“After she died, a friend said, “Phoebe could always make something out of nothing. Phoebe spent most of her life making something out of nothing but always with a great big laugh.” That’s a powerful statement alluding to the pioneer resilience to work hard, love...

Missionary: Saving Fearful by S.O. Fidimaye chronicles the author's fears and apprehensions in spite of growing up in an Islamic family and reading the Quran daily. The Yoruba people are known to have a god for almost anything and the author speaks about how all...

Children are more perceptive than we credit them for. Such was the case of Irene, an almost 10-year-old girl who had a beautiful family. Her parents were in love, and she had her companion, a teddy bear. Suddenly, her parents would fight endlessly within earshot...

Mixed Relations 2: Navigating the Stormy Waters of Married Life by Gertrude Mueller von Deham is a moving work of historical non-fiction. It centers on how the author, named Evelyn in the book, grapples with a challenging marriage to a spoiled husband named Eric. The...

A ‘normal’ family can hide harsh realities within the home. Posie L Carson’s memoir Mom’s Pen tackles the issue of domestic abuse. Domestic abuse can lie hidden in plain sight, and it most often does. Women find themselves trapped in a vicious cycle and they...

Mezzo-Soprano: Memoirs of a Rez Girl by Rhonda Head is the author's autobiography, a compact work that details her life growing up as a First Nation person of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. Head starts with her earliest memories of a youth spent largely outdoors with...

Gene Twaronite’s My Life as a Sperm: Essays From the Absurd Side is part autobiography, part journalistic reporting, and part opinion. Some of these essays were previously published in magazines and literary reviews. Put together in this anthology, they nicely sum up a life rich...

My Chosen Words: Memories of a Professional Immigrant Woman is a work of non-fiction written in the memoir style by author Ferial Imam Haque, Ph.D. From her parental roots in British India to a contented life as a retired scientist in Ottawa, Canada, the author...

Muslim, Christian, Jew - "I Do": A Memoir by Hazel Wise is the autobiography of a woman who married, in exactly the same order, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew. Daughter of an Anglican missionary, Hazel grows up with her four siblings on a...

Mental Health Criminal Defense by Jennifer Longtin is a short but informative primer on helping us to understand how to help a friend or loved one with mental health issues caught up in criminal defense. More people than we know are affected by a mental...