The Lump: My Cancer Story is a detailed personal account of Deb McEwan's most challenging time. Deb was enjoying life in Cyprus and was content until she discovered a lump in her breast. When Deb turned sixty, she wondered what it would bring. It never...

In Bring Back Summertime, Jeanne Starr Gater narrates her trying experience of helping her husband heal from a terrible accident and trusting God to lead the way. After her husband, Dr. Julius Gater, was rushed to the emergency room, Jeanne learned that he had suffered...

In Pretty Girls Don't Get Cancer, M. Patricia Diaz (born and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela) shares her story of battling cancer. She reveals details about her family conflicts, relatively happy life, and how, at the age of sixteen (in 1989), she was diagnosed with stage...

Love Heals All Wounds by Linda F. Kent is a self-help memoir that guides readers on a journey of healing from fear and trauma. The author shares her personal experiences, including her childhood as a sensitive kid, the loss of her brother, father, and son,...

Leon Mecham's The Long Way Around is a riveting memoir filled with exciting sports exploits, tumultuous family relationships, and troubling religious experiences. Though Leon was raised in a religious Mormon home, he found his parents' behavior questionable. He had to struggle with surviving his mother's...

Becoming Hungarian: A Memoir is penned by author Erika Reich Giles in the autobiography, culture, and historical genres. In this interesting work, the author recounts her journey of rediscovering her Hungarian roots after a lifetime of shying away from them. Raised in the U.S. after...

The Iraq I Knew: From Saddam Hussein to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to Al Qaeda in Iraq is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, military writing, and slice-of-life genres. It is best suited to mature readers as it discusses real-life graphic violence. Colonel...

In When Your Hand is in the Lion's Mouth, Nita Whitaker recounts her father Green Whitaker's life and his core values of family, hard work, and faith. Despite the unimaginable pain of his wife's passing, Green remained devoted to his children with total resilience and...

Life never dishes out what we expect. Indeed, life can be brutally unfair. But we’ve been told that we’ll only get what we can handle. Bruce Ballard’s Invitations takes a look at his life as a writer with Parkinson’s disease. He was a young man...

I have read missionary stories (starting with The Life and Diary of David Brainerd) for the past sixty years. Lauralee Lindholm’s Out of Darkness into Light stands with the best of the missionary books I have read. I have personal friends who were missionaries in...