Quentin F. Veit’s memoir, The Bumpy Road, offers a raw, firsthand look at the sheer grit it took for his family to survive on their farm in Osage Bend, Missouri. Covering the challenging years between 1930 and 1945, Veit shares his actual childhood memories of...

Shahin Samadi's memoir, Currents of Being, Volume I, follows the author’s life as he transitions from a privileged childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran to a hardworking reinventor in America. Samadi was born in 1960 to a high-ranking military officer in Tabriz, and spent his youth moving...

Alexandra Dionisio’s Learning to Say Goodbye grabs you with three devastating words: “Kathrin is dead.” They are spoken over a phone line to Dubai in 2016. Four years after cancer claimed the life of her mother, Kathrin, her best friend since childhood and the keeper...

Little Wekiva Memories: Kayaking & Other Adventures by Nichole Delafield-Bromme and Leif Bromme is a unique family memoir that takes you on a vivid journey along a one-mile stretch of the Little Wekiva River in Longwood, Florida. Moving from the northern United States, the family...

In Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All, when Glen Cantrell leaves the Bay Area for Twain Harte, California, he expects mountain life, not responsibility for keeping a business community afloat. Then he becomes president of the volunteer Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce as...

David Haldane’s A Tooth in My Popsicle is a fascinating look at what happens when an American expat packs up and moves to the Philippines. The book begins with a major financial crisis that costs Haldane his job at the Los Angeles Times, leading to...

Kent Handy’s The Dark Secrets of Woodruff County is a historical nonfiction account of Kent Lemont Handy’s life in Woodruff County, Arkansas, where his childhood places him inside a Black community living under racial segregation that reaches into everyday life. Handy traces the family from...

Rich Merritt grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, where racism and homophobia were equally rife. He was educated at Bob Jones University, the Fortress of Fundamentalism, where, except for meeting his forever best friend Gary, it ended up being a specter that showed up in...

Jeff Whelchel’s The Long Road to Surrender depicts the silent breakdown and ultimate restoration of a committed family doctor. After spending more than twenty years as a primary care physician based in Texas, the author finally reached a breaking point where his inner strength was...

In Leave the Kid Alone: A Fractured Remembrance, author Steve Zettler welcomes readers into the chaotic childhood of young Stevie during an unforgettable year in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Growing up right above a family-owned saloon and country inn ensures that Stevie’s daily life looks nothing...