In The Inconvenient Child, Sharyn Killens and Lindsay Lewis take us on a life journey and the tough challenges Sharyn lived through in Australia as an unwanted, biracial child. Born out of wedlock and to a white family that had no space for a child...

Dispatches from the Couch by Stacey Hettes is a remarkably frank, open, and compelling memoir by a woman determined to find the way to healing from childhood sexual abuse. Stacey is a well-respected and successful neuroscientist professor at a small liberal arts college who has...

Severed Sacredness: The Miraculous Journey of Jessie Boone by Lisa Boone is a deeply moving memoir about trauma, faith, and resilience. When Lisa’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Jessie, suffers a traumatic brain injury in a skiing accident, life as she knew it changes forever. We follow the...

Rosalba Torres Leal: In The Santa of Roses tells the incredible life story of Rosalba Torres Leal, a woman whose life was full of love, sacrifice, and creativity. Author Dokali (Duke) Megharief takes us through her journey, from her childhood in Málaga, Colombia, to the...

Ironing Out My Life: Child Abuse and How It Affected Everything Thereafter is a difficult book to read and I mean that in the best possible way. In it, Kate Russell shares harrowing stories of her childhood that not only provide emotional impact but also...

Aces High by Penny Hodgson is a powerful story about overcoming trauma, abuse, and the lasting effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). With honesty and courage, Hodgson shares her journey through pain and recovery, showing how trauma can shape a person’s life but doesn’t have...

In Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust, Tammy Bottner delivers an extraordinary account of the horrors her parents and grandparents experienced under the cruel Nazi regime. Told from different family members’ viewpoints, their individual experiences differ, but the...

When No One Else Believed by Ron Tripodo is a memoir that starts in 2003, when Tripodo's wife, Patsy, began showing signs of a serious illness. Over the next few years, Patsy’s health deteriorated, leading to a diagnosis of herpes simplex encephalitis, a rare and...

Promising tennis amateur, student, and philosophy enthusiast Nathan Tran tells his story with this illuminating memoir. Synopsis follows Nathan's life from childhood to his experiences as a young adult as he struggles to find his place in the world. As the son of Vietnamese immigrants...

Saving the Lost Girl: A Memoir of Healing shows the life of Kelly Jean Torres, who overcame a childhood marked by abuse, neglect, and abandonment. She shares her experiences with both her biological and foster families, where she and her sisters were subjected to physical,...