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  • Pocket of Pain

    by LadyWarfield
    Pocket of Pain is a coming-of-age memoir that takes place in a world of 80’s popular culture, music, and fashion. As her parent’s marriage falls apart, Suzanne escapes into a relationship with a boy who is five years older and ends up being more controlling than her father. She escapes once again, this time as she leaves for college, and submerges herself in the RVA punk rock scene. Ultimately, a dark secret from the past surfaces, and she is forced to take another hard look at the relationsh... more
  • Go and Live

    by supriya singh
    Discover the unbreakable bond of a mother's love as you embark on a heartfelt journey of pain, struggle, and growth. Experience the power of unconditional support and unwavering devotion that guides you through life's challenges. In this tale, you'll witness the strength and love that can conquer anything, reminding you of the incredible force that exists between a mother and her child.
  • Rent Boy

    by Vixen

    Based on my uproarious & eye-opening life as a gay escort.

    Discover "Rent Boy": A Memoir of Love and Survival

    In a world veiled by neon lights and secrets, Vixen navigates the perilous line between love and survival. As an escort entrapped by a relentless past, he owes a dangerous debt to an ex-lover turned ruthless pimp. But his life takes an unforeseen turn when he finds himself ensnared in a forbidden love affair with a client, Quinn. As ten... more

  • Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope (10th Anniversary Edition)

    by Amanda LaPera

    No drugs. No alcohol. So, how does a fifty-three-year-old develop schizophrenia? That question puzzles Joseph’s family when his mind descends into madness, filled with delusions and paranoia. He roams the world as a self-proclaimed prophet-of-God—purportedly arrested in Israel, advised the Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. When he returns to the United States, he faces down drug dealers and prostitutes while homeless, then disappears.

    His ... more

  • Me and The Times: My wild ride from elevator operator to New York Times editor, columnist, and change agent (1967-97)

    by Robert W. Stock
    On one level, an intimate, warts-and-all account of the making of The New York Times Sunday package in its pre-Internet heyday, told from the vantage point of an editor, writer, columnist and change agent. On another level, the personal odyssey of a suddenly married Yale freshman with a baby on the way with no job and no prospects. From hia early days as a World War II air raid bicycle messenger…to hia seat at the captain’s table of the S.S. France…to his belated sowing of wild oats at age 45... more
  • 9798424289316

    by Julian W. King, author; Terri Doepker

    The author's spent most of his childhood living in poverty. His alcoholic mother was divorced and remarried four times, often to other alcoholics. After moving more than twenty times and attending thirteen schools he escaped his tumultuous childhood when he married at the age of nineteen. Life held more and bigger challenges for him. Children came rapidly. At the age of 25 and with only a high school education and no special training, he was supporting five children on a modest salary as ... more

  • Tracking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

    by Jean Goulden
    Sweat with Jean and her partner Chris as they explore Spain's 500 mile Camino route to Santiago de Compostela, walking in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims. See the sights, meet the fellow travelers and savor the food, all the while enjoying Jean's insightful and humorous account.
  • Time Served

    by T. L. Cromwell
    HOW TO SURVIVE IN ONE OF THE TOUGHEST AND MOST DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS IN AMERICA! If you have ever wondered what happens in prison, then Time Served is for you. It's an in-depth memoir from a correctional officer's perspective. The incarcerated population have written many books, but only a few have been written by prison staff. Meet T. L. Cromwell, an African American woman, who shares her truth about 21+ years of time served in prison. She shares her experience walking the "Toughest Beat in... more
  • Running Away From Cancer

    by Greg Schnoor
    My name is Greg Schnoor and I wanted to share my book I just released, "Running Away From Cancer." My book is an inspirational journey of me being a non-runner who turned to running after being diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I was never a runner before but over 12 years ago, my life took a drastic turn with a brain cancer diagnosis. A year later, I began running, transforming from struggling to reach the mailbox to now completing 96 marathons, including 9 100-mile ultramarathons, in... more
  • Century's Witness, the Extraordinary Life Of Journalist Wallace Carroll

    by Mary Llewellyn McNeil
    Biography of journalist Wallace Carroll, one of the most influential journalists of the 20t Century. Carroll covered the League of Nations and World War II as. UP correspondent before becoming news editor of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times and finally editor and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal. Donald Graham has called the book "essential reading for anyone interested in daily newspapers, and Jon Sawyer, head of the Pulitzer Center, "the best roadmap I know if we aim to re... more
  • The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga

    by Joelle Tamraz

    The Secret Practice is the shocking true story of Joelle Tamraz's 18-year ordeal under the control of a master manipulator. For fans of Netflix’s Bikram, Tara Westover’s Educated, and Megan Phelps-Roper’s Unfollow. 

    'An intense and suspenseful memoir' —Kirkus Reviews

    'Such an important story...a captivating and hopeful story of growth and self-awareness.' —Jean Brown of SEEK Safely and a... more

  • Sometimes Cruel: Short Stories

    by Demetrius Koubourlis PhD
    Does war excuse domestic violence? Does it encourage it?  If people are cruel to each other in a war society, are they more prone to abuse their children? Some stories occur in World War II Greece and involve family and non-family violence in an environment where the author witnessed Jews hauled like cattle. The author presents vivid accounts of his childhood and ponders the role of war and culture in our lives. He offers insightful ways to cope with our feelings toward one's parents that may he... more
  • Kansas GenExistential: Essays from the Heartland

    by Amber Fraley
    With her trademark biting wit, Fraley describes the foibles and follies of growing up a kid in the turbulent and strange decade of the 1980s, odd characters she encountered in the 1990s, and how GenXers are now handling midlife differently than their parents. She also talks frankly about her late entry into the reproductive justice movement and what menopause is really like with equal parts humor and compassion. From the long, strange trip of the Reagan years to the Trump years, and the particul... more
  • Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich

    by Elisabeth haggblade
    Synopsis \tMy book is a first-person account of the postwar years in Munich, Germany, with the war being an ever-present inescapable shadow leaving its physical and psychological marks on me and on those I met and with whom I interacted. \tWhat was it like to be orphaned at birth in the winter of 1942 in Munich, to spend the next eleven years as a foster child in the family of a former SS-officer? What was it like, after the death of my foster mother, to live for seven years in a home for chi... more
  • Little Boy Lost

    by David Peters
    A memoir about a boy's journey after the suicide of his mother.
  • Flat Please Hold the Shame

    by Ellyn Winters
    One in eight women will be affected by breast cancer in their lifetime. FLAT PLEASE is one woman’s story. After the initial shock of hearing that you have breast cancer, women find themselves navigating the foreign waters of medical diagnostics, surgery and treatment. As a fellow traveller on this road, Ellyn Winters quickly realized that with knowledge comes power, and that power gives women the semblance of control in what is, quite honestly an uncontrollable situation. She began to un... more
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