Swimming Upstream: The Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative by Jerry Morton is a candid and absorbing memoir about one man's decades-long effort to build something that had never existed before in rural East Tennessee. In 1973, Morton, a freshly minted doctoral school psychologist, was hired...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

Alesa Lightbourne’s Bad Ass Grandma: Living Large, Finding Awe redefines what it means for an older woman to be Bad Ass after all the former trappings of the rat race begin to lose their old authority. Lightbourne shows that this identity is not built through...

Katie Mary tells her story in this poignant memoir titled The Path to Self Love and Acceptance: A Healed and Integrated Journey. Born as Katherine Mary Ziedan, Katie spent most of her childhood with her beloved grandparents and aunts. That is, until one day, her...

Naturalized US Citizen by B. K. Kishore traces the author’s journey from his childhood in post-independence India to his naturalization as a US citizen. Drawing on personal experiences, historical events, scientific achievements, and cultural reflection, the book presents a detailed account of a life shaped...

Soft Obviousness by Alessandro Zanone is a heartbreaking memoir about loss and the process of coming to terms with what is left. Alessandro always loved his pet dogs. They gave him stability and comfort, and showed him a different perspective on relationships and connections. They...

Holding On by a Thread by Stefonknee Wolscht is the bittersweet story of a transgender woman who decided to shed the oppressive mask and reveal her true self. Walking away from 23 years of marriage wasn’t easy, but when her wife gave her an ultimatum,...

The Boy In The Back by Fern Lebo: A True Story of Survival in Auschwitz and Mauthausen tells the story of Jan Blumenstein. Jan was born in Nové Zámky, just like his father and his grandfather before him. Growing up, things were not rough for...

Elaine Hsieh Yu’s Ugly Dumpling: A Memoir follows the author’s childhood after immigrating from Hong Kong to Hawaii in the 1970s, where she grows up in poverty with her mother and brothers after a violent separation from her father. Yu describes vivid scenes of life...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...