"Any Body Can Heal" is a powerful memoir about turmoil and growth. A moving memoir about overcoming trauma, psychotherapist Sara Davidson’s "Any Body Can Heal" deals with the aftermath of multiple traumatic experiences in an... Read More

A moving memoir that details the ups and downs of parenting disabled children, "Silence and Light" argues that there’s a need for greater awareness around deafblindness. Lanya McKittrick’s powerful memoir of crisis, hope, and... Read More

Gathering lessons from military experiences to help others advance in their careers too, "Lessons from the Admiral" is an entertaining memoir–cum–leadership guide. Made up of equal parts remembrance, advice, and reflection, Mark C.... Read More

In his memoir "Portrait in Red", L. John Harris pursues multiple avenues (and delightful detours) in an attempt to solve an art mystery in Paris. Harris, who attended art school at Berkeley in the 1960s, arrived in Paris on magazine... Read More

Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents. Kirkness grew up next door to her grandparents, immigrants... Read More

Visual anthropologist and filmmaker Sarah Thomas’s eloquent memoir-in-essays "The Raven’s Nest" covers her time in Iceland, where her views about people’s relationships to land and to each other sharpened. The book draws contrasts... Read More

In a compelling, conversational style that brings together two unlikely subjects, David Ladensohn’s book explores fly fishing alongside the life and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci. The book follows da Vinci’s life with admiration,... Read More

Using humor as an educational tool, Duncan Watson’s charming memoir Everyone’s Trash reveals recycling secrets and stories about detritus. After earning a master’s degree in resource management in the early 1990s, Watson started a... Read More