"I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." India Arie's words have never rung louder in my mind than when I was reading Crowning Glory: An Experiment in Self-Discovery Through Disguise by Stacy Harshman. Stacy's inner...

“What happens when you discover that the only morality that exists is survival?” With this single line from his book Lines in the Sand, F. Scott Service bravely and defiantly offers up an irrefutable indictment of war and its practitioners – cowardly politicians, greedy corporations,...

Breast Cancer Mardi Gras: Surviving the Emotional Hurricane and Showing My Boobs to Strangers by Dawn Bontempo is Dawn's journey on the road to breast cancer remission. From the initial pain that she just wrote off, to the Facebook post announcing her cancer, to the...

You Can Leave Anytime by Rob Dinsmoor is the insightful journey of a man who, after twenty-five years of alcohol abuse, decides to check himself into Wetlands Rehabilitation Facility to sober up. Rob’s check-in process is thorough, detailing the body and luggage searches, paperwork, declarations,...

Being Selfish: My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother is Sarah Marshank’s memoir about her spiritual and physical journey to find answers to life’s most burning questions. Who is God? What is religion? Is sex an instrument of love? Should it only be shared...

Jonathan Tindale spent a while living in New Zealand, housed in a dilapidated caravan located in the remote South Island countryside that New Zealanders call the wop-wops. Some considerable time later, long after his return to his native UK, he received a scrappy manuscript which,...

A Flight Without Wings: My Experience with Heaven is a non-fiction memoir written by Brian McLaughlin. The author was on vacation in Mexico in 1993 when he sustained massive head trauma. He was in a comatose state as the doctors were working on him in...

Wondahful Mammaries by Peggy Keener is the story of how a mother takes charge of her life and takes her children on an adventure that is heartbreaking, humorous and endearing all at once. This book is a roller coaster ride that you never want to...

Nostalgia From a City Set Upon a Hill is a non-fiction memoir written by Garfield Whyte. The author knew that he had to do well enough in the Common Entrance Examinations to be accepted into Munro College, a prestigious boarding high school. His mother had...

The Blood on My Hands: An Autobiography by Shannon O'Leary is a powerful, dark memoir. In her memoir, O’Leary tells how she and her family suffered at the hands of an abusive father with a multiple personality disorder. O’Leary actually witnessed her father murder people...