Joey Mullaney learned how to rough up an opponent on the football field before he could do long division. From the beginning, his sharp reflexes and outrageous goals made him a star on the sports field. But he took on a much more... Read More

Blending personal experiences, letters, and news stories, Sanja Kulenovic’s memoir captures courage and resilience during the danger and displacement of Sarajevo in the 1990s. While honeymooning in Southern California in 1992, Sanja... Read More

It’s impossible to see inside someone else’s mind to achieve true empathy, but Barbara Moran and Karl Williams’s "Hello, Stranger" comes close. Born in the early 1950s, Barbara Moran felt out of place and lonely for the first few... Read More

Kristin Bartzokis’s "(Extra)Ordinary Women" features ten contemporary stories of women who’ve been through hell and back. The hardships they endured are related with their firsthand input and a steady authorial tone. Each chapter is... Read More

Kilee Brookbank’s is a story of hope and inspiration. Beautiful Scars: A Life Redefined, by Kilee Brookbank and Lori Highlander, is a story of hope and health for a teen girl and her mother. At age sixteen, Kilee suffered a tragic... Read More

This moving, personal account of overcoming depression is both a memoir and playbook for using creativity to cope with challenges. In a book that highlights the serious consequences of clinical depression, Michèle Swiderski recounts the... Read More

This is a story of joy, love, and thankfulness that will touch the hearts of mothers and daughters. "Beautiful Scars" by Kilee Brookbank and Lori Highlander is a moving story of how one girl recovered from devastating burns, with her... Read More