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Golden Scars

by Emily Barry Zarecki

Golden Scars is the story of my breast cancer journey as well as the seemingly insurmountable life challenges that helped me face a cancer battle with determination and positivity. While the main plotline of the book details my cancer journey, a sub-plot includes flashbacks of those significant life challenges, including losing my husband to suicide, solo parenting our three young children, embracing love again and supporting my mom in her short battle with ovarian cancer.

Father, Son, and Soldering Gun

by Steven V. Mycynek

A collection of stories about my father and the time he spent with me growing up, written for a general teen to adult audience. The stories have themes of math/engineering, parenting, religion, loss, growth, and humor, with some reflection on the human condition in general.

Elk Love: A Montana Memoir

by Lynne Spriggs O'Connor

Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the East Coast in a quest to reset her life, she has high hopes for what awaits her. Great Falls, a farming and military town in central Montana, is not what Lynne imagined when she decided to leave city life behind. But ... more

Tuned In - Memoirs of a Piano Man: Behind the Scenes with Music Legends and Finding the Artist Within

by Jim Wilson

"An inviting mix of star-studded encounters and an affirmation of a persevering artistic spirit." - Kirkus Reviews Tuned In is an inspiring story of one man's relentless pursuit of a dream, and a revealing testimony to the power of music in all our lives. The unique confluence of Jim Wilson's two careers - piano technician/confidant to the stars and a globally successful recording artist - has led to extraordinary experiences with some of the world's most exalted music legends: singing Bea... more

Acres of Oak

by Richard R. Kurrasch

Unprecedented levels of change have transformed the American landscape in recent decades, the shape and function of organized religion very much included. Mainstream Protestantism especially has found itself increasingly marginalized in a culture largely indifferent to a mission or purpose that even its own members do not always clearly understand. This memoir reflects the author’s fifty years of pastoral ministry navigating a pathway for just such a church. A common thread weaves its way throug... more

All I Ever Wanted to Be Was An Ad Man

by anthony eglin

A young Brit, who dreams of being an ad man, succeeds beyond measure, as an award-winning mystery writer, rock band manager, filmmaker and more. "A deftly-written story with a heart of gold.

I’d Rather Be Dead Than Deaf: A Young Woman’s Journey with Liver Cancer

by Andrea Wilson Woods

In her own words, this is the journal of Adrienne Wilson, a teenage artist, poet, and beloved sister. Before her death from liver cancer at the age of fifteen, Adrienne expressed her funny, bright soul in this prolific journal. Her musings on life, relationships, music, love, and the beautiful grime of her adopted hometown of Los Angeles leap off the page; her deep sensitivity and perspective are captured in full-color prints of her award-winning artwork. Steeped in late-90s nostalgia, this arti... more

Cold Beer and a Hot Dart

by Brandon Wolfe

Before smartphones or international data plans, global adventure travel required extensive pre-trip research, solid street smarts, survival ingenuity, human interaction, guidebooks, paper maps, cross-cultural knowledge, and a shit ton of luck. This compelling memoir follows Brandon Wolfe and his international companions as they navigate that world of wanderology 12,000 km/7,450 miles by land and water throughout several countries within Southeast Africa. Brandon and his comrades find themselv... more

Disc Jockeys, Preachers, and Elvis

by Ron Brandon

Recommended for anyone who loves rock & roll music and grew up listening to their favorite Disc Jockey on Top-40 Radio. It's a nostalgic trip down memory lane, while at the same time providing real insight into the day-to-day business of radio, and why it is failing today. The universal quote from the DJs was "I can't believe they will pay me for doing what I love so much." Yet, today most of those DJs have departed the radio business, with AM radio, in particular, signing off for the final time... more

They Call me Jake

by Jakob Smith

In this captivating memoir, Jakob, a Welsh-born Australian, takes readers on a remarkable journey that begins with a troubled youth and a life-changing decision. After running into legal trouble as a teenager, his family sends him off to sea on Scandinavian ships, where Jakob finds himself working out of Brooklyn, New York, joining ships engaged in global trade. It’s the era of rock and roll, with an atmosphere of freedom, free-spiritedness, and indulgence. However, tired of the endless partying... more

To the Hague from Nabinene

by Judge Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko

This book is an autobiography in which Judge Nsereko narrates the story of his journey from Nabinene, his home village in rural Uganda, to The Hague, the legal capital of the world. It also gives an overview of his scholarly activities and professional experience. It is a fascinating story, replete with anecdotes, including those of life under successive despotic regimes since Uganda’s independence. It is testimony to the value of good education and hard work, to the power of resilience and to t... more

Unpaid Debt

by Johnnie Davis

From a portrait of Black life in New York in the 1960s and '70s to personal experiences with the crack epidemic of the 1980s, Johnnie Davis’ memoir unravels the story of one man's life marked by love and family, drugs and violence, and the hardships of navigating life while struggling with addiction. Davis's story is one of redemption. Though his addiction and problems with the law are a constant battle, and his redemption does not come soon enough for his mother to witness it, it is that loss t... more

My Ailing Champion

by Demetrius Koubourlis PhD

My Ailing Champion details the harsh environment of the Nazi occupation in Greece and the many obstacles the author faced to get an education in the post-WW II years. Family and community leaders opposed education. His mother prevented the author from reading books; she even burned history clippings collected from the local newspaper. It was with great difficulty that the author’s father was persuaded to allow the completion of secondary education. With promises for higher education, the author’... more

The Empowerment Alphabet

by J.C. Dilley

The Empowerment Alphabet is a collection of poetry designed to inspire mental, physical, and spiritual growth. Each letter of the alphabet is used in a written letter addressed to an area of personal growth to offer wise, yet catchy and fun-to-read poems using alliteration. As words have the power to transform, these letters are designed to be spoken, verbally or silently, into your life to invite a gentle nudge or a paradigm shift, even a mantra that not only equips you to overcome life's... more

Making Lemonade

by Liana Shaw

How does an eight-year-old child begin to understand and navigate the world around her when she, and those closest to her, are regularly being subjected to disproportionate measures of rage, brutality, and violence at the hands of those who are meant to protect her? Could she be the one to blame for the fear and chaos that characterise her family life? What will she do with the ‘lemons life has given her?’ Making Lemonadeis a compelling, poignant account of one such child, who chose to not be de... more

Leave the Dogs at Home, Break Away Book Club Edition: A Memoir (Break Away Book Club) (Break Away Book Club)

by Claire Arbogast

Claire and Jim were friends, lovers, and sometimes enemies for 27 years. In order to get health insurance, they finally married, calling their anniversary the "It Means Absolutely Nothing" day. Then Jim was diagnosed with cancer. With ever-decreasing odds of survival, punctuated by arcs of false hope, Jim's deteriorating health altered their well-established independence as they became caregiver and patient, sharing intimacy as close as their own breaths. A year and a half into their marriage, J... more

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