The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues and Criminals, edited by Mitzi Szereto, is about actual crimes. The stories are brilliant because they are brazen, colorful, and audacious. It is about intelligent but often lucky individuals who know how to take advantage of...

A Smoke and a Song is a powerful memoir by Sherry Sidoti, who shares her life from childhood to old age. Along the way, we meet her mother, her sisters, and the men she loves. Her childhood was painful with a single mother who...

Scriptless is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, autobiographical writing, and slice-of-life subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Carol McMillan. This poignant and thought-provoking memoir takes its audience on a journey through a tumultuous...

Country on the Edge of Nowhere: Pais al Borde de la Nada is a set of Spanish and English prose pieces by Danilo López Román. The author describes someone he refers to only as a “man” who has lived a long life surrounded by cycles...

“Why do I have to rewrite my script just because it has no structure? After all, it is only a story. Can’t I do what I want?” If a student told you that, how would you challenge them? Somdev Chatterjee has faced this question in...

History is too often recorded in dates, names, and events. Even recording the earthshaking history of WWII succumbs to academic formulae. Unless and until history is given life by recording the individual stories of the men and women who lived, indeed who were the history,...

After numerous threats, Jose kills Norma Hurtado and her mother. Norma had spoken openly about her sexuality and was supported by her family. Was this a hate crime? The rights of the LGBTQ community have come a long way, from being openly persecuted to the...

You Dream Every Night That I Am Home: Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier to his Wife in Eckley, a town in the anthracite coal fields of northern Pennsylvania by Melanie Akren-Dickson is a profoundly personal, meticulously researched, and documented record of a simple...

Caregivers of those fighting terminal illnesses go through a lot and almost always stay behind the scenes. As practice shows, it is especially hard for men. Silent heroes, they don't ask for praise for their self-sacrifices. Ride or Die by Jarie Bolander is a story...

In Stories of Life, Davidson Loehr shares the lessons and concepts he was shaped by in different phases of his life. His story is full of intriguing cases of opposites and transformations. Little David decided he was done with religion when a new teacher who...