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  • The Path to Complex PTSD

    by Judith N. Brooke
    In this deeply moving and transformative memoir, the author sheds the veil of invisibility that often shrouds the journey of those living with Complex PTSD. The book, a revised edition of her 2012 publication, now bears her true identity, embracing the raw and real experiences that defined her life. This narrative is not just about the struggles of enduring relentless emotional, psychological and physical abuse. It is a poignant exploration of the silent questions that haunt many who have walk... more
  • Butterfly Being: I Am Who I Am

    by Rosalyn Davis
    Rosalyn Davis faced a heavy challenge in navigating her way through trauma after a near-death experience and the resulting diagnosis of PTSD. Executing intentional change, Roz would experience a profound transformation in her personal state of being. The journey to her authenticity would mirror the transformative journey of the butterflies becoming and help her find her way to her life’s purpose. Butterfly Being invites readers to witness the emergence of a resilient soul from the cocoon of adve... more
  • Unparalyzed

    by Danielle M. Bryan
    Unparalyzed is a deeply personal memoir about grit. It is about refusal to give up. To allow adversity and difficult circumstances to win. But victory is one of its lessons too. It is the book that the late Toni Morrison inspired me to write. The book I wanted to read so I could see myself in another woman whose experiences were like my own. A 30-something divorced, professional woman of color with an invisible and incurable chronic illness and insatiable determination. To accompany similarly si... more
  • Object Lessons: A Parris Island Memoir

    by Terry Dwyer
    This is an enduring account of one person's journey through basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, South Carolina. For those who have served in the Marine Corps, this will bring back memories of their own regardless of how recent or far removed. For those who have not served in the Marines or any branch of the armed services, this memoir is intended to faithfully depict the experiences of young men fifty years ago in their efforts to join this country's finest fightin... more
  • Survivors of the Armenian Genocide: Photographs from the Now Distant Past

    by Michael Boyajian

    Photographs of those who survived the Armenian Genocide. So great a catastrophic tragedy that the survivors felt it had to be an illusion and the emotional health problems associated with survivors and their descendants of such cataclysm horrors became a diagnostic mental health category, from the Genocide to the Holocaust and beyond. A People Power Project.  Editor: Gary A. Kulhanjian.

  • Dante's Paradox

    by Dante M. Slater and Bridget May
    Dante’s Paradox is a story about an individual trying to seek out every truth in life and its mysteries. Then during his lifespan stumbles upon a series of events that most would call science fiction and not even giving it a second thought. He grapples with the idea that there are no coincidences from the womb to the tomb. The subject actually thinks that we as human beings can connect to everyone and everything and reverse our destructive behavior if we give it a second or even third thought.... more
  • An Unforgettable Pastime

    by Michael Anthony Vitale
    An Unforgettable Pastime" delves into the remarkable journey of a family navigating challenges through the 1960s. Against the backdrop of a father supporting a family of thirteen, the narrative unfolds within the confines of their neighborhood family restaurant in North St. Louis, Missouri. The family grapples with economic uncertainties along with an evolving social landscape that creates difficulties in keeping their restaurant business afloat. The story becomes a tapestry of faith, love, and ... more
  • Letters to My Sheep

    by Teya Brooks Pribac
    Letters to My Sheep is a fast-paced yet intimate journey, in epistolary form, through a woman’s life with her four rescued sheep. The author combines her hands-on experience with sheep and her scholarly expertise to guide the reader as they learn about sheep subjectivity and animals’ intimate and social lives generally. Using language that is accessible to the general public, the Letters cover a broad range of topics, inclusive of, but not limited to, animal emotions, cognition, spirituality, cu... more
  • The Ocean Inside Me

    by R.G. Shore
    The Ocean Inside Me is a spiritual memoir about healing racial trauma as a person of color incarcerated in an almost all-white prison. Amidst harsh conditions and blatant racism, R.G. Shore learned to meditate by going into his body, befriending his shadow, and learning to sit with the traumas held by his younger self. In The Ocean Inside Me, R.G. Shore learned to love and accept the cause of his deepest pain, his brown body. His prison radio became the conduit by which he transcended the l... more
  • BEING HUMAN BEING "out of the village and into the jungle": Book One

    by ralph bacchus
    The story of a man on a quest to find himself as he navigated through his childhood from a Third World village to the big city of New York. He describes the challenges he faced and overcame in order to follow his dreams to success as a pilot instructor, an electrical engineer and a professional in the corporate world. He treated every challenge as a learning experience to be explored, and to help him understand himself in this human race.
  • Embracing the Shadows: Navigating a Family's Mental Illness

    by Marlene Dunham
    Embracing The Shadows is a non-fiction narrative about three different types of mental illness in my family of origin. I asked the question, “Why not me?” along with searching for answers on how these illnesses were related. I tell of my father’s Manic Depression that went unmedicated until Lithium was FDA-approved in 1967. Secondly, I talk about my brother’s life - being institutionalized at the age of 3 ½ and spending 15 years at Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. My third f... more
  • Woman in Black B0CJWFQ2RV

    by Sharron Grodzinsky
    It was a different world living in Japan after the war in the 1940s and then again in the 1950s. This memoir depicts that world while telling the story of June Kawamura and her life on a military base in Japan. Her story, and the authenticity of it, will take you into that world where things were so different from America, where life was lived in ways seemingly contrary to what was normal and where life changed for her. It begins and ends with her daughter’s story about her and how she affected... more
  • Location X: A Quest for Place

    by Eva Rome
    A septuagenarian who still craves risk and adventure ditches her home and hits the road in search of Location X, rejecting her comfortable, semiretired life to quest for meaning beyond the mainstream. On a pirate’s map, X marks the spot where treasure is buried, and finding X was the focus of her process: pinpointing that singular location that said, this is where the next phase of my life will unfold. From the armchair globetrotter to the boomer looking for a soft landing in paradise, readers w... more
  • A House in the Country

    by David Cheatham
    Deep in the heart of Alabama, three miles from the nearest paved road, stood the majestic Molett House. At least — it used to. By the time David and Eleanor Cheatham found it, there was little else but a dilapidated façade, with more patches than promise. But its ties to Eleanor’s ancestors and the romantic notion of a historic home captured their hearts instantly. Then the Global Financial Crisis hit. With their life savings — and renovation budget — battered, David and Eleanor found them... more
  • Looking Back Without Anger

    by Susanna Elliott-Newth
    In this astonishing memoir, Susanna Elliot-Newth relives an unimaginable childhood, often stranger than fiction. Trapped in an acutely abusive family home under the watch of a mentally disordered mother and docile father, Susanna’s existence is one of sheer survival. From a very tender age, Susanna is exposed to domestic slavery that includes shovelling snow and handwashing the family’s laundry with insults for reward. Bent on destroying her daughter’s sense of self-worth, Susanna recalls her mo... more
  • Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Life Lessons for Everyday Warriors (e.g., the rest of us)

    by Kara L. Stewart
    Horsemanship and the Japanese martial art of Aikido may seem as far apart as two things could be, both physically and philosophically. But through the author’s chance meeting (coincidence? maybe…) of renowned horseman Mark Rashid in the mid 1990s, the commonalities of the two paths became clear and then converged. As a most unlikely student began to learn the Art of Peace, the journey took twists and turns. In time, it led to discovering the power of Practice as Aikido became a lifeline throu... more
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