Ariane Lisboa’s Women & Choices follows the author from her childhood in Brazil, where generations of women in her family influence how she understands the life she wants for herself. With education at the heart of the future her parents imagine, her mother becomes the...

Where the Air Grows Thin by Nicole LoBiondo chronicles the author’s mountaineering experiences in which she endeavors to climb the seven summits, the highest mountain on every continent, including some of the most widely known, such as Aconcagua in Argentina, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Denali...

Love may be simple in theory, but relationships rarely are. In The Big Day: Saying “I Do” Only to Discover I Didn’t by Lisa Cheek, the author is walking down the aisle for the first time at forty-nine. She never grew up dreaming about her...

Paris, More Than a Fairytale by Arabella Dubois is a really useful guide for readers who want to grasp how French people live and manage their daily lives. In this book, the author writes about living in apartments on Rue St. Dominique and shares lessons...

If you find yourself bogged down and feel the need to change, Give a Shift by Carolyn J. Phinney is the perfect solution. There could be work or relationship issues, financial troubles, a toxic situation, or perhaps a personal tragedy holding you back. If you...

Voices Within: Family Chronicles by Lana Stasek tells the author’s life story, reconstructing her memories and ancestral tree from the 1960s. The book starts with her family history before her birth and spans all five decades of her life. The book describes the milestones that...

Tricia Conyers’s Confidence Is Action is a practical self-help book for women who have been taught to treat confidence as a feeling, title, or public performance instead of a daily practice. Conyers uses a wedding conversation after leaving a twenty-year corporate career, when one cutting...

Destiny Nakita Arnold’s memoir, Destiny Legacy: Becoming Her, follows her real-life path to finding her own voice after surviving an unstable childhood and the rigid environment of the U.S. military. Growing up in Atlanta without anyone looking out for her, Destiny deals with cruel labels...

In her memoir Piece by Piece, Sheryl Hauk tells the story of how she survived an abusive childhood and built a life centered on music, teaching, family, and creativity. Even though her father no longer has control over her, the effects of the abuse continue...

In Cassandra's Daughter, author Destiny Arnold tells the true story of her mother through her own perspective. Her mother, Cassandra, was only fourteen years of age when she gave birth to Destiny. Her father was seventeen. Because of her young age, Cassandra didn't really know...