Limits Unleashed: A Conversation Between You and Your Inner Self by Alvin Kalicharan talks about Kiritin, who grows up believing that he is a failure. His family sends him to the city, where he feels even more lost until he encounters Kisan, his inner mentor....

The DiNardo family’s life in America didn’t start easily. In 1921, just after World War I, Ubaldo DiNardo, a war veteran, and his wife Marietta left Southern Italy to start over in the United States. Laws kept them apart for seven long years. Ubaldo went...

In his memoir Livin' It, Michael Perzel grew up in Philadelphia, first in the Abbotsford Projects and then in Mayfair. When his parents separate as he turns eleven, he begins living with unusual autonomy. He starts earning money, spending nights outside the house, and relying...

Confessions of a Problem Seeker by Howard Steinberg is a memoir that begins with his childhood in Queens, molded by parents who survived the Holocaust. His early life is marked by inherited fear, silence, and responsibilities that predate his own experience. A juvenile diabetes diagnosis...

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...

Making My Way by Damaris Melo-Gyasi is an inspiring story that follows the journey of a Brazilian girl with a dream of becoming an architect. After seeing an architect discussing a plan for her family’s future home with her parents, Damaris decided she was going...

Mixtape: A Memoir by Johnzelle Anderson tells the story of a life through music, memory, and hard-earned self-understanding. Structured as a playlist, the book unfolds track by track, beginning with Anderson’s birth in Roanoke, Virginia, and the complicated family world that surrounds him. Early chapters...

The Purple Pill: How to Balance Success in a Divided World presents Kiani Mills’s account of realizing that her life was shaped by learned patterns absorbed long before she could evaluate them. She describes how early conditioning guided her toward functioning efficiently in social and...

In No Name Bastard, Tori DaCosta talks about how a person learns compliance long before understanding choice, and how that habit endures across a lifetime. DaCosta traces a pattern that begins with a childhood injury caused by proceeding despite doubt, and how similar moments recur...

Music defines us in ways we often don’t appreciate to the fullest. Music is history in sound, history that is heard and shared, and history that is a reflection of who we are. In Terry Blade’s Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes, the author shares his...