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  • Brother Broken

    by Cecile Beaulieu
    ‘Brother Broken’ is not a tale of woe. It’s not a romance novel, a how-to handbook, a travel guide, a pot-boiler, a sci-fi sequel or a fantasy adventure. It’s a Saskatchewan true story. A slice of history that’s not dark or depressing. A memoir of hope and gratitude, with a touch of ridiculous―though some parts are complicated, because there is nothing straightforward pertaining to ‘broken’. Three of my brothers died. I wish I could say they died of natural causes, but there is nothing nat... more
  • Don't Tell Mom! Shenanigans of a Small-Town Kid

    by Greg Schweiner

    The book takes us back in time for a nostalgic look at time before parents were described as helicopters and tigers. We follow the adventures of a little boy and see the world through his eyes as he grows up in a era when video games didn't  exist and phones were attached to walls. 

    The stories and characters are relatable to anyone who lived through the period, or anyone who wants to know what life was like back then. The lessons learned are timeless. 

  • Part-Time Nomads

    by Anne M. Breedlove
    The ad in the back of Bicycling magazine read: “Self-guided bicycling tours in rural France.” Eight days on furnished bikes, in pre-arranged lodging opened our eyes to the possibilities of bicycle travel. PART-TIME NOMADS tells how we metamorphosed from middle-aged, suburban working parents to international bicycle travelers. For ten years we stole time from work and parenting to bicycle 10,000 miles in seven states and three countries. Starting in Northern California with “credit card cycling... more
  • She May Be Lying Down But She May Be Very Happy

    by Jody Gelb

    Everything was going right in the delivery room until, suddenly, it wasn't. The baby's brain was damaged; the new mother, unprepared for the life she and her family would now be living.

    In dense, lyrical prose, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter's short life. SHE MAY BE LYING DOWN BUT SHE MAY BE VERY HAPPY is a marvel of compression and potency. Gelb lays her experience bare in the full range of its emotional complexity, from profound suffering to ecstatic joy. It is a m... more

  • Finding Strength to Carry On

    by William Hubbartt
    The unexpected death of her husband Don changed Barbara Hubbartt’s life in a flash. A second death of her youngest child, Douglas, brought catastrophic heartbreak. Barbara Hubbartt Gruening tells her story in “Finding Strength to Carry On: A Memoir.” This book tells the story in her own words, providing: - vivid descriptions of dramatic life changing events, - belief in the power of God providing hope to carry on, - humorous family stories that reveal the human experience, and - Barbara’s ... more
  • Reflections from the Shadow of Los Angeles

    by Byron Schneider
    Reflections from the Shadow of Los Angeles captures the unique mix of orange groves and ocean beaches, Disneyland and drugs, freeways and false landmarks that defined the Golden State in the 1960s and ‘70s. But there is hidden trauma in this paradise – family secrets that can’t stay buried forever.
  • Mob Island

    by Bubba Haupt and Teresa E. Ward, Ph.D.
    “Some things are not what they look and feel like.” — “Louie the Tailor” Rosanova Lou was right. Who would have believed that Savannah, Georgia, specifically the Savannah Inn and Country Club, played a significant role in mobster relations? Leading figures in the Mob during the seventies came together for important meetings at the Inn. And there were good reasons why they chose Savannah for these meetings (and the ultimate burial site of Jimmy Hoffa). \tMore important, who would believe th... more
  • Chasing Atoms

    by jesse james kendall
    Chasing Atoms is a book about a life spent at rock bottom. This memoir is a hauntingly original take on the traumas and struggles of one unique life, with an unexpected and unconventional dash of quantum mechanics thrown in the mix. From the bushy, pine-covered hills that shielded the little valley where I grew up on the Idaho border, to the tangled journey of a lone electron crossing the entirety of space and time, Chasing Atoms delves into the origins of the universe, the inevitable nothingnes... more
  • Diamonds Beneath the Darkness: Life thru Lyrics ...the journey to become (part one)

    by Nicole Danielle
    Most people are just living to die. Here I am, just dying to live—is the whisper Nicole Danielle heard on the darkest night of her life. A beauty queen who committed a crime. A lover who committed a sin. A dreamer told to get her head out of the clouds. A bright light dimmed by the world. Life got dark and every time Nicole tried to change the narrative, the noise was just too loud— “You’re not enough.” “You will never be anything more than what you are.” “You’re a dime a dozen.” “Your... more
  • The Road Unpaved: Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike

    by Risa August
    After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa’s life has fallen far from picture-perfect. Recovering from brain surgery and desperate to get back to her former self, she signs up for the bike tour of a lifetime—six weeks from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Coast Highway. The old Risa could have done the ride in her sleep, but for the new Risa, trapped in a body that no longer feels like her own and stuck in the company of her brai... more
  • A Paper Orchestra

    by Michael Jamin
    In his debut collection of personal essays, Emmy-nominated screenwriter Michael Jamin (King of the Hill, Just Shoot Me, Beavis and Butt-Head, Wilfred, Maron, Rules of Engagement, Tacoma FD) recounts the true stories of a sensitive, anxious man searching for the things that are most important: identity, love, forgiveness, and redemption. A cross between David Sedaris and Neil Simon.
  • Hop, Skip and a Jump!: Life: Proceed With Caution

    by David Richard Hughes

    “Poignant, zany, and at times tragic, Hughes' story is a hyper observant travelogue of a life lived in full--and perhaps, out of control. And, naturally, there are hookers involved as well as a first heart attack at age 50 (in which no hookers are involved). "

  • The Company of Ghosts

    by Stephanie Martin Glennon

    After a family movie night, the author's husband confided that he had been having a mild but persistent "ping" of abdominal pain. By Monday, they learned he had inoperable pancreatic cancer, and he had become a full-time patient.

    The Company of Ghosts is a lyrical story about memories gathering and reassembling as a family is forced to navigate a sometimes puzzling and cruel healthcare system and is reconfigured by loss. It is also a meditation about how we c... more

  • Bloodlines

    by Tracey Yokas
    It should have been Tracey Yokas’s time to heal. With the recent death of her mother, she was given a brand-new chance to redefine herself and her happiness on her own terms. But just as she prepares herself to spread her wings, Tracey discovers that her only child, Faith, is battling issues of her own—carrying forward the legacy of disordered eating, depression, and self-harm Tracey is so desperate to leave behind. Tracey is determined to save her daughter, but she has no idea how to reach h... more
  • The Threads that Bind

    by J. Michael Dumoulin

    Among my parents' photo albums, I found black and whites of my mother, my older brother, and my 18-months younger brother. We stood on Florida beaches looking up at rocket launches through metal chain link. Okay, so these memories came from a photo album, but if they were only photos in a book, why even today when I see them do I smell the crisp salt air and taste the aluminum of the fence?  In one album is a photo of a kindergarten-age me sitting proudly on my bike the first day I l... more

  • Reaching For Fireflies

    by ed tar
    The powerful story of how Ed decided at the age of none, to resist the negative forces around him. Through sheer will, instinctive street smarts, creativity and relentless hard work, changed the direction of his life.
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