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About Wacky on the Junk:

“In this hilarious debut memoir, Kathy Varner reflects on a life lived on the fringes of ordinary. From an awkward childhood as the youngest of five, living off sweets and processed foods, to a wild adolescence of drinking, drugs, and Deadhead hijinks, to a harrowing career with social services, Kathy takes it all in stride, embracing the beauty and pain of life with a sardonic wit and a sense of adventure that remains undampened—no matter how wacky things get.”

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A Way Forward: My Years In The Marine Corps

About A Way Forward: My Years In The Marine Corps:

Can a teenage boy struggling with school, family, and drugs turn his life around to become successful? Not without the help of a nearly two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old American institution called the United States Marine Corps. A Way Forward: My Years in the Marine Corps reveals how a Marine recruiter used every old trick in the book to compel young Christian Dattwyler to sign his life away for government service. The memoir delves into his mindset as he experiences legendary Marine Corps boot camp, ‘Grunt’ training, and his life while assigned to the Fleet Marine Force.

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You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson

About You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson:

How do you live an authentic live while keeping a secret?

This award-winning memoir chronicles one woman’s struggle to be true to herself as she grapples with the ramifications of accepting that she’s gay amid the religious, social and legal norms of the Sixties.

Raised in a fundamentalist Christian home Carol Fears the rejection of her parents, with whom she shares a loving relationship, she hides the truth and pursues false romances with men while struggling to harness her powerful attractions to women. The watershed point in Carol’s journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses.

But this sense of self-possession comes too late for honesty with her father. His unexpected death before she can tell him the truth brings the full cost of Carol’s secret crashing in compelling her to come out to her mother before it is too late. Candid and poignant, You Can’t Buy Love Like That reveals the complex invisible dynamics that arise for gay people who are forced to hide their true selves in order to survive and celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one’s courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance and self-love.

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The Secret Everyone Knew by Natasha Mason

About The Secret Everyone Knew by Natasha Mason:

Natasha Mason grew up in the small town of Hartford,
Connecticut. At the age of 5, her mother’s boyfriend began
to abuse her sexually. By the age of 11, the abuse
progressed to verbal and physical abuse.
Growing up, Natasha would often go to her grandmother’s
house to get away from the abuse. Her mother was being
abused as well. As Natasha got older and her family moved
to California, she began to seclude herself. She lived this
way until her early twenties when she started to go to church
and strengthened her relationship with God. The abuse
continued until she was 28 years old when God told her to
leave and that is what she did

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The Beginning Journey: Life of a Twelve Year- Old

About The Beginning Journey: Life of a Twelve Year- Old:

This story is about a woman’s journey from childhood to adulthood and religious faith guides her every step of the way – through unsettling times, matters of life and death, challenges of morality, grief, familial responsibilities, trauma, and triumph… Being courageous enough to overcome social issues and emotional turmoil, the lessons learned on her journey are thought-provoking and compelling. This book delivers an inspirational and poignant message for readers of all ages: ‘Without faith, life is a bowl of jelly! But God Almighty provides for His children.’

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Life, Loss and Love

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A compelling true story of one Woman’s sheer courage and strength as she is faced with depression and suicide. She brings her children through with faith and hope but battles her own health decline. If you are looking for a page turner and hope and inspiration this book will not disappoint! A bargain at 99cents and kindle unlimited Amazon.com

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A Journey of Riches – Returning to Love by John Spender

A Journey of Riches – Returning to Love by John Spender

In the latest in his series of books, A Journey of Riches, author John Spender has collaborated with nine other writers who each have a story to tell that will touch your soul and leave you in no doubt that there is love enough for us all, with stories that show:
How we are all tied together and united by love
Why forgiveness is everything
Loving yourself is as important as loving another.

Everything is possible when you love
Mastering self-love
Why we should leave the past behind us
The way to achieve peace and happiness
And more…
The language of love is universal and transcends all else. It can bind us together like no other force in the universe and is impossible to break when it has a solid and lasting foundation.

