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OK, Little Bird

About OK, Little Bird:

In the world of Little Bird, three siblings experience the same father differently. Navigating stringent rules, cantankerous family dinners, unfiltered commentaries, and lots of love, OK, Little Bird takes the reader on a bouncy ride from laughter to tears with this unforgettable father-daughter connection.

Everything is funny till a seemingly invincible father succumbs to a terminal illness amidst the Covid19 pandemic. Little Bird sets out to make things ok for her father one last time. Through a lifetime of wry banter, voicemails, letters and bad gifts, fly with Little Bird as she learns that even in the worst of times, the gem of laughter is the best coping tool of all.

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Pirate Girl Falls Through Beaver Dam by Wren Godfrey Chapman

About Featured Book: Pirate Girl Falls Through Beaver Dam (A Memoir of Adventurous Lessons in Earth School) by Wren Godfrey Chapman

In 1968, why did a gently raised southern girl quit collage, run away to sea, and join a scurvy crew of pirates, searching for sunken treasure and running contraband? Why did she allow the first mate to tie her in the crow’s-nest during a fierce tropical storm? Why did she flee the Bahamas in the cover of night, fall through a beaver dam during a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and hide out in a Colorado wilderness cave with her good dog, Rocky Raccoon. In this unvarnished memoir, Wren Godfrey Chapman told herself it was to escape the tragedy of the war in Vietnam and her failed engagement to the love of her young life. But then again, maybe it was to assuage her rebellious case of wanderlust.

With a strong female voice and sense of place in the Carolinas, Florida, Colorado, and the Bahamas, Pirate Girl describes a lifelong process of discovery through the adventurous lessons of Earth School.

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The Buddha and the Bee

About The Buddha and the Bee:

Life-Changing Journey… but this is NOT a typical blah-blah-blah memoir

Planning is for sissies. A solo bike ride across the country will be filled with sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, and 80 degree temps every day, right? Not so much. The Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, an alkaline desert, and the Sierra Nevadas lay miles and days ahead. Disappointment with unrealized potential, and the thirst for what’s next drew farther away in the rotating wide-angle shockproof convex rear-view mirror.

I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack.

Cory Mortensen began his bike ride across the United States from Chaska, Minnesota, to Truckee, California, without a route, a timeline, or proper equipment. Along the way, he gained more than technical skills required for a ride that would test every fiber of his physical being and mental toughness. Ride along as he meets “unusual” characters, dangerous animals, and sweet little old ladies with a serious vendetta for strangers in their town.

Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ Peace

From long stretches of road ending in a vanishing point at the distant horizon, to stunning vistas, terrifying close calls, grueling conditions, failed equipment, and joyous milestones he stayed the course and gained an appreciation for the beauty of the land, the genius of engineering and marvel of nature.

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Burnout to Unstoppable

About Burnout to Unstoppable:

The author takes us along her amazing transformational journey from an overwhelmed and burned out autism mom who lost her identity, along with her dreams and her aspirations – to the empowered woman she has now become. On her quest, the author uncovers the best self-care, mindset optimization and stress reduction strategies to not only recover from burnout but become unapologetically UNSTOPPABLE and THRIVE in all areas of her life.

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HUSH II: Breaking the Cycle of Silence Around Sexual Abuse by Tenita C. Johnson

HUSH II: Breaking the Cycle of Silence Around Sexual Abuse by Tenita C. Johnson

For many families, it’s the elephant in the room everyone chooses to ignore. It’s the one thing no one talks about at the family reunion or the backyard barbecue. Like a cancer, it oftentimes lies dormant under the surface until it is triggered and simply can no longer be ignored—by the victim or the predator.

Sexual abuse has been—and continues to be—a silent killer in our communities. While it may not kill someone physically, it has certainly killed years of joy and happiness, let alone one’s peace. In a moment, it has killed the hopes and dreams of many whose lenses of life are now tainted forever. Oftentimes, because of the shame and the guilt, the hurt and the heartache, the voices of victims have been silenced for too many decades to count. In this candid literary masterpiece, eight brave women share their story from trauma to triumph over molestation and/or rape.

This is where the silence stops. This is where we give volume to the voices of victims who couldn’t muster up the words to share their story. This is their story. This is our story.

And it’s time to break the cycle of silence.

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Building in Bronze: Creating the Future through Healing the Past by Cayla Pothan

Building in Bronze: Creating the Future through Healing the Past by Cayla Pothan

Building in Bronze is an inspirational manifesto written by a woman who has never stopped dreaming and working to create space in the world where she could live her most authentic life. Cayla Pothan created just such a space, and in the process, discovered how to share her insights with other people who long to live with joy and purpose. After a difficult journey from a childhood of feeling trapped in a victim mindset, she emerged into a life filled with creativity and growth, eventually founding the Tootsie Gallery. Tootsie is a symbol of the dreams and creativity in the life of the child. As an artist, mentor, coach, gallery owner, and community builder, she reaches out to help others find purpose by getting in touch with the child within. Readers who may have lost sight of their own dreams, lacking purpose or creative outlets, will find inspiration to re-engage with their creative energies and the courage to chase those lovely dreams.

