The Alchemy of Motherhood by trauma counselor and mother Casey Keen is based on her own personal struggles with the healthcare system and the lack of resources for new mothers. She discusses birth trauma, postpartum depression, and relationship strain. Many women suffer in silence, being...

That Will Never Do! by Ralph V. Clayman, MD, is a thoughtful medical memoir that explores the unique career of a surgeon whose ultimate goal was actually to make traditional incisions obsolete. Shaped by a demanding childhood and a constant search for his father’s approval,...

Telling Dixie Goodbye by Scott Oglesby opens a window into the author’s turbulent, wandering life as he tries to distance himself from his conservative Southern upbringing. Growing up in a strict household in the shadow of a demanding father, Oglesby has a profound sense of...

The legal profession seems to attract its fair share of characters. Kevin O'Donnell has seen more than most and entertains readers with his reminiscences in Tales from the Oldest Profession: As Told by a Very Common Lawyer. He reflects on his student days, playing pranks,...

Lena Atoug’s The Grieving Eye is a memoir about childhood bereavement, family memory, and exile. Atoug grows up in Yugoslavia with a beloved father whose presence fills the house, a mother who is always alert to danger, and a grandmother whose stories keep earlier losses...

The Big Picture by Pat Ferns follows the Canadian television producer from a childhood shaped by his family’s move from Winnipeg to England to his return to Canada in 1968, when a chance CBC appointment brings him into national current affairs broadcasting. Ferns learns television...

Keith Thorn’s The Life I Still Want for You is a memoir of love written for the person who may one day have to keep living after his absence. Thorn begins with Melody, the woman whose presence taught him that love is happiness joined to...

The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu is a fascinating memoir that unmasks the psychological vulnerabilities of people who identify as high achievers. Drawing from his years as an elite Ivy League fencer and his current work as a psychiatrist, Radu explores...

In Coda Blue’s The King of Happy Valley, a young Recon Marine returns from Okinawa to Camp Talega, the isolated Camp Pendleton outpost that becomes home. He is a skilled Point Man whose appetite for the next experience takes him from dangerous training into a...

In her memoir The Great Triumph, Jeanne Estelle Saddler follows the life of her mother, Thelma, from a childhood in a South Carolina sharecropping family to adulthood in Detroit. After the Osborne family joins the Great Migration, Thelma's intelligence brings her into the home of...