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My World Book 1: Hitching the Globe on $10 a Day

by Ben Batchelder

Fresh out of college, a lost American despairs of his new career, chaotic life, and diseased family. When an invitation to Scotland falls into the depths of a New York winter, he grabs at the chance to renew himself. On a whim, he decides to save money, fly to Europe, and travel east to the ends of the earth, on $10 a day for a year or more. Here is the story of his odyssey: staying at German castles; losing not one but two passports to thieves; disastrous brushes with lost bags, maliciou... more

Halfway to Halfway and Back: More River Stories

by Bob Volpert

This is a new collection of stories that capture the essence and mood of river guiding. Twenty former and current river guides wrote the 41 stories in this compilation. The tales focus on river related events that usually have little to do with whitewater. Some don’t even take place on a river. All say a lot about the culture of guiding and the people attracted to wild places and the odd things that happen once they get there. These are the stories shared around a campfire after a day on the wat... more

Never Trust a Teacher - Fight to Make Things Right: Let One Family's Journey Through Public School Show You How

by SUSAN FAY RYAN Ed.D

After I was married in 1960, I had no plans whatsoever to launch a career outside of the home. For fourteen years, I was perfectly content as a wife and mother. Then, a drastic change in my family’s finances catapulted me into the workplace. Uprooted from my charming, New England gardener’s cottage with an ocean view, I found myself on I-95 traveling to an unknown Florida destination, determined that my children would continue to participate in the American dream—no matter what our economic stat... more

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by SUSAN FAY RYAN Ed.D

Life in Tens: stories shared to spark insights & conversations

by peter shankland

From childhood to now, Life in Tens is our book. Life in Tens is stories shared to encourage the telling of your own unique experiences and life truths. Filled with amusing anecdotes about commonly odd people, places and things, Life in Tens starts in New York and continues abroad as experiences and questions of body, speech and mind overflow! With in-chapter Questions to Ponder to cultivate personal insights, and chapter ending Reflect and Share questions to promote fun, meaningful con... more

Behind the Curtain: A Peek at Life from within the ER

by Dr. Jeffrey Sterling

All that can happen…will Revealing and unflinching, Behind the Curtain offers an unfiltered look inside the real-life traumas and triumphs that define emergency medicine. The first book from Dr. Jeffrey Sterling succeeds as both an enlightening memoir and an unforgiving mirror reflecting the best and worst of human behavior, and the authentic collection of stories represents his unique journey as an ER physician, which spans two decades and dozens of cities and countries, including more than ... more

There are 72 Hours in a Day: Using Efficiency to Better Enjoy Every Part of Your Life

by Dr. Jeffrey Sterling

Jeffrey E. Sterling, MD, MPH, often finds himself with a little more extra time than everyone else—forty-eight hours a day, to be exact! Now Dr. Sterling shares his brilliant and easy-to-follow steps to increase efficiency. Here Dr. Sterling shares invaluable insight into the concept of “five-minute efficiency,” or breaking down daily tasks into smaller, more accomplishable tasks. Not only does this give you a sense of accomplishment, but it propels you forward into greater productivity. ... more

The Evangelical's Daughter: Losing My Religion and Finding I Am: A Memoir

by Debra Torres-Reyes

In the 1960s, Frankie Roberts heard a preacher pronounce that a woman’s place is in the home, not in the pulpit. Frankie felt led by the Lord to leave Newark, New Jersey, her husband and to drag her four daughters to Sioux City, Iowa, to start a ministry. In this memoir, the youngest of Frankie’s daughters, the author, narrates her traumatic and abusive childhood as the victim of a religion gone too far. Availing herself of both humor and honesty, Torres-Reyes describes being raised by Penteco... more

Rambling Across America

by Tommy Ray

Do you sometimes feel there is more out there for you? Would you like to become the best version of yourself?

I know I did. I thought, “if I desire a new life, I simply should rewrite it.” I pondered, imagine creating my dreams into reality, creating the life I have always desired, knowing I can produce these results.

What would that do to my confidence? What would that do to my life?

Through personal experience, inspirational quotes, as well as ... more

The Joy in My Journey with Cancer

by Sandra Jolla

Finding joy in the midst of turbulent times is not always easy. When you get disappointing news, how do you turn tragedy to triumph? How do you make the bitter sweet? How do you transition from chaos to calm? The author makes her journey with cancer a faith walk filled with excitement and joy as she embarks upon one of the most challenging times of her life. I learned that even though I had mapped out a plan, God had a different plan for my life. This is my story of how I chose to make my journe... more

This Side Up: The Road to a Renovated Life (First Printing)

by Amy Mangan

This Side Up: The Road to a Renovated Life is a home and garden editor’s story of a life constantly under construction, none by design. Written with candor, humor and grace, Amy Mangan shares her own home tour, but this one deftly sheds light on job loss, financial shame, home displacement, marital discord, illness and caregiving. Faced with one crisis after the next, Amy discovers how to cope, hope and rebuild, finding a new way home to a stronger way of life.

Stolen Options

by Mae Edwards

“Stolen Options” is the story of how she survived the constant moving around from foster home to home, being a plumber in the Air Force, an abusive husband, cancer and beyond. Upon surviving some of the toughest years in an unhealthy marriage, Mae later got remarried, this time to her high school sweetheart. She is now a part of a very loving and successful marriage. She currently resides in Waller, Texas, and as her story tells, enjoys riding her motorcycle with her husband, hiking in the mount... more

A Bride's Confession

by John and Mahin Goodall

Our memoir recounts the true story of how we met in Tehran in 1969 and how our Anglo-Iranian romance had been accurately foretold by an Assyrian fortune teller simultaneously with the terrifying fortunes of two other girls. We each recount our story individually in the first person as we recall it, putting the reader in the vantage point of understanding what each of us is thinking as he/she wonders how we lovers drawn from such very different backgrounds will ever overcome the very real impedim... more

It's Not Too Late Baby, a Kundalini Love Story

by Eva G Kane

When singer/songwriter Eva G Kane discovers her husband’s secret life outside of their 24-year marriage, her world is thrown upside down. Eva tosses her pride aside to undergo a grueling process of self-discovery, navigating through her darkest times by writing songs of lost-yet-hopeful love. Inspired by her lyric “the worst in you is bringing out the best in me,” Eva gains the strength to dig deeper into her husband’s heart and bank records when her initial attempt at forgiveness proves futile... more

Schools and Politics: The Rise and Fall of Pat Tornillo

by Louis Tornillo

This is the dramatic story of Pat Tornillo, young years in the vanished First Ward Italian neighborhood of Newark, his rise to power as the leader of Florida's teachers, his historic achievements in public education, the statewide Florida teachers' strike of 1968, his visionary ideas to reform public schools, and the catastrophic errors in judgement that ended his career. Written from a Federal prison, it is a cautionary tale of what can happen when any leader has too much power without accoun... more

Hogan's Hope: A Deaf Dog, A Courageous Journey, and A Christian's Faith

by Connie Bombaci

Hogan’s Hope is the riveting and valiant story of a deaf dog who escaped death during the time when the belief was that deaf dogs needed to be destroyed. It is the tale of a legendary deaf canine champion who, after being rescued from severe abuse, prevailed as he turned upside down the myths of deaf dogs being stubborn, difficult to train, and harmful. Hogan learned American Sign Language, engaged in “normal” puppy activities such as agility, Frisbee, and lure coursing, and provided the hope of... more

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