Finding Peace and Purpose Amidst the Tears: My Journey of the Love and Loss of My Son Through His Mental Illness and Addiction by Debbie Gail Zane is a heartrending, brutally honest, and tremendously selfless and compassionate chronicle of the author’s struggle to come to...

In the 1970s, Yogi Bhajan popularized Kundalini Yoga in the United States and the West. In Under the Yoga Mat, Els Coenen reveals what was happening behind closed doors. Yogi Bhajan formed the 3HO (Happy, Healthy, Holy Organization) Kundalini Yoga community. The truth is that...

A Century+ of Living: The Autobiography of Cora Jones “Boot” McLeod by Dr. Beverly “Eagle” Rogers presents a biographical narrative of McLeod's rural upbringing in Wake County, North Carolina, highlighting her strong family bonds, church, and agricultural life. Her idyllic childhood is shattered by...

Lewis Kempfer’s 120 Seats in a Boiler Room: The Creation of a Courageous Professional Theater is a non-fiction drama that would appeal most to a diverse audience of adults and young adults with an interest in learning about how the Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin,...

The Rio Grande Sniper Killings by John Primomo is a true crime book that chronicles the events surrounding the summer of 1980 in South Texas. The book focuses on an amateur assassin's failed attempt to kill a federal witness, resulting in the accidental deaths of...

Walking While Black is a heart-wrenching first-hand account by Polly J. Runyon-Sanders and Anthonii Sanders of a horrible night in 2009 in which Anthonii, aka Nii, was violently and viciously attacked by the Downers Grove Police in the suburbs of Chicago. Without warning, police used...

Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir by Judy Haveson is a life story portrayed with resilience amid joy and tragedy. Raised in a loving family, Haveson navigated teenage years marked by familial illness and endured a horrific assault. In college, she mourned her sister Celia's death...

The Last Man on Earth: A Lonely Battle Against OCD is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, autobiographical writing, and mental health issues subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience owing to difficult discussions, strong language, and self-harm references. Penned by...

The Virgin Chronicles is an engaging memoir by Marina DelVecchio about a young woman’s complex relationship with her adoptive mother, Ann. Kathy is used to her mother calling her “putana,” a Greek word with two meanings; a dirty word for the vagina and whore. Little...

My Incarcerated Life by Qiana Riley-Jones is her autobiography as a prison wife. Raised in an environment with rising drug use and violence, she came across a drug dealer called Vandrick. There, their relationship started off with flings to fill their time and desire for...