Diane Scharper is the author or editor of seven books, including Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability, winner of the Helen Keller Memoir Competition. She teaches memoir and poetry for the Johns Hopkins University Osher Program.

An author's peacekeeping journey during the Iraq War
Review: Diana Oestreich's memoir of her tour in Iraq as a medic with the U.S. National Guard details how the experience — and hearing God's voice — changed her as a Christian.
Three books about peacemaking offer solidarity, solace and hope
Review: The Linn family's encounter with active nonviolence, poems by Lawrence Joseph about struggling with God and self, and a collection of stories from those who seek peaceful solutions to violence make up this fall's books roundup.
Rambling and warmly written memoir is part of spring books roundup
Review: National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson shares how to have a happy life in Grand. Also in this review are Maria Giura's memoir and Invisible Americans by Jeff Madrick about child poverty in the U.S.
New books explore dying, a brave bishop, and leaving Westboro Baptist Church
This review roundup includes an examination of the question of physician-assisted suicide; a biography about Thomas Gumbleton; and a memoir about leaving a notorious fundamentalist church.
New memoirs trace identity, exile and exclusion in Germany, Latvia and India
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