Healing Grace: Inspirational Poetry for Coping and Closure stands apart in self-help literature in mapping a path to becoming whole again after life-changing devastation. In dividing the book into three stages, Michelle G. Stradford offers a resource that may be turned to whenever and wherever...

Tackling the Taboo by Terica Turner invites you on a transformative journey, delving into the depths of navigating life with mental illness from a unique perspective. This profound and eye-opening book unveils the author's personal and spiritual encounters with anxiety, depression, and other mental health...

Stop This Game: My Life with Bipolar Disorder by Jaka Tomc begins in Ljubljana in August 2010 and his memoir provides an intimate account of how he coped with an incurable and dangerous malady. His mother and uncle tried their best to help Jaka with...

Today, as a grandmother, my memories of how my two daughters tried my patience and drove me to despair when they were squabbling, misbehaving youngsters have grown dim. As I read Keri Williams’ memoir But, He Spit in my Coffee, I couldn’t help but wonder...

To Be Broken into Freedom: A Spiritual Journey (Renewing One's Life) is Rene Nestor Lafaut's autobiography. As a young child trying to find love, Rene met with anger, resentment, and disappointment. The road to discovering his faith in God was paved with questions and issues...

Our Family's Story of Survival as POWs in the Philippines: A World War II Memoir is a gripping narrative co-authored by siblings Pamela J. Brink, Robert A. Brink, and John W. Brink. Narrated from three perspectives, the book gives readers a vivid and layered chronicle...

All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home by E. M. Liddick is a wonderfully insightful, carefully considered memoir of one man’s journey through battling a severe separation from self after a particularly grueling and damaging tour of duty...

Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance by Martin Bodek is a captivating tale of self-discovery and perseverance. Set in northern Romania, in the territory of Transylvania, the story follows Benzion Malik, a member of the Malik family,...

The Preventorium is a memoir by Susan Annah Currie of being separated from her family after being deemed at high risk of contracting tuberculosis and being moved to the Magee Preventorium in Mississippi. Currie's story begins at the end of the 1950s when she...

Cracks of Destruction: A Daughter's Search for Home is a work in the autobiography, family issues, and emotional memoir subgenres. It is best suited to mature adult readers owing to themes of domestic violence, death, abandonment, and trauma. Penned by Sherrie Lancaster, this harrowing and...