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Mirror Mirror A Collection of Memoirs and Stories by Stephanie Hart

Mirror Mirror A Collection of Memoirs and Stories by Stephanie Hart

A Collection of Memoirs and Stories, Stephanie Hart’s third book, is composed of a series of fast-paced vignettes that explore her childhood, youth, family, and ancestral background through a mix of real and imagined memories and events. She recounts and interprets the unique details of her own life,
bringing to life the personalities and experiences of various relatives and friends in an intimate, heartbreaking, and often humorous manner.

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Pirate Girl Falls Through Beaver Dam by Wren GodfreyChapman

About Pirate Girl Falls Through Beaver Dam by Wren GodfreyChapman:

In 1968, why did a gently raised southern girl quit collage, run away to sea, and join a scurvy crew of pirates, searching for sunken treasure and running contraband? Why did she allow the first mate to tie her in the crow’s-nest during a fierce tropical storm? Why did she flee the Bahamas in the cover of night, fall through a beaver dam during a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and hide out in a Colorado wilderness cave with her good dog, Rocky Raccoon.
Wren Godfrey told herself it was to escape the tragedy of the war in Vietnam and her failed engagement to the love of her young life. But then again, maybe it was to assuage her rebellious case of wanderlust.
With a strong female voice and sense of place in the Carolinas, Florida, Colorado, and the Bahamas, Pirate Girl describes a lifelong process of discovery through the adventurous lessons of Earth School.

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Reclaim Your Hero: Transform Your Pain into Power and thrive. Numquam Deficio (Never Quit) by Mathew Grace

Reclaim Your Hero: Transform Your Pain into Power and thrive. Numquam Deficio (Never Quit) by Mathew Grace

As first responders and military we are the heroes for everyone else. We are first on the scene to emergencies at home and abroad.

So what then do we do when we are drowning and searching for breath?
What do we do when we can’t escape the shadow that follows us in the sun and the darkness?
What do we do when our world is spinning out of control and our world is falling apart?

I know this world. I lived under the rough seas and the shadow of PTS(D) for 10 years. As a Navy Rescue Swimmer with service in the special operations community and as a firefighter, I embraced the suck! It took me 10 years to discover what is embraced, embraces you back. I wrote this book to share my journey and show you it is possible to reclaim fun, fitness and fortitude. It is possible to come out from under the shadow and the depths.

It is possible to Reclaim Your Hero and transform your pain into power and thrive. Numquam Deficio! Never quit! Hooyah!

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The Adventures of Dan and Tina – Enduring and Recovering from Narcissistic Abuse by Dan McGrath

About The Adventures of Dan and Tina – Enduring and Recovering from Narcissistic Abuse by Dan McGrath:

The narcissistic relationship is laid bare in this stunning, true page-turner.

Intelligent and good-natured men and women alike can be seduced by narcissists, borderlines, histrionics and sociopaths. The results are often tragically similar. This is especially true when codependents mix with cluster B disordered people, like in the case of Dan and Tina.

With deepening mysteries and mistreatment, Dan still felt an unshakable connection to Tina. It’s a phenomenon called a trauma bond that’s like an addiction but can be even harder to kick than heroin. for Dan, that led to a destructive on-again-off again relationship that withered everything it touched.

The Adventures of Dan and Tina is part memoir and part self-help book. Insights and answers are woven through a riveting true story of love, infidelity, betrayal, secrecy, gaslighting, crazy-making and ultimately escape and the road to recovery.

Gripping and informative, The Adventures of Dan and Tina will take you on a surprising journey through surviving and recovering from narcissistic abuse.

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Listen To Me: How My Down Syndrome Brother Saved My Life by Lynne Podrat

About Featured Book: Listen To Me: How My Down Syndrome Brother Saved My Life by Lynne Podrat

Thirteen-year-old Lynne watched her parents wrestle with the fact that their newborn baby Bruce, her new brother, had been born with Down syndrome. Over the years, Lynne struggled to ensure that Bruce would be included as part of the family and vowed to protect him from a young age, while also making sure that her nine-year-old brother, David, was not also left behind amidst the chaos. As time passed and Lynne went off to college, she learned that her baby brother was still not safe from being given away.

This is the story of Bruce, and the love he inspired in Lynne to fight for the unity of her family. Lynne, David, and Bruce maneuvered the trials of life together, thus cementing their unwavering commitment to each other as siblings. By turns funny and heartbreaking, Listen to Me is a story about being brave, finding your voice, and becoming not who you thought you were, but who you were meant to be all along.

