"Blame it on Anna" is a comprehensive look at a life controlled by others both physically and emotionally. None of us gets to choose our parents or the culture we are born into, but some of us find ourselves inhabiting an undesirable home environment. That...

This is a true to life story of a couple, both teachers, who raised their two children, Ian and Ali, while traveling around the world. Author Jill Dobbe and her husband Dan did not let their two young children stop them from traveling around the...

Everyone has a story, but there are few quite as stirring as "Fierce Joy", a memoir filled with huge life struggles. Ellen Schecter begins experiencing physical symptoms of an unknown origin in mid-life that interrupt her normal lifestyle. With grit and determination she...

Dena Clayton, editor of "Mother-Daughter Memories: Love Revealed", has come up with an anthology that consists of stories that will surely tug at anyone's heart. Nine women authors share their unique and inspiring memories about their mothers. The stories are varied, ranging from a beautiful...

Jo Carrol's "Hidden Tiger Raging Mountain" is a straightforward account of her journey in the country. The story unfolds in Wiltshire, England, where she resides and then at the brightly-lit Nepal International Airport, upon her arrival. A confessed wanderlust, she leaves behind daughters and grandchildren...

I totally enjoyed this book, reading voraciously, not wanting to put it down and reluctant to find it come to the end. It is a memoir, the diary of Adrienne Allison Jones, a nude dancer in a strip club. It is a glimpse into the...

RSDS is a horrible affliction. The brain refuses to turn off the pain that can inhabit any part of or almost all of the body. Mary Jane Gonzales' brief book "In the Blink of an Eye: My Life with RSDS" does an excellent job of...

Doctor Lodewyk Van Mierop is specialized in pediatric cardiology, before his retirement. Mierop writes of his fascinating life, first as a young boy born in 1927 in Indonesia, at that time known as the Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Lod or Dr. Bob, as he was...

Mary Albanese peels back the outer layers of her life to share an incredible journey of resilience, hardship, education, and self-discovery in her wonderful memoir "Midnight Sun Arctic Moon." Albanese is no ordinary young lady. She applies for a teaching position in Alaska, but when...

Stephanie Dagg is a new author to me. I love finding new ones who will hook me and hold me until the end of the story with just a few pages. That is what she did here for me. I loved the way she took...