Sukree Boodram was born into a large and prosperous farming family in Guyana, West Indies. She was a happy and academically gifted child who enjoyed an uneventful early life in Guyana’s sylvan countryside. In "Breakout"’s opening... Read More

In February 2008, Joseph and Laurel Dubowski lost their twenty-year-old daughter, Gayle, when a gunman on the campus of Northern Illinois University went on a rampage inside a classroom. In one of his recollections of Gayle, her father... Read More

In her poignant, forthright, and informative debut book, See the Cane: When MS Strikes, Strike Back, freelance writer Karen Murphy Anderson combines personal experience, poetry, and medical facts to paint a portrait of her life with... Read More

D. E. FitzGerald, a retired Navy dentist, wrote "Harnessing a Heritage" to document the stories behind the multitude of mementos he acquired during his life. He organized the wide variety of objects from Buddha statues to fossils into... Read More

The highest highs and the lowest lows of individual lives fill the pages of the best heartfelt memoirs. "Corinne and Me" is a fine example of a candid autobiography written not only to entertain the impersonal reader but as a tribute to... Read More

Maurice D. Kornberg, in his nineties, has written a touching tribute to his beloved wife of almost fifty-four years, Ruthy. Within this unabashed love story are relationship pearls of wisdom aimed at the younger generation. Bereft at... Read More

The author races readers through nine decades, steering a course filled with snippets of world history and brief glimpses of her personal life. Beginning in the 1920s, Mimi mentions the Roaring Twenties, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, and... Read More

Roger KA Allen has written a beautiful and fascinating memoir about his family and childhood growing up in Australia in the 1950s. The son of a “unique” country doctor and a nurse, Allen touchingly chronicles his life in Australia... Read More