Marjory Evergood has shared her experiences of being her husband Mike's caregiver due to his MS. This moving book brought tears to my eyes, hope to my chest, love to my heart, and a better understanding of my way of thinking. In My Journey as...

Who Could Have Imagined: Change Your Perspective, Transform Your Destiny by Aliette St. Hilaire is one woman’s story of adversity, resilience, transformation, and triumph. Though it may sound like your typical life story about overcoming the odds, you will find no romanticizing of the subject...

Vitaly Magidov Kirkpatrick's alcoholic mother abandoned him after birth. Thus, Vitaly stayed at the hospital's nursery until he was old enough to live in an orphanage. Vitaly: The Misadventures of a Ukrainian Orphan tells the inspiring story of a young boy's search for love in...

Heart of Africa is a memoir recounting the personal experiences of Bernard James Gilmore during his time in Ethiopia as a medical relief volunteer. A group of passionate citizens of Kingston, Ontario, came together to create Kingsmen African Medical Relief (KAMR) in response to the...

Travels with Maurice: An Outrageous Adventure in Europe in 1968 tells the story of an average American man who traveled with the son of the richest man in the world at the time. Author Gary L. Orleck was a self-described “nobody” who drove almost 20,000...

The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir by Nancy Stephan is one of the most moving books I have read in a long time. As adults and parents, we always expect our kids to bury us but when we have to bury a child we fall...

Just Wait by Briar Angell alternates between parenting advice and freeform poetry. The author describes her experience with the child she bore, and discusses her feelings on generally accepted social practices, like crib sleeping and hosting family and friends immediately after a child’s return from...

Sawubona, I See You is a memoir by Daniel Stantus narrating his experiences as a former Peace Corps Volunteer in the early 1970s in Swaziland, Africa. The book contains six short stories based on his own life experiences in the exotic, wild, and untamed locales...

Miracles Through Hell: A True Story of Holocaust Survival and Intergenerational Healing by Jerry M. Elman is a well-researched historical nonfiction book. It contains the true stories of the Holocaust survivors, their traumas, the absolute hell they faced, and the countless miracles that kept them...

Reckless Grace: A Mother's Crash Course in Mental Illness, by Carolyn DiPasquale, is a work of non-fiction in the memoir and health issues subgenres suitable for the general reading audience. The book is a mother's account of her daughter's struggles with her mental health, written...