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A House with Holes: One Marriage Journey in a Charleston Renovation
by Denise Mast BroadwaterSeasoned renovators fall in love with a broken-down cottage in historic Charleston. What follows are spine-tingling nights, unwanted guests and holes that push this couple to the brink of losing what matters most.Future Widow
by Jenny LiskWhen her forty-three-year-old husband is diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, Jenny Lisk is thrust into the role of caregiver. In Future Widow, she goes behind the scenes of her tumultuous and heartbreaking journey, and asks: Do I have what it takes to help my young family survive my husband’s terminal illness?Putting Out Fires, Saving the Sparks: Reimagining Middle School
by Janel BrownPutting Out Fires, Saving the Sparks is your backstage pass to what really happens in middle school. Join Janel Brown in her classroom and in the teacher’s room to experience a behind-the-scenes, VIP tour that you’ll never get at Back to School Night.
Middle school matters. It sets kids up for academic success in high school and beyond. But middle school isn’t working- not for kids, not for parents, and not for teachers. Inspired by her front-lines teaching ex... more
Playing Soldier
by F. Scott ServiceAs an only child isolated within a troubled family, F. Scott Service found solace in fantasy and imagination, until a fateful day led to the discovery of his father’s Korean War field jacket hidden in a closet. What began as innocent emulation and approval, eventually spiraled into the calamitous loss of everything he had built as an adult. Faced with a grievous divorce, post-traumatic stress, homelessness, substance abuse, and the failure of everything he had willed himself to believe ... more
The True Adventures of Gidon Lev: Rascal. Holocaust Survivor. Optimist.
by Julie GrayThe quirky, hopeful, and thoroughly inspirational story of the unusual life of a Holocaust survivor and the writer who loved him. Of the 15,000 children in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic, fewer than 100 survived. Gidon Lev is one of those children. One part memoir, one part travelogue, and one part history that you thought you knew, The True Adventures of Gidon Lev is a love letter to life that you'll never forget.Grinnin' Like a Jackass Eatin' Briars
by Jeff BattonI WAS CADDYWONKED FROM THE GET-GO. That’s how this vivid, hilarious and ultimately poignant memoir begins, under the cover of darkness in 1962, as an embryonic Jeff Batton was whisked away by his brothel-owning grandmother and soon-to-be birth mother to a home for unwed mothers in Savannah, Georgia. After he was put up for adoption (displayed in a supermarket delicatessen case, as he recalls it), Jeff’s new parents arrived in the form of Mr. and Mrs. Batton. Jo Ann adhered to the standards of E... more17 & Life
by Aidan Mc NallyAgain: Surviving Cancer Twice with Love and Lists
by Christine Shields CorriganA breast cancer diagnosis at forty-nine forces Christine Shields Corrigan, a wife, mom, and meticulous list-maker, to confront her deepest fears of illness, death, and loss of control as she struggles to face cancer again. From the discovery of a “junky” cyst, to chemotherapy and surgery, sleepless nights filled with rosaries and “what ifs,” and shifting family dynamics, her adult experience mirrors her teen bout with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with one exception—she no longer has parents keeping her i... moreThe Cooking Olympics
by Dean Jeffrey KroppIn 1896 when the modern Olympic games emerged to showcase the world’s top athletes, chefs around the globe were lighting the fires of a most delicious competition. Four years later, the result was the first-ever Cooking Olympics. This never-before-told history of the competition, including its controversies, triumphs, winners, and losers, is told by award-winning chef Dean Kropp, otherwise known as “Dean of Chefs.” His exciting book about a suspenseful competition where chefs from around the ... moreDementia, a Love Story
by Stephen LewisAn extraordinary story demonstrating how the love between an early onset dementia sufferer and her husband/caregiver sustained them even as the disease worked its way to its inevitable conclusion. Recorded in journal form is the jarring juxtaposition of the course of the disease and the necessary continuation of day to day life as best that could be managed, combining in a love story like no other.Episodes in the Life of a NBA Mother
by Freida BoshAlways One Step Ahead of the Storm
by Phoebe WilbyWith cyclones Wanda and Tracy acting as bookends, the O'Briens swap their comfortable suburban home in Brisbane for a 17.5-foot caravan and the adventures of a lifetime. Travel along with Phoebe, her mum, Stephanie, and the rest of her family, as she takes us along for the ride, travelling across Western New South Wales, into Victoria, through South Australia and across The Nullarbor Plain into Western Australia - and then back home and up the Queensland coast! Although decades have passed since... moreBad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell
by Paul WilsonIn the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico, unaware their ultimate destination lies in the heart of drug cartel country. Having no earthly idea of where he’ll get the money to pay his share, and determined to prove his mettle, he does the only thing he can think of: He robs a supermarket. And, if karma didn’t already have enough reason to doom the trip, he soon learns one of his companions is a convic... morePretty Boy Blues: A Broken Child's Search for Wholeness and Love, A Memoir
by Barbara McIntyreBarbara grows up in a motherless home where she is abandoned, neglected and abused. She becomes a juvenile delinquent by the age of 11, a high-school dropout and mother at 17, and a twice divorced single mother of two sons by 27. Not knowing if she was smart or stupid, she started college at the age of 29, and after ten full-time years earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. Professional success followed, but personal success did not. She continued to struggle through multiple relations... morePretty Boy Blues: A Broken Child's Search for Wholeness and Love, A Memoir
by Barbara McIntyreBarbara was an abandoned, neglected and abused child in a motherless home with a distant, disturbed father. She was a juvenile delinquent by the age of 11, a high-school dropout and mother at age 17, and a twice divorced single mother of two by the age of 27. She started college for the first time at age 29 and, after ten years of full-time study, earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. Professional and personal success did not, however, coincide. Barbara's struggles and challenges cont... moreSurreality: Strange Tales of a Man Sitting Down the Bar from You
by J.D. BradleyStories of an unusual man, who's had a strange life, and his reactions to bizarre circumstances.
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