Sometimes being there for someone can change everything. In Brian Oberman’s memoir The Woman at the Sunshine Factory, he’s living a fairly ordinary life until he meets Viktoriia, a Ukrainian immigrant, on a dating app. Their first date at the Sunshine Factory leads to more...

Love may be simple in theory, but relationships rarely are. In The Big Day: Saying “I Do” Only to Discover I Didn’t by Lisa Cheek, the author is walking down the aisle for the first time at forty-nine. She never grew up dreaming about her...

In The “W” Word, Jo Horne recounts the final months of her forty-two-year marriage to Larry after doctors tell them his declining health has reached the point where hospice is approaching. Horne begins recording their remaining time together as she tries to comprehend the widowhood...

Mitch Fadem’s The Unassuming Spy: The Inside Story of a CIA Asset follows a toxicologist whose professional career leads to twenty years of covert work for the CIA. Recruited because his background gives him access to researchers, Fadem travels abroad under his own identity while...

Toward the Light: A Year in Paris by Deborah Svec-Carstens is a thoughtful, honest, and refreshingly positive memoir of one woman’s journey to Paris as an American au pair during the early 1990s. The author had just graduated from college and was working alongside her...

Rich Higgins has worked in global logistics for over four decades, experiencing all aspects of supply chain logistics. Over the course of his career, he has faced numerous challenges, including ocean container price hikes, overpriced tariffs, volatile supply chains, and more. Along the way, he...

Can love overcome past hurts? That’s the question Tanya A. Taibl answers in The Words She Left Behind. Before we can get to Taibl’s caregiving journey, we need to understand the family dynamics that preceded it. The author had been estranged from her aunt for...

In The Serra is Burning, American counselor Daral Boles shares her personal story of moving to the remote mountains of central Portugal to help build a prominent wellness project called the Real Change Retreat Center. What started as a plan for creating a genuine space...

In The Homelessness Fix: How to Save the World While Everyone Else Argues About It, Claudio Bono presents a citizen-led proposal for ending homelessness through existing resources. Drawing on his experience in hotel management, Bono introduces GiveaRoof.org, a plan that redirects unused loyalty points toward...

Quentin F. Veit’s memoir, The Bumpy Road, offers a raw, firsthand look at the sheer grit it took for his family to survive on their farm in Osage Bend, Missouri. Covering the challenging years between 1930 and 1945, Veit shares his actual childhood memories of...