“A tsunami of nausea from the painkillers washed over me,” is just one example of the riveting descriptions in Bracing for Impact: True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them. It’s an interesting book of stories told by survivors of air disasters....

Beyond Embarrassment: Reclaiming Your Life with Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel by JoAnne Lake and 'bio-sleuth' Julia Parker is JoAnne’s honest and open story and her will to succeed in spite of having to face physical and medical challenges. JoAnne’s story will encourage medical practitioners to...

Wow! Just wow! How's that for a review? Well, that's what I found myself saying as I finished the last page of author Lisa Carlson's book, Bait and Switch: Life with a Two-Faced Narcissist. A true life story so interesting that it reads like fiction,...

Broken Places by Rachel Thompson is a very descriptive, well-written memoir of abuse. Broken Places is a collection of non-fiction essays, short stories, and poetry. Author Rachel Thompson has a well-developed vocabulary for describing one of the worst experiences of her life — sexual abuse...

In Bipolar: The Sacred Dance by Jessica M. Roberge, we get an intimate glimpse at the inner workings of a bipolar mind. After finishing her paralegal studies and embarking on a career, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2002 at the age of twenty....

Britain at War 1939 to 1945: What Was Life Like During the War? by James Lingard is a chronicle of the second World War through the eyes of a British (universal) citizen of the period 1939 to 45. It begins with the discernible preparations for...

Being There, a memoir of a physically and mentally deteriorating father, has been captured on paper with love and empathy clearly seen in the writings of author Aimi Medina. It is the memoir of Medina’s father Leonard, who in his early eighties suffers from senile...

Before, Afdre, and After: (My stroke...oh what fun) is a nonfiction memoir written by Maureen Twomey. The author was a professional copywriter who had given up freelancing for a permanent position with an advertising firm in San Francisco when she was in her early 30s....

Blowing Sandstorm by Horace Crenshaw Jr. is an account of the author’s military unit, and its deployment in support of Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF). After a delightful narration of the entry of Horace Crenshaw Jr. into this world, a rather panoramic description about his growth...

Billie is a non-fiction memoir written by Billie King. The author had to grow up quickly when she was a child. By the age of 10, she was all too aware of the abusive and hostile relationship between her father and mother. Her father was...