A Promise of Rest: Stories from the Commonplace by Ron Lands is a collection of vignettes that offers insight into the lives of patients with terminal illnesses, particularly those with cancer. Drawing on his extensive experience as an oncologist and palliative care physician, Lands crafts...

The memoir opens with Jim Jensen in a dangerous hitchhiking incident; if he’d said or done one wrong thing, he could have been killed. This hitchhiking mishap sets the reader up for the type of adventures he has on his six-year adventure around the world....

I'll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life follows author Carly Schwartz as she feels disconnected from her life, career, and relationships, despite outward success. In her efforts to find answers to the discontent she was experiencing in life, she embarked on a quest...

Seeing America Between the Lines by Ronald K. Henderson takes readers on a journey through the author's personal experiences and reflections, set against the backdrop of America’s cultural and political landscape. The book is structured as a series of road-trip stories, each capturing a distinct...

Drummer Girl by Sally Dukes is a memoir that moves from a crisis in early childhood through to an adulthood molded by travel, work, illness, and loss. Born prematurely after World War II, she undergoes heart surgery at a New York hospital and returns home...

Almost every human endeavor stems from curiosity. In Curiosity Redefines the Limits, Rod Adkins draws upon his background as a veteran business executive, including senior vice president of IBM, to provide a blueprint for growth and success rooted in human curiosity. Born in Augusta, Georgia,...

Lynn was 39 years old when she met Tony at the swimming pool at Columbia University in New York City. Tony was 29 at the time and was going through a divorce, but they clicked and got married three years later. Life went well for...

My Diecast Life is Dan Vado's personal memoir, and in it, he turns the rearview mirror to his childhood and adolescence, and the toy cars he owned, used, set aside, and later rediscovered. Raised in suburban California from the late 1960s into the early 1980s,...

Dark Agent: Global Service & Sacrifice by L.W. Kwakou Casselle is a memoir shaped by moving across continents, institutions, and pivotal moments. Casselle traces his life from early childhood, marked by political upheaval in Liberia, through adolescence in North Las Vegas, military school, higher education,...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Life is Laura Muirhead’s memoir about a life that never quite went as planned. From childhood into adulthood, she navigates family upheavals: her parents’ divorce, tricky blended family relationships, and a shocking discovery about her biological...