our flagship imprint is home to the memoir + biography genre
2025 & 2024 RELEASES
A sharp, heartfelt, and often hilarious essay collection that weaves together a lifetime of eclectic experiences—inside and outside the classroom—offering teachers and readers alike profound lessons on resilience, authenticity, and the art of learning from life itself.
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Memoir, Teaching, Sports
Through this heartfelt memoir, Laura Lyn takes readers on a personal journey of self-discovery and transformation. As she examines the roles we often use to define ourselves—mother, professional, student—she challenges readers to dig deeper.
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Memoir, Women’s Health, Self-Care
In his raw memoir, Ben shares the secrets of his evolution from being a self-centered rockstar to a successful entrepreneur and loving father.
Release date: Jan. 30, 2024
Memoir, Music Business, Entrepreneur, Spirituality
2023 RELEASES
Hoax is the story of a woman born and raised in the Jehovah’s Witness cult. Her journey from self-realization of the indoctrination she was born into to self-acceptance as she struggles to belong in a world where things are not as they seem. Finding the courage to leave, she loses her entire family and children in the process.
Release date: Jan. 24, 2023
Memoir, Cults, Mental Health, Addiction
Drafted! tells the story of Henry Morgan Miller’s year in Vietnam. What it’s like to be shot at and shot down? To serve your country honorably, while fighting a war you don’t believe in, only to return and be ostracized by a misguided faction of the general public?
2023 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Winner & 2023 Finalist - Foreword INDIES Award
Release date: Dec. 19, 2023
Memoir, Military, Vietnam
In Milspouse Matters: Sharing Strength Through Our Stories, readers are immersed in the captivating world of military spouse life, unearthing the challenges and triumphs faced by those who leave behind the familiar to embrace a life of constant change.
2023 Finalist - Foreword INDIES Award
Release date: Oct 10, 2023
Memoir, Military Families, Milspouse stories
2022 RELEASES
Julie’s memoir is a real-life Alice in Wonderland tale. A cowgirl falls into Africa like Alice fell into Wonderland, taking you on a voyage of discovery and into the little-known world of an American military spouse serving amongst the world’s diplomatic corps.
Release date: Sept. 13, 2022
Memoir, Military, Travel Memoir
The 16th Second is the autobiography of a small-town gay boy from Deep South Louisiana who survived homophobia, alcohol and drug addiction, sexual abuse, rape, and HIV/AIDS to become somebody that no one, not even he, expected.
Release date: June 14, 2022
LGBTQ+ Memoir, Autobiography
Andrea June was given up by her family for adoption before she was two years old. A young family adopted her, and changed her name to Kari Ellen.
Years later, Kari made researching her family history a priority. The startling information she uncovered changed her life forever.
1st Ed Released: April 30, 2019 / 2nd Ed Released Sept. 2022
Memoir, Adoption, Christian Faith, Family Relationships
2021 RELEASES
In Have Chignon—Will Travel, Elizabeth Dale Phillips takes you with her on an incredible odyssey, starting out as a shorthand-typist in London, metamorphosing into an elegant Bluebell Girl — tall, glamorous dancers known throughout the world.
Release date: September 28, 2021
Memoir, Biography, Dance/The Arts
Through a series of personal reflections and short stories, author John Davis will lead you on an expedition toward an intentionally bold pursuit of presence, deeper compassion, and the ultimate acceptance and awareness of unconditional love, both for yourself and for others.
Release date: October 12, 2021
Memoir, Biography, Grief
There is no way that thirteen-year-old wallflower me could conceive of a day when I would dance—voluntarily—in the halftime show of the Chinese University Basketball Association championship that was broadcast to millions of people. But I did. The memoir Unbound Feet: Finding Freedom in Communist China chronicles this miraculous transformation.
Release date: February 2, 2021
Memoir, Christian Faith, Chinese Culture
An Asset-Based Thinker’s look back at the lessons learned from a lifetime in marketing to help guide, motivate and inspire the industry’s next generation of responsible leaders. A communications industry veteran, Hank Wasiak’s professional journey took him to and through the corporate boardrooms of the ad world’s biggest names. He learned from the best in the business to become the best in the business.
Release date: January 5, 2021
Memoir, Business, Marketing
2019 & 2020 RELEASES
David’s story is not merely about recovery from addiction—it’s for anyone trapped in loneliness and limiting beliefs about their worthiness. His story illuminates the shame and self-loathing that plagues communities across all demographics and socioeconomic lines and seeks to liberate our minds and hearts to give and receive love.
Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize Short-List, First Horizon, and Montaigne Medal, Finalist
Release date: March 10, 2020
Memoir, LGBTQ+, Addiction
In Detached: A Memoir, Bridgette recounts her childhood as the parent figure in a mother-daughter relationship, how she grew up too quickly for her age and missed out on the experiences that most children enjoy.
Release date: June 16, 2020
Memoir, Family Relationships
From the beginning, Peter Jack Newton found joy in a childhood fraught with the struggles of survival on a poor Southern farm, the youngest of eleven surviving children led by his widowed mother through the dark depression. Despite his poverty and brandishing his newfound entrepreneurial spirit, he entered college in search of his lofty goals, but WWII proved to be another potential obstacle.
Release date: June 09, 2020
Memoir, WWII, Southern Culture
A biting, bittersweet, uproarious recovery adventure reveals truths about nursing homes and the opioid crisis.
Release date: October 06, 2020
Humor, Memoir, Hospital Procedure
The early 1960s in Springdale, Arkansas were colorful to young Larry Daniel. His father, Lemus Daniel, a successful, fun-loving and trusting businessman, draws the ire of a rogue cop with a grudge. Eventually Lemus is run out of town, leaving Larry to fend for himself.
Release date: March 3, 2020
Memoir, Biography
Facing the Elephants, the personal memoir by Rebecca Black, explores her past trauma, on-going health issues including dying three times, and ending with her elective double mastectomy after finding out she had the BRCA1 gene. Through it all, she finds peace and spiritual connection with an elephant family while volunteering at the zoo.
Release date: February 12, 2019
Memoir