Available free on Amazon July 20th to July 24th, 2020

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Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top by International Best Selling Author, Darren Prince

Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top by International Best Selling Author, Darren Prince

Darren Prince is the CEO & President of Prince Marketing Group and now an international best-selling author of his powerful memoir, Aiming High. Darren Prince is a sports and celebrity agent who, at the age of 14, founded a mail-order company selling baseball cards and traveling around the country participating in trade shows. At the age of 20, he sold his company and became an industry leader in private autograph signings for sports and celebrity memorabilia with athletes and celebrities. A-List celebrities included Muhammad Ali, Hulk Hogan, Pele, Joe Montana, Carmen Electra, and Jenny McCarthy.

In 1995 Prince started a new venture with Prince Marketing Group (PMG), representing athletes and celebrities for marketing deals consisting of endorsements, licensing, TV, movie and book deals, autograph signings, and appearances. His first client to sign with the firm was none other than Magic Johnson and they have become good friends still today! Soon after Smokin’ Joe Frazier, Dennis Rodman, Pamela Anderson, and Chevy Chase followed.

With PMG growing at an enormous pace, Prince added Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Mickey Rourke, Roy Jones Jr, Micky Ward, and the late Evel Knievel as clients over the years. “The sports/entertainment industry is a small world and very competitive,” says Darren Prince, CEO of Prince Marketing Group. “Prince Marketing Group has prospered over the years by delivering out of the box thinking for clients and building relationships through the practice of good business and effective networking.”

As an author, writer, and recovery advocate, Darren gives back through his new foundation of the same name to help others to get the help they need from opioid addiction and have hope to begin and maintain recovery. Darren’s “Aiming High” is the astonishing story of his battle with addiction while representing some of the most iconic figures in the world. After a drug overdose, many demoralizing nights, and mornings where Darren couldn’t get out of bed without a prescription in hand, Darren hit rock bottom – and in the process discovered the true meaning of success…

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14 days in May. A farewell to my father, a man who should have died sixty years ago. A true story.

About 14 days in May. A farewell to my father, a man who should have died sixty years ago. A true story.:

On May 1st 2011, I traveled from Ecuador to my native country to say goodbye to my dying father. Two intensive weeks followed, where death was constantly looking around the corner, while life was still the focus – his life.

About sixty years earlier, my father survived a serious accident. He was hit by a bullet in his face, a bullet that exploded in his head. Doctors only just managed to save his life. With a new, but maimed face he had to return to his hometown, the small village of his ancestors in the South of the Netherlands.

Back home, he found everything to be exactly the way he left it, but no one seemed to remember him anymore. However, he was determined to pick up his life right where he had left off months before. His former family life, his friendships, his hobbies, his job, and … above all, his relationship with the girl who lived around the corner.

During the two weeks I stayed in the Netherlands, we spoke often about this dramatic period and eventually he asked me to write down his story. With the help of his memories and those of family and friends, but also old letters, diaries, military and medical reports, I reconstructed his personal family history. Embedded though in the inevitable farewell. An inspiring true story.

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Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top (International Best Seller) by Darren Prince

Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top (International Best Seller) by Darren Prince

“For 17 years, Darren has worked 24/7 as my sports agent. I’ve seen him at his worst and now at his best. Aiming High is all about the journey he took to get there, and how today he is living a spiritual life one day at a time. Ten years ago, he asked for the blessing, and now he’s become one.”

~Hulk Hogan (World Wrestling Entertainment Twelve-Time Champion)

Aiming High is the astonishing story of sports and celebrity agent Darren Prince, who battled addiction while representing some of the most iconic figures in the world. After a drug overdose, many demoralizing nights, and mornings where he couldn’t get out of bed without a prescription in hand, Darren hit rock bottom at the top–and in the process, discovered the true meaning of success.

