Strongest in its memoir aspects, "Your Turn" excels in exploring the myriad ways that storytelling can improve and encourage appreciative living. Tyra Manning’s memoir and... Read More

"Being Mean" is a scalding personal account of enduring, and healing from, childhood sexual abuse. Patricia Eagle’s searing memoir "Being Mean" is about her rise from the... Read More

In JoAnn Franklin’s novel "Bring the Rain", Dart Sommers has an established career as a psychology professor at a North Carolina university. She is also the founder of The... Read More

Amy Weinland Daughters’s novel "You Cannot Mess This Up" explores an irresistible time travel premise: What if you could go back in time and meet your family as an outsider... Read More

Part awakening, part trial by fire, "The Alchemy of Noise" is a timely social novel that unfolds with tenderness and cruelty. A story on fresh beginnings marred by police... Read More

"A Better Next" is a sensitive drama that follows the day-by-day challenges of starting over. Maren Cooper’s dramatic novel "A Better Next" follows a resilient woman through... Read More

Dena Moes needed a change. When her sister in New Delhi became pregnant, Dena, a nurse and midwife, flew across the world to be with her and returned home with a plan: to spend... Read More

A courageous story of surviving government corruption, The Parrot’s Perch is an often harrowing memoir. Karen Keilt’s brave memoir The Parrot’s Perch, told partially... Read More

"Split-Level" is a literary novel that navigates intimate struggles with unforgettable style. Sande Boritz Berger sets a 1970s Jersey housewife on a provocative collision course... Read More

Children of sometimes difficult parents will find this clear-eyed and cathartic memoir to be sympathetic. More than a memoir, Deborah Burns’s Saturday’s Child is a tribute... Read More

Tender, pithy, and steeped in respect, Never Sit if You Can Dance is a light-filled biographical work. Jo Giese’s radiant tribute, "Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My... Read More

In cultures where elders are valued, the greeting “You look old today” is seen as a compliment. This is not the case in the United States, where aging is often seen as an... Read More