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To Dad, From Kelly

by Kelly Lytle

When Rob Lytle died at age 56, three decades after his football stardom at the University of Michigan ended and his professional career with the Denver Broncos began, his son Kelly Lytle poured his mix of grief, adulation, regret, gratitude, and even criticism into a series of letters to the man he considered his best friend. What began as catharsis evolved into a memoir that starts strong and gains steam the way Rob Lytle did in his dashes down the football field. To Dad, From Kelly adds dim... more

Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

by Oliver Markus

Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey is an autobiographical book that follows the incredible life of Oliver, a teenage hacker in Aachen, Germany, who is the victim of traumatic childhood abuse and suffers from PTSD. He falls in love with an American girl online, and spends many hours on the phone with her every day for a year, until he moves in with her in New York. After his crazy adventures as a New York cab driver, he becomes a successful cartoonist and goes on to be an Internet millionair... more

Stories from My Memory-Shelf

by Lori Schafer

The story of my life told in short fiction and essays. Features author commentary on the real-life events that inspired the stories.

“Girl in Pink, Seeing Red”
Never mess with a little girl’s best friend – even if she is dressed all in pink.
Micro fiction. Includes author commentary.

“Two Fathers”
“He is clasping my hand and leading me down the street to the local bar; propping me up on a barstool so all his friends can see,... more

On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness

by Lori Schafer

It was the spring of 1989. I was sixteen years old, a junior in high school and an honors student. I had what every teenager wants: a stable family, a nice home in the suburbs, a great group of friends, big plans for my future, and no reason to believe that any of that would ever change.

Then came my mother's psychosis.

I experienced first-hand the terror of watching someone I loved transform into a monster, the terror of discovering that I was to be her primary victim. For ye... more

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by RICK Carle

It's Mayberry RFD meets Breaking Bad when a small town Opie-like boy becomes a big time drug dealer. This is the semi-true story (selected changes to protect the innocent and the guilty) of Rick Carle, raised with strong upstanding Midwestern values, until he takes a bad turn and travels down a crooked road. Join him on the wacky, sometime heartfelt, often humorous ride that includes his encounters with State Patrolmen, Hell's Angels, and other unsavory characters. His outlaw journey should h... more

A Rose for Sergei

by K. Kidd

The author’s search for independence and a career with the Federal Government in Washington DC took her on a journey that far surpassed her fondness for mystery and intrigue. She was twenty-one when she met Sergei Kourdakov, a former KGB agent and Soviet naval intelligence officer. A Rose for Sergei is a bittersweet story about a young American woman and a Russian defector who escaped a life he didn’t want and could no longer face. It is a true stor... more

Hazel Eyes

by Maritza Martinez Mejia

Hazel Eyes takes the reader on a journey to discover the personal life of the author and spiritual experience of faith.

The Road behind Me (The Lie of Hannah)

by Rj Cook

The Road behind Me (the Lie of Hannah) narrates a story of lost love, a journey, and a late-in-life epiphany. This memoir tells how, from the summer of 1974 to the summer of 1975, the author traveled from New Jersey to California and back again to escape the pain of a broken heart, only to discover that distance did nothing to diminish his memories. It’s a story of growing up and falling in love, losing love and seeking refuge in the land of milk, honey, and Disney; and of returning home a defea... more

Affable in Adversity: The Bereavement B*tch

by William Hunter Howell

"Every time you are able to find some humour in a difficult situation, you win.”

The chronicles of a young man dealing with bereavement and the journey it entails, negotiating the complications of life, love, drugs, guilt, expectations and the importance of knowing who he is at a crucial time and throughout all the trepidations he's faced with. The memoirs of William Hunter Howell, the son of deceased European Member of Parli... more

I.Am.Maine: Stories of Small Town Maine

by Jeremy Flagg

I moved to Maine when I was 5. I lived there for two years while my father traveled the globe as a soldier in the Marine Corps. I returned when I was 10. I resented my parents for it. There was nothing great or even good about living in Brownville Jct. Friends lived an area code away, making it impossible to play outside or even talk on the phone. I spent my summers consumed in novels, reading about adventures elsewhere; anyplace but here. In 1996, Josh Decker introduced me to the radio, and thi... more

Bride Price

by Ian Mathie

Whilst working in the Congo jungle the author was required by the community to become foster father to a village orphan girl as a condition for living in a village. Everything went well until a man walked out of the forest wanting to marry her and demanded he set the bride price. Mathie had to unravel the complications of tribal custom and set the bride price under the watchful gaze of the village elders, the political agent and the local witch-doctor. the result produced unexpected and dramati... more

Immigrating Tears: A Story of Survival and Running to Destiny

by F.C. Blake

A biographical coming of age story of a dreamy teenager's upbringing, education, travels, and survival through sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and America interwoven with an intimate reflection on identity, family, running, dancing, love, life challenges, triumphs, and salvation.

So Buttons: Man of, Like, a Dozen Faces

by Jonathan Baylis

So Buttons: Man of, Like, a Dozen Faces collects the choicest slices of life from 10 years of So Buttons, writer Jonathan Baylis's autobiographical comics series.

Like the late great Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) before him, Baylis utilizes an all-star cadre of indie artists to illustrate his true-life tales. This collection includes stories drawn by Noah Van Sciver (Blammo, The Hypo), Joseph Remnant (Harvey Pekar's Cleveland), Rick Parker (B... more

East in Eden

by Izabela Shopova

Travel writer Izabela Shopova never perceived her life in New Zealand as exile and emigration as martyrdom, as it is the custom (and pretty much a patriotic obligation) in her native Bulgarian cultural and literary tradition. Her life in Aotearoa was a challenge and a lifetime adventure, a love affair and a comedy (with just a bit of drama) in a land regarded by the rest of the world as the Last Eden on Earth. East in Eden tells the luminous, heartfelt, and hilarious story of Shopova’s six ye... more

Straight Black Man, Gay Black Family

by christopher boyd

A young boy is being raised by a lesbian mother, who has two other children that has been raised by her mother, one who is mentally challenged. Her mother dies now she is faced with taking responsibility of all three of children, a task she does not want. she abandons them for her new girlfriend and leaves the burden on the second oldest son. He already has disdain for how his mother treated him in the past but she now leaves him with a challenge of taking care of his brothers and quickly becom... more

Once Upon A Time

by Asordin Ramli

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