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Look Left, Walk Green: A Shocking Tale of Losing the Past and Choosing to Gain the Future.

by K. Rose Quayle

ECT, commonly known as ‘shock therapy,’ has been used to successfully treat various illnesses since the late 1930s and is still in use around the world today. Famous for causing memory loss to some degree, ECT suffers a good deal of misconception about how it works and what it does and doesn’t do. In this memoir about the ins and outs of this controversial treatment, K. Rose Quayle chronicles the pitfalls and triumphs of losing the past and choosing to gain the future. Perfect for those who’ve g... more

Tell 'em About it!

by Jerry Gold

The only book on public speaking you'll ever need! from a Distinguished speaker who has spoken to gatherings for over 40 years.

Awakening on Purpose

by Stephanie Dawn Hrehirchuk

What happens after a spiritual awakening? A burning desire to know your life's purpose. Awakening on Purpose is the follow up book to An accidental Awakening. After her year-long journey through yoga, Stephanie seeks to answer the question of her life purpose. She had no idea just how far this question would take her.

Steering Through It: Navigating Life Threatening Illness: Acceptance, Survival and Healing

by Lynn McLaughlin

A life threatening illness crushes the world around you, and around those you love. How do we all cope with the diagnosis physically, emotionally an d spiritually? How do we move on? What are the most helpful ways to support others in crisis? In the end, what does it all mean? The author shares her most personal thoughts, fears and triumphs over the most challenging year of her life. The voices of friends and family members right true and move the reader to a powerfully emotional and honest refl... more

The 50-Year Secret

by Julie MacNeil

Julie Mac Neil is 6’4”, and although she is neither a WNBA athlete nor a famous model, she has a remarkable story to tell. As an adopted child, she always wondered about the parents who gave her up. After overcoming a challenging childhood and surviving two tumultuous marriages, a chance DNA test revealed an incredibly rare and life-threatening liver-lung disease. Julie then embarked on a difficult journey to find her birth family. Her goal was to warn them about the disease, which is highly gen... more

Views from the Cockpit

by Ross Victory

Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son is a memoir born from pain. Page by page, year by year, tender father-son memories of airplane watching transform into nightmarish, turbulent family drama. Upon the discovery that his father had been the victim of elder abuse as his health was rapidly deteriorating, the author finds himself reevaluating the decisions his father made throughout his life. With an unshakable, shocking ending, the authors’ probing dissection of a man he thought ... more

SAME RED DIRT

by Pat Conrad

A story of a young man’s adventure when he quit a good job in the U.S. to escape to Australia looking for greener grasses. With refreshing honesty and keen wit, Pat recounts working at the infamous Callan Park Mental Hospital working with the criminally insane and his hair-raising experiences riding a motorcycle across the red dirt roads of Australia’s Outback. In this “R-rated Christian memoir,” Pat shares how bad choices and his desire to fill a hole in his heart led to a major change in his l... more

Un-Adoptable?: Faith Beyond Foster Care

by Janelle Molony

The adoption agency made a mistake. A mother welcomed in a child who brought fear and destruction into the home. She wrestles with God, doctors, and social workers over what to do next. Quick-thinking, leaps of faith, and some dark humor challenges readers to ask themselves: Do I have what it takes to raise a child with a harrowing past… or an uncertain future? The non-fiction, Un-Adoptable? Faith Beyond Foster Care, reveals deeply personal psychological and spiritual questions that arise when... more

A China Story: Growing up in Mao's Cultural Revolution

by Ying Qian

On a summer day in 2010, when Ying Qian returns to Beijing from America to visit her family, she receives information on how her father, a Chinese nuclear weapons expert, was killed during the Cultural Revolution 40 years before. The event forces her to walk down memory lane to the darkest period of recent Chinese history and compels her to search for information surrounding her father’s death. Through the process, she discovers truths that have been there all along.

F*ck Them All Big and Small

by Christina Wee Wee Porcelli

The funny, sad, bizarre, all-true story of Christina "Wee Wee" Porcelli. A story about falling but always finding the strength to pull yourself up and put on your lipstick. An empty bank account, a broken heart, and a failed career didn't stop this dreamer from Brooklyn, New York. She came from nothing but always found a way to keep believing she could have it all. Her outrageous journey landed her butt ass naked on national TV, finding her one true love, and winning one million dollars; all wit... more

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by Honey Kasper

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More: Journey To Mystical Union Through The Sacred And The Profane

by mariah mckenzie

Have you ever wanted More? Not more stuff or success, but more intimacy and awe. When Mariah finds her husband and best friend in bed together, she is launched on a forbidding and transcendent journey. Reeling from a life turned upside down, Mariah and her husband, Jake, don’t separate, but resolve to search together for a deeper connection—for more. They dive into a yearlong course in love and ecstasy training and begin to meditate together. During training sessions, Mariah experiences ... more

Through Dust and Dreams: The Story of an African Adventure

by Roxana Valea

At a crossroads in her life, Roxana decides to take a ten-day safari trip to Africa. In Namibia, she meets a local guide who talks about “the courage to become who you are” and tells her that “the world belongs to those who dream”. Her holiday over, Roxana still carries the spell of his words within her soul. Six months later she quits her job and searches for a way to fulfil an old dream: crossing Africa from north to south. Teaming up with Richard and Peter, two total strangers she meets ov... more

The Bipolar Addict

by Conor Bezane

We are punks. We are poets. Musicians and artists. Professionals and intellectuals. We are drunk. High. Manic. Depressed. We almost died. And now… we are stable and sober. The Bipolar Addict: Drinks, Drugs, Delirium & Why Sober Is the New Cool provides an insider’s look into the world of those suffering from manic depression plus addiction. These true stories of survival, including the author’s own, offer insight into the oft-maligned world of mental illness, as well as a frequently overlooke... more

Michael Lenson: A Portrait

by Barry Lenson

A portrait of the American artist Michael Lenson (1903-1971) by his son Barry Lenson.

Inktown

by Robert Turley

INKTOWN is a memoir of the only white family in an illustrious but oft-maligned community. This story is a generational journey to redemption. After his fugitive mom shot a man and his brother committed murder, my father sought atonement. He became a preacher and moved to the place that remains our home, Inkster, Michigan (nicknamed "Inktown" by its residents). When a neighborhood mom pointed a gun my way, I was only ten and could not have imagined the events that would follow. This... more

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