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The Speed of Dark: A Memoir by Joram Piatigorsky

  An exquisitely crafted, moving portrait of a man’s exhilarating journey to success… Piatigorsky, the world-renowned molecular biologist and eye researcher and founder of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute, recounts his extraordinary journey…
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TWO ONE FIVE by Jeff Jaskolka

A poignant portrayal of a young man’s journey toward happiness… In this fine memoir, Jaskolka recounts his teenager and adult years as a white Caucasian male in a predominantly African-American area in the harsh city streets of Philadelphia, PA, as…
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Enchanted (Things We Lost in the Night #2) by Larry J. Dunlap

Electrifying… In this electric, surprisingly moving memoir, Dunlap takes up where he left off in Things We Lost in the Night and recalls his final years as a member of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves band. Dunlap talks about…
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A Medic’s Mind by Matthew Heneghan

  Powerful and incredibly inspiring… Heneghan takes a sharp-eyed look back at his fractured childhood and personal loss as he chronicles his journey towards a better way of coping. After joining Canadian Forces, Heneghan began experiencing crippling episodes of depression…
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Nature is Unlimited Broadcasting Station: Flowers She Wore on Her Feet by Bertha Mkwelele, Edward Mkwelele

  A short, beautiful account of a young life gone too soon… Bertha Mkwelele and Edward Mkwelele chronicle the short life span of their only daughter and first child Neema Mkwelele in this short biography. After graduating in BA (Hons)…
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Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir by Lewis Kempfer

  A candid, bare-it-all, and highly engrossing memoir… With unsparing candor, Lewis Kempfer chronicles decades of his drug and sex addicted life in intimate detail in Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir. Kempfer started struggling…
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1967 – a coming of age story by Richard Doornink

  Thrilling… a candid, poignant coming-of-age tale. A beautiful, gentle coming-of-age tale set in a small Canadian prairie town, 1967 chronicles the emotional journey of a young boy. Raised in Winnipeg, young Doornink is forced to leave behind his friends…
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A Twisted Fate: My life with Dystonia by Brenda Currey Lewis

A spirited, intimate memoir… Recipient of the 2001 Dystonia Medical Research Foundation’s Courage Award, Brenda Currey Lewis’s account of her life as Dystonia patient is both interesting and courageous. When seven-year-old Lewis suddenly started walking on the outer edge of…
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Night People (Things We Lost in the Night #1) by Larry J. Dunlap

  A stunning literary memoir… Set against the backdrop of West Coast, Night People, the first installment of the engrossing, intimate memoir, traces the first three of six years in the life of young members of a rock-and-roll vocal group…
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Journey to the Son by Carla Carlisle

  Multi-layered, emotionally charged read… Journey to the Son narrates Carla A. Carlisle’s eight-year struggle filled with mental turmoil and moral dilemma to get Devon, her foster son, back from a difficult system and a manipulative, abusive birth mother. Years…
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Monumental Moments by Joe R Eagleman

Briskly written, full of fascinating details … Joe R Eagleman is a well-known academician and research scientist whose tornado simulation is used as a pattern for the fifty-foot high tornado model in the Twister building of Universal Studios in Orlando.…
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Our Teenage Years: Growing Up in a Small Town in the 80’s (My Life #1) by T.J. Wray

A candid memoir… In Our Teenage Years, author T. J. Wray chronicles his life growing up in a small town in Oklahama in the 1980s. He recalls growing up in a dysfunctional home, working as a newspaper boy at minimum…
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Of Bitter Herbs and Sweet Confections by Susan Shalev

  A poignant, heartwarming memoir… Of Bitter Herbs and Sweet Confections narrates the harrowing journey of a Jewish family seen through the eyes of Tanya, the teenage daughter, that takes them from a privileged life in Nowy Sacz in Poland…
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A String of Paper Suns: An Experimental Memoir by Bridget Siljander

A raw and intimate memoir… Bridget Siljander, a mother, a caregiver to people with disabilities, and a human rights activist tells her story of growing up as the oldest of thirteen children in a family of firm believers as her…