Awakening Through Anxiety: A Journey to Finding One's True Self by Amy Blakeslee is a non-fiction self-help memoir that harnesses the prior pain of its author and guides the reader to a path of their own making. Blakeslee begins with a profoundly honest analysis of...

Run, Walk Crawl: A Caregiver Caught Between Generations is a memoir by Sarahbeth Persiani. In this book, she recounts the difficulties of being in the “sandwich generation,” in which a person juggles being a parent to young children while also becoming a caretaker for their...

Desert Song: Claiming Joy while Walking the Wilderness is Brittnie Blackburn’s memoir of her struggle through anorexia, infertility, parenting a special-needs child, and birthing a stillborn child. Despite life and death events that threaten to drown her joy, she has learned to walk through the...

Hats and Cigars: Flairing and Pairing by Michael Brown is a lifestyle guide and pseudo-memoir from a premier aficionado of all things hats and cigars. Like the gourmet pairings that most readers are likely familiar with, primarily in the form of food and wine, Brown...

The Home for Friendless Children: Finding Hope, Joy, and a Place in the World by C.L. Olsen is a non-fiction memoir detailing a life of survival that transcends into one of true living. Olsen writes in the first person, but the narrative is actually that...

Sand and Steel: A Memoir of Longing and Finding Home by Dorit Sasson provides a window into the mind of a migrant that straddles two homes, mindsets, and cultures. “In Israel, one needs to adjust one’s expectations constantly and adapt to new situations. You have...

Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir by Carolyn Lee Arnold is an uplifting, enjoyable read destined for women who are still open to finding love and being intimate with men until they find the right partner to settle down with. In this book, Carolyn...

Paradise Taken: The Diary of Eden Flores Part I, by Omar Gonzalez, is a powerfully moving biography steeped in trauma and healing. This follow-up to The Phantom Struggle: Memoirs of a Life Once Struggling takes a unique voice, that of his longtime friend Eden Flores,...

The Roar of Ordinary is a coming-of-age memoir that depicts the loss of a friend and brother to war and the efforts to remember him and experience what he did in his final days in Vietnam. Though J. C. Foster survived the period of the...

Small Talk with Myself by L.B. Lewis is a short non-fiction memoir that brings us into the world of one woman living on her own in isolation during the pandemic. Lewis transports the reader into the San Francisco Bay area, showing us the corner of...