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3.5 / 5.0

Although afflicted with both a surfeit and a lack of detail in different ways, Kristina Ahlnäs’s KRISTINA'S CACHE: A Memoir of Adventure and Survival in...

IR Approved
January 6, 2025

OUR STORY

By Bill Clark, Glenda Clark, Jim Clark
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

Part love story, part historical document, and part meditation on the nature of enduring partnership, Bill, Glenda, and Jim Clark’s OUR STORY offers readers a...

IR Approved
December 18, 2024

OLD WHITE MAN WRITING

By Joshua Gidding
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

Through its innovative structure and unflinching self-examination, Joshua Gidding’s OLD WHITE MAN WRITING offers a new approach to the biographical template—resulting in a challenging, highly...

Rating:
3.9 / 5.0

Amanda LaPera’s FINDING DAD, PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA: An End to the Search is a challenging read, but it’s hard not to be struck by its immense...

IR Approved
December 11, 2024

KARMA & KISMET

By Michael Shandler
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

Told with the thoughtful reflectiveness of a practiced yogi but with persistent emotional immediacy, Michael Shandler’s KARMA & KISMET is an excellent memoir of both...

IR Approved
November 27, 2024

TOKYO TEMPOS

By Michael Pronko
Rating:
4.7 / 5.0

TOKYO TEMPOS is an enlightening and entertaining collection of essays, thanks to Micheal Pronko’s careful prose beautifully conjuring a sense of place and the occasional...

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October 28, 2024

TOO MUCH

By Cindy Lee Neighbors
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Challenging but rewarding, Cindy Lee Neighbors’s TOO MUCH is an incisive memoir of the soul-crushing dysfunction of both medical and military culture in the US.

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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

OBJECT: A Memoir of Childhood Abuse and a Shocking Cover-Up at the Highest Ranks of Government is a powerful memoir of childhood abuse and its...

IR Approved
October 9, 2024

RAISED BY WOLVES, POSSIBLY MONSTERS

By Michael Swerdloff
Rating:
4.7 / 5.0

Raw, compassionate, and perceptive, Michael Swerdloff's memoir RAISED BY WOLVES, POSSIBLY MONSTERS is a vital excavation of toxic masculinity's rot—and an urgent call for individual...

Rating:
3.7 / 5.0

BLINDSIGHTED: A Journey of Identity, Faith, and Healing is a carefully constructed family history that pivots on a shock DNA revelation. Author Rich Christiansen skillfully...

Rating:
3.8 / 5.0

Jimmy Mulzet's FACING THE CHALLENGE, BEATING THE ODDS is an honest and inspirational account of one man's struggle to overcome debilitating illness.

IR Approved
August 5, 2024

WATER LUST

By Gerhard Pohle
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

WATER LUST by Gerhard Pohle is a lively and engaging autobiography that includes humor, tragedy, loneliness, love, catastrophe, and triumph. It is a rich reminiscence...

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