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...

Alesa Lightbourne’s Bad Ass Grandma: Living Large, Finding Awe redefines what it means for an older woman to be Bad Ass after all the former trappings of the rat race begin to lose their old authority. Lightbourne shows that this identity is not built through...

Elaine Hsieh Yu’s Ugly Dumpling: A Memoir follows the author’s childhood after immigrating from Hong Kong to Hawaii in the 1970s, where she grows up in poverty with her mother and brothers after a violent separation from her father. Yu describes vivid scenes of life...

In The Birth Control Illusion: Reclaiming Hormones, Health, and Your Cycle, Tierra Duncan talks about how many women receive hormonal birth control before anyone explains how the menstrual cycle functions, or what hormonal changes may communicate about physical condition. Drawing from personal experience and clinical...