Beautifully Broken by Lavon Hodge follows the author’s journey from a fractured childhood in the Caribbean to a life of purpose in the U.S. Army. Born into a world of maternal coldness and hidden secrets, Lavon’s early years were spent navigating the trauma of physical...

In Dance While the Fire Burns, Deborah Ann Lucas traces a life marked by repeated upheavals as her childhood moves give way to adult years shaped by almost every conceivable calamity, and the ongoing presence of horses and art as the only stable parts of...

Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning by Megan Margherio is a personal narrative that moves between past and present, exploring memory, trauma, and healing. It unfolds through fragmented vignettes and conversations between “Little Me,” “Teen Me,” and the author, showing how memory resides in the body...

The Jezebel Tracks by Gardner Landry is a tale of dysfunction, narcissism, addiction, and psychopaths. This may seem to be an unlikely vehicle for humor, but Gardner Landry carries it off with precision and style, while painting a bleak picture of his dysfunctional family. The...

Visiting by Polly Walker Blakemore is a series of journal-style, dated entries that chronicle the author’s visits with her aging mother during the final stage of her life. Rather than following a traditional format, the book unfolds through real-time observations of caregiving, decline, and the...

In You Are Not Alone: A Recovery Coach's Journey From Addiction To Advocacy, Amy Sprague describes how a reliance on substances slowly turns into a life governed by fear and physical need. Using her own experiences, she shows how her attempts to quit alone repeatedly...

Transcending Sexual Trauma: Self-Awareness Tools and Nature-Based Practices to Cultivate Inner Healing by Dina Saalisi is an audiobook for every woman who has ever been assaulted emotionally, psychologically, or physically. In this book, the author shares sixteen practices to reclaim one’s life, heal, and renew...

You Can't Change The Past by Keith Thorn is about something we all do, even if we don’t always notice it: thinking again and again about the past. The author explains how we replay moments in our heads of things we said, choices we made,...

We Learned to Live in the Castle: Stories by Theresa Griffin Kennedy is an incredibly raw, unflinching look at a side of Portland that most people never see. Kennedy doesn’t hold back as she traces her life from a childhood spent in the foster care...

In I Will Walk With You, Julie Thomas Tullos shares a deeply personal story that feels like sitting down for a long talk with a close friend. The book follows the life of Susan and David Lee, starting all the way back with their blind...