Today Darren gives back to those who suffer from addiction. His book is a four-time International Best Seller and hit Amazon’s #1 best seller of his memoir, “Aiming High.” He enjoys being a sports and celebrity agent and global advocate for addiction and recovery. Inspired to write his story by his father, Darren shares he also wrote his book to help others. Knowing drug addiction does not discriminate, Darren shares with others there is help and hope from any addiction.

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Alzheimer’s Daughter by Jean Lee

Alzheimer’s Daughter by Jean Lee

What would you do if both parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s on the same day?

Jean Lee worked full time teaching elementary school while she was thrust into a caregiving role for her mom and dad when they were dually diagnosed.

Her memoir, Alzheimer’s Daughter, follows two sisters–– Jean living a mile from her parents, and her sister living 1,000 miles away––through a near-decade journey as they work together to move their parents out of their life-long home, and eventually to a locked memory care facility. At the end of this hand in hand decline, the sisters are honored to be together as their parents breath their last breath.

Sadness and loss contrast with tenderness and devotion as Lee uses her elderly parents’ WWII love letters, found during the final clean out, as chapter beginnings.

Reviewers say Alzheimer’s Daughter is written with wincing honesty about the cruel affects of the disease, but a WWII love story held together by faith and family is contained within the pages.

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Just Joshin’ Ya

About Just Joshin’ Ya:

This fun collection captures the best everyday thoughts and unconscious musings of Josh, as he grew from precocious toddler to a witty young boy. His mom kept his wisdom and witticisms written on scraps of paper and in a journal over the years, and she has finally released them for us to enJoy. The imagination and advice include a tip to conjure up a sibling: “Doesn’t your tummy tell you if you’re having another baby?”; and comical observations including, “This tastes like body odor smells.” The cartoons are illustrated by Josh (depictions of his own words) in delightful stick figure art. This unique little book will brighten your day and be popular with people who are searching for positivity in a world drowning in gloom and doom. Let Josh fill your soul with Joy.

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A Nose for Trouble: Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers, and My Life of Redefining Adversity by Michael Ainslie

About Featured Book: A Nose for Trouble: Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers, and My Life of Redefining Adversity by Michael Ainslie

For a limited time, purchase the ebook of A Nose for Trouble: Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers, and My Life of Redefining Adversity for $.99!

The ebook is on sale from June 1 to July 1.

A Nose for Trouble is about accepting a challenge, redefining misfortune, and rising above. This is a memoir about a man who embraces adventure and misadventure, who often finds himself in unique business and life situations, and who always uses risks and challenges to make things better.

It’s the life story of Michael Ainslie, innovator, problem solver, business leader, philanthropist. He shares about his early beginnings; his career as president, CEO, and distinguished board member across a number of companies and institutions; and his work to transform what’s around him to give the world something of meaning and value.

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Broken but Blessed by Susie Fulbright

Broken but Blessed by Susie Fulbright

Do you feel you can’t go on?That stresses of life have you blindsided?Well read on. This work is about the challenges and lessons learned in losing one child, raising a special needs child, and losing mate just three years after loss of child. The raw experiences has helped me to depend on the Lord in all aspects of my life.

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Sex Crimes: Then and Now

About Sex Crimes: Then and Now:

Why be a lawyer? To be a Hero. Here’s the playbook.

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Cookham To Cannes by Brent Tyler

About Cookham To Cannes by Brent Tyler:

When Brent and Debbie Tyler’s small business collapsed at the end of 2009, they had to act fast as they’d run out of cash and were about to be evicted from their rented bungalow in Cookham, Berkshire. Deciding that taking a leap into the unknown was better than making no decision at all, they borrowed a little money from some good friends, packed up their belongings and headed to a mobile home site just outside Cannes. that they would help to get ready for the summer, in exchange for free accommodation. Whilst there, they would look for work with the hope of settling in the region.
Once in Cannes, the advice was to go and work as a housekeeper and gardener at a villa for someone rich and possibly famous. What no one bothered to tell France’s newest arrivals was that the people they were about to be interviewed by and eventually work for were all blisteringly, yet deliciously mad.
Whilst minding his own business in the garden belonging to one of these certifiable lunatics, Brent gets adopted by a dog with his own obsession, maintaining this author’s theory that sanity is an extremely rare commodity in the south of France.

