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Memoir

  • 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

  • Tyson's Gift: How An 8 Pound K9 Became a Man's Greatest Spiritual Guide

    by Brandon Wainwright
    Tyson’s Gift tells the story of the author's dog’s life and his unique personality in a Marley and Me fashion, but later unfolds as a chronicle of the life-changing spiritual and metaphysical events the author experienced following his death and my quest to come to terms with what happens to us after we die. The result reads like Marley and Me meets A Dog’s Purpose . . . with a dash of Shirley MacLaine’s Out on a Limb.
  • 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.
  • Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man

    by Jim Wilson
    The unique confluence of Jim Wilson’s two careers—piano technician and 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 Beatle songs with Paul McCartney, limo rides with Elton John, road trips with Carole King, and horseback riding with Dan Fogelberg. But beyond this everyman’s unique telling of intimate celebrity tales, Tuned In is an inspiring story of one man’s relentless pursuit... more
  • Mattie, Milo, and Me

    by Anne Abel
    Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no – and she proceeds to fall in love with their new four-legged family member, Mattie. Then, Mattie dies a sudden and tragic death, and Anne feels herself begin to sink back into depression. ... more
  • Square Up: 50,000 Miles in Search of a Way Home

    by Lisa Dailey
    Have you ever wished you could run away and leave your life behind? Born on the "Day of the Wanderer," Lisa Dailey has always been filled with wanderlust. Although she and her husband had planned to take their family on a 'round-the-world adventure, she didn't expect their plans to come together on the heels of grief, after losing seven family members in five years. Square Up shows us that travel not only helps us understand and appreciate other cultures, but invites us to find compassion and wi... more
  • Drops of Life Experience

    by Chantal Agapiti
    I share my life's story and lessons learned to show you can improve your quality of life. Being a trauma survivor and chronic pain warrior, I want to help others by gaining a growth mindset. Your struggles don't define who you are, you have the power to change things.
  • The Price of Broccoli : A Memoir Growing up Immigrant

    by Maya Delaney
    The Price of Broccoli traces our family’s transcontinental migration from China, Hong Kong, and then to Canada. It is filled with light-hearted anecdotes of quirkiness, idiosyncrasies and eccentricities that are us. Tales based on our “growing up immigrant."
  • Patient

    by Akshay Rao
    pa•tient /ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/ noun a person who is under medical care or treatment. adjective bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like. Two months after several positive Covid tests, Akshay Rao finds himself in the Emergency Room, having been diagnosed with acute renal failure. This, despite donning N95 masks indoors and out, living life as a hermit, and getting vaccinated and boosted at the first ava... more
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