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  • Mickey: The Giveaway Boy

    by Lisa Kastner
    By the age of 25, Mickey’s mother had born five sons. By the age of 30, she’d gotten rid of them all. For nine-year-old Mickey, the early fifties were not the Ozzie and Harriet fantasy of love and security. Instead, they were years of abandonment, unimaginable cruelty, and virtual slavery. This memoir reveals Mickey’s devastating experiences of being handed off from one abusive person to another ... all in the name of survival.

  • Frontal Matter: Glue Gone Wild

    by Lisa Kastner
    A fun, funny, and heartbreakingly real memoir of a woman's fight against terminal brain The writing is honest, charming, and full of cuss words.. Suzanne Samples teaches English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She was diagnosed with a frontal lobe glioblastoma multiforme at 36. She loves roller derby and lives on the side of a mountain with her pets Gatsby, Prufrock, and Duffles.

  • Bowing to Elephants

    by Mag Dimond
    BOWING TO ELEPHANTS, Tales of a Travel Junkie is a travel memoir... with a twist. An unloved rich girl from San Francisco becomes a travel junkie to escape a dysfunctional family and a narcissistic, alcoholic mother. Thanks to a journey of healing and self-discovery, the author navigates depression, loneliness, and loss while learning how to break down the false barriers that separate people. Music, art, and food influence our hero as she finds her way to far-flung parts of the world. By... more

  • Bowing to Elephants

    by Mag Dimond
    BOWING TO ELEPHANTS, Tales of a Travel Junkie is a travel memoir... with a twist. An unloved rich girl from San Francisco becomes a travel junkie to escape a dysfunctional family and a narcissistic, alcoholic mother. Thanks to a journey of healing and self-discovery, the author navigates depression, loneliness, and loss while learning how to break down the false barriers that separate people. Music, art, and food influence our hero as she finds her way to far-flung parts of the world. By... more
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    Regression

    by Twilah Hiari
    Follow the journey of Twilah Hiari, an autistic woman who reached out in desperation to the medical establishment for help. Twilah reveals the devastating consequences she suffered when therapists and physicians failed to acknowledge her childhood trauma, autistic behaviors, and immunological dysfunction years before autism became a commonplace diagnosis, and decades before the medical conditions she lives with entered the medical literature. In the process Twilah discovered the system was sicke... more

  • Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the '60s

    by Ilene English
    Hippie Chick is about a rebellious teenager who finds her mother dead in the bathroom. Living alone with a difficult father, her sister sends her a one-way plane ticket to leave New Jersey. \tLanding in San Francisco, she is thrust into a lifestyle way beyond what she is ready for, and that challenges all previous notions of how one behaves. It is 1963, and we are brought along as she becomes completely immersed in the unfolding of the Sixties during the earliest days of sexual freedom, psych... more

  • My Life: Journey to the Alter

    by Sasha
    Sasha move to the state to live with her father and to start a new life. She hopes things will be different than when she was with her mother in Ghana.

  • Ninety Days to Live: Beating Cancer When Modern Medicine Offers No Hope

    by Rodney Stamps
    When an out-of-the-blue cancer diagnosis quickly turned into a 90-days-to-live death sentence from his doctor, Rodney Stamps and his wife Paige defied the medical establishment, and drew their line in the sand. With both a growing family and business--and given that their doctors promised only to briefly extend his life with chemotherapy--the Stamps gave a resounding "No" to chemo and radiation. 90 Days to Live recounts the Stamps' incredible and inspirational journey to find an alternative an... more
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    Beyond Your Mistakes: A Story of Triumph through Life's Challenges and Uncertainties

    by Sandra Mills
    A young girl’s turbulent journey through life, full of death, drugs and almost prison. Her rebellion against God causes her ultimate downfall until she eventually finds her way back to his redemptive love!

  • Living for a Higher Purpose

    by Reverend Peter G. Vu

    “Living for a Higher Purpose” is an enthralling story that will keep readers interested at every turn of the page as it gives a unique perspective of the Viet Nam War from an eye-witness and survivor. Viet, the central character, has experienced firsthand the after-effects of war in his “broken homeland” under the Communist regime and struggles with “hunger, thirst, heat, sickness, waves, violent storms, sharks, Communists, pirates, ideas of cannibalism, and deat... more

  • From Healing to Hell

    by W. H. Wall, Jr.
    From Healing to Hell tells the tragic story of the fall of a good and decent man and goes further to reveal the shocking details of how he was done a cruel injustice at the hands of a covert CIA government experiment with the drug LSD. The book tells the story of illegal activity by officials in power who operated under the guise of protecting the country.

  • Monumental Moments

    by Joe R. Eagleman
    In every person's life the many ordinary days are interrupted by an occasional monumental moment that is never forgotten. This book is about all the significant and monumental moments that have shaped my life. These include "flying" out a 9 Ft window at eight years old, being taught in a one room grade school house, being the 11th of 12 children on a farm, wrecking a tractor at high speed when 10 years old, becoming a research scientist who made tornadoes, having research on Skylab, starting ... more

  • Percepción Distorsionada de la Inocencia

    by AXEL DESARDEN
    En este confesional narrativo de no ficción, Axel Desarden, un sobreviviente de siete balas, nacido en el Bronx, detalla sus luchas desde la inocencia de las libertades infantiles. A través de una falsedad distorsionada, envuelta en confusión y contradicción. Aunque emocionalmente atrofiado y subdesarrollado, su búsqueda de lo que una vez fue, nunca se aprovechó. Este libro estirará tus medidas emocionales. Así que fíjate

  • Distorted Perception of Innocence

    by AXEL DESARDEN
    There are hundreds of stories about enduring hardships and triumphs in the inner city. I have spent more than twenty years in silence identifying my patterns and behaviors in hopes of forebearing my true nature. In this nonfiction narrative confessional - Axel Desarden a seven time gunshot survivor Bronx born Puerto Rican details his struggles from the innocence of childhood freedoms, through a distorted figment, engulfed in confusion and contradiction. My thirst for identity formation grew beyo... more

  • Mama Didn't Raise This Woman

    by Njeri B. Maldonado
    I’m waiting outside in the car with my brother for my mom to come outside of the old, big, white house. She said she’d only be in there a few minutes but it’s been hours. We were not sure what we should do since I really had to pee. My brother offered to take me inside after what seemed liked hours of waiting. Mama told us not to leave the car but we had to go in. Inside, we found the bathroom just feet away from the entryway. As I slung the door open, I came face to face with a man who was s... more

  • Seasons of Insanity: Two Sisters' Struggle with Their Eldest Sibling's Mental Illness

    by Julie Hanes and Elaine Taylor
    A true story of two sisters who struggle with the mental illness of their eldest sister, Jane. Jane is sometimes sane but mostly suffers from her insanity. From early childhood to the present time 70 years later, the two sisters try to understand and cope with Jane's strange personality and socially unacceptable behavior. The back cover review mentions that fans of "A Beautiful Mind", "The Quiet Room" and "The Glass Castle" would be attracted to this book.

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