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The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine

by Jeannette Gagan Gagan

Is peace attainable? Every reader has asked this question, typically on hearing news of hatred and violence and typically they feel hopeless. The Paradoxical Return of the Feminine: Raising Awareness and Creating Peace answers this question in the affirmative, explaining the power of feminine energy and provides a variety of concrete ways individuals--both men and women--can cultivate feminine energy in their lives.

Amsterdam Exposed: An American's Journey Into The Red Light District

by David Wienir

Amsterdam Exposed tells the true one-of-a-kind story of an innocent exchange student who moves to Amsterdam hoping to write a book about the red light district and everything that follows. It’s an American abroad story, and also a love story; it’s an uplifting tragedy, full of humor from beginning to end; it’s an Amsterdam survival guide; a sympathetic look at a societal problem; a little piece of policy; a sweet farewell to a world just about gone; and, ultimately, as close as you can come to a... more

Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger

by Brannon Beliso

Brannon Beliso invites you to walk with him on his wild journey of self-discovery. Heartfelt and blatantly honest, Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger portrays Brannon's struggles and victories, and the insights that moved him forward step-by-step. Growing up poor in San Francisco. Child abuse. Foster Care. Becoming a martial arts champion. His life as a rock star in the Philippines. And then, fed up with his decadent lifestyle, returning to San Francisco on a quest for clarity.... more

Near Death in the Gila National Forest

by Don Lubov

Brief Synopsis — “Near Death in the Gila National Forest” It’s 1971 and a university art instructor has just been informed that his contract won’t be renewed. His life is spiraling out of control. He decides to set out on a solo hiking trip across the U.S. Two men, offer to pay him $50,000, to set up a drug deal in Mexico. He agrees to do it, with the hopes that he will finally be financially secure. In 4,500 miles, he encounters a 7-day rock festival in the woods, an invitation to a lync... more

An Appalachain Boy's Life

by Flem R. Messer

The subtitle of my book is A Walk Three Centuries.I grew up in a very remote area of the Appalachian Mountains. We had no modern conveniences are electricity until I was age 15.I had to walk 2 or more miles to a one room school.I dropped out of school at age 15 in the fourth grade.I enolled and a boarding school age 17 1/2 .81/2 years later I graduated from college.I talked to one year.Worked in the war on poverty for 18 years.I became an investment advisor for many years.I retired as the vice p... more

The Man Behind Badge 711

by Thomas Cooney

Parish the Thought: An Inspirational Memoir of Growing Up Catholic in the 1960s

by John Bernard Ruane

In a warm and affectionate narrative that "transports readers back to a time before cable television, cell phones, and the Internet" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), John Bernard Ruane paints a marvelous portrait of his Irish-Catholic boyhood on the southwest side of Chicago in the 1960s. Capturing all the details that perfectly evoke those bygone days for Catholics and baby boomers everywhere, Ruane recounts his formative years donning the navy-and-plaid school uniform of St. Bede's: the priests... more

My Soul Is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story

by Karen I Treiger

My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holocaust Story, is the harrowing tale of Sam and Esther Goldberg, who survived the Holocaust to ultimately settle in the United States. It’s also a journey of discovery for their family, going back to Poland to retrace the Goldbergs’ steps from the Death Camp Treblinka to their war-time hiding place in a forest, to their liberation in 1944. Over 870,000 were murdered at Treblinka but Sam Goldberg was one of approximately 65 prisoners to escape the Death Camp and... more

Two Minus One: A Memoir

by Kathryn Taylor

“You can quit waiting for the other shoe to drop: I’m in it for life.” Those are the fateful, repeated words that help convince Kathryn Taylor to remarry, retire from her thirty-year profession, sell her home, and relocate in support of her new husband’s career. But five years later, in a car packed with food she has carefully prepared to nourish her husband’s dying brother, the other shoe does drop. Taylor’s husband unexpectedly proclaims he is, “don... more

Secret Betrayal: How to Heal Female Rivalries

by Jewel Hart

What motivates females of multiple ethnicities to bully, trash talk, sabotage, and humiliate one another? How can so many women form close relationships while at the same time secretly gossiping, competing, betraying, backstabbing, and envying? This book will show women how to have closer, healthier, and more authentic relationships with each other. Cathy Holloway Hill, Life Strategist and Psychologist, breaks it down with her own experiences, tools, research, and new behaviors proven to s... more

A Girl's Guide to Chicago

by Kelly Russell

From a young age a little girl dreamed of moving to Chicago. She would close her eyes and picture the excitement along Michigan Avenue, the quaint neighborhoods, endless cuisines, and of course, the magical skyline floating over the blue water of Lake Michigan. Based on the true story of a girl in her twenties who packs her bags and follows her lifelong dream of moving to Chicago. Take a journey with Kelly and discover the hidden gems you never knew about - as she starts a new career, makes new ... more

It's Not Funny or Relevant

by Charlotte Wells

This is a memoir of a girl with very little life experience. It is a collection of essays, poems, and rants that may break you to your core or maybe it won't have any effect on you at all. I don't know you. But what I do know is that this book is a juicy slice of watermelon. One you dropped on the ground, but it's so good you eat it anyways. This book is bullshit without any of the bullshit. This is barely a book, in fact, it's more like my diary. Through writing this, I learned that I was enoug... more

Lightening the Shadow: Diagnosing and Living with an Invisible Chronic Illness

by Darla Nagel

A college student’s education turned into a crash course in investigating diagnoses and scaling back life plans after crushing exhaustion, cognitive difficulties, and other symptoms developed overnight. Numerous doctors and treatments failed, but she rebuilt her life and learned seven lessons that everyone with a chronic illness should know.

Adventures with the Mojave Phone Booth

by Godfrey "Doc" Daniels

The Mojave Phone Booth Project was inaugurated when I began obsessively dialing the number of a phone booth in the desert that I wasn't sure even existed until I eventually began visiting it in person. Its fame spread quickly by means of just about every major world newspaper, TV network, and radio station. The Booth soon had multitudes of admirers around the globe, to the extent that what had been almost certainly the world’s most isolated telephone booth was transformed practically overnight i... more

A Good Soldier

by Ally Golden

A Good Soldier is a memoir by Ally Golden, which focuses on the emotional toll of growing up with a mentally ill parent who eventually died by suicide. The story follows Ally from birth to her early thirties on her search for an identity independent of her mercurial mother’s influence. It is a timely, but not opportunistic, case study of the insidious ways the effects of mental illness can span generations within a family.

Love Is the Answer, God Is the Cure

by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure” is the story of Aimee Cabo, who was in the Miami news for almost five years from 1989 to 1994 in a case the media named “The Case from Hell.” This sexual abuse case pitted she and her sister against her parents who denied all culpability. As she battled court battles, poverty, abuse, and addiction, Aimee always turned to love and to God. This is the story of a woman who had all the odds against her and how she persevered to find true love and form a family t... more

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