I enjoyed reading Losing the Dollhouse by S. Jane Gari. This is Jane’s story of how, after dealing with years of sexual abuse by her stepfather, she finally works up the courage and tells her mother. Instead of protecting her daughter, Jane’s mother turns against...

The And: Learning to Trust God's Sovereignty and Grace Through Life's Heartache by Erin Reichman is an exceptional memoir with an unusual title, a book that should be read by everyone. In fact, readers may be baffled when they read the title, but fortunately the...

Escape From Xanadu: A Memoir of Survival, Adventure, and Coming of Age is a non-fiction memoir written by Doc Sanborn. The author was quite literally a war baby. His father enlisted in the Merchant Marines when Sanborn was five months old. Shore leave visits were...

Diary of a Shanghai Showgirl: Raising the Red Curtain on China...Uncensored by Amelia Kallman starts with Amelia getting off a plane in China with Norman, and wondering what on earth she has done. She feels both excited and worried at the same time, and is...

"I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." India Arie's words have never rung louder in my mind than when I was reading Crowning Glory: An Experiment in Self-Discovery Through Disguise by Stacy Harshman. Stacy's inner...

“What happens when you discover that the only morality that exists is survival?” With this single line from his book Lines in the Sand, F. Scott Service bravely and defiantly offers up an irrefutable indictment of war and its practitioners – cowardly politicians, greedy corporations,...

Breast Cancer Mardi Gras: Surviving the Emotional Hurricane and Showing My Boobs to Strangers by Dawn Bontempo is Dawn's journey on the road to breast cancer remission. From the initial pain that she just wrote off, to the Facebook post announcing her cancer, to the...

You Can Leave Anytime by Rob Dinsmoor is the insightful journey of a man who, after twenty-five years of alcohol abuse, decides to check himself into Wetlands Rehabilitation Facility to sober up. Rob’s check-in process is thorough, detailing the body and luggage searches, paperwork, declarations,...

Being Selfish: My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother is Sarah Marshank’s memoir about her spiritual and physical journey to find answers to life’s most burning questions. Who is God? What is religion? Is sex an instrument of love? Should it only be shared...

Jonathan Tindale spent a while living in New Zealand, housed in a dilapidated caravan located in the remote South Island countryside that New Zealanders call the wop-wops. Some considerable time later, long after his return to his native UK, he received a scrappy manuscript which,...