Leave the Kid Alone; A Fractured Remembrance by Steve Zettler

It was the best of times… “Leave the Kid Alone” is a seriocomic memoir set in the free and easy safety of the 1950s. Stevie is eight years old. He lives with his parents and siblings above the family-owned saloon, restaurant, and country inn in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Stevie’s domain is populated with a never-ending parade of colorful characters, from Eugene, the king-sized, ever-wise, Seminole Indian bartender, to the combat veterans of WWI, WWII, and Korea laboring in the kitchen, to the free-spirited waitresses, to the Broadway celebrities carrying on nefarious affairs, to Stevie’s mob-connected godfather. Added to this mix is Stevie’s family; an overbearing older sister, blasé hard-drinking, hard-working parents, a grandmother he never knew existed, and a tyrannical great aunt. The tale unfolds over the course of a single year: Quaker school, toiling in the kitchen, summer at the Jersey Shore, the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, bussing tables on Thanksgiving, Christmas chaos, and his father’s intrusion into reenactment of George Washington crossing the Delaware. The memoir culminates with Stevie reflecting on the emotional challenges and pressures his clan faced daily while residing above this raucous establishment. “Child labor laws do not apply when it comes to a family run business.”It was the best of times… “Leave the Kid Alone” is a seriocomic memoir set in the free and easy safety of the 1950s. Stevie is eight years old. He lives with his parents and siblings above the family-owned saloon, restaurant, and country inn in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Stevie’s domain is populated with a never-ending parade of colorful characters, from Eugene, the king-sized, ever-wise, Seminole Indian bartender, to the combat veterans of WWI, WWII, and Korea laboring in the kitchen, to the free-spirited waitresses, to the Broadway celebrities carrying on nefarious affairs, to Stevie’s mob-connected godfather. Added to this mix is Stevie’s family; an overbearing older sister, blasé hard-drinking, hard-working parents, a grandmother he never knew existed, and a tyrannical great aunt. The tale unfolds over the course of a single year: Quaker school, toiling in the kitchen, summer at the Jersey Shore, the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, bussing tables on Thanksgiving, Christmas chaos, and his father’s intrusion into reenactment of George Washington crossing the Delaware. The memoir culminates with Stevie reflecting on the emotional challenges and pressures his clan faced daily while residing above this raucous establishment. “Child labor laws do not apply when it comes to a family run business.”

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Destiny Legacy: Becoming Her by Destiny Nakita Arnold

At first glance, Destiny Nakita Arnold appeared to have it all together. But behind the accomplishments was a journey marked by loss, heartbreak, disappointment, healing, and self-discovery.

Destiny Legacy: Becoming Her is a powerful memoir about finding the strength to move forward when life doesn’t go according to plan. Through personal stories and honest reflection, Arnold shares her path through adversity, self-worth, forgiveness, and personal growth.

Recently featured in CanvasRebel and Bold Journey, this inspiring memoir reminds readers that healing is not a destination—it’s a journey. For anyone rebuilding after difficult seasons, searching for purpose, or learning to embrace their own story, Becoming Her offers hope, encouragement, and proof that it is possible to rise, heal, and become the person you were meant to be.

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Memoirs of a Clever Prankster by Peter Henry

Fun-loving Peter Henry’s beautiful life includes hilarious gut-busting tales, funny stories of outrageous pranks, unique gags, and colorful characters. Henry’s memoir tells his joyful journey from childhood through his 50-year career as a hospitality professional, including an amazing 36 years as GM of America’s finest luxury destination resorts.

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Unmothered: Raised by Survival, Redeemed by Love by Danielle Delarge

Where do you turn when the person who should love you most is the source of your greatest harm?

When we think of home, we often think of a safe space filled with warmth, love, and tenderness. But Danielle’s home was anything but. Her formative years were filled with sharp words that cut her soul, fists that bruised her skin, and a mother who proved every day she didn’t want her around at the time. Men who were supposed to keep her safe used her for their own pleasure, and with each encounter she grew more and more invisible.

The hope of a fresh start in a new town left Danielle homeless and pregnant at 18. She masked her pain with alcohol and cocaine abuse-a pattern modeled by her father. Just when it seemed like the silence that tried to shroud her would win, she found healing in unexpected places. The warmth and kindness of a family, the guidance of a therapist, and the notebooks that held her voice paved the way to her recovering herself.

In this raw telling of her early life, Danielle shows us firsthand the harm an abusive family can cause, and the great strength required to be the one who breaks the cycle. As you read this story you will weep and cheer as you follow Danielle’s journey from a turbulent life to a jubilant one. If you’re ready for a truly inspiring read, pick up your copy of Unmothered: Raised by Survival, Redeemed by Love today.

