Stress finds a way to sap the sleep, peace, and fun from our lives. However, it can also be an excellent motivator and driver of success. Olga Pinn is a certified meditation teacher and wellness coach who spent the better part of the last few...

Sentenced to Hang: Memoirs of Billy Hands 1768-1853, written by Tony Rail, is a biographical account based on the life of a Worcestershire farmer's son, William "Billy" Hands, who creates a new existence for himself in the thriving industrial workshops of 18th-century Birmingham. Billy Hands...

Pedaling through the US states before turning 70 would be the dream of many, one they would happily die with because it seems impossible. But in Seasons in the Saddle, Joe Tarantino has lived that dream with humor, heart, and humility. He chronicles his "50x70"...

In her memoir Shattered: A Story of Betrayal and Loss, Nora Plesent recounts how her search for affection transformed the life she had built as a New York attorney raising four children. After years in an unhappy marriage, Plesent travels to China to adopt her...

Searching for Full: How GLP-1s Changed My Eating-Disordered Life by Paige Gordon is a memoir that traces many years of bulimia nervosa, beginning in childhood and tangled up with trauma, family strain, and years of treatments that never quite worked. The book opens with an...

Rich Merritt grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, where racism and homophobia were equally rife. He was educated at Bob Jones University, the Fortress of Fundamentalism, where, except for meeting his forever best friend Gary, it ended up being a specter that showed up in...

Shelter Stories by Mark Eaton is a collection of 14 stories from his time in the United States, where he lived for 30 years after losing his passport and becoming homeless. To survive, he lived on the streets and entered the world of homeless shelters...

In his memoir Scars of the Badge, Tom Lee describes leaving an electrical engineering path after a university Police Explorers program leads him toward law enforcement. Dispatching gives him his first view of police work before academy training places him on the other side of...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

Ari Schneider’s Stolen Headstones is a compelling memoir where the author reconstructs his grandfather Louis’ actual experiences during the Holocaust by cross-referencing family documents with official international archive data. The book details how Louis fabricated heroic stories about shooting soldiers and eating rodents to mask...