Bones in the Alley: A Journey to Self-Awareness That Began on the Island of Barbados is a non-fiction memoir written by Viterose Van Huis. The author was born to an unmarried teenager in Barbados in the late 1940s. At that time, teenage or unmarried pregnancies...

Maternal Threads by Frances Susanne Brown is a very interesting read. The author discovers a hidden family secret after her mother’s death. Brown goes on to talk about her own relationship with her daughter. However, I thought the secret that Brown found out came out...

Around the World in 80 Tales by Dave Tomlinson is an exciting travel book for readers who love traveling and exploring new destinations. Each journey is an adventure and each adventure has its own story to tell. The author takes readers to 25 countries across...

Fourteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival by Leslie Johansen Nack is a deeply emotional and moving story about the coming of age of our narrator and author who had to deal with the divorce of her parents, the abuse by her father,...

Journey into Finance by E.N. Towner is a testimony of one woman’s experience with eliminating debt and restoring credit after bankruptcy. The book deals with all aspects of monetary responsibilities that many people take for granted. These responsibilities include: balancing a checkbook, understanding the value...

I enjoyed reading Losing the Dollhouse by S. Jane Gari. This is Jane’s story of how, after dealing with years of sexual abuse by her stepfather, she finally works up the courage and tells her mother. Instead of protecting her daughter, Jane’s mother turns against...

The And: Learning to Trust God's Sovereignty and Grace Through Life's Heartache by Erin Reichman is an exceptional memoir with an unusual title, a book that should be read by everyone. In fact, readers may be baffled when they read the title, but fortunately the...

Escape From Xanadu: A Memoir of Survival, Adventure, and Coming of Age is a non-fiction memoir written by Doc Sanborn. The author was quite literally a war baby. His father enlisted in the Merchant Marines when Sanborn was five months old. Shore leave visits were...

Diary of a Shanghai Showgirl: Raising the Red Curtain on China...Uncensored by Amelia Kallman starts with Amelia getting off a plane in China with Norman, and wondering what on earth she has done. She feels both excited and worried at the same time, and is...

"I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." India Arie's words have never rung louder in my mind than when I was reading Crowning Glory: An Experiment in Self-Discovery Through Disguise by Stacy Harshman. Stacy's inner...