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Plantains and the Seven Plagues- A memoir: Half-Dominican, Half-Cuban, and Full Life by Paz Ellis

About Plantains and the Seven Plagues- A memoir: Half-Dominican, Half-Cuban, and Full Life by Paz Ellis:

Plantains and the Seven Plagues is the author’s first memoir about her life growing up as a child of a Cuban father and Dominican mother in New Jersey. The book deals with the assimilation issues of many first-generation American children and the cultural impacts on their day to day lives. Paz takes us on a journey that includes her parent’s courtship, her mother’s traumatic childhood, her father’s deep emotions regarding his birthplace, illnesses, her struggles in school, strong family bonds, and her mother’s recent passing.  You will laugh and cry as you peek into Paz’s childhood, from her naughty toddler years to her rebellious teens and the ups and downs of her relationship with her parents.

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Our Teenage Years: Growing Up in a Small Town in the ’80s by T. J. Wray

About Featured Book: Our Teenage Years: Growing Up in a Small Town in the ’80s by T. J. Wray

This is an inspiring story about overcoming whatever life may throw at you. This book is about two best friends growing up in their teenage years in a small town. All the wild adventures and stories from my childhood, after my parents divorced and we went on the run for 11 years. This book includes my first job, girlfriend, prom, driver’s license, my first car and many other first we all did in our teenage years. It’s a fun-filled adventure about being a teenager, epic road trips and best friends. But really this book is just about LIFE. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry. This is a bunch of short stories from my teenage years that everyone will relate to in one way or another.

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The Cardinal Club – A Daughter’s Journey to Acceptance by Suzanne Maggio

About The Cardinal Club – A Daughter’s Journey to Acceptance by Suzanne Maggio:

“As I sat on the floor and watched Dylan carefully unwrap the packages my mother had given him, I grew more and more concerned with each one. Inside this box was a girl’s grey cardigan sweater with a wide neck and small pearl buttons. In fact, each box he opened contained clothing for a little girl, certainly not appropriate for her 8 year-old grandson.”

And so begins the family’s realization that something is terribly wrong.

As Suzanne’s mother’s memory fades and she can no longer recognize her daughter, Suzanne struggles to reconcile the memory of her mother with a relationship that often left her feeling disconnected and alone. The book pays particular attention to the relationship between author and her dynamic, Medici-esque matriarch mother, who raises her daughter in her own image. As the author grows and begins to branch out in order to find her own identity, she faces the challenge of separating from a mother who refuses to see her for who she is and in so doing, withholds her acceptance. And although her life is filled with many successes; a successful career, a husband, children and a comfortable home, it is her mother’s acceptance that she most longs for, never giving up hope that someday she will earn what she most desires.

The Cardinal Club: A Daughter’s Journey to Acceptance is the story of a daughter’s efforts to make amends with her mother following her death from Alzheimer’s disease.It is an openhearted, deeply compassionate story about facing difficult truths and a journey that leads, unexpectedly, to discovering unconditional love.

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I Was Just a Radioman

About I Was Just a Radioman:

Their hearts were strong, and their courage endless.

Pearl Harbor survivor, Black Cat radioman, and decorated WW 2 veteran. ARM H. P. Lawrence, tells the true story of the fight against the Japanese in this compilation of his memoirs.

One of only a handful of non-Native American code-talkers, H. P. Lawrence became a member of an elite fighting force, the Black Cats. Flying in their nocturnal missions, the Cats claws were sharp and their aim deadly.

From devastation to victory, the story of these brave men−the deadly, mysterious, and illusive Black Cats is a journey into the past where nightmares came true and hatred reigned. A time in history we should never, ever forget.

The day which will live in infamy…was just the beginning.

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