The Boy Who Makes a Million Mistakes by Brenda Li is a heartwarming story that follows Milo, a young boy with a passion for baking. Unfortunately, he often makes mistakes and gets easily distracted in the kitchen. He sometimes mixes the wrong ingredients, uses incorrect...

The unexpected loss of a loved one often leaves deep scars that can endure long after the event. Dalia Abdulfatah experienced such a trauma when her close friend, family member, and confidant Talal was tragically killed in a motor car accident at just 19. It...

Lori LoCicero’s Clouds Far Behind Me is an exquisitely crafted memoir about loss, grief, and healing. At just forty-one, LoCicero seems to have the best life—a loving husband, two young children, and a thriving business. However, her world is shattered by her husband Joe's devastating...

The Power to Persist: 8 Simple Habits to Build Lifelong Resilience by Lamell McMorris is a powerful guide to overcoming adversity and unlocking personal potential through eight transformative habits. Drawing from his own journey growing up in a violence-stricken Chicago neighborhood, McMorris shares the tools...

Buckle Up and Enjoy the Ride by Bill Carr successfully fulfills its subtitle, “Finding Your Own Path to Resilience, Gratitude, and Peace.” The book is a series of extremely personal essays by the author, each including pearls of wisdom that are worth reading....

In Running Into Me: A Memoir of Resilience, Elisemarie DiCarlo traces a journey marked by personal loss, medical diagnoses without cures, and battles with addiction. She confronts the irreversible nature of certain wrongs, experiences the theft of her inheritance, and endures the removal of her...

Sandra Tow’s memoir, Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, offers an intimate exploration of her complex relationship with her mother, against a working-class Southern and blue-collar upbringing in the 1970s and 80s. The book traces Tow’s journey from a child who idolized her single mother to an...

Jenny and Mark had been planning to retire, but things took a drastic turn. Mark was involved in a horrible accident. His plane catches fire, and Mark has third-degree burns. When Jenny gets the call about the accident, she is devastated. She gets on a...

Understanding emotions can be challenging at times. Fortunately, Dr. Suzanne Gregg's Being Whole, Inside Your Own Skin is a helpful guide, crafted to help readers increase their emotional intelligence and achieve greater peace of mind. This book is divided into two main parts: it covers...

All In On Tomorrow is a memoir by James Ynson, who grew up in poverty in the Philippines. As the youngest of four children, he faced hunger, instability, and a father who was abusive and manipulative. At just five years old, he was forced into...

Echoes of Stark Park: Lessons on Resilience, Growth and the Journey to Legacy by Freddie Owens is a memoir packed with lessons about life and pursuing a passion. His story starts in Milwaukee, a town in the '80s and '90s that was nothing like the...

Connective Tissue by Ryan Normandeau takes readers inside the working life of a medical device representative whose role centers on preparation inside the operating room and accountability beyond it. The author explains how surgical cases depend on quiet readiness that begins long before a patient...

Play From Your Heart: A Journey Through Loss, Resilience, and the Beautiful Game by Scott Martin, with Coryanne Hicks, opens with the confident stride of a rising college soccer coach at the height of his career. In the summer of 1993, Martin is thriving, invited...

I Can’t Do This! I Can by Marian M.H. Rutt is one of the most powerful and deeply moving memoirs I have read. Marian and her husband Phil were living a wonderful, successful life. When Marian became pregnant, they were delighted and prepared for the...

The Girl Who Makes a Million Mistakes: Dance Practice by Brenda Li is a children’s picture book about a high-spirited girl named Millie who rose to the occasion. When Miss Julianna announces that the class has an exciting dance recital coming up, Millie is absolutely...

When Mimi Nichter boarded a Trans World Airlines flight on September 6th, 1970, she was focused on resuming her studies at George Washington University after a productive trip to Israel. She never in her wildest dreams expected that this flight would put her in a...

Margaret Bryden’s How I Understand It: A Bad Poet’s Guide to Mental Health & Resilience blends poetry, personal reflection, psychology, and journal prompts into an exploration of emotional life. The book moves through subjects such as love, identity, trauma, grief, divorce, motherhood, aging, and self-worth,...

Unmapped, collated by Lizbeth Meredith, is a travel memoir anthology in which women recount solo trips taken when their lives are changing. Anu Verma leaves home after a relationship ends and spends four months moving through Asia on thirty-six flights, discovering how it feels to...

Some of the strongest messages come from people who are honest about what it takes not only to keep going, but also to pause, heal, and begin again. Unstoppable shares the personal experiences of four Black women leaders: Marla Lewis, Karen S. Wells, Kelly Copes-Anderson,...

From Bullied to Brilliant: How To Artfully Avoid Fitting In by Karen Clarke handles the relevant topic of bullying and gives good advice to all those who have been intimidated or have faced bullying. The book not only focuses on the problems of being isolated,...