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A Decade of Diaries - from a Widow

by Stella Swanepoel

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk disappointment. But risks must be taken because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. They cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.” She held a marriage certificated in one hand dated October 20, 2001, and seven months later, a death certificate in the other hand dated June 5, 2002. In April 2005 four children lay in their sealed coffins, ... more

All about My Hat - The Hippy Trail 1972 (Revised)

by Alun Buffry

An incredible journey in 1972, of a young man and his hat, "Myhat", from Thessalonki in Greece, through Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - and back to the UK, through poverty and illness, a journey not forgotten. Passing through Istanbul, Izmir, Ephesus (Efes), Antalya, Antakya, Aleppo, Deir el Zur, Qa'im, Baghdad, Tehran, Mashad, Herat, Kandahar, Kabul, Khyber Pass, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Amritsar, Delhi, Agra, Haridwar and Rishikesh - known now as "The Hippy Tr... more

3mph: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World

by Polly Letofsky

Polly Letofsky left her Colorado home and headed west across 4 continents and over 14,000 miles—by foot -- to become the first woman to walk around the world. In a spirit of adventure, along with the goal of raising global awareness for breast cancer, strangers welcomed her into their homes. The world had embraced her. But in the middle of Polly’s journey, 9/11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history, and she found herself navigating a vastly changing world. In 3mph she richly det... more

Chiseled: A Memoir of Identity, Duplicity and Divine Wine

by Danuta Pfeiffer

In this gripping memoir, Danuta (Soderman) Pfeiffer, known to millions as the former co-host of The 700 Club with Pat Robertson, explains her sudden disappearance from the evangelical world and explores her chaotic past living under her father’s imposing shadow. This is a story of navigating identities through a remarkable life. Danuta Pfeiffer was an unwed teenage mother escaping to the tundra of Alaska; a journalist who inadvertently became a television evangelist with a ringside seat to a... more

Lost Family: FOUND!

by Heather L Nelson

Lost Family: FOUND! Is an astonishing, epic, true story. The incredible discovery in our “golden-years,” (68 years after the end of WWII) of an American family found by an unknown brother left behind in England, who lead us to find other family secrets too impossible to image. As adult children investigate their parents’ lives trying to understand their own existence, they discover a love story, heartache, elements of human interest, mystery and intrigue, times of war and peace and travel—invo... more

Host of Memories: Tales of Inevitable Happenstance

by Peter Rupert Lighte

Neither the “bamboo curtain” nor sexual confusion could keep Peter Rupert Lighte from his appointed rounds. He was determined to become a sinologist before President Nixon called in on Chairman Mao and to be a father when gay still meant festive. In his latest book, Host of Memories: Tales of Inevitable Happenstance, he crafts a collection of personal anecdotes into a loving and quirky history. In luscious descriptions, he portrays the drama and security of his Jewish New York upb... more

Life, Love, and a Hijacking: My Pan Am Memoir

by Wendy Sue Knecht

LIfe, Love, and a Hijacking: My Pan Am Memoir is an insightful, hilarious, sometimes seat-gripping look at the adventures of an ebullient flight attendant, who flew for the world’s most iconic airline, iconic airline, Pan Am. With the world at her fingertips, anything was possible...even the improbable. Single until age 47, Wendy’s Pan Am story of her “life of freedom” is thought provoking and peppered with celebrity, adventure, tragedy, and a lot of laughter. Life, Love, and a Hig... more

My Day in Heaven with My Lil' Sister

by Quest Delaney

If your "Lost Loved One" came back to you for a day. Where would you go? Can you imagine heaven?”

Christians expect to see heaven when they die, but Quest Delaney didn’t have to wait that long. When his young sister tragically died, Quest’s 'Christian and Spiritual beliefs' allowed him to travel past the pearly gates, where angels flock and people fly.

Quest had several clues early in life that he was different. As a child he heard his lat... more

My Journey with Meniere's Disease

by Peggy Holloway

This is a personal story about one woman's journey with Meniere's Disease that covers diagnosis, treatment and ultimately living with hearing loss.

Faith of a Father: a Father's Open Letter to his Daughter

by frank barbehenn

The highly readable story of Frank’s emerging faith in Jesus is a spellbinding dance among various forces in his life. In this most personal, page-turning exposé, he courageously discloses how trauma shaped his life—nearly from the moment of his birth. Beginning in infancy, he was traumatized by an extraordinarily cold, emotionless alcoholic mother. From early childhood on, he was emotionally abused by an angry, disabled father. Later, in midlife, he was twice traumatized by disabilities... more

Written While I Still Remember: A Patchwork Memoir

by Tom Robson

Tom Robson began to write creatively in his forties after he moved to Nova Scotia. Originally, his work was either with or for his elementary school students, or purely for the satisfaction that results from creating. Though his students were primarily the target audience for much of his fiction, poetry and plays, he also compiled reminiscences of his ancestry, his early life in England and, later, his life after becoming an immigrant in Canada. "Written While I Still Remember" is a history ... more

Developmental and Copyeditor of Other Authors' Books

by Bryna Kranzler

I work as a developmental and copyeditor for other authors, ensuring that their manuscripts are thorough within their subject matter and well-written. I edit both fiction and non-fiction. See my approach to editing under my description as Editor or go to BrynaKranzler.com/Editor.

Fire Diary

by Elizabeth Washington

Lizzy, a charismatic firefighter from the west coast, shares an intimately detailed experience of her time in Taji, Iraq. In her memoir, she reveals the joys and harsh realities of a career in firefighting, interlaced with a passion to seek greater purpose in her own life. New friends are made, and lessons are learned as she journeys through the Middle East, Europe, and home again. Depression, death, trauma, religion, travel, culture, war, peace, rejection, life, and love—as a young and somewhat... more

Fat Fanny

by Kathleen Bliss Dominguez

Fat Fanny is based on a true story about a young woman who finds herself involved with Frank Colacurcio and his cohorts as a Feature Dancer. She performs in Frank’s go-go girl clubs located throughout Seattle, Tacoma and Yakima in Washington State as well as clubs in Texas, Canada and New Jersey during the late 1960s and 1970s. Frank Colacurcio was sometimes referred to as the “godfather” of the Seattle area! The young woman came from an environment where she had been controlled and abused b... more

The Mystery of Granny's Ghost

by Neil WJ Smith

Even the Dead Are Coming

by Mike Robbins

In 1987 Mike Robbins, a 30-year-old London journalist, decided on a change of lifestyle and signed up for two years as an overseas volunteer. Some weeks later he found himself standing with his luggage in the middle of a featureless baked-earth plain in Eastern Sudan. It was over 100 deg F in the shade. And there was no shade. This is Robbins's account of the two years that followed, working with the Sudan Government in the last months of a failed democratic experiment, as the country coped ... more

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