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The Keeper of Families: Jean Heringman Willacy's Afghan Diaries

by Sue Heringman

Smithtown Girl

by Rhonda Findling

Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief, & Holding onto Happiness

by Autumn Toelle-Jackson

Life for Autumn Toelle-Jackson started out happy, almost like a dream. When she entered her thirties, however, tragedy made up for lost time. Over the span of a few short years, she endured severalmiscarriages and the loss of her husband, a dear cousin, a grandparent, and child. But one small cross-section of a life doesn’t do justice to the amount of love, resilience, growth, and blessings a person experiences after such titanic losses. With each new harbinger of grief, Toelle-Jackson was force... more

Angel Wings: A Story of Love, Faith, Infertility, Surrogacy, and Not Giving Up Hope

by Stephanie O'Hara

Stephanie experienced recurrent miscarriages including a heart-wrenching miscarriage in the middle of church. Through her journey, she had many angels that guided her on her path – including a meeting with red-carpet celebrity Giuliana Rancic. Through her memoir, Stephanie O’Hara beautifully highlights the pressures of being a woman, wife, mother, and friend in the face of such hardship. She isn’t afraid to talk about the difficult topics – from the effect it had on her marriage and her faith, t... more

SOUL SEEKER, Reflections on a Spiritual Journey from Darkness to the Light ISBN; 978-1-9822-2032-7 (sc)

by Perspectus (Michael Houghton)

The book focuses on the author’s journey from the darkness of illness and despair to the joy of healing, redemption and the light of spirituality. Suffering from an autoimmune disease for nearly six years that kept him in chronic pain 24/7, depressed and suicidal at the age of 66, two miraculous things happened. One was a vision that opened his eyes to the metaphysical world of spirituality and the second was the healing of his disease. However, in the fall of 2019, his serenity and commitment t... more

Diamonds in the Snow

by Michelle Higgin

Diamonds in the Snow is the riveting account of Michelle’s tumultuous and often heart-wrenching relationship with her terminally ill mother. This thought-provoking work of creative nonfiction is a story about love, pain, self-discovery, and resilience. The author chronicles her experiences as she dealt with her verbally and emotionally abusive mother, endured sexual harassment and wrongful accusations, lived with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and struggled with being the keeper of secrets. As ... more

The Land of Sunshine and Hell

by Maxene Raices

A memoir of a young woman in the 60’s who finds herself pregnant and hidden away. Her child is put up for adoption and finds her 26 years later, filling a silent hole in her heart.

An Addicts Journey Home: The Tale of Two Sisters

by CJ Ives Lopez

Within a one-year timeframe In the United States, there were 67,367 deaths reported due to drug overdose. This is just one humans’ story. She could have been number 67,368, but she was spared. Melissa and Christina, Sisters have never spoken in depth about Melissa’s addiction. By the time Melissa went into recovery, she had been using for over twenty years and her sister has been away for just as long. Since Christina has retired from the Air Force, they have both have been working to bring awar... more

Fly Fishing in a Thunderstorm

by Michael Boyajian

Join the author as he recalls a lifetime of fishing stories

Under The Pump

by Josh Francis

Of all the occupations where you are required to interact with people, customer service is probably the one where you get to see the greatest variety of characters. This is especially true when working at a service station – the servo. As a console operator, there are plenty of opportunities to see the myriad of society, both the good and the bad. Under the Pump is a compilation of anecdotes, ranging from the comical to the morbid, and about the many events that occurred during the author’s tim... more

Writing In Wet Cement

by Jayne Lisbeth

Writing In Wet Cement is an intimate portrait which joins together the tapestry of life from the ‘60s era of sex, drugs and rock and roll through the hippie and feminist movements of the ‘70s and ‘80s to our current era. Ms Lisbeth’s journey takes the reader from her privileged childhood in New York where tragic loss is suffered. The journey continues from Vermont to Massachusetts and California to her current home in the Tampa Bay area. The deep enduring womenship of friends and their recognit... more

Boarding School Bastard. A memoir. Childhood in an orphanage for fatherless boys

by alan sharavsky

A deaf widow leaves her eight-year-old son at an orphanage, hoping he'll find a better life than she can provide on a sweatshop paycheck. She dreams that Girard College, a boarding school for fatherless boys, will be his Camelot. What she doesn't know is that child abuse, anti-Semitism, pedophilia, and bullying await him. And he doesn't know whether his mother is ever coming back, or if he'll have to run away. Boarding School Bastard is the moving memoir of a frightening yet fascinating childhoo... more

The Will of Heaven: An Inspiring True Story About Elephants, Alcoholism, and Hope

by Debbie Ethell

THE WILL OF HEAVEN is the powerful true story of how one woman overcame a debilitating addiction−rising from the courtrooms of her past to the grass plains of Kenya as a conservation research scientist. It was there she could finally fulfill her lifelong dream of working with wild elephants. Debbie Ethell became obsessed by a group of elephants in Kenya when she was eight years old after seeing them on a PBS nature show. Over the next several years, her obsession grew−until a group of school ... more

Bittersweet Memories: The Life Story of an Immigrant Daughter

by Barbara Hussmann Long

When the young daughter of a German scientist is transplanted to America, her new life is fraught with painful circumstances. Isolation, divorce, and mental illness impact her formative years, while the devastation of war and the challenge of life in a new country reveal the best and worst of human nature. With fear her constant companion, carried by forces within and beyond herself, she survives and thrives. This is her story. Through it all, she comes to realize that everyone struggles, bu... more

Single, Again, and Again, and Again...

by Louisa Pateman

Single, Again, and Again, and Again ... tells the story of Louisa Pateman's quest to find her happily ever after. Diligently, she spent decades trying to fulfil her life plan; the path set by society—find her soulmate, get married and have children—but things didn't exactly go to plan ... Through boyfriends and breakups, she found herself single in her mid-thirties wondering where she went wrong. Feeling disappointed and defeated, she had to reassess her priorities. Harnessing her i... more

Born and Raised in Sawdust

by Lewis Thigpen

Born and Raised in Sawdust: My Journey Around the World in Eighty Years is the deeply moving autobiography of Lewis Thigpen as a black boy growing up in a loving family in a small, tight knit community in the deep South during the extremely segregated Jim Crow era. It captures his life on the farm and in school in a revealing, instructive, yet colorful way despite the discrimination he encountered. Fearful of being a farm worker or common laborer for the rest of his life, he joined the U.S. Army... more

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