Survival Biographies

Facing the Storm of Trauma and Finding Strength in Healing

Author C D Kreger delivers a memoir as gut-wrenching as it is uplifting with Face the Storm, inviting readers into her world with fearless honesty, recounting a life shaped by childhood neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional turmoil. Yet this book is far more than a recounting of dark experiences. Face…

Monique SnymanJanuary 23, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Story of Resilience Recounts Escape from Poverty and Hardship in Appalachia

Mary Frances Barron’s newly released memoir Escape from Appalachia: Who Will Rescue Me? is rich in area history, vivid in setting descriptions and compelling in its recounting of a difficult childhood. The audiobook version provides an immersive reading experience for anyone who would like to revel in the depth of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJanuary 22, 2025

Hard Bargain by Donald G Denihan with Jon Land

Nonfiction Recommended

Near-Death Experiences Provide Author a New Lease on Life

“Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.” That nugget was the last item in a list of 45 life lessons offered by Regina Brett, legendary newspaper writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It’s also the last sentence in Donald G. Denihan’s new book Hard Bargain (Stillwater…

Jim AlkonJune 13, 2024

Listicles Nonfiction

6 Shocking and Inspiring True Stories of Survival

Have you survived the impossible? A freak accident, a near-death experience, a danger, or a diagnosis you didn’t expect to see the other side of? So many people experience the unimaginable and continue to go on living — but not without being forever changed by what they’ve survived. In these…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 10, 2024

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Escaping the Nazis: A Remarkable Tale of Survival and Resilience

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisMarch 27, 2024

Nonfiction

Award-Winning Journalist Chronicles Cousin’s Experience as a Polish Holocaust Survivor

Jews in the Garden (Sourcebooks), subtitled A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II is an eloquent, deeply personal memoir written by award-winning, veteran investigative journalist Judy Rakowsky. She shares her moving experiences of discoveries made about her previously unknown…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 20, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

The Poignant Recounting of a Childhood Marred by the Lebanese Civil War

“My mother came to pick me up from school one day, screaming ‘Eddy! Eddy!’ All the other mothers came running and shouting too. Their screams pierced my ears and vibrated in my ribcage … I was very afraid.” Edward Challita, five years old at the time, was deprived of his…

BookTribSeptember 5, 2023

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Spouses Confront an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis and a Husband’s Heartbreaking Decision

"Prepare yourself to be heartbroken, expanded, unsettled, and filled with hope." — Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World —∞— In Love (Random House) by Amy Bloom hits all the right notes when it comes to revealing and evoking authentic and true emotions. The author beautifully…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 29, 2022

Fiction

Transcending Childhood Trauma in “Ugly Girl, Sweet Nectar”

By chapter two, Alessa, the main character in D.D. Kaye’s Ugly Girl, Sweet Nectar, has already made a cringe-worthy mistake — for all the right reasons, perhaps, but a mistake just the same — and readers will be holding a collective breath and silently screaming advice at her. However, more…

Sherri DaleyApril 15, 2021

Survival Biographies

Facing the Storm of Trauma and Finding Strength in Healing

Story of Resilience Recounts Escape from Poverty and Hardship in Appalachia

Near-Death Experiences Provide Author a New Lease on Life

6 Shocking and Inspiring True Stories of Survival

Books & Looks Podcast: Escaping the Nazis: A Remarkable Tale of Survival and Resilience

The Poignant Recounting of a Childhood Marred by the Lebanese Civil War

Spouses Confront an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis and a Husband’s Heartbreaking Decision

Transcending Childhood Trauma in “Ugly Girl, Sweet Nectar”

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