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...

How does a loving home shape a young girl’s outlook in a world divided by race? Can Anything Good Come Out of Jim Crow? is Jacqueline Smith’s memoir about growing up during the era of racial segregation. She grew up in Texas during the 1950s...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

Life with Less of Me by Julianna Burmesch is a memoir that follows the author’s life from a childhood with parents prone to hoarding, emotional abuse, and alcoholism. The book starts in 2019, when fifty-eight-year-old Julianna sorts through her mother’s rooms and describes the suffocating...

Full Circles by Kenneth D. Thompson Sr. tells a deeply moving story that starts in a tiny, struggling home on East 13th Street. This memoir walks us through the author’s childhood, where he dealt with forced school busing to Burnet Junior High and the hurt...