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  • Not My Story to Tell: My Journey Through Grief: Loving and Losing a Daughter with Bi-Polar Disorder

    by Cathy Lynn Brooks
    At a young age, Justine was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. As Justine grew up, she often made bad choices due to the traumas of her past and her mental illness. Through it all, Cathy never stopped loving her daughter. In this revealing and powerful book, Cathy takes you back to the early days of Justine’s childhoodand the events that led to her diagnosis. Cathy watched her daughter try time and again to change her life, amazed and awed by Justine’s persisten... more

  • Just a Little More Time

    by Florrie Munat
    Story is a crucial component of navigating the roller coaster that is grief. The beautifully written stories and poems in the Just a Little More Time anthology share tender last moments with loved ones, muse about what happens once we die, and most of all celebrate and delight with tales of love. The book's magic is hidden in the smallest details that underlie the universal message: that you can find hope after significant loss. Whether exploring the loss of a cherished forest or beloved wife, t... more

  • Be Brave: A Wife's Journey Through Caregiving

    by Florrie Munat
    Florrie Munat became her husband Chuck’s caregiver on the day he suffered a severe stroke. Any chances for his recovery were derailed when they learned that Chuck was also suffering from Lewy body dementia. After that devastating news, Florrie and Chuck assumed their loving marriage had been shattered forever. But what happened next surprised them. With honesty, humor, and compassion, Florrie’s inspiring memoir invites the reader to walk in her shoes as she navigates the roller-coaster journe... more

  • Up, Up and Astray: Memoir of an Airline Bachelor During the Golden Age of Air Travel

    by Jim Spaeth

     Jim, an only child, has always been a restless soul. At the age of six his dad died unexpectedly. He was left in the care of a stern Catholic mother and grandmother at home, and strict nuns at school. His curious, rambunctious nature only seemed to attract criticism. By the time Jim graduated, he had had enough of female authority. Short stints in the Marines and Cincinnati Police only confirmed his yearning for adventure.

    Fate intervened when a broken-down car turned into a career wit... more

  • I Give My Eyes...

    by Brian H. Peterson
    “I Give My Eyes…” is both spiritual autobiography and a story of healing and salvation. Author, artist, and museum curator Brian H. Peterson looks back on a creative life and reflects on his own search for the deeper layers, the “substrata.” In luminous, poetic prose, he ties together private and public, inward and outward journeys, struggling with the realities of advancing Parkinson’s disease while discovering an affirmation of belief that embraces suffering and doubt. “Somewhere there, i... more

  • Before I Let You Go: Stories for My Grown Son

    by Kirsten Wreggitt
    Every mother has things she’d like to tell her child but there never seems to be the right time; the conversations are just too personal or too raw. “Before I Let You Go” was written by Kirsten Wreggitt as way of sharing these conversations with her son. Through short stories, she vulnerably shares the triumphs and failures of the first half of her life and illustrates the greatest life lessons she has learned from these experiences.

  • Finding Myself Again

    by Dena Olson
    My memoir is about my process of healing from a traumatic brain injury. When I was 27, I suffered a sinus infection that was not treated correctly, and the infection spread to my brain. I woke from a coma to find I was deaf, and had no memory of my past, I had to relearn to walk and to trust and to love again.

  • #NotAFailure

    by Christian Locklayer
    Part memoir, part- self-help, #NotAFailure details some of my personal experiences with post-grad sadness and rejection and struggles in an uncertain job market. This book outlines how all of these experiences prepared and pushed me towards starting my own business. It also explores many issues that Millennials face in the post-grad battlefield, what it means to go after your dreams and pursue your sense of purpose, and how we could all benefit from talking about one of the most taboo subjects i... more

  • The Other Side of Ego: From Cancer to Consciousness

    by Jonathan Gravenor
    On February 24, 2012, my daughter told me “I don’t care if you live or die.” That was the day I was diagnosed with late-stage throat cancer. After spending time yelling through a closed door, reminding her of all I had given her I stopped, and the truth began to unfold. I looked back and could not remember the last time I had held her and made her feel safe, the last time I sat and praised her for what she had become, or, worse, the last time I had told her how much I love her. Suddenly I ... more

  • The Games Lawyers (and Judges) Play: An Insider's Look At What's Really Wrong With The American Justice System

    by Steve Koslovsky
    THE BOOK YOUR LAWYER DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ! "Games Lawyers (and Judges) Play" takes you behind the scenes of the courtroom and the law office to show you (1) How lawyers routinely overcharge their clients, ( 2) How bad judges are selected but almost never removed, (3) How arbitration works for corporations against consumers, (4) Why the idea of collective jury wisdom is a myth, and much more.
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    Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis

    by Marc Batko
    This 54-page eBook has nine essays and 3 poems that could ignite interest in philosophy, critical thinking, and economic theory. Education is the great transformer, said the economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Words can crack the frozen soul, said Franz Kafka.

  • Galley Proof: Victory Over the Mark of the Beast

    by Audrey Andujar Wright
    WAKE UP! LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT IS AT RISK! This book will open your eyes not only to some major deceptions and strategies being used against us as Mankind, but also how to overcome them and arise victorious as members of the World God intended us to inhabit and have Dominion over which to have dominion for His, God's Glory! The topics range from sex life, to Science, AI, to education, financial accounts and debts, the ability to express oneself freely, to “Globalists & Technocracts,” and redemp... more
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    It Does Matter

    by Jo Steele
    At 9 years old my world crashed. My mother turned to alcohol when my father left when they had decided to divorce. I went through years of abuse. The abuse was verbal, emotional, physical and sexual. Although I told a lot of people, no one stepped forward to help. My book tells my story of survival. Many times I did not think I would live through what was happening. I wrote the book to share with others there is always hope.

  • Dear Anonymous Friend...

    by Otiz "O.T." Porter, Ph.D

    Dear Anonymous Friend… is an autobiographical account of four pivotal years in the adult life of Dr. O.T. Porter, where he recounts the events that lead up to, and after, he made the decision to come completely out of the closet. The story shared focuses on his inner and outer struggles, providing in depth details of the conflict between his thoughts, feelings, and desires, versus societal restraints, cultural norms, and interpersonal expectations.

    As a closeted, gay, Bl... more

  • An Unlikely Season: Destined, From Tykes to Titans, A Season Unbound

    by J.R. Wirth
    In the fall of 1977 there was an aura about the night, the likes which none had ever experienced. It was just another Friday night; or was it? The Gladiators of Gladstone High School were set to kick a late field goal to solidify a brilliant come from behind victory. See what happens when you bring together a group of disgruntled senior football players with a class of upstart juniors, and coaches on their last attempt at greatness? Magic perhaps? These three stories are told from unique perspec... more

  • Lance: A Spirit Unbroken

    by walter stoffel
    Unique rescue of a unique, semi-feral dog that had lived outside 24/7 for first 10 years of his life.

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