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...

Nicholas B. Proy’s The Cognitive Craftsman System is a music-based self-development guide about using songs to examine thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Proy begins with the idea that a song can stay the same as a listener’s feelings and memories change. From there, he introduces a...

A Purpose Greater Than Me by Michelle Morfin recounts the author’s real-life upbringing under a destructive, controlling father at Flamingo Village Trailer Park. Growing up, the author faced relentless verbal and spiritual manipulation from a parent who used religion as a shield for bad behavior....

In My Business Is Now North, Anthony Sobb recounts what happens when his wife Kim, a Sydney solicitor and mother of their three sons, is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. As treatment takes over the family's routines, Anthony sets aside much of his work running...

Cape Con tells the true story of Aster Amelia, a daughter who decided to come home and care for her father, ending 20 years of estrangement. Aster was known as the daughter who abandoned her mother while she was dying, when it was actually orchestrated...