“I needed to get lost for a summer. Putting aside books and job interviews, I took a job working in the prettiest environment most people will never see.” I wouldn't say Bill Gerencer, the author of Working Waterfront, got lost; I'm sure he found himself...

Michal Mendelsohn’s Rabbi, Your Cleavage Is Showing is a memoir that traces an extraordinary and unconventional path from a turbulent childhood to a historic role in North American Jewish life. Mendelsohn introduces herself as a young girl growing up in Manhattan, shaped by isolation, family...

A Couple Notes, Actually: Your Favorite Friends with Autistic Kids asked Me to tell You This by Chenae Goodson gives realistic and essential advice to teachers, doctors, family, and friends who interact with families raising autistic children. Goodson writes this book from conversations where parents...

Life can be exciting, challenging, or dull, but for Sandy Pearl, it was always eventful. She shares her story in Then the Phone Rang: My Journey from Hitchhiking Hippie to the Hollywood High Life. She begins by taking readers back to the family dinner table...

Welcome Darkness by Aubrey E. Drummond is an intimate poetry collection written after his wife's passing. Through unfiltered poetry, Drummond shares his thoughts about grief, love, and the memories that stayed with him. Some poems focus on the pain of missing someone, while others reflect...

Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume II, edited by Karen Berman and Gail Humphries, is a wide-ranging collection that examines how film, visual art, museum work, and performance sustain Holocaust memory. Rather than offering a single narrative, the book gathers many...

Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume I, edited by Karen Berman and Gail Humphries, brings together an international group of artists, scholars, educators, and witnesses to explore how theater, music, and dance have sustained Holocaust memory. The book is organized around...

As Good as the Best: Power and Possibility Beyond C-PTSD by D. Novo is a self-help book centred on a simple but powerful idea: you didn’t choose your childhood, but you can choose what shapes your life going forward. The author shares their own healing...

Angels of Paradise is a memoir by Barbara Murphy. Barbara finds herself in prison on her birthday for the crime of kidnapping her own son. She had taken Valentin to the Bahamas to save both of them from a horrible life. In the Bahamas, she...

The Diary of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Alcoholic follows Elli Rose Cikovic as alcohol becomes the fixed driver of her decisions from adolescence into adult life. After starting to drink in her teens, she began experiencing recurring blackouts that reshaped how she moved through school, relationships, and...