The evocative, gritty memoir Daddy’s House is about reckoning with the trauma of abuse and forging success fueled by faith and forgiveness. Mildred J. Mills’s involving memoir Daddy’s House recalls a past marked by poverty and... Read More

A CEO looks back at his winding path to success in the inspiring memoir "Surviving Jonathan". Jonathan Crawford’s memoir–cum–leadership book "Surviving Jonathan" is about rising from addiction to become a CEO. Beginning with... Read More

Francesca Galligan’s "Looking After Your Books" is a delightful reference volume for book lovers. A librarian at Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Galligan is an ideal dispenser of book-related advice. She balances her expertise with... Read More

In the experience-based career guide "50 Secrets Nobody Tells You in Hollywood", stories about professional actors’ successes and flubs make the industry feel approachable. Acting coach and professional actor Mike Kimmel’s... Read More

Filled with resonant disclosures and a few surprises, "An Accidental Philanthropist" is a moving memoir by a woman who effected great change. Written with an eye toward women’s issues, Winsome Dunn McIntosh’s memoir is about her... Read More

With fascinating peeks into military life and work on Wall Street, "Downriver" is a revealing memoir. Ryan McDermott’s introspective memoir "Downriver" is about the personal costs of military service and success on Wall Street.... Read More

Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s "Jim" is an encyclopedic work of literary criticism that celebrates Mark Twain’s classic. "Jim" contends that readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as racist have missed Twain’s use of irony to... Read More

An interwoven father-daughter story, Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s ambitious novel "The Wanderers" is a philosophical examination of the legacy of South African apartheid. Although apartheid ended when Ruru, now a doctor, was still a child, she... Read More