My Incarcerated Life by Qiana Riley-Jones is her autobiography as a prison wife. Raised in an environment with rising drug use and violence, she came across a drug dealer called Vandrick. There, their relationship started off with flings to fill their time and desire for...

In the past, seeking higher education was the best way to give yourself a chance to live a successful and fulfilling life. But over the years, as tuition costs have risen substantially and most college graduates don't end up working in the same fields they...

In We Are All Made of Scars, Christopher Morris recalls his tumultuous childhood and the questionable choices he made as a young adult who experienced an unhealthy level of exposure to addiction all his life. The company he kept escalated Chris's natural attraction to chaos,...

Connections: How a Network of Energies Connects Us All by Bob Brickley is a collection of uplifting and enlightening posts from the author’s blog The Space Between the Notes. Bob’s professed life mission is to help people grow, and this easy-to-digest volume does a masterful...

"My mission was to listen, not teach, to learn, not lecture." This was the author's objective when he set his mind on traveling through the 50 states to understand what was happening with American democracy. Surprisingly, his superiors at Oxford didn't put him down, and...

Today, as a grandmother, my memories of how my two daughters tried my patience and drove me to despair when they were squabbling, misbehaving youngsters have grown dim. As I read Keri Williams’ memoir But, He Spit in my Coffee, I couldn’t help but wonder...

Just Let $%#&! Go! by Heather and Karen Tobin is a delightful self-help book filled with beautiful illustrations and rhymes, making it easy for readers to learn how to enjoy a healthier life. The book highlights how our habit of holding onto things impacts those...

Japanese-American Shiro Kashino was one of the thousands of people captured and held at Minidoka, a former United States concentration camp. Ten camps were created after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when America declared Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be...

Victory by Dr. Nicole Elaine Avery is a mesmerizing coffee table book that beautifully combines art, spirituality, politics, and empowerment. Based on a photography art show from 2018, the book pays homage to the powerful women presenting an unapologetic celebration of black femininity. Through powerful...

The Buster Clan: An American Saga by K.P. Kollenborn is a deep dive into the author’s family history and the ancestors who were, in their small way, a part of shaping and building the United States. Using stories, legends, and sometimes myths from his family’s...