Biographies & History

Say Uncle, a memoir that reads like a novel, not only gives child’s eye details of adults who have gone off the rails, but also turns an unflinching eye on the adult author, showing how patterns of deception pass through generations. Through tumult and upset, the deeply dysfunctional, yet uniquely vibrant, family manages to endure, and Say Uncle tells what it is like to slowly, bumpily heal, by way of a story that is a testament to the fact that the detour is the path. The story is told with love, humor, and the hope to show survivors of chaotic families that even the most painful family secrets and lies can ultimately be our most valuable teacher.

Hearing that his home state, Georgia, had declared its secession, 2nd Lieutenant Edward Porter Alexander resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and left to join the Confederates. His work has been described as "altogether the best critique of the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia.” — Douglas Southall Freeman

“What is it like up there?” Spitfire first became a household word during the Blitz, but it was not the first service the valiant aircraft had performed. In an attempt to answer the questions of the man on the street, Brian Lane, who wrote under the pseudonym of B. J. Ellan, tells of what it is that a fighter pilot thinks and feels when he is fighting in the skies, from the sunlit coast of Belgium to the lovely countryside of Kent.

1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they could and headed West to find their fortune. This is the diary of one of those intrepid men, and the trials and tribulations that he faces in his search for riches.

When all else is gone, "Love is all that matters." Where Memories Meet is two stories: a daughter's memoir of losing her father to Alzheimer's interwoven with a father's account of his life's defining moments. It is an insider's view of the physical and emotional toll Alzheimer's takes on a family. An unconventional story structure and timeline allow the author to move past memories of the heartbreak of her father's last years, and in effect, reclaim her father after Alzheimer's.

Levant Fever is a memoir from the political underground darkness of Assad's Syria. Seen through the eyes of a boy growing into a man, in the middle of feverish historic events. Not widely understood, or told before in the West but at the roots of the current conflicts. The narrative grips the reader with its honesty, brutality and beauty.