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Letters to My Sheep

by Teya Brooks Pribac

Letters to My Sheep is a fast-paced yet intimate journey, in epistolary form, through a woman’s life with her four rescued sheep. The author combines her hands-on experience with sheep and her scholarly expertise to guide the reader as they learn about sheep subjectivity and animals’ intimate and social lives generally. Using language that is accessible to the general public, the Letters cover a broad range of topics, inclusive of, but not limited to, animal emotions, cognition, spirituality, cu... more

The Ocean Inside Me

by R.G. Shore

The Ocean Inside Me is a spiritual memoir about healing racial trauma as a person of color incarcerated in an almost all-white prison. Amidst harsh conditions and blatant racism, R.G. Shore learned to meditate by going into his body, befriending his shadow, and learning to sit with the traumas held by his younger self. In The Ocean Inside Me, R.G. Shore learned to love and accept the cause of his deepest pain, his brown body. His prison radio became the conduit by which he transcended the l... more

Embracing the Shadows: Navigating a Family's Mental Illness

by Marlene Dunham

Embracing The Shadows is a non-fiction narrative about three different types of mental illness in my family of origin. I asked the question, “Why not me?” along with searching for answers on how these illnesses were related. I tell of my father’s Manic Depression that went unmedicated until Lithium was FDA-approved in 1967. Secondly, I talk about my brother’s life - being institutionalized at the age of 3 ½ and spending 15 years at Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. My third f... more

Location X: A Quest for Place

by Eva Rome

A septuagenarian who still craves risk and adventure ditches her home and hits the road in search of Location X, rejecting her comfortable, semiretired life to quest for meaning beyond the mainstream. On a pirate’s map, X marks the spot where treasure is buried, and finding X was the focus of her process: pinpointing that singular location that said, this is where the next phase of my life will unfold. From the armchair globetrotter to the boomer looking for a soft landing in paradise, readers w... more

Looking Back Without Anger

by Susanna Elliott-Newth

In this astonishing memoir, Susanna Elliot-Newth relives an unimaginable childhood, often stranger than fiction. Trapped in an acutely abusive family home under the watch of a mentally disordered mother and docile father, Susanna’s existence is one of sheer survival. From a very tender age, Susanna is exposed to domestic slavery that includes shovelling snow and handwashing the family’s laundry with insults for reward. Bent on destroying her daughter’s sense of self-worth, Susanna recalls her mo... more

Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Life Lessons for Everyday Warriors (e.g., the rest of us)

by Kara L. Stewart

Horsemanship and the Japanese martial art of Aikido may seem as far apart as two things could be, both physically and philosophically. But through the author’s chance meeting (coincidence? maybe…) of renowned horseman Mark Rashid in the mid 1990s, the commonalities of the two paths became clear and then converged. As a most unlikely student began to learn the Art of Peace, the journey took twists and turns. In time, it led to discovering the power of Practice as Aikido became a lifeline throu... more

Denounce

by Silvana Marcorni

This is the English from Spainish translation project completed by the students of Augusta University and Uruguayan author Silvana Marcorni. It tells the story of her journey to freedom from domestic violence. This translation is the second one for this project. It is currently in the works as a documentary from an award winning short film.

Cast Your Footsteps

by Martha Voorhees

In the intricate tapestry of our family's history, a resilient thread weaves across generations—a thread forged by the indomitable spirit of a woman born in the waning days of the late 19th century. Today, I stand humbled and honored, tasked with transforming my grandmother's remarkable typewritten chronicle into the living, breathing manuscript that now rests in your hands. With a heart brimming with emotion, I extend to you a heartfelt invitation to embark on a journey—a poignant odyssey throu... more

Heroic Choices: Break Through Fear, Realize Your Dreams and Transform Your Life

by Paula Kent

Do you ever find yourself wishing for a magic wand that you could wave to transform your life? Do you yearn for personal growth, but find your demons always keep you from taking the first step? Personal change is possible for anyone who dares to embark on the journey toward their dreams. Join author Paula Kent as she guides you on your journey toward self-transformation. Inspired by her own personal growth after taking on a dramatic, mid-life career change, Kent draws on an eclectic variety o... more

From Budapest to Hollywood: Searching for the Promised Land

by Katherine MK Mitchell

An ordinary little girl is born into an extraordinarily violent world. What are her chances? She is tossed around by life. What kind of a life awaits her? Will she get lost without guidance, will she be a bad girl, will she be abused, will she be a user of others – or, can she find her way and willpower to fight for becoming who she wanted to become. Katherine survives World War II, loses her father, reunites with her mother post-concentration camp, joins an underground orphaned children’s r... more

The Girl with Three Birthdays: An Adopted Daughter's Memoir of Tiaras, Tough Truths, and Tall Tales

by Patti Eddington

Patti always knew she was adopted, but when a genealogy test leads Patti to her biological family years later, she embarks on an eye-opening journey to piece together her past.

A Love for the Lifetimes

by Michael Boyajian

Soon after my wife Jeri Wagner passed away over the rainbow bridge to the other world my therapist told me to write love letters to Jeri in heaven and I did pouring out my heart to my gift from the universe that was taken too soon writing on crisp aromatic parchment paper with a fine fountain pen. Then later my friends and family urged me to write again, and I said no I couldn’t everything I did was for Jeri but then her presence appeared to me and said you can write again, write about ... more

Promise - A Story of Race, Culture and Black Potential

by Ron Tinsley

Spanning the time from emancipation to present-day, Promise explores issues of race in America and how we arrived at this moment in our racial quandary. Told through the author’s eyes, it follows the time from his introduction to racism as a child during the Jim Crow era—to being owner of two international corporations. While managing to teach some important lessons, Promise also includes exciting adventures; as in opening for, and performing with, such artists as Stevie Wonder, the Fo... more

Gutter Glitter

by Kirsten Moore

Did you know that guinea pigs are so sensitive that the slightest change in environment can shock them to death? That’s me. I am the guinea pig. *** Kirsten Moore’s debut memoir 'Gutter Glitter' follows Kirsty as she navigates debilitating childhood anxiety and anorexia, followed by life-altering spinal surgery and subsequent opioid abuse. Her history with mental illness is compounded when she experiences three significant losses within six months. Kirsty uses her sardonic wit and self-... more

Descent into Darkness

by Dr Richard Chessick

The purpose of this book is to acquaint educated interested persons with, as well as to help students and professionals in the mental health field learn about the psychodynamics of mental illness. To facilitate learning about the issues involved and in order to make this information more convincing, more intelligible, and hopefully more interesting for the reader, I have cast it in the unusual form of what I call a didactic novel. To my knowledge this has not been tried before. Here the lectures... more

The Sketchbook of Jeri Wagner, Artist: Deluxe Reissue

by Michael Boyajian

A deluxe reissue of the sketchbook and notes of noted New York feminist artist Jeri Wagner produced in premium color and on high quality paper stock renowned for her work in wood construction, collage, ceramics, photography and fiber art exhibiting in Chelsea, SoHo, the Village, the Hudson Valley and Europe.

The Reviews are coming in for THE SKETCHBOOK OF JERI WAGNER, Artist Deluxe Reissue by Michael Boyajian.

“A beautiful book,” - Sal J Calise, editor.

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