A China Story: Growing Up In Mao's Cultural Revolution by Ying Qian takes readers back to the 1960s when Mao, a dictator, ruled China by fear. He had launched many political and cultural movements, the longest, deadliest, and darkest being the Cultural Revolution. Countless people...

Truth Gives Strength To Wings: It’s All in the Journal by Katy Sudano and Ginger Green is the harrowing non-fiction memoir of a girl who, with all odds stacked against her, was able to fly. The book begins with the heartbreaking revelation that young Sydney...

Have You Seen These Children? A Memoir by Veronica Slaughter is a heartrending memoir written from the perspective of an eight-year-old who, along with her siblings, Valorie, Vance, and Vincent, went on a journey that changed their lives forever. The book is about how misguided...

In Alfred: The Quiet History of a World War II Infantryman, Louise Endres Moore chronicles the wartime experiences of her father, Alfred N. Endres. After completing basic training, he is shipped out to Europe when he joins the campaign in Normandy soon after D-day. As...

Roland S. Takaoka tells his personal story about trials and triumphs in his book, Roland's Story: Inspired by a Stroke. He subtitles the book A Memoir of Hope, Healing, and Transformation, which does the book justice. A series of strokes have cursed Roland, but...

Eyeless Mind: A Memoir about Seeing and Being Seen by Stephanie Duesing is a sensitive and heartbreaking memoir about her 15-year-old son, Sebastian, who was blind though he showed no signs of blindness and no one knew he was blind. Sebastian loved painting and he...

Scotland’s lush and green countryside beckons S.A. Snyder as she struggles with a spiritual crisis. A man named William offers her a place at Braemar House, known as the school of esoteric education. Enticed by the promise of learning to love God and man, what...

Ask older attendees of a memoir writing workshop what the subject of their intended memoir will be, and 90% will reply that, encouraged by their families, their memoirs will be a recollection of the most memorable events, big or small, in their lives. Finding Joe...