What do you name a daughter whose family name is Polis? Well, Anna, of course. Then she becomes AnnaPolis. It might be cute, but children bear the burden of the name they’re given at birth. And, when the name comes attached to a position of...

The Free Spirit of Virtue: Sometimes College is a Fight for Survival by Carlos Aguila is a beautiful story that will most certainly resonate with readers who have been to college, an unconventional coming-of-age tale with compelling characters and interesting episodes, and well-written scenes. Meet...

''Melody'' (not her real name) survived a relationship with a man she believed to be a psychopath. In Breaking Free of Manipulation, she offers us a brief but useful combination of a personal story of her experience and advice for those who may face a...

The Hidden Village: A Story of Survival in WW2 Holland is a historical young adult adventure by author Imogen Matthews. Focused specifically on how the events of the Holocaust affected Holland during the 1940s, the hidden village of the title refers to the true-life story...

His History, Her Story: A Survival Guide for Spouses of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma by Debra Warner tackles the difficult subject of sexual abuse undergone by men when they were boys and their stories of survival. The book explores the topic in...

Winds of Skilak Volume 2 is the continuation of the memoir of Bonnie Rose Ward and her husband Sam’s adventure on Caribou Island in the middle of Skilak Lake, deep in the wilds of Alaska. These two modern-day pioneers literally carved a living out of...

Strip Naked and Re-dress with Happiness: How to Survive and Thrive through Personal Challenge by Maria Hocking is a book that everyone should read, a book about lifting the mask, coming home to who we really are, and embracing authenticity. In this book, the author...

God of the Brooks: A Story of Extreme Survival by Bruce Hamilton is a unique tale of toughing it against the wilderness, told from a Christian perspective. The first-person account, fictional but pieced together from incidents throughout the author’s life, records a gritty tale of...

Inch by Inch by Donna LeClair is a thought-provoking amalgamation of life lessons and stories told from the perspective of inspirational women who overcome adversity to make a difference in the future of humankind. Negative thought processes regarding mankind and misfortune are challenged and positive...

The Prototype by Sam Mitani is a cleverly plotted crime novel with sophisticated characters and a plot that takes readers to places they never could have imagined. I never expect a good story to feature a plot where one thing leads logically to another. No...

In her newest book, In Her Own Words: Women's Wisdom to Move You from Surviving to Thriving, Alison Braithwaite shares her story, and explains with clarity how the stories in this book empowered her and offered her the wisdom she needed to pull her life...

When I received a request from Luke G. Dahl, author of Daddy’s Curse 2 to review his second book on child trafficking in Mongolia, China and Thailand, I didn’t hesitate to select it once it became available. I hadn’t forgotten how hard his first book,...

Staying Sane: A Struggle of Survival is a nonfiction coming of age memoir written by Emma Volesky. Emma first experienced hallucinations when she was eight years old. She watched, horrified, as sticks danced around her bed at night, and formless white shapes crawled up the...

"‘I am sorry to inform you ... an abnormal lesion ... aggressive.’ A brain tumor. A brain tumor the size of a golf ball, growing in my left temporal lobe.” These are the words that spelled out the doom that would forever change the life...

Steering Through It: Navigating Life-Threatening Illness, Acceptance, Survival and Healing is a powerful book by Lynn McLaughlin with beautiful illustrations by Sari Richter. It is a book on dealing with life-threatening illnesses. The news wasn't anything the author had expected and it was shocking...

Anna Minte's Q1: A Survival Guide to Adulting is a nonfiction self-help book for new adults. Minte is a college professor who lives and works in the Dominican Republic. While the midlife crisis is a relatively well known phenomenon that seems to affect at least...

A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience is a compelling book written by Dr. Ettie Zilber, the daughter of the story’s heroine, Zlata. We relive Zlata’s horrific ordeal during the Nazi invasion, her almost miraculous survival, and her reunification with what family remained. She leads...

Beyond The World is a work of science fiction and alien adventure penned by co-authors T. J. Wolf and M. L. Wolf, and forms the third and final book in the Survival Trilogy. Continuing the tale of Una Waters and her troubled past, we now...

Memoirs rarely have the ability to make you root for an author and his friends as vigorously and vehemently as the succinctly and appropriately titled Tenacity by Ron Coury. If the reader were to share the author’s military background, instrumental (as attested to by Mr....

Being Mean: A Memoir of Sexual Abuse and Survival by Patricia Eagle is a heartbreaking tale of sexual abuse. Patricia suffered sexual abuse from her father from the time she was four until she turned thirteen. In this narrative, she captures the experience in a...