, Edwards had a difficult childhood. When...

What an interesting read. Prince and Me: His #1 Fan by Andrea Foy is the story of the author’s loyalty to the musician, Prince. As a flight attendant, she had the opportunity to follow Prince to many parts of the world and get to know...

Proud American: The Migrant, Soldier, and Agent by Sergio Tinoco is a first-person account of three distinct phases of the author’s life. Beginning his senior year in high school, Sergio realizes he wants to be the one to break the cycle of migrant work...

Possessed: From Darkness to Light by Cordelia Lee is a memoir that reads like horror, and it’s hard to believe this is a true story, but the narrator’s voice is so real that the reader is compelled to accept the extraordinary events narrated in this...

I like memoirs that highlight the contributions of (so called) “ordinary Americans.” Patrolling the Heart of the West: True Tales of a Nevada State Trooper by Steve Raabe is one of those contributions. Told in an engaging style and often punctuated with humor, these vignettes...

Pray the Gay Away by Michael Zakar and Zach Zakar is a memoir, at times sensational and heartbreaking, of Iraqi twins in modern America, two brothers “cursed” to be gay — at least in the eyes of their own mother. How can they admit to...

Please Stay: A Brain Bleed, A Life In The Balance, A Love Story by Greg Payan is a non-fiction book on a couple’s journey through Holly’s life-threatening illness. Please Stay is written from the perspective of Greg, Holly’s partner and husband for over a decade....

Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, Lizbeth Meredith’s personal narrative of regaining her kidnapped daughters, is nothing if not poignant. Of course, the subtitle tells us the story’s resolution, but reading about her herculean struggles to get her daughters back from the unscrupulous clutches...