Her Name Was Kelly by Michael Custos is a heartfelt and deeply honest memoir of a young boy’s descent into the world of state control and upbringing in California. The author’s father left their home when he was just a young lad, and his mother...

Sometimes, looking back, the moments that hurt the most are also the ones we never want to lose. In Fig Trees: A Childhood Lived in the Shadow of Murder by Marnie Ross, the author looks back on growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, with her mother,...

Life with a reactive dog is no easy venture. Maintaining your love for that reactive dog can be very difficult at times, especially when all the hard training over the past few months has proved futile in practice and your reactive dog, on a leash,...

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...

In her inspiring memoir, Mountain-Valley & The Rearview Mirror: A Journey of Faith, Resilience and Becoming Enough, Elaine V. Blyden-Hutchinson reflects on her childhood on Nevis and her experiences in the United States. At ten months old, her mother brings Hutchinson to Nevis to be...

Julie Brill’s Hidden in Plain Sight is a family memoir about a daughter trying to understand the Holocaust history that shaped her father’s childhood in Belgrade. Haim survived the German occupation as a small boy, yet the Holocaust Julie learned about in America never seemed...

Being a kid can be frightening when the monsters are real people and ideas. In Final Girl: Surviving Church and Childhood, Debbie McNulty looks back on growing up in a household marked by conflict and a religion that taught her to be afraid of the...

Voices Within: Life Before and After by Lana Stasek tells a deeply personal story of survival, mapping out the inner lines that can divide a person’s life into two distinct halves. Stasek walks us through her past by exploring complicated family relationships and major historical...

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...

When Tony Stewart and his wife Lynn received the news that she had cancer, it completely changed their lives. Many of their friends were concerned and wanted to know more so they could support the couple. For this reason, Tony started a journal about Lynn...