Like a good friend reminiscing, Peter S. Fischer tells stories about his days as a TV writer and his transition to a career as an author of Hollywood mysteries. "Me and Murder, She Wrote" provides an insider view of Hollywood from the... Read More

Themes of crime and redemption run through the life of a complicated “gangster.” "Bombed in His Bed", the biography of “Jewish gangster” Myer Rush, spans his boyhood to middle adulthood with an impressive and glorified account of... Read More

What Klaber does so well throughout is keep front and center the hinge upon which this story swings: Lobdell’s ambiguity about her gendered and sexual self. Only the train was late the day Lucy Ann Lobdell left home in order to live... Read More

Details of a gang-infested small town in Illinois bring historical richness to this fictionalized family memoir. Even in small-town Illinois in 1913, gangs presented a problem for local residents. To clean up Hillview, the mayor hired... Read More

Author brings back to life an Algerian hero in both war and peace. Famed in the mid-19th century as “The Desert Hawk,” Abd el-Kader was renowned as a warrior, mystic, and leader of the fight to free Algeria from French invaders. Elsa... Read More

This scrapbook biography of primary documents creates an encompassing portrait of a soldier, his family, and a war. A scrapbook created by the author to understand his brother’s death in World War II, Moonlight Over England is an... Read More

A brain injury and coma survivor speaks with raw honesty about the aftermath of an accident that tore her life apart. In the blink of an eye, a person’s life can change. Carolann deBellis’ "Lady in Red" chronicles her life-changing... Read More

Searing and loving, this intelligently constructed scrapbook of a friendship is a must-read. A heart-wrenching exploration of what happens when our heroes come to life, Tony Narducci’s memoir recalls one extraordinary year, in the... Read More