Mavi, My Dearest: An Extraordinary Journey to Motherhood by Duygu Mengioğlu is an emotional and perceptive look into motherhood using surrogacy. This is the story of a devoted wife, Duygu, and her husband, Ahmet, a couple who, after years of marriage, decided to turn to...

An Unconditional Friendship by James Pauley Jr. and Charlene Potterbaum is a collection of email letters between the two following a chance meeting soon after September 11th, 2001. At a funeral for a flight attendant who had been on American Airlines flight 11, Jim and...

The Ghost Queen: Welcome To My Life by Bella Masala is a candid memoir that explores relationships, sexual intimacy, and self-discovery through a series of personal stories. Bella talks about her journey with love, heartbreak, and painful childhood memories. Despite embracing her femininity and desire...

How To Burn A Rainbow: My Gay Marriage Didn't Make Me Whole, My Divorce Did is a groundbreaking memoir by Karl Dunn. In it, Karl shares the story of his divorce and journey to self-discovery. After seven years of marriage, Karl thinks that a honeymoon...

Now in her eighties, Carolyn Osborn had a successful career as an author, and wrote, amongst others, numerous anthologies. In Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays, she describes her family ties against the background of World War II and the post-war years in Tennessee and...

Be amazed, perplexed, and inspired. Zarla: Memoir of a Peculiar Filipina by Eli Launluna is based on the author’s life experiences. The heroine, Zarla, was born in Quezon City, Philippines, and is the oldest of two surviving children. Economic hardship and culture dictate that her...

Untangled by Alexandra Hiller is an emotional memoir in which the author narrates her experience of grief following the death of her partner, Stuart, and the hardships that came with trying to make sense of her feelings and place in the world. The memoir illustrates...

True Confessions of an Ambivalent Caregiver is a collection of essays by Cindy Eastman. The desire to commiserate with other caregivers and make people aware of the growing need for resources for older people and their families motivated the author to write these essays. Eastman...

Korea Reunited: A Family’s Lifelong Dream by Irene Kim presents a poignant recollection of how the turbulent past of Korea tore families apart, including that of the author’s father. Kim Chi-Jeon, Irene’s father and the central figure of the book, reveals through rounds of interviews...

Batangas is a memoir by author Bong Serrano. The author includes early memories of loving grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and siblings. Serrano describes how his parents met and the deep bond he had with his gifted mother, Inay, a coloratura soprano. Their family home...