Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream by Dr. Frank L. Douglas is the autobiography of its author's extraordinary life. Douglas' memoir begins with the introduction of his turbulent and abusive upbringing in a home where he always felt an outsider in...

Drum Beats, Heart Beats is a work of non-fiction that is written in a memoir style by author Maria Nhambu. This work completes a memoir trilogy chronicling the journey of culture, empowerment, and identity of the author: the Dancing Soul Trilogy. After the harrowing experiences...

Gary McDougall’s Don’t Tell Me There Ain’t No God reads in such a way that you are immediately invested in who this man is and what is transpiring on the page. One of the quotes that really painted a picture for me of what life...

Dyslexia - Escaping The Forest: A Child's View Lost in the Trees by Rhona Macdonald is the heartrending story of the author and gives readers a peek into her growing up years as a dyslexic child. Rhona was the youngest of three children and the...

Days of Refugee: One of the World’s Known Lost Boys of Sudan is a riveting and inspirational autobiography by Nathaniel Chol Nyok, a Dinka “Lost Boy” survivor of the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987–2005). At the age of eight, Nyok fled war-torn South Sudan after...

Drinking from the Trough: A Veterinarian's Memoir by Mary Carlson takes the reader into the world of veterinary science. When teacher Mary meets and (later) marries Colorado vet student Earl, she is motivated to study veterinary medicine herself and subsequently open her own feline-only practice....

Daughter, Undefined by Jackie Ruchti is a powerful and inspirational memoir, told in a voice that is unalloyed and filled with candor. It begins with a dramatic encounter between daughter and mother. It’s the moment of truth when the mother comes to inform Jackie that...

Sami Arlenis-Frederick’s poetry collection, Drapetomania, is palpable, as though the words themselves are breathing on the page, they have a heat to them, a realness like no other I’ve come across. Some of the lines are described in such a way that it literally makes...

Dreams of Falling by Ranequa Kelley-Boyd is a collection of poems that are autobiographical in nature in the sense that they all come from Ranequa’s own life experiences. Dreams of Falling starts off with an introduction about Ranequa herself and a little bit about...

Divorced After 56 Years: Why Am I Sooo Happy? is written by Brenda Frank. The author describes this book as a primer, and Divorced After 56 Years - at 156 pages - is indeed a short book. She describes how she felt after 56 years being...