Hello Anxiety, My Old Friend: Harness Your Invisible Superpower by Natalie Kohlhaas gives anxiety a whole new, unique outlook. Kohlhaas has over twenty plus years as a licensed therapist and counselor working closely with clients with anxiety. She also takes us intimately through her eight...

In Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings: Stories of Coming Out, Flying High, and Not Learning to Play the Piano, James Pauley Jr. shares captivating stories and pivotal moments that shaped his personality from childhood to recent years. He writes about his struggles with hiding his...

Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family’s Search for Hope is written by Amanda LaPera. LaPera’s father was diagnosed with cancer. After going through the surgery, he left his family in search of a more divine purpose. He sends postcards from some of the places he...

Potty Talk is a short story by Valerie Allen that explores the little details that can make or break a relationship. While cleaning a restroom, Daine overhears two women talking about their divorces. One of the women, Iris, discloses that after leaving the courthouse, she...

Many of us lost family members and friends during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mourning the loss of a friend is never easy, and it became all the more difficult during the recent pandemic with the unique circumstances people found themselves in. In What...

With vulnerability and skill, Kathryn Abdul-Baki recounts her experiences growing up as a half-American and half-Arab including her desire to reconcile the two cultures within her in her memoir, Dancing into the Light: An Arab American Girlhood in the Middle East. Abdul-Baki was born in...

Lost and Found: Coming of Age in the Washington Press Corps by Ellen Hume is a stunning personal manifesto and commitment to making a difference where the odds are high. Ellen knows that as a woman, becoming a newspaper reporter in an industry dominated by...

Wallace E. Briggs shares his experiences growing up in England and the obstacles he faced in love in his book, Love Changed Everything. Briggs wasn’t born into material wealth, and his father was sick during the author’s life. Briggs imparts the difficulties his family faced...

Lisa Slater‘s K9 Odin is narrated from Odin’s view as he recounts his journey from an unwanted dog to Adam Slater’s canine partner. Odin was three years old when his owner took him to the Virginia Beach Animal Shelter to be euthanized. Dr. Chris Aycock...

The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry (Poetic License) by Gretchen Cherington is an intensely personal and thoughtful memoir recounting her life as the daughter of a famous father. The author’s father was...