Way Back in the Hills is a childhood memoir about growing up in the back country of the Ozarks.
Memoir
Paranoia descended on Susannah like a sudden rainstorm. One day she was fine and the next she had uncontrollable thoughts and urges.
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
2 Night is a powerful memoir of a boy who faced the horrors of a concentration camp when he wanted to be studying Jewish Scripture.
Night by Elie Weisel
2 Tara Westover lives in the mountains of Idaho and grows up in a family where shame and violence rule. Her father has mood swings and is probably bipolar, but sees himself as a messenger from God who keeps his family in line with the strictest Mormon rules. His children are homeschooled, but mainly spend their days helping him in the junkyard or building sheds and barns. A few of her older siblings try to leave for college and while they move away, the ties that bind this family together are very strong – they are the only ones who understand life as a Westover.
Educated by Tara Westover
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Things happen when you leave, when you walk out the door, up the driveway, and into the world.” Kelly’s mother and father have always been so different. Her father is laid-back and likes to host parties. Her mother worries and is more introverted. In the book, their […]
Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
“If David could have just been nice to me, then life would have been perfect!” Craig grows up right in the middle of a family with five children and is constantly tormented by his older brother, David. It’s not just the typical sibling rivalry, but bullying that involves violence, trickery, […]
Bully Brother by Craig M. Dial
“Lyndsay wasn’t just my girlfriend now; she was the host of our baby.” Some days change your life so completely that you never forget them. For Adam, his day was when he got a call that his girlfriend was in the hospital – about to deliver a baby. Neither of […]
Three Hour Dad: Reading is Believing by Adam T. Hourlution
1 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “He’s unique, this Jesus. And God willing, I will continue pursuing him until the end, no matter how difficult it gets.” Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter is a memoir of a woman who grew up in a Jewish home but felt the appeal of Christianity in college. […]
Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter by Sarahbeth Caplin
1 [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Guilt was my old friend. We understood each other and needed each other. It was guilt that had always protected me from despair.” Around the age of 7, Anne’s older brother, Paul, passed away. At an age where she could start feeling deeply, this death and that […]
Ollie Ollie in Come Free: A Memoir of Swallowed Time ...
1 “I like to think of Vamper humming along the highway, taking happy people to happy places.” After retirement, George Critchlow, a retired law professor, isn’t quite sure what he wants to do in life. He decides to go on an adventure by himself to see if seeing the country will […]