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Made in China: A Memoir of Marriage and Mixed Babies in the Middle Kingdom

About Made in China: A Memoir of Marriage and Mixed Babies in the Middle Kingdom:

Simon Gjeroe became a father in China and suddenly had to deal with serious questions: Can you live with your wife if she has not showered for a month? Can you take your wife seriously if she starts wearing X-ray aprons? Do you really have to eat the placenta? In this extraordinary memoir, Simon answers all those questions and many more, highlighting the weird and wonderful world of cross-cultural marriage and parenthood in the Middle Kingdom. Made in China is a humorous narrative that reveals Simon’s love for a country wonderfully full of contradictions and absurdities. He went to China as a language student, married the teacher and made both a family and a new life for himself.

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Eat Beat Sleep Repeat: a FIFO Life by Amos O’Henry

About Featured Book: Eat Beat Sleep Repeat: a FIFO Life by Amos O’Henry

“Eat Beat Sleep Repeat: a FIFO Life” is a memoir describing life and experiences as a Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) worker in the oil and gas industry, from trainee to fifteen-year veteran. My career – so far – has included stints on four offshore facilities and one major onshore LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) project. I currently work on the World’s largest floating object which I helped build in South Korea over a three year period. These experiences have been unique in many ways, but are conveyed in a very human way. I was not interested in writing a technical book, a history of the industry, or an environmental tome of monumental importance. This is just a story of my life as a FIFO worker during one of the busiest and most interesting times in the industry, particularly Australia.

I believe that a large amount of “normal” people are very interested in this lifestyle, apart from the 150,000 plus FIFO workers based in Australia, Canada and elsewhere. It also openly and honestly describes my descent into depression, sometimes so bad I wanted to suicide. FIFO can be hard. FIFO is a different life altogether, it comes with its own issues and problems, from distances travelled, the method of getting there, fatigue, dangerous conditions, depression, anxiety, separation from family and The World, huge relationship hurdles, as well as the concept of being trapped by the lifestyle and the large salaries, the Golden Handcuffs as we call it. In fact, this book is a study of Australian working culture in many ways with all its blemishes.

The lifestyle is not for everyone, especially offshore, and many people have crashed and burned in the time I have been in the job. We do a minimum of 12 hour days, 7 days a week, up to 28 days straight, sometimes longer when storms hit or choppers fail. At the same time a lot of us get paid well and we get decent breaks when we spend that money we earn. And we work with some of the best people on the planet, even if the Companies and their management structures leave a lot to be desired. I hope you enjoy it and find it interesting.

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Starvin’ Artist: Hunger for Success by Anthony Waldren

About Featured Book: Starvin’ Artist: Hunger for Success by Anthony Waldren

Finding success in this thing called “life” can be complicated. Sometimes we’re driven by an insatiable hunger; other times, we drift in life aimlessly looking for purpose. Yet, what appears to be circumstances meant to bury us can become the foundation from which we grow. In life, we grow strong and resilient simply because of our courage to continue through seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

This book is an example of what happens when perseverance becomes less of an admirable quality and more of a way of life. Starvin’ Artist: Hunger for Success is a truly inspirational story of how poverty, violence, and drug abuse ran rampant in underserved minority communities and how those experiences shaped a young Black boy into a successful husband, father, and business owner. Anthony found peace and solace in art. Despite many challenges, Anthony used the adversity of his reality to fuel his hunger for success.

Starvin’ Artist: Hunger for Success is a reminder that everything—every win, every conquest, every loss, every obstacle, every speed bump, every mistake, and every mishap—can be a stepping stone to success. This book is a guide for taking life experiences (not only in Anthony’s life but the lives of many others) and finding lessons in them and using those lessons to change the trajectory of your life.

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Against all Odds by Denis Knezovic

About Against all Odds by Denis Knezovic:

Against All Odds is the author’s personal memoir, it tells the story of a war refugee with cerebral palsy living in various countries. Its defining feature is that it not only talks about what happened in his own life, but also about world events that occurred at the time and how they’ve shaped me. That goes for political events as well as sporting events.

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Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love by Julie Scolnik

About Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love by Julie Scolnik:

From acclaimed concert flutist and the artistic director of Mistral Music comes a passionate memoir about young love, heartache, and the role of memory in our lives, set against a magical backdrop of classical music and French culture. Inspirational and heartfelt, Paris Blue: A Memoir of First Love is a true fairy-tale memoir with a dark underbelly about the tenacious grip of first love.

PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik arrives in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer in the bass section. This deeply moving tale of an ebullient young American and a reserved Frenchman will transport readers to the cafés, streets, and concert halls of Paris in the late seventies, and, spanning three decades, evolves from deep romance to sudden