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  • Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope (10th Anniversary Edition)

    by Amanda LaPera

    No drugs. No alcohol. So, how does a fifty-three-year-old develop schizophrenia? That question puzzles Joseph’s family when his mind descends into madness, filled with delusions and paranoia. He roams the world as a self-proclaimed prophet-of-God—purportedly arrested in Israel, advised the Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. When he returns to the United States, he faces down drug dealers and prostitutes while homeless, then disappears.

    His ... more

  • Me and The Times: My wild ride from elevator operator to New York Times editor, columnist, and change agent (1967-97)

    by Robert W. Stock
    On one level, an intimate, warts-and-all account of the making of The New York Times Sunday package in its pre-Internet heyday, told from the vantage point of an editor, writer, columnist and change agent. On another level, the personal odyssey of a suddenly married Yale freshman with a baby on the way with no job and no prospects. From hia early days as a World War II air raid bicycle messenger…to hia seat at the captain’s table of the S.S. France…to his belated sowing of wild oats at age 45... more
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    by Julian W. King, author; Terri Doepker

    The author's spent most of his childhood living in poverty. His alcoholic mother was divorced and remarried four times, often to other alcoholics. After moving more than twenty times and attending thirteen schools he escaped his tumultuous childhood when he married at the age of nineteen. Life held more and bigger challenges for him. Children came rapidly. At the age of 25 and with only a high school education and no special training, he was supporting five children on a modest salary as ... more

  • Tracking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

    by Jean Goulden
    Sweat with Jean and her partner Chris as they explore Spain's 500 mile Camino route to Santiago de Compostela, walking in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims. See the sights, meet the fellow travelers and savor the food, all the while enjoying Jean's insightful and humorous account.
  • Time Served

    by T. L. Cromwell
    HOW TO SURVIVE IN ONE OF THE TOUGHEST AND MOST DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS IN AMERICA! If you have ever wondered what happens in prison, then Time Served is for you. It's an in-depth memoir from a correctional officer's perspective. The incarcerated population have written many books, but only a few have been written by prison staff. Meet T. L. Cromwell, an African American woman, who shares her truth about 21+ years of time served in prison. She shares her experience walking the "Toughest Beat in... more
  • Running Away From Cancer

    by Greg Schnoor
    My name is Greg Schnoor and I wanted to share my book I just released, "Running Away From Cancer." My book is an inspirational journey of me being a non-runner who turned to running after being diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I was never a runner before but over 12 years ago, my life took a drastic turn with a brain cancer diagnosis. A year later, I began running, transforming from struggling to reach the mailbox to now completing 96 marathons, including 9 100-mile ultramarathons, in... more
  • Century's Witness, the Extraordinary Life Of Journalist Wallace Carroll

    by Mary Llewellyn McNeil
    Biography of journalist Wallace Carroll, one of the most influential journalists of the 20t Century. Carroll covered the League of Nations and World War II as. UP correspondent before becoming news editor of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times and finally editor and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal. Donald Graham has called the book "essential reading for anyone interested in daily newspapers, and Jon Sawyer, head of the Pulitzer Center, "the best roadmap I know if we aim to re... more
  • The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga

    by Joelle Tamraz

    The Secret Practice is the shocking true story of Joelle Tamraz's 18-year ordeal under the control of a master manipulator. For fans of Netflix’s Bikram, Tara Westover’s Educated, and Megan Phelps-Roper’s Unfollow. 

    'An intense and suspenseful memoir' —Kirkus Reviews

    'Such an important story...a captivating and hopeful story of growth and self-awareness.' —Jean Brown of SEEK Safely and a... more

  • Sometimes Cruel: Short Stories

    by Demetrius Koubourlis PhD
    Does war excuse domestic violence? Does it encourage it?  If people are cruel to each other in a war society, are they more prone to abuse their children? Some stories occur in World War II Greece and involve family and non-family violence in an environment where the author witnessed Jews hauled like cattle. The author presents vivid accounts of his childhood and ponders the role of war and culture in our lives. He offers insightful ways to cope with our feelings toward one's parents that may he... more
  • Kansas GenExistential: Essays from the Heartland

    by Amber Fraley
    With her trademark biting wit, Fraley describes the foibles and follies of growing up a kid in the turbulent and strange decade of the 1980s, odd characters she encountered in the 1990s, and how GenXers are now handling midlife differently than their parents. She also talks frankly about her late entry into the reproductive justice movement and what menopause is really like with equal parts humor and compassion. From the long, strange trip of the Reagan years to the Trump years, and the particul... more
  • Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich

    by Elisabeth haggblade
    Synopsis \tMy book is a first-person account of the postwar years in Munich, Germany, with the war being an ever-present inescapable shadow leaving its physical and psychological marks on me and on those I met and with whom I interacted. \tWhat was it like to be orphaned at birth in the winter of 1942 in Munich, to spend the next eleven years as a foster child in the family of a former SS-officer? What was it like, after the death of my foster mother, to live for seven years in a home for chi... more
  • Little Boy Lost

    by David Peters
    A memoir about a boy's journey after the suicide of his mother.
  • Flat Please Hold the Shame

    by Ellyn Winters
    One in eight women will be affected by breast cancer in their lifetime. FLAT PLEASE is one woman’s story. After the initial shock of hearing that you have breast cancer, women find themselves navigating the foreign waters of medical diagnostics, surgery and treatment. As a fellow traveller on this road, Ellyn Winters quickly realized that with knowledge comes power, and that power gives women the semblance of control in what is, quite honestly an uncontrollable situation. She began to un... more
  • Running with Grace

    by Lori Van Dusen

    “Having had the privilege of witnessing this journey from ideation to release, the resounding theme has been Lori's courage.” —Ian J. Wilson, MD, philanthropist and founder WALLTHERAPY

     

    Nothing about Lori Van Dusen’s childhood indicated she’d become one of the nation’s top independent financial advisors. She was born prematurely on the wrong side of the tracks and with a genetic blood disorder. Her parents div... more

  • No Crying in the Operating Room: My Life as an International Relief Doctor, from Haiti, to South Sudan, to the Syrian Civil War

    by Cecily Wang, M.D.
    Cecily Wang wanted to become a doctor to help people in the most fundamental ways possible, only to become disillusioned with the profession during medical school and residency. It wasn’t until she went on an international relief mission to Haiti in 2006 that she found herself practicing medicine as she had originally envisioned. She was able to help a sick person in great need, unencumbered by red tape and regulations. The patient’s health was all that mattered. Cecily has continued to do inter... more
  • Stories That Move

    by Bill Berry

    "Stories That Move” is a collection of compelling, raw tales that document the author’s journey through childhood bullying, harsh family dynamics, near death experiences, and heart pumping adventure. From the first page to the last, you’ll be drawn into the human experience at a depth few authors are able to traverse. And in so doing, you'll discover things about yourself.

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