"Skinny House" is the vibrant, complicated story of one family amid the quest for racial equity in America. Julie L. Seely’s family memoir "Skinny House" also tells a broader story about American and African American history. Seely... Read More

Discussing their multi-parent, polyamorous family and childhood, Koe Creation’s memoir "This Heart Holds Many" is about growing up and becoming an adult in a non-standard family situation. The narration follows two parallel threads.... 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 eight months exploring the subcontinent, bringing her... Read More

Heady, challenging, and thought-provoking, the essays in "This Fish Is Fowl" traverse international and cultural boundaries. Author Xu Xi is of Chinese descent and originally hails from Indonesia but has spent her life and career... Read More

It’s impossible to see inside someone else’s mind to achieve true empathy, but Barbara Moran and Karl Williams’s "Hello, Stranger" comes close. Born in the early 1950s, Barbara Moran felt out of place and lonely for the first few... Read More

In his book "Hangdog Days", Jeff Smoot chronicles the controversial method of “hangdogging” a climbing route and the debate that raged during the 1980s in climbing circles about this method. Hangdogging is a rock climbing slang word... Read More

Natalie Ruth Joynton’s "Welcome to Replica Dodge" is a memoir about religion, place, and curious spiritual and literal journeys. Written with warmth, candor, and beautifully pensive language, "Welcome to Replica Dodge" follows Joynton... Read More

Each story is related with intimate detail, often humorous and always loaded with charming imagery. In his detailed memoir "Fields and Fencelines", Mark E. Hillenbrand shares anecdotes from his lively, love-filled childhood growing up on... Read More