Restored by Jeremiah Isaiah Cain tells the story of the author’s life, his experience with adoption, and the challenges he faced around mental health. For years, his adoptive family kept his adoption a secret, worried he might feel rejected or unloved if he knew the...

In her memoir Real Estate Rebel, Sybil James Ellis, a young mother in Atlanta, begins rebuilding her life after horrific trauma, an abusive relationship, and the collapse of a marriage leave her raising daughter Jen largely on her own. Employment becomes a necessity, yet commercial...

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...

Unwilling to Love is Ted Edwards’ deeply intimate look into his own life journey as he walks readers through his past relationships. We watch his emotional growth unfold, starting with simple childhood memories on Cedar Street and moving right into his adult life in busy...

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...