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WORKAHOLICS ADRIFT

by Judy McCandless

This true adventure follows a corporate workaholic who discovers her humanity via extended travel across the Pacific Ocean with her husband in a sailboat. During these years, they are tested - experiencing medical, marital, and cultural clashes in remote areas. "A gripping, roller-coaster ride interspersed with warm human interest stories."

The Third Person in the Room: Stories of Relationships at a Turning Point

by Nolan Kerr Press

Divorce mediator for more than 25 years, author Bea Larsen observed couples in distress as they worked toward the severing of their marriages with civility. Her observations about how people communicate - or don't - brought to mind the relationships in her own life. The brief, insightful essays in this book describe her experiences as the third person in the room of her clients, as well as in the rooms of her own life.

Marrying Korean: And Other Attempts To Impress, Communicate, And Fight My Way Into An Exotic Culture

by Stefano Young

Marrying Korean follows Stefano, an MIT graduate, as he meets the Korean woman who would become his wife and wonders to himself if he could even locate her country on a map. From his first tastes of soju, his first Korean drama addiction, and his first time getting naked with his girlfriend’s father to taekwondo sparring, interviewing at Samsung, and visiting an abalone-farming family on the remote island of Nowha-do, the author chronicles a decade worth of attempts to impress his new Korean fam... more

Mending the Shattered Mirror: A Journey of Recovery from Abusive Therapy

by Analie Shepherd

Two Towers: A Memoir

by TD Arkenberg

Sometimes, life pushes us to the brink. In his poignant memoir, Two Towers, T.D. Arkenberg navigates readers through a personal perfect storm. A resurgence of his father’s long-dormant cancer and chaos at his job in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks serve as the backdrop for a private struggle with a secret hidden for thirty-seven years. The story opens on Christmas Eve, 2001. Alone, he stands in his empty childhood home. Two months earlier, his father succumbed t... more

Trials & Truffles, Expats in Brussels

by TD Arkenberg

Travelogue, Memoir, Love Story

Chicagoans Todd and Jim embarked upon a grand adventure, an open-ended transfer to Brussels. For Jim, the expat posting fulfilled a professional dream. For Todd, a former global airline executive grappling to reinvent himself as a writer, the move from his family home meant more uprooting.

Along with exciting escapades, their new life brought a succession of unexpected trials. The transplanted couple struggled to establish n... more

Losing Richard

by Yvonne deSousa

Losing Richard is a coming of age memoir that destroys the bad boy cliche. With an addicted hero, and an insecure protagonist, this is a tale of a young woman who finds her way while a soulmate loses his. Set in a quirky coastal community, this story shows love can last forever, even without the happy ending we all long for. Sometimes the wrong person says the right thing and it makes all the difference.

Fierce: Essays by and about Dauntless Women

by Karyn Kloumann

What is a catalyst for a memoir, and how can a memoir be more impactful than a simple linear documentation of a life lived? "FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women" deconstructs the boundaries of the average memoir by using the stories of underrepresented women from history as an impetus to examine our lives now against the backdrop of the #MeToo, #TimesUp, #BlackLivesMatter, #NoDAPL movements flourishing in our current cultural conversations. The FIERCE anthology contains personal perspect... more

My Shorts: Brief Scenes From My Early Life

by Brian Kagan

An uproarious collection of true stories featuring a chubby Cheetos-loving Jewish middle child with overactive sweat glands and an abundant imagination. From lusting for a BB gun, accidentally setting the family shed on fire, to his “first time” . . . every one of Brian’s stories will make you giggle and feel the nostalgic joy of the messy, hilarious, and poignant journey we call life. Written with a fresh and honest voice blending humor, Americana culture, and “it’s like I’m right there i... more

Passion, Paradox and Revolution

by John and Mahin Goodall

Three young ladies, Mahin, Taher and Azar visit an Assyrian fortune teller in Tehran. Mahin learns that something will come into her name, that she will meet a man with blond hair and blue eyes and travel the world. At first, the fortune teller refuses to reveal Azar's and Taher's terrifying fortunes but when they insist Azar learns that she will have a serious accident and Taher that she will lose someone very close to her. When sometime later, Azar is pulled from the wreck of her car cove... more

Finding Joe Adams: Overcoming Great Odds A Son Searches For His Father

by Joe Field

Joe longs to know his father, though he's never adopted. He doesn't even know his dad's name. His birth certificate contains a blank line for father. Overcoming tremendous obstacles, including eviction from public housing projects and hitchhiking cross-country to attend school, Joe perseveres to become a lawyer. And then even that is lost in a few years. A Father's Day prayer in 2016 provides the break Joe is looking for and over 1.1 million people will view on national television the emotional ... more

To Hair and Back: My Journey Toward Self-Love One Strand at a Time

by Rhonda Eason

If hair was a woman’s crowning glory, then why did Rhonda Eason have a mass of uncontrollable tumbleweed at best? At worst, it was a source of frustration and self-condemnation. Raised in a family of women born with tresses suitable for romance novel heroines, Rhonda was apathetic toward her kinky coils, and, in turn, herself. To Hair and Back – My Journey Toward Self-Love One Strand at a Time is a debut memoir that details her quest for the perfect head of hair and the discovery of something fa... more

Adesso: Father of Cure

by Gene Adesso

As Genes’ first book Dear First Lady DSR? was more of a technical book filled with knowledge and equations, Genes’ second book Adesso Father of Cure is one part technical and two parts personal. Put together, this book is full of health knowledge, full of Genes’ personal journey with his wife, and full of warmth and love. In this book, Gene shares words and wisdom, pictures and postcards and much more with you. You will have an opportunity to view Gene the author, Gene the educator and Gene t... more

Raised By a Dead Man: A Coming-of-Age Memoir Between Two Shootings

by Brock Heasley

When Dad was shot the first time in an armed robbery, it was cool. I was twelve, they had the best chocolate milk at the hospital, and I had no doubt whatsoever he would live. When Dad left the hospital a few weeks later, it was a surprise to everyone except me. Dad was a superhero. Superheroes always live to fight another day. A year later, the proto-reality show Rescue 911 asked Dad if he’d like to recreate the shooting and have host William Shatner (Dad’s personal hero, Captain Friggin’ Ki... more

The Stemwinder: Stories of a Faithful Care Manager

by Nicole Forston

Consider this: What if you had to decide if an elderly woman should or shouldn’t take a chemo pill, extending or curtailing her remaining years? What if you were faced with filing criminal charges against someone's family member? What if you had to contend with harassment and personal threats to protect another’s mental well-being? Denise M. Valerio takes you on a spin through her care management milieu introducing three extraordinary souls: “The Broken Dish,” “The Proper New Englander,” and “Th... more

Motivational Speaking

by TA McMullin

Gathering Courage: A Life-Changing Journey through Adoption, Adversity, and a Reading Disability by T.A. “Terry” McMullin, is the author's incredible, twelve-time award winning, memoir meant to inspire hope and encouragement. Terry knows, as well as anyone, that hard times are a part of life. During her journey, she was an orphan, an adopted child, and placed into foster care by her parents due to a reading disability. Terry’s faith, hard work, compassion, and her internal desire to over... more

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