Elegiac in tone, Jessica Kirkness’s "The House with All the Lights On" is a touching family memoir in which language and technology enable connections with deaf grandparents. Kirkness grew up next door to her grandparents, immigrants... Read More

In "Healing Psychedelics", therapist Micah Stover presents a self-help guide to the benefits and encouraging results of psychedelic-assisted therapy, even with treatment-resistant anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Covering the history of... Read More

The secrets of communication and cooperation among trees and their fungal and faunal allies are revealed in the graphic adaptation of Peter Wohlleben’s memoir "The Hidden Life of Trees". Wohlleben, who worked as a forester, narrates,... Read More

Alexandra Furnea links the nightmarish suffering of burn victims to the pervasive impacts of statewide corruption in "Diary of 66", her memoir about surviving the 2015 Colectiv Club fire. Widespread bribery throughout Romania meant that... Read More

A Canadian woman learns about her family’s past in the excellent graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories". Wong’s mother had a stroke in 2014, prompting a deeper investigation into the family history. Through conversations,... Read More

A family in mourning bands together through their hardships, nurturing hopes for their future, in the heartfelt novel "Big Love and War Horse". In Shallen Anne Chitwood’s historical novel "Big Love and War Horse", a rural family... Read More

"Untangling" is a comforting and supportive self-help guide that illuminates an empathetic process of self-transformation. Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell’s transformative self-help guide "Untangling" cuts to the heart of... Read More

A story of escaping war to thrive abroad, "Escaped at Thirteen" is an affecting memoir. Iranian emigrant Alieza Mogadam’s compelling memoir "Escaped at Thirteen" is about his forced departure from his homeland during the war between... Read More