I thought Secrets of the Velvet Closet: A Memoir by Lena Rai was fascinating and hard to put down. Rai grew up knowing she was a lesbian, but attempted to live the straight life by getting married. She suffered from both mental and physical abuse...

Finding the Rainbow by Rachel McGrath is a chronicle of the timing of cycles and waiting for good news, with the hope and excitement of finding out positive results. However, this is followed by the pain and grief of miscarriage, which often leads to starting...

Some Things You Keep is a poignant yet inspirational memoir about the life of the author, JJ Landis. When JJ was around twelve years old, her mother committed suicide and her life soon changed forever. The night her mother died, she immediately had to move...

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....

Memories - everyone has them. They're like snapshots stored in that special, secret place in the back of the brain. When resurrected, they create a mosaic of one's life, much like a traditional patchwork quilt. There is that first day walking to school on your...

I thought Faraway by R.K. Kline and Daniel D. Maurer was a great story. Kline and Maurer offer a glimpse into the life of Kevin, a teenage male prostitute. The story takes place near St. Louis, Missouri, in the seventies and tells how Kevin got...

The Horse Girl by Sharon Ward-Keeble is a true story. Beverli Rhodes was one of the victims of the London Tube Bombings on 7/7/2005. She suffered some terrible injuries, but perhaps the worst one of all was a return of the flashbacks of her early...

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...

The Tears of Olive Trees: An Autobiographic Story Featuring Poems From Mahmoud Darwish is a non-fiction memoir written by AbdulKarim Al Makadma, with illustrations by Rawya M. Wadi. The author was born and grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. His family was uprooted...

Search & Seizure is a coming of age memoir written by Marc Hoberman. When Marc was eleven, he got to meet his maternal grandfather, a composer whose work was used in film and television throughout the '40s, '50s and '60s. That meeting and the one...