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My Unexpected Life: Finding Balance Beyond My Diagnosis

by Jennifer Gasner

Jennifer Gasner is seventeen when her dreams are shattered overnight. Receiving a diagnosis of Friedreich’s Ataxia, a rare genetic neuromuscular disease, means she must prepare herself for a life of loss. When she starts college, she can still walk on her own, but as her disease progresses, she spirals further into sadness, denial, and alienation. She turns to alcohol and a toxic relationship to distract her from what she refuses to accept—that her body, her self-esteem, and her hope for her fut... more

Infectious Injustice

by Justin Cook

InfectIous InjustIce The True Story of Survival and Loss against Corruption, the COVID-19 Disaster inside of San Quentin, and the Dumpster Fire That Is Known as Mass Incarceration

Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions

by Glenda Goodrich

In her search to find healing and meaning in midlife, Glenda Goodrich undertakes a series of wilderness quests into the backcountry of Oregon, Washington, and California to discover what the natural world has to teach her about life, death, happiness, spirituality, and forgiveness. This book chronicles the sacred ceremonies that connected Goodrich to the land, wove her into nature’s web, and transformed her from a woman who worked to please others into a woman who forged her own path. It is a... more

Feisty Righty: A Cancer Survivor's Journey

by Jennifer D. James

This powerful memoir is for anyone looking to transform their life in a positive way. As a survivor, Jennifer shares her hard-earned wisdom while battling breast cancer. It’s a reminder to fight for the life you are born to live, and with every breath, there’s an opportunity to live fearlessly.

From Beirut to America

by Edward Challita

From Beirut to America is Part 1 of Edward Challita’s true-life story: a twenty-six-year journey from a life in Lebanon during the civil war, to France, and then the USA. His experience is a unique one, marked by peril and strife, but then also by hope and redemption in the end. Edward was born in Beirut, from Christian French/Lebanese parents who lived in West Beirut as French citizens during the devastating civil war in the 1970s. This is the story of Edward’s survival and escape from cer... more

True Stories of the Philosophical Theater

by S. Yerucham

An eighteen year old chameleon abandons academic philosophy and a small town for New York City in 1981, and for two years is immersed in bohemian life while working in a bar on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Moving on to other jobs and peculiar relationships, his mind becomes perceptually clogged, and so he haphazardly pursues madness in an attempt to experience life "Apparelled in celestial light" once again. The experiment is a destructive success, and he's tossed through several h... more

The Bedroom I never Had, My Life with a Sadist Father

by maurice cloonan

A Very Strange And Difficult Childhood

Somebody Told Me I Could

by Dianne McTaggart Wall

In Somebody Told Me I Could I have tried to tell the story of how throughout my journey I was strengthened by others telling me that I could. Born at a time when there was no vaccine available, my message is clear to children and parents who are living along with me now during a pandemic with vaccines available: You can. This is my story of how I did.

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by S. Yerucham

An eighteen year old chameleon abandons academic philosophy and a small town for New York City in 1981, and for two years is immersed in bohemian life while working in a bar on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Moving on to other jobs and peculiar relationships, his mind becomes perceptually clogged, and so he haphazardly pursues madness in an attempt to experience life "Apparelled in celestial light" once again. The experiment is a destructive success, and he's tossed through several h... more

DEAR JUDY – A LOVE STORY REWRITTEN BY ALZHEIMER'S

by Michael F James

In DEAR JUDY–A LOVE STORY REWRITTEN BY ALZHEIMER'S, the author reconstructs, honestly and with great sensitivity, the couple's experience of artist Judith James’s early onset Alzheimer's diagnosis and their journey through the multiple advancing stages of her disease. He explores their accommodation of the successive and accelerating losses and the accompanying grief, and the eventual acceptance that allowed light to dissolve the darkness into which their relationship had been unexpectedly cast.... more

My Holoholo Diary: One Year on the Big Island of Hawai'i

by Nancy Clemens

My Holoholo Diary Summary Loving Hawai’i and having repetitive dreams of the Volcano Goddess, Kupuna Pele, brought Nancy to take a mid-life journey to the Big Island of Hawai’i. With her partner Paul’s agreement, she embarked on what she calls “a sabbatical between being a mother and a grandmother.” My Holoholo Diary records her adventures, mystical experiences, and challenges while living in the Hawai’ian culture. Nancy’s colorful stories bring local Hawai’ian people “to life” with their pidg... more

GRANDPA’$ MONEY

by Allen Kurtz

Growing up, I watched my grandfather lose his job when the steel plant closed, along with his retirement plan when the pension money had vanished. Decades later after I grew up, I followed the money trail from St. Louis, Chicago, New York, New Jersey, Detroit, Phoenix & Las Vegas finding how politicians, union leaders and organized crime created, then destroyed the American Dream of the Middle Class in the 20th Century. With determination and humor, I weave together U.S. History, persona... more

The View from My Kitchen Window

by Julie Kalt Gale

The View from My Kitchen Window by Julie Kalt Gale This book is a chronological journey of the kitchens in Julie Kalt Gale’s life. The book is a memoir of her life through the stories and recipes of the family and friends who raised her. The stories center on the delicious food prepared and the characters who cooked them. The original drawings have been designed specifically for this book by the author and her son, Tobias. There are 110 recipes that represent foods of the t... more

The summary of“ Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins

by Rikardo Blom

Who's Tougher Than Us?

by Donna Gerard

Donna Gerard has written a book, a collection of stories from her own personal life and experience as an educator. Stories of students she's had, the challenges and rewards of teaching, and suggestions for the future of education in our country. Gerard truly brings the realities of teaching to the forefront in this heartfelt and honest tibute to the most essential professionals in our lives.

My Two Centuries in Africa (Book One)

by Carl William Henn

ISBN 978-1-0881-2380-5 My Two Centuries in Africa is a humorous, affectionate, intimate book about Africa. It’s a personal memoir of how a guy from Indiana accidentally spent almost 40 years in Africa and lived to tell about it. On a deeper level, it’s also a call to action for Americans and others to recognize and reject the outdated and negative stereotypes about Africa and African people commonly seen in the media and movies. Africa is not all poverty, war, disease, and corruption, as W... more

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