The Virgin Chronicles is an engaging memoir by Marina DelVecchio about a young woman’s complex relationship with her adoptive mother, Ann. Kathy is used to her mother calling her “putana,” a Greek word with two meanings; a dirty word for the vagina and whore. Little...

Once Our Lives: Life, Death, and Love in the Middle Kingdom by Qin Sun Stubis is a non-fiction memoir that traces the author's family legacy back generations and forms a full picture from the evolution of the Chinese Communist Revolution to the Cultural Revolution. Stubis...

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...