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...

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...

Reawaken by Dr. Richard Earl Poulin III is a memoir co-written with Ms. Judy Wei that documents a family’s fight for their daughter’s life. Richard Poulin III and his wife, Judy, were living in Asia when their daughter, Rylae-Ann, began to show mysterious symptoms as...