Beyond the Veil by Rami Al Tobgy is a memoir that shows the full gamut of life’s experiences, including pain, suffering, reflection, healing, and an understanding of purpose and direction. The author is Egyptian by birth but was raised in Kuwait and later Dubai, in...

The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu is a fascinating memoir that unmasks the psychological vulnerabilities of people who identify as high achievers. Drawing from his years as an elite Ivy League fencer and his current work as a psychiatrist, Radu explores...

When Mimi Nichter boarded a Trans World Airlines flight on September 6th, 1970, she was focused on resuming her studies at George Washington University after a productive trip to Israel. She never in her wildest dreams expected that this flight would put her in a...

Denis McClean’s Memoirs of a Pleb is an extraordinary story of an ordinary man. While he is not a celebrity, his life resonates with regular people who sacrifice for love, build grit, and keep standing, even when the world crumbles around them -- a story...

In her thought-provoking memoir, From Doctor to Healer, Dr. Erica M. Elliott tells the story of a life characterized by extraordinary grit and personal transformation. After a successful but exhausting career in medicine, her world collapses when she suffers a devastating illness caused by exposure...

Greenhorn: Episodes in an Immigrant’s Life by Alex Krieger is a timely reminder of what it costs and how traumatic it can be to leave everything and everyone that you know and love to move across the sea to a new land where you don’t...

More than a memoir, Henry’s Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood by Amy Mackin offers a damning account of how American policymakers and institutions fail neurodivergent children and their families. In it, Mackin, a mother with three children who have developmental issues that require...

In Coda Blue’s The King of Happy Valley, a young Recon Marine returns from Okinawa to Camp Talega, the isolated Camp Pendleton outpost that becomes home. He is a skilled Point Man whose appetite for the next experience takes him from dangerous training into a...

In her memoir The Great Triumph, Jeanne Estelle Saddler follows the life of her mother, Thelma, from a childhood in a South Carolina sharecropping family to adulthood in Detroit. After the Osborne family joins the Great Migration, Thelma's intelligence brings her into the home of...

Lady Vagabond by Judy DePue is a compelling memoir that chronicles the journey of a young psychologist who embarks on a fifteen-month odyssey of discovery before committing to a career as a behavioral psychologist. As she travels from Samoa to Australia, from New Guinea to...