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At age thirty, Maya Golden was living a charmed life. She was an award-winning sports reporter, a loyal wife, and a new mom. Privately, she was battling addiction, perfectionism, dissociation disorders, and rage due to sexual abuse endured at the hands of her cousin and many other predators.But Maya wants to change. So, on a family road trip back to her Texas hometown, she is ready to put an end to the secrets that threaten her marriage and her career....
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DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST LOVE?
Do you remember your first heart break? This Memoir book is about a young woman who fell in love at the age of fifteen. She never expected to go through all of the pain, hurt and abuse that she encountered over the years. She had to grow up at an early age and thought that everything she went through in her seventeen year relationship was normal and ok. She had to learn the hard way and she had to make many...
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Lying Down with Dogs is a series of interrelated essays about the years Caradine spent starting and running Other Mothers Animal Rescue. As in any worthwhile endeavor, life has a way of intervening and she includes some of those non-animal adventures in her tale as it is all a part of the larger Other Mothers saga. From rescuing kittens under a house to finding a farm sanctuary that would take in a pig, from birthing puppies to cats in the freezer,...
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Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, offers here the final volume of her "mini-memoirs," daily musings taken from the popular Facebook author page she posted on from 2012 through 2020. Her unique take on life continues this four-volume legacy: Clear as Mud (parts 1 & 2), Clearly Me, and now the concluding book, Crystal Clear. If you're the kind of person who would...
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Calin Wheeler was an ordinary kind of guy living an ordinary life until he ventured high up into the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. It was there that he was woken up by a Voice and a light that connected him to God.
What he thought he knew about himself, and life was so far removed from the reality of what it is. And that the change that took place was so profound that it when he came down the mountains noy only did he leave the old version of himself...
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Shortlisted, Adelaide Festival Literary Awards.
The sourcebook for the film Hemingway in Spain, this hybrid work melds several Hemingway "voices", the author, the "Hemingway Hero", and the author projecting the Hemingway consciousness and aesthetic on a contemporary Spanish landscape.
"The poems stitch you into a tapestry...with loose threads left hanging just to trip you up if you become complacent." Bev Braune, Australian Book Review.
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A dream of a better life – and a reality that shatters the illusion.We spend Christmas Day at Hurtle's house. It is not where I want to be. Children's voices fill the air in play, but I brace myself for the inevitable scream of frustration from one little girl. It is an emotion I can relate to, but for me, screaming is against the rules.Mollie Veale 1949July 1946 – A letter from Australia dangles a carrot: Former soldier Eric Veale determines...
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Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth-but without sentimentality-Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda began to catch glimpses of the world outside her narrow mountain community through the stories in True...
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Ron Pearson was born in Bramley, Leeds on August 12, 1924. He began writing this book on August 12, 2021, his 97th birthday. After a childhood beset by illness, he left school at 14, and took a job packing parcels in a multiple tailoring factory, not for him. He moved on to packing parcels general muggins at an advertising agency at 50 pence a week, which he loved. His career in advertising was interrupted by a four-and-a-half-year spell in the army...
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In this insightful and multifaceted book, the author recounts his two-year battle against one of the most pervasive modern-day ailments – depression. He likens his struggle with depression to a lingering, oppressive darkness that clouded his mind, challenging his will to live and his belief in the human capacity for resilience.
Throughout the book, the author invites readers to explore the self-healing potential that lies within all of us, a power...
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Claire and Jim were friends, lovers, and sometimes enemies for 27 years. In order to get health insurance, they finally married, calling their anniversary the "It Means Absolutely Nothing" day. Then Jim was diagnosed with cancer. With ever-decreasing odds of survival, punctuated by arcs of false hope, Jim's deteriorating health altered their well-established independence as they became caregiver and patient, sharing intimacy as close as their own...
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Anita Helm's story is a beacon of hope for those navigating adversity or questioning their path. "A Leap of Faith" proves that mistakes don't have to define you. Questionable decisions and consequences are merely steps towards your intended destination. Peek into the restoration of a survivor, find inspiration and strength, and develop the resilience to make educated choices. These stories share Anita's vulnerabilities when making big decisions throughout...
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"Looking back at my battle with insecurity about my identity, worth, and uniqueness, I have come to see that I was listening to lies from the Enemy." In Unique Anna shares her deeply personal experience with insecurity, inadequacy, and guilt in her first years as a mother and how that affected her marriage, motherhood, and relationship with God. With great vulnerability, she discloses the roots of her struggles and shares her journey to purpose, joy,...
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Having served over thirty years in fire departments across three states, Gary R. Ryman brings a unique perspective to the firefighting experience. The son and father of firefighters, Ryman ignites the fire, smoke, blood and fear spanning three generations of the "family business." He recounts his early days in upstate New York learning from his father, the department fire chief. He describes the blazes he battled with a career and volunteer crew in...
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Follow the journey of a Khmer woman who, as a young girl, faced unending obstacles in order to survive. She saved her family from almost certain death as they escaped the Khmer Rouge regime and traveled to the Thailand border. She managed to keep her family together as a unit until they were able to seek refuge in the Philippines out of harm’s way. Eight months later, she led her family to the States where they settled in Chelsea, Massachusetts....
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The Tale of a Tale is a companion to The Tale of a Hip (published 2018). It expands on the theme of taking up ballroom dancing seriously in middle age, and the problem of misaligned bones, a limiting factor in many aspects of Pamela's life, leading ultimately to hip replacement. Despite difficulties, she and John go on to take professional exams in both ballroom and Latin American dancing, and teach for more than twenty years, offering the joy, companionship,...
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Linda Mary Wagner's compelling new memoir, "Rear-View Reflections," invites you on a remarkable journey through 50 years of pivotal social movements that have left an indelible mark on our world. This collection of essays, nonfiction stories, and poems, crafted between 1972 and 2022, delivers a powerful call for unity, urging us to prioritize climate action for the sake of today's children and the generations to come.
Intriguing and diverse, this...
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About the Author I was born into a family of dancers, musicians, and movie producers. Momma always said, "The world is our stage. No matter how difficult a situation may be, the show goes on, so suck it up buttercup, make the best of it." Show-biz people learn to solve problems with laughter. In 1950, at age 7, when the psychiatry department of Tulane University needed a child actor for a human behavior documentary, I got the job. What I witnessed...
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'Are you foreign? Why would you come to Iran? Please tell your friends back home that we are nothing like the Western media.'
These were among the phrases that Rose would hear almost daily in Tehran.
Hijabs, Hitchhiking and Hangovers: Lessons from Iran is a coming-of-age travel adventure. At the age of 20, Rose was part of the first group of Cambridge students to study in Iran after Iran re-opened its borders to the West. Navigating Foreign Office...
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Polarization and chaos in the world can feel overwhelming. SOULFUL COURAGE shares the author's multi-faceted experiences that reflects a tenacious uplifting approach to life's challenges. She provides a capitol city and rural view of bestselling books such as Being Mortal, Tuesdays with Morrie, Carry On, and The Book of Joy. Bobbi had the honor of working with Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross who was a pioneer in the hospice movement and she shares her wisdom....
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