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Wheels Within Wheels is the autobiography of Edward, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu—a life shaped by heritage, controversy, imagination, and a lifelong love of the motor car. Spanning much of the twentieth century, it is both an intimate personal memoir and a portrait of a Britain learning how to adapt its past to a changing world.

Social media star and mental health advocate Chris Olsen revisits his childhood trauma, addiction, and the road to recovery in this brutally honest, genuine, and often funny memoir in the vein of Furiously Happy and Miss Memory Lane. Growing up, Chris Olsen believed his family was perfect. But...

A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past. Indian-American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai), which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three...

A soul-searching LGBTQ memoir about one woman’s attempt to plan her way to happily ever after—only to realize that healing, self-discovery, and love happen in their own time.

When Chris Arnone was born in Independence, Missouri, nobody could tell what sex he was. For the first few days of his life, until a chromosome test confirmed he was a boy, his parents called him Baby. From this first, literal “coming out,” it was clear he was different. His life was punctuated by a string of surgeries and trips to the ER, unrecognizable and confusing diagrams in sex ed class, and the need to preface every intimate encounter by explaining his medical history. But it wasn’t until he was 37 that he discovered he didn’t have “birth defects”—he was intersex.

When Katrina, a forty-six-year-old Midwestern mother of four, becomes consumed with feelings for her female Pilates instructor, she begins to understand that she is and always has been gay. Her husband suggests they open up their twenty+ year marriage, which appears to be a reasonable solution to their dilemma. But when Katrina and her husband have different ideas of what an open marriage should like, the cracks in their white-picket-fence life are hit with a hurricane-force fury.

This is 3rd Book series continuation of the first book Inner child of Lisa title changed from Living with Lisa. The story intertwined spiritual awakening going from Lisa to Lee gender identity crisis forty years in dark place family dysfunctional parents divorce as child growing up eldest 3 siblings born in London. Touched by angels series paranormal events going through transition gender reassignment surgery suffering with dysphoria not in alignment with my birth gender.

Forgive For You is a story about learning to live well with reality, even (and especially) when it doesn’t come with clarity, closure, or apology. Blending sharp insight and raw honesty, the author reflects on love, loss, kinship, trauma, marriage, divorce, and what it means to forgive it all–not for others, but for ourselves. This isn’t a tale of tidy resolution. It’s a winding, at times bewildering, emotional journey through secrets kept and truths uncovered. It’s the reckoning of a rage that could burn the world, and the forging of resilience from fury and surrender.

A revelatory and wildly entertaining chronicle of polyamory, from PEN/America Award winner, Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea. In recent years, polyamory has become a topic of fascination for the general public, but it has long enjoyed a great deal of popularity...

STOLEN: LOVE AND LOSS IN THE TIME OF COVID • 19 is a raw and gripping diary account of the battle Jaeger’s dad endured with COVID • 19 in New York City. The narrative brings you into the heart of her family as they come to terms with his death and learn to cope with his absence. In flashbacks throughout the narrative, vignettes illustrate her dad in happier times–a doting father, an adoring grandfather, a man who always put family first.

Imagine holding a secret so big that sharing it could mean destroying the life you built and hurting those you love. Imagine sharing and embracing a secret so powerful that it could transform your life, your relationships, and how you see and lead in the world. As one of Canada’s most senior and recognized corporate executives, Katherine Dudtschak had a masculine name and appearance that did not reflect her truth. She had built a life of material success, yet something essential was missing.

I grew up with a dad who believed he was a woman and who wanted me to call him mom. We live in a time when the focus is on the person who is transitioning and to champion their cause, but what about the family members who are forced to go through the transition process with them? Stories like mine are discarded and labeled as collateral damage. We are asked to pretend like everything is okay, but the reality is, everything is not okay. Lives are altered forever. As a child my ability to choose was taken from me, and therefore, my freedom went with it.

We’re Thankful for the Moisture contains personal essays by award-winning humor columnist Eli McCann for The Salt Lake Tribune, along with corresponding cartoons by the Tribune’s Pat Bagley. McCann explores cultural Mormonism and his experiences growing up in Utah as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1990s, coming out as gay in adulthood, leaving his faith, and navigating life in Salt Lake City with his husband and their young child.

From segregation to celebration: the remarkable journey of a gay Black trailblazer. In Better to Cry Now: Shaping the Flow of a Gay Black Man, award-winning author and educator Geoffrey Newman shares his extraordinary life lived at the intersections of race, sexuality, and art. Growing up in the segregated classrooms of the 1950s, Geoffrey was one of the few Black students in an all-white school. Told by teachers that he was destined to fail, he refused to accept that verdict.

Body, Enough is a raw, fearless memoir of a woman who spent decades chasing thinness, fitness, and control—only to discover that real strength begins where self-punishment ends. From seventh-grade shame to postpartum desperation, from gym-floor spectacle to surgical surrender, this is the story of learning to live inside a body that never stopped trying to save her. Honest, gritty, and fiercely human, Body, Enough is for anyone who’s ever believed their worth was measured in pounds.

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day. Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see what’s on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively...

Nell'autunno del 1975 la sedicenne Jeanette Winterson deve prendere una decisione: rimanere al 200 di Water Street assieme ai genitori adottivi o continuare a vedere la ragazza di cui è innamorata e vivere in una Mini presa in prestito. Sceglie la seconda strada, perché tutto quello che vuole è essere felice. Tenta di spiegarlo alla madre, che però le chiede: "Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?". Da questa frase inizia il racconto intimo e personale di un'infanzia trascorsa fra un padre indifferente e una madre che passa le notti sveglia ad ascoltare il Vangelo alla radio, impastando torte e lavorando a maglia.

An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements ***Winner of the general non-fiction award at the the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025*** 'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia Grace In the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered...

Part provocateur, part seducer, this young gay man’s account of life offers one of the freshest takes on Australia and the world today. Honouring poets of the past–Jean Genet, Veronica Franco, Euripedes, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde–and joining in their task of finding meaning in existence and the modern world, Tolcher has produced a brazenly honest debut without precedent.

As a young child, in many ways, Shaley didn’t stand a chance. Growing up as a closeted lesbian in the 1970’s, in a dysfunctional family with an often mentally unstable mother, the only thing on her mind was survival. Turning to alcohol and drugs at an early age, she thought she’d found the perfect escape from the shame of being gay and her mother’s erratic emotional roller-coaster ride.