Packets of Hope: A Wish for Every Child by Jill Siegal Chalsty follows the author as she moves from a long, healing sea voyage straight into a driving trip through six European nations. Dealing with her own cancer recovery and mourning her late husband, she...

In Turned Around, Valeri McCarthy opens up about what it takes to outlive a volatile childhood and finally take back the reins of your own life. Looking back at her early years in southern Indiana, she describes the exhaustion of living with an unpredictable father,...

In Getting Old Ain’t Fun, Lisa Creech Saleh shares a deeply personal account of her 87-year-old mother, Marsha Gail Coley. The book chronicles the realities of managing progressive dementia, while exploring the difficult transitions from independent living in North Carolina to specialized memory care units....

Sentenced to Hang: Memoirs of Billy Hands 1768-1853, written by Tony Rail, is a biographical account based on the life of a Worcestershire farmer's son, William "Billy" Hands, who creates a new existence for himself in the thriving industrial workshops of 18th-century Birmingham. Billy Hands...

Birdsong by Belle Mills is a remarkable memoir. Belle was born to a mother who battled overwhelming grief, health issues, and addiction. Throughout her life, Belle struggled to adapt, to relate to others, to mask her overwhelming anxiety, and not to feel like a burden....

On the surface, Paige Huskey seemed like a well-put-together community college professor passionate about her work. But her personal life was crumbling. She struggled to take care of herself, let alone Livvy, her youngest child, who was going through a turbulent period. That's when she...

Joe Quarcoo’s The Long Way Round is a memoir about finding purpose when a career takes an unexpected direction. After working in public planning in Ghana, Quarcoo moves to Britain, where frontline social care leads him to reconsider how professional worth is measured. Looking back...

Pedaling through the US states before turning 70 would be the dream of many, one they would happily die with because it seems impossible. But in Seasons in the Saddle, Joe Tarantino has lived that dream with humor, heart, and humility. He chronicles his "50x70"...

In her memoir Shattered: A Story of Betrayal and Loss, Nora Plesent recounts how her search for affection transformed the life she had built as a New York attorney raising four children. After years in an unhappy marriage, Plesent travels to China to adopt her...

Resilience & Reinvention, compiled by Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner, brings together over two dozen memoir shorts about women rebuilding their lives after unexpected changes. In The Crossing, former corporate litigator Amy Laughlin establishes a San Francisco family law practice near her sons’ school, taking...