How To Burn A Rainbow: My Gay Marriage Didn't Make Me Whole, My Divorce Did is a groundbreaking memoir by Karl Dunn. In it, Karl shares the story of his divorce and journey to self-discovery. After seven years of marriage, Karl thinks that a honeymoon...

Untangled by Alexandra Hiller is an emotional memoir in which the author narrates her experience of grief following the death of her partner, Stuart, and the hardships that came with trying to make sense of her feelings and place in the world. The memoir illustrates...

Mind Out of Time is a different, positive approach to dementia care by Jeanne E McElvaney. The author's husband, Jim, developed dementia, but McElvaney decided to look at the disease with a spiritual, physics-based mindset, veering away from Western medicine. Journaling her experiences, McElvaney details...

Anneliese Möwis’s story, captured in A Living Nightmare, is both haunting and profoundly moving. This memoir chronicles her harrowing experiences as a child displaced by the chaos and devastation of World War II. Ghislaine Raymond, Laurette Leblond, and Anneliese Pitt have woven a powerful narrative...

M.J. Loveric's memoir, A Dime For Peace, retells her dramatic journey from war-torn Sarajevo to a new beginning in New Zealand. Loveric starts by sharing her childhood, which was really terrible for anyone, but especially a child, with issues of severe illness, economic hardship, and...

Landed: A Yogi’s Memoir in Pieces & Poses by Jennifer Lang is a deeply personal narrative of self, family, and community through the framework of yoga and the physical and geographical experiences in both the United States and Israel. The protagonist of this narrative, Lang,...

How We Heal from Painful Childhoods by Ernest Ellender outlines a comprehensive method for healing from the trauma of youth by focusing on relationship skills, self-care, and community engagement. Ellender speaks about goal-setting to manage thoughts and emotions, highlights the role of the autonomic nervous...

Mental Illness: MI Doesn’t Look Like ME by Susie L. Landown-Clarke chronicles the author's harrowing struggle with complex mental illnesses. Facing emotional turmoil, PTSD, anxiety, and depression, she describes how these disorders eroded her mental health and led her to the brink of suicide. Through...

My ValHalla: Angels Are No Strangers to Chains by Celia LaVon Belt is a must-read memoir about a strong woman who is also a widow, a brain injury survivor, a burn survivor, and an abuse survivor. Celia Belt tells what she endured between 2022 and...

Diane: True Survivor by Ward Lassoe is a powerful and intensely personal biography of Diane, an ordinary woman who led a tough, uncompromising, and often traumatic life. Born in 1960 to a prostitute in London, Diane was abandoned as a baby and spent her first...