In We Are All Made of Scars, Christopher Morris recalls his tumultuous childhood and the questionable choices he made as a young adult who experienced an unhealthy level of exposure to addiction all his life. The company he kept escalated Chris's natural attraction to chaos,...

Stop This Game: My Life with Bipolar Disorder by Jaka Tomc begins in Ljubljana in August 2010 and his memoir provides an intimate account of how he coped with an incurable and dangerous malady. His mother and uncle tried their best to help Jaka with...

Today, as a grandmother, my memories of how my two daughters tried my patience and drove me to despair when they were squabbling, misbehaving youngsters have grown dim. As I read Keri Williams’ memoir But, He Spit in my Coffee, I couldn’t help but wonder...

Where the Wind Wills by D. Flower takes readers on an adventure-packed, culture-rich trip to different remote locations, far away from Western shores. She relates her desire to find solace and meet people still in touch with their ancient culture after experiencing fatigue from her...

Japanese-American Shiro Kashino was one of the thousands of people captured and held at Minidoka, a former United States concentration camp. Ten camps were created after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when America declared Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be...

After graduating from high school, Susan (Sue) goes to Europe for vacation and to visit her parents. While in Europe, she gets a taste for adventure, and when she returns to America, Sue questions many things in her life. She begins to desire more out...

Our Family's Story of Survival as POWs in the Philippines: A World War II Memoir is a gripping narrative co-authored by siblings Pamela J. Brink, Robert A. Brink, and John W. Brink. Narrated from three perspectives, the book gives readers a vivid and layered chronicle...

How Did I Get Here? Traveling the Road to Resilience by Andrew Fitzgerald is part memoir, part guide to wisdom for life, and part call to action for self-advocacy. Fitzgerald offers heartfelt anecdotes from his extraordinarily varied and intriguing life, which has included life-threatening health...

Jigsaw Puzzle in a Vortex: A Collection of Memoirs tells the story of Aurora M. Lewis, a black woman living in America. Aurora traces her family’s genealogy from her great-grandmother to her mother, describing how they lived their lives. She seems to have a special...

All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home by E. M. Liddick is a wonderfully insightful, carefully considered memoir of one man’s journey through battling a severe separation from self after a particularly grueling and damaging tour of duty...