Howard L. Dalton’s Four-Footed Sergeant is a beautiful account of a Marine armored unit officer and his fiercely loyal dog, Injector, who served beside him in the intense Pacific theater of World War II. Coming from a Texas farm background and holding a dairy science...

Waiting for the Kick: A Midwife's Grief and Rebirth in Africa by Sheila Kimble-Haas is a memoir that opens in the rawest place possible: the months after the sudden death of the author's husband, Ric, when grief becomes a constant, buzzing presence she can't outrun....

In The Phoenix Within, Tabitha Polenz recounts a Cleveland, Ohio, childhood marked by instability at home, where she learns early on to watch the adults around her for signs that something is about to change. At fifteen, motherhood gives her a reason to imagine a...

Some time ago, Joanna Potepa promised herself she would travel abroad before turning forty. But when the time came, she didn’t have the money or anything planned to make that trip. So she went with her husband and daughter to a border crossing, where she...

In Drifting Sublime Hope, Zach Girard looks back on childhood through memories that seem to exist at a distance, many preserved in videos filmed by the author's father before journals become a record of the years that follow. The author remembers experiencing school differently from...

In Greatly Disappointed, Will James revisits the Seventh-day Adventist faith inherited in childhood, when belief in an imminent Second Coming made certainty part of ordinary life. Decades later, questions about teachings once accepted as Truth send the author back to the church’s beginnings, tracing the...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

In Confessions of a Closeted Clairvoyant, Kim S. Bantle recounts a life in which intuition arrives before explanation. Growing up in Larchmont, New York, in a large Catholic family, she learned early to keep some experiences private. College brings powerful dreams, followed by a career...

Sometimes being there for someone can change everything. In Brian Oberman’s memoir The Woman at the Sunshine Factory, he’s living a fairly ordinary life until he meets Viktoriia, a Ukrainian immigrant, on a dating app. Their first date at the Sunshine Factory leads to more...

Where the Air Grows Thin by Nicole LoBiondo chronicles the author’s mountaineering experiences in which she endeavors to climb the seven summits, the highest mountain on every continent, including some of the most widely known, such as Aconcagua in Argentina, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Denali...