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Nostalgia from: A City Set Upon a Hill

by Garfield Whyte

This boarding school story transcends autobiography. Perched 2,560 feet on the peak of the Santa Cruz Mountains in one of the remotest sections of Jamaica is the oldest all-boys boarding high school in the Caribbean; Munro College, with a commanding and enviable view of the horizon, the Caribbean Sea, and a magnificent sunset, where it is quite possible that Leonardo da Vinci would have abandoned painting the Mona Lisa midstream if ever he was distracted by the view from this city. Established... more

A Good Way Through: My Journey with God from Disappointment into Hope

by Kristen Leigh Kludt

SOMETIMES LIFE DISAPPOINTS… WHAT THEN? Maybe you’re discontented. Despairing. Or maybe you got what you always dreamed of… but it isn’t what you hoped. In A Good Way Through, Kristen bares her disappointment and disillusion. She writes with deep honesty of her struggle, but also of the ways she was beloved, borne, and blessed by God—right in the middle of the journey. This is a story of faith and quiet healing, offering hope to the rest of us for finding the truth: When we open ourselves ... more

The Granny Chronicles: Learning to Speak Leopard

by Kareena Maxwell

A peek into one woman’s journey with her mother as dementia slowly takes their language to a foreign place of learning to understand the changing brain.

Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist's Tales

by Charles McCormack

Climb aboard Charlie’s magical couch and enjoy the psychoanalytical ride of your life. Lay back and get into his mind; meet his wives, lovers, friends, co-workers, demons, children, and peers; share his accomplishments and failures; hopes and fears: a story of pain, joy, suffering, and self-discovery that illuminates the human condition and unfolds with a clarity few can match.

A memoir, Hatching Charlie follows an author born into an abusive military family who grows up as a nail... more

Two Meat Tuesday

by Kramer Wetzel

"Blook" Blog to book, from a culturally rich time, essays on creativity, bass fishing, and Shakespeare -- set in old Austin, TX.

Phoebe's Oakland

by Anitya Press Books

In this regional tale about Oakland, California, Phoebe - a Pugchi mix - has a dream that takes readers on a colorful journey to some of her favorite places in this historic city.

Mud Between Your Toes: A Rhodesian Farm

by Peter Wood

Mud Between Your Toes is a memoir about a white, gay, boy growing up during the 1960s/1970s Rhodesian Bush War. Written with passion and wit, it is a tale of independence, loss and identity.

Peter Wood is an African. He is white, but he also holds a Chinese passport. And he is also gay.

Growing up during the 1970s on his family's farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Peter was swiftly introduced to a harsh world in which friends and relatives were murdered in ambushes—and the... more

Lifting a Foot Forward: A Lesson in Balance

by Greg Morton

n 1983, at the age of ten, I was appearing opposite Hollywood icon Kate Jackson on the hit television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Four years later I was like every other teenager trying to find his way in the world. I spent the next twenty years searching for a direction. On January 18th, 2008 I lost my job. On January 19th, 2008 I had to be rescued from the side of a mountain. This is my lesson in balance.

Buddha and a Boat (Anchors in an Open Sea) (Volume 2)

by Dyana Wells

Buddha and a Boat is the second autobiographical novel in the Anchors in An Open Sea trilogy by Dyana Wells. Alice and family return to their sailing, cycling and back-packing adventures through Vanuatu, New Caledonia and back to New Zealand. This time there are life-defining intersections to be navigated. The physical joys and triumphs of her journey, and the inner spiritual explorations that are a key part of meaning for Alice, become entangled in the stormy outbreaks of her romance. Whe... more

The Yoga of Sailing (Anchors in an Open Sea) (Volume 1)

by Dyana Wells

The Yoga of Sailing details the true life adventures, and thrills and spills of Alice, her daughter and father as they meet challenges on a small yacht in a large ocean. Fiji becomes the backdrop for family adventure and melt downs. When a new man sweeps her off her feet, it leads to romance, passion and heroic confusion. And all the while Alice keeps juggling the spiritual and the physical. The natural world was Alice’s retreat – now who or what is supporting her? Join an intrepid journey tha... more

Little Lost Girl: The Complete Series

by Angelique Anderson

From the time she was very young until she became an adult, Star's whole life was always about finding her family and a home to call her own. As far back as she could remember, she had been sent away to live with people she didn't know. She was passed back and forth between family, strangers, and foster care. Growing up, Star endured many types of abuse and loss—painful experiences that sent her spiralling into all the wrong things. This short-story series of a girl who started out lost but even... more

Getting Naked for Money: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All

by Edie Jarolim

A Brooklyn-born poetry PhD moves west and finds her mojo. Approaching middle age, Edie Jarolim takes a brave step, something many people just fantasize about: She quits her job in travel publishing, leaves her hometown of New York City, and moves to Tucson, Arizona, to become a writer. This book, which tells tales from both sides of the travel editor's desk, proves it was a smart move. Her wickedly funny prose spares no one she encounters, least of all herself. Getting Naked for Money: ... more

978 15374 15048

by Edie Jarolim

SOUL EXPLOSION

by DR. RICK SCARNATI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:\tJames Branscum, Marketing Representative \tTate Publishing and Enterprises \tPhone: (888) 361-9473 \tE-Mail: james@tatepublishing.com Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Columbus physician shares inspiring story in new book COLUMBUS, Ohio – In his new book, “Soul Explosion,” Columbus physician Dr. Rick Scarnati shares how he accomplished the impossible by giving his life to Jesus and being “supercharged” by the Holy Spirit. Dr. Scarnati describes how, throug... more

In the Belly of the Dragon

by John-James Farquharson

The People?s Republic of China have hired several hundred so-called foreign experts and assigned them to specific state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to help transform these into modern world-class companies. As far as I know, I was the first and only foreigner heading up the human resources in such an enterprise. The purpose of this short book is to provide a snapshot of what really happens inside: how the party functions in the company; how people issues are addressed, including industrial and soci... more

Pittsburgh to Cadiz - What's the Difference (Part Book 1)

by Mitchell McCrady

The first book of a series, the adventure begins near Pittsburgh, PA. Buying one-way tickets to Europe, two friends are contracted to harvest Christmas trees in the Highlands of Scotland. Battling with each other, the weather and their penchant for drugs and alcohol, the protagonist is searching for the difference in life and the real meaning of art. He has a guitar, a camera, and a snowboard... Nothing out of the ordinary. Everyone does this right?

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