They Must Be Monsters: A Modern-Day Witch Hunt by Matthew LeRoy and Deric Haddad is the true story of the McMartin preschool trial and the phenomena that surrounded the longest and most expensive criminal case in U.S. history during the 1980s. A sinister and frightening...

The Abstinence Myth by Adi Jaffe is a refreshing and eye-opening way to look at addiction and how to get on top of it for good! What will surprise readers most, and might be obvious from the title, is that Dr. Jaffe doesn’t necessarily espouse...

Thin, and I: A Memoir is written by Andrijka O. Keller. Keller was fifteen years old when her parents and the school nurse decided that she should go into a rehabilitation program. Her grades were above normal, and her attitudes about school were just fine....

A Life Worth Living: The Journey of an Authentic Soul by Carla Feagan is the autobiography of Carla’s life journey. Being born on a British air force base in Singapore, Carla holds two citizenship of two countries. In A Life Worth Living, Carla Feagan takes...

Stuck in the Sick Role: How Illness Becomes an Identity by Melissa Stennett Deuter, MD is a book about how young adults become victims marred with the disability label. The disabilities Dr. Deuter writes about are those within the mental health realm. Using patient stories...

What does it take to handle delicate and tense situations? When should a police officer use a gun or other less lethal tools at their disposal? In a book that started with the title “Policing With(out) Guns,” which I think fits this work even better,...

Weedgalized in Colorado: True Tales from the High Country by Johnny Welsh explores what happens to a community when weed gets legalized. Written by a bartender, someone who has spent nearly two decades mixing and serving drinks in Frisco, Colorado, in the very heart of...

Parenting the Severely Disabled Adult by Kathleen Fischer is an account of the journey of one step-parent who cared for a disabled adult with cerebral palsy for 14 years. It is a personal story combined with a handbook and packed with useful information. It is...

Let’s begin this review of Not a Fairytale by asking if it’s not a fairytale, then what is it? Essentially, it’s a rare form of memoir, not told as a story with characters and dialogue, but as a poem based, as many memoirs are, on...

Never Let Me Go hit so close to home it scared me. Not because my own life experience was similar to that of Nicole Lowe's, the author of this memoir, but because how Nicole felt, what she did as a teen, and why she did...