Scott Fleuter’s Behind the Badge: From Police Chief to Opioid Addict follows Fleuter from a childhood where danger teaches his body to react before thought into a law-enforcement career that makes protection his public role. He starts as a street officer and eventually becomes a...

Larry Setren’s You Never Asked About My Medal follows the author, a Maryland boy from a Jewish family shaped by migration from Lithuania. The question behind the title begins with Uncle Seymour, a decorated veteran whose life teaches Setren that public silence can hide great...

The legal profession seems to attract its fair share of characters. Kevin O'Donnell has seen more than most and entertains readers with his reminiscences in Tales from the Oldest Profession: As Told by a Very Common Lawyer. He reflects on his student days, playing pranks,...

Jacque Gorelick’s Map of a Heart begins on the Crystal Springs Trail in February 2007, where a planned family outing with her husband, Ed, and their newborn son, Elliot, turns into a fight to keep Ed alive. What starts with an armoire errand and a...

Destiny Nakita Arnold’s memoir, Destiny Legacy: Becoming Her, follows her real-life path to finding her own voice after surviving an unstable childhood and the rigid environment of the U.S. military. Growing up in Atlanta without anyone looking out for her, Destiny deals with cruel labels...

In her memoir Piece by Piece, Sheryl Hauk tells the story of how she survived an abusive childhood and built a life centered on music, teaching, family, and creativity. Even though her father no longer has control over her, the effects of the abuse continue...

Lena Atoug’s The Grieving Eye is a memoir about childhood bereavement, family memory, and exile. Atoug grows up in Yugoslavia with a beloved father whose presence fills the house, a mother who is always alert to danger, and a grandmother whose stories keep earlier losses...

Hemangi Sawant’s Denver to Mumbai follows Sawant after thirteen years in America, when she leaves a comfortable life near Denver with her husband, Neeraj, and their ten-year-old son, Ronak, to return to Mumbai. The decision begins with grief after a call from her sister Shyamal...

Dr. Ronda Beaman's A Life in Letters begins with a bout of “Swedish death cleaning.” While sorting through decades of memorabilia, she discovers that in the midst of corsages and yearbooks destined for the trash, there is one kind of keepsake that remains sacred: letters...

The Big Picture by Pat Ferns follows the Canadian television producer from a childhood shaped by his family’s move from Winnipeg to England to his return to Canada in 1968, when a chance CBC appointment brings him into national current affairs broadcasting. Ferns learns television...