New mothers reclaim their power by honestly telling their stories in this essay collection. There are plenty of parenting guides that cover pregnancy, birth, and childcare, but few portray the fourth trimester. Chaya Kasse Valier’s... Read More

In the opening scene of Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s "Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones", the author and her mother comb Rose Hill Cemetery in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, searching for family graves. Hoffman’s mother carries a... Read More

"Warm Water" relatably explores what it means to grow up and grow old. Warm Water: A Collection of Memories by T. J. Richards is a memoir that shares an array of snapshots from the broad span of one man’s life. Richards spent his... Read More

Reeve Lindbergh’s family was in the public eye again and again during the twentieth century. In her memoir "Two Lives", she reveals personal memories of her parents, the controversial aviator-authors Charles A. and Anne Morrow... Read More

Radix Media’s "Aftermath" unites vastly different voices across cultures and experiences through their captivating and bittersweet expressions of pain. Crafted from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, visual art, and... Read More

At its most basic, Rachel Marie Stone’s memoir, Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light, is about the time she picked up a just-born baby with her bare hands, not realizing the mother was HIV positive, and the resulting process of... Read More

Susan M. Tarrant’s "WoW! What a Trip!" is a lovely tool for moms, dads, aunts, uncles, or grandparents to share with future siblings. An innovative story for expectant parents to share with young children, Susan M. Tarrant’s "WoW!... Read More

"Buggy" is a heartbreaking account of childhood abuse and the ways that its irreversible damage carries over into future generations. Timothy J. Richards’s novella "Buggy" draws from real-life events to show the effects of childhood... Read More