Sometimes history feels different when it’s told through the eyes of someone who lived through it. In That Damned War by John Gregery Medel, Sarah Ann Hillin looks back on her childhood in East Texas before, during, and after the Civil War. She grows up...

The Burnout Imperative opens with Patrice Bonfiglio breaking down in tears during a flamenco show in Madrid. That turning point, along with a later health scare, forces her to face years of ignored exhaustion and stress hidden beneath her image as a driven, successful hedge-fund...

Finding peace with yourself can change the way you see everything around you. In The Oneness Guide for Today, Faith Spencer offers young women a guide to understanding themselves, their thoughts, and their connection to the world. The book examines self-perception and the outside influences...

In The Phoenix Within, Tabitha Polenz recounts a Cleveland, Ohio, childhood marked by instability at home, where she learns early on to watch the adults around her for signs that something is about to change. At fifteen, motherhood gives her a reason to imagine a...

Thank God I Got Cancer...I'm Not a Hypochondriac Anymore! 10 Years Later by Angelina Assanti is a well-written memoir that discusses the realities of being a cancer survivor. Humorously, Angelina tells her story beginning with her experiences as a hypochondriac from birth and with lymphedema...

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...