Martin Terrell’s memoir, You’re Only Innocent Once And Once Is Not Enough, is a moving account of a man navigating the courts and using the classroom to leave prison behind. When a long sentence for a burglary conviction came down despite his innocence, he decided...

In the memoir Flavors I Carry, Emily Wei recounts her life as an American-born Chinese woman whose sense of home is shaped by movement between the United States and Taiwan. At ten, she leaves Houston for Taipei, where school exposes her to social hierarchies she...

Finding peace with yourself can change the way you see everything around you. In The Oneness Guide for Today, Faith Spencer offers young women a guide to understanding themselves, their thoughts, and their connection to the world. The book examines self-perception and the outside influences...

Widow— Widower— Widowest— by Aaron M. Simmons begins after his wife, Polly G. Simmons, dies unexpectedly from a pulmonary embolism following surgery, leaving him a single parent to three children, Peggy, Hazel, and Cary. As Aaron tries to understand what it means to remain Polly’s...

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 Rosemary’s Way, Spring Courtright recounts the years in which changes in her mother Rosemary’s memory begin reshaping their close relationship. Repeated questions about an upcoming honeymoon first raise concern, leading to medical appointments as Rosemary thought about the future as she watched her own...

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...