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FRACTURED: A Deep and Intimate Memoir by Debra Morgan

Based on a true story and the memoirs of the author’s unbridled words, written without polish or prose, that is. . .

FRACTURED
In the pages of *FRACTURED*, the author shares her journey from childhood through her teenage years and into early adulthood. She recounts her experiences within a destructive family dynamic, enduring trauma, abuse, and interpersonal misconduct, along with deep, painful secrets. This memoir details her slow but determined climb toward a normal life. Central to her story is the question she has grappled with: how to pick up the pieces. She answers this by inviting readers to walk alongside her and hear her voice.

Debra is a woman who has endured haunting, unspeakable experiences and chooses to share them in their rawest form. She offers no excuses or literary embellishments—only the truth of her life. The pain she endured shaped her choices, pushing her toward escape and coping mechanisms that ultimately led her down a path of addiction.
Today, Debra draws on her personal experiences to provide support and hope to her readers, especially to those who feel they have no voice, just as she once did. Now, she shares her story with grace, embodying redemption and resilience.

Awarded a 5-Star Editorial Book Review in April 2026 by Reader’s Favorite!

( New Kindle Release on Sale for $3.99 through May 20th, 2026)

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Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar by Michelle O'Neil

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir (2nd edition).

This book will be discounted to $0.99 through May 14, 2026.

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Abused, Used, Broken, Spat Out! : The complete memoir. by Peter Gates

Abused, Used, Broken, Spat Out!: The Complete Memoir
This is not a story of triumph. It is a document of survival.
Peter Gates grew up in the schemes of Glasgow during the Thatcher years — moving between schools, moving between houses, never long enough to settle. At nine years old, something happened that changed the architecture of everything that followed. It went on for years. Nobody asked the right questions. Nobody knew to look.
By sixteen he was out of school and pulled into a world that recognised what he could do and used it. The drug world didn’t ask for qualifications. It simply needed men who could read a room, hold their nerve, and never write anything down. He was all of those things. He survived it. He got out.
What came next looked like a normal life. A wife. Children. A career in telecoms that took him from the bottom of a call centre to managing contracts worth hundreds of millions. Nobody in that world knew where he had come from. He made sure of it.
But the body keeps score.
By his early thirties the pain had started. Not dramatically — just present, every day, building. Years of appointments, referrals, medications tried and removed. Eventually a diagnosis that named the symptoms without explaining the cause. Then the job gone. Then the medical retirement. Then the dark rooms and the Monday mornings and the pills counted out in the right order.
This book is two memoirs in one volume. The first was written in fragments — in a car on the school run, on a bed when the pain allowed. Raw, unfiltered, out of order. Because that is how trauma lives. The second was written in seventy-two hours straight because the first left too much unsaid. Together they form the complete story — the abuse, the conditioning, the underworld, the escape, the collapse, and what remains.
What remains is this: a father who stayed. A cycle that stopped. A truth that refused to stay buried.
This is not inspiration. It is documentation. And it is the full story.

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A Most Unusual Relationship by Herbert Sennett and Alan Sherman

A Most Unusual Relationship traces the lives of two men from totally different backgrounds who were able to set aside their differences to serve effectively as chaplains in the US Army Reserves. That professional relationship turned into a serious friendship that lasted for nearly forty years. Alan Sherman, a Reform Rabbi with a strong “liberal” political viewpoint, received his commission in the Army after graduating Rabbinical School. Herb Sennett, born and raised in a strong Evangelical Protestant household with strong Republican political views received his commission after graduating The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He had previously served as an infantry officer who resigned his commission upon completion of his six-year obligation under the draft. With that background, these two men met in 1985 when they both met as part of the same Army Reserve unity in West Palm Beach, Florida. Although both were a bit hesitant, they resolved to work together for the sake of the troops. When they received orders to active duty for Desert Shield/Storm in September 1990, they found themselves a room mates at Ft. Stewart, Georgia. During those first several months on active duty, Alan and Herb found that they both had a great deal in common besides their religious faith. The friendship began to blossom and was almost fully developed by May 1991 when they were both released from active duty. Their friendship continued to grow after they returned to West Palm Beach. What they went through together during that brief period sparked a friendship that has continued to not grow but to blossom. Decisions they made separately often pushed them together in an even deeper friendship on many levels. Their story is truly a must read about what can happen when people set aside their differences to serve a greater good for society.

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Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Surviving Life’s Challenges by Paul Bradford

LIFE IS HARD! Shit happens! Nobody’s perfect – everyone makes mistakes. We learn by living. Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Surviving Life’s Challenges is an ‘award- winning’ narrative (LITERARY TITAN) that embraces a sense of nostalgia mixed with pain and trauma. This heartfelt chronicle is about hard times, courage, and survival. KIRKUS REVIEWS describes the book as “a wrenching … Kafkaesque journey”. The author creates a conversational tone that is inspirational—but sometimes uncomfortable. His rhythm shifts like an “…emotional rollercoaster…” (INDIES TODAY) as harsh realities of his life are detailed about poverty, child abuse, divorce, prison, war trauma, homelessness, sexual orientation conflict, and the disheartening absence of restorative justice in our draconian criminal probation system. The book’s imagery and narrative exude a blend of raw emotions and unprecedented self-realizations as the author confronts multiple life-altering happenings – and the imperfect consequences of each experience. But, Walk a Mile in My Shoes isn’t just a gut-wrenching saga about tragedy — it’s also about hope, personal growth, and the resilience of the human spirit. Sometimes, the hardest roads lead to the greatest understanding.

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Still Standing: A True Story of Abuse, Loss, and Survival by Diana Freel

It is a story about surviving, remembering, and learning how to live without erasing what was lost.
Written over the course of nearly three decades, this memoir traces a woman’s journey through abuse, grief, systemic failure, and the long aftermath of losing a child. It does not offer platitudes or tidy resolutions. Instead, it bears witness to what survival actually looks like when the danger has passed but the impact remains.

This book is written for anyone who has ever been told they were too emotional, too reactive, or too difficult to believe. For those who learned to stay quiet in order to survive. For those who are still standing, even when they don’t feel strong.

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About Featured Book: Running in the Dark by John Podlaski

Written with great attention to detail, putting the reader solidly in John’s shoes.

Cleverly Written, Dynamic Story Telling

This short-story collection depicts growing up in 1960s Detroit, capturing the author’s childhood adventures—alone or with friends—often marked by both fear and excitement. Vivid descriptions bring his experiences to life, revealing the innocence of boys who chase adventure despite the consequences. Readers may recall their own childhood moments, especially those spent running from danger in the dark.

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The Worst of Broke-Ass Start by Stuart Schuffman

For over two decades, writer, rabble-rouser, and bon vivant, Stuart Schuffman (aka Broke-Ass Stuart), has been chronicling life in San Francisco with grit, wit, and an open bar tab. Part memoir, part cultural archive, The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart brings together twenty years of stories about scraping by, speaking up, and falling in and out of love with the most beautifully heartwarming and heartbreaking place in America. With delectable accounts of modern life in a big city, Schuffman’s writing harkens back to greats like Caen, Delaplane, and Bellingham, with an evident love for the City by the Bay.
From late-night Muni rides to early morning hangovers, protest marches to dive bars, political takedowns to poetic goodbyes, this collection features Stuart’s most infamous, beloved, iconic, and occasionally ill-advised work. It also chronicles his weird and wonderful escapades, such as running for Mayor of San Francisco and garnering over 20,000 votes, traveling the world on someone else’s dime, and hosting his own TV show on IFC. These essays, ruminations, and poems, many of which originally appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, Lonely Planet, SFGate, and more, paint a portrait of a city that’s constantly changing, yet somehow always home.
If you’ve ever waited tables, cried in a dive bar, danced in weird costumes in the street, tried to pay rent in drink tickets, or been in love with a city that might not love you back, this is your book.

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From Harlem Globetrotter to World Changer by Melvin Adams

In this uplifting memoir, Melvin Adams shares how he rose from a difficult upbringing in Houston to becoming a celebrated Harlem Globetrotter and eventually a dedicated mentor and speaker. Despite growing up in poverty and losing his father at a young age, Adams discovered that basketball could become both his refuge and his future. Through determination, faith, and an unshakable belief in possibility, he overcame challenges related to height, circumstance, and expectation. His journey takes readers behind the scenes of his Globetrotters career and into the deeper mission he found afterward, helping young people believe in themselves and make better choices. The book blends personal stories, humor, lessons on identity and confidence, and heartfelt encouragement. It reminds readers that where you begin does not define who you can become and that every person has the power to become a world changer.

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You Could Not Make This Up, Even if You Tried: Book Three of Social Work Memoirs by J. Traveler Pelton

Book three of the Social Work Memoirs continues the short, true-to-life stories (changed only to protect the innocent and the guilty); many are drop-dead funny, while some are tragic. You won’t find anything more fascinating than real life. If you think your job is wild, wait until you step into mine for a little while! I’ve met people from the privileged to the poor and most of their relatives; and all of them were fascinating in their own way. Thank you for reading and understanding. I hope you will find encouragement in helping others in any way you can.

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