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by Audrey Beth Stein
As a late-blooming, sexually-confused college senior, Audrey Beth Stein was looking for love, but she never expected it to arrive via email, from someone she first knew only as catrina@juno.com...
It was 1996. A time when the Indigo Girls had just performed their first explicitly gay songs, Ellen DeGeneres was preparing to come out on national television, and Tinder and OkCupid did not yet exist. A time when being queer was just a little bit ea... more

Suffering and Sentiments
by Jeffrey Robb
Suffering and Sentiments is a collection of poems and illustrations about mental illness, pain, life, love, and imagination.

Introspections From a Clouded Mind
by Jeffrey Robb
A collection of poetry that brings to light the innermost feelings of someone suffering from mental illness.

Loved Just As I Am
by Melissa McDaniel

I Am a Survivor
by Janice E Holliman
A survivor is having the heart of a fighter and learning who you are no matter what illnesses of trials you face. Like Reba McEntire says "Who I Am is Who I Want To Be: I am a Survivor." This book is about the life of the author. It focuses on her faith, her hope, and her endurance during the years of her illness. In this true story, you will learn the how and why about the effects that changed her family's life-the author's Crohn's disease, the fourteen blood clots, toxic gut syndrome, c... more

My Name Was Mushroom: My Life as a Teenage Runaway in the Source Family Commune
by Wendy Baker
At age 14, Wendy Gossard was drawn by the tranquil blue eyes and personal magnetism of a man known as Yahowah, leader of a spiritual group called the Source Family. Fleeing her own family and becoming a fugitive from justice in the state of California, Wendy followed the 1970s cult group across settlements in California and Hawaii on a quest for spiritual direction, communal harmony, and basic survival. Growing up, the teenager, called Mushroom by Yahowah, had questions about her pregnancy, rela... more

Karl's Diary: It's a Dog's Life
by Sharon Winters
In December 2014, chocolate-colored dogs with golden eyes is found wandering in Arizona‘s Yuma Desert. A kind hearted man brings the lost dog to a rescue facility. Sadly, no one chooses to adopt the stray, who’s desperate wish is for a family to love and cherish him. Soon however, while he is at a second animal rescue, his picture is published in a local newspaper paper and a compassionate couple adopt him, name him Karl, and bring him to his forever home, one filled with unconditional love. Pa... more

Lost Roots
by Karl von Loewe
How a single family was affected by rampant ethnic nationalism of the twentieth century - how each used it and was used by it - and how the secrets were kept. A soldier goes missing two days before the Armistice ending World War I. A decorated pilot conceals a diamond deal gone bad. A trained pastry chef, prisoner of two wars and national policeman, is executed on Stalin’s order. An industrialist loses everything he has built, first in part to the Nazis, then totally to the Communists. A shop... more

Moon and Sunn
by Shane Sunn
Shane Sunn grew up in Ackerman, MS, in the shadow of Moon--his legendary, often absent, and always fishing father. With literary acuity that sometimes reads more like a novel than a memoir, the author recounts exhilarating stories of fishing beside Moon in snake-infested Mississippi backwaters along with painful accounts of what endured and internalized when Moon left home yet again in pursuit of the world record Alaskan king salmon. Retracing his life, the author leads us on a voyage of self-... more

Running Through Fields of Grass Our Journey on the Dharma Path
by Michael Boyajian
Join the author and his late wife Jeri as they journey on the Tibetan Buddhism Dharma Path grappling with scripture that frowns on attachments and impermanence and any negative impact they will have on Mike and Jeri’s love for each other spanning almost 40 years and how through meditation, contemplation and study they work through these issues and their love reigns supreme.

Defiance-Fighting Elitism and Racism at LSU in the 70's
by Theodor Schirmer
After retirement from the Los Angeles Public Defenders Office, I decided to write my life story for my children and grandchild. When I began writing about my years at LSU, I discovered through research that events during my time as Student Government Association president were being swept under the rug. I could locate nothing in the administrative files or oral histories open to the public that covered what happened at LSU Homecoming in 1976. In the '70s, twenty years after Brown v. Board of ... more

Acting Up
by Janice Bryant Howroyd
Growing up in the segregated South in a family of eleven children and nurtured by a loving mother and father, Janice Bryant Howroyd faced racism and sexism in addition to the challenges faced by every new business owner. None of that stopped her from becoming the first black woman to own a billion-dollar business

Myrtlewood Memoirs
by Terry J. Woodall
The story of Oregon myrtlewood, its history, natural history, and an artist's life-long career utilizing this resources. Myrtle is the only member of the laurel family native to North America, produces one of the worlds most beautiful woods, and is proclaimed a national treasure by the author.

Forty to Finish
by Larry Walsh
Embark on a cross-country cycling adventure in this exciting sequel that finds author Larry Walsh on yet another solo trek across America. Here, Walsh brings readers along for the ride of a lifetime: 4,200 miles, cutting across ten states, from Oregon to Virginia. The Trans Am Bike Race is so grueling that less than 300 solo riders in the last decade have crossed the finish line. But Walsh did just that. Reaching the Yorktown Victory Monument, however, is just a small part of this tale.
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Sea Pay
by Bob Dorgan
Educated at Valley Forge Military Academy, Dorgan is well prepared for life in the US Navy when he is forward deployed halfway around the world to the USS Midway. But he soon learns life aboard an aircraft carrier can be full of danger and chaos as the ship nicknamed the “USS Never Dock” undertakes an emergency Indian Ocean deployment to relieve the crippled aircraft carrier USS Ranger in 1979 and becomes activated as the first carrier battle group “on station” in the Arabian Sea following the f... more

Girls, Assassins, and Other Bad Ideas
by mae wagner
The only daughter of a bipolar woman, Mae's childhood innocence was bartered for the ease of a "secure" life. At twelve years old and after years of abuse, Mae realizes she must fight for herself. When she is sent away from her family, she's forced to navigate years of abandonment in a children's home. Throughout her turbulent adolescence and well into adulthood, the need to be seen as enough and the ache to become a mother shaped her life. It is this heartbreaking journey that leads to her ... more

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