Alesa Lightbourne’s Bad Ass Grandma: Living Large, Finding Awe redefines what it means for an older woman to be Bad Ass after all the former trappings of the rat race begin to lose their old authority. Lightbourne shows that this identity is not built through...

Stacie Webb's Breaking the Chain: Cutting Toxic Family Ties & Reclaiming Your Life addresses an ailment that plagues many people but that many hardly talk about. It is the hurt that people endure because of toxic relationships that can result from dysfunctional family dynamics, unhealthy...

In Blood and Gold, Christie Sikora makes the argument that the Munich Olympics are proof that political violence cannot be separated from history. The author says the hostage crisis grew from decades of Palestinian displacement after 1948, from Cold War rivalries, from Western intervention across...

Becoming a Mom: An IVF Story by Liz Jauvtis chronicles the author’s deeply moving journey into motherhood. After being a babysitter to a single mother in her teen years, Liz decided she also wanted to be a mother someday. However, she did not expect to...

In Bad Dreams and Bad Memories, Keith Thorn explains how these two issues continue to influence everyday reactions when the body responds to stored impressions, as if those earlier conditions still exist. He tells us that these responses begin before conscious thought and reflect patterns...

Beyond Bedrails and Bingo: Myths, Truths, and the Future of America’s Nursing Homes by Dave Devereaux is a detailed account of how Americans enter nursing homes and how those institutions function once a patient arrives. Devereaux traces the typical path from a medical emergency through...

In Betrayed Valor, Dr. Sammie L. Young tells his life story. He was born in Columbus, Mississippi. His mother, a single parent of seven children, taught her children the importance of work, faith, and responsibility. Sammie absorbed this from early on and helped keep his...

Babymaking by Vincentia Schroeter is a memoir that follows the author from a moment of settled adulthood into a years-long pursuit of parenthood, bound to marriage and prolonged medical care. After meeting Steve during a family gathering, she builds a life with him that turns...

Be Good: Grandpa’s Guidebook to a Life Well Lived by Allison Katie is a nonfiction work built around a series of life rules modeled after the author’s grandfather, Ed Wagner. Structured as short chapters, each rule focuses on a guiding principle such as working hard,...

Bridge Between Two Worlds: From Sarajevo to London by Dr. Serge Mac, or Srđan Macanović, is the memoir of his childhood in Sarajevo into adulthood, shaped by war and displacement. He grew up in Grbavica in a family anchored by routine and familiarity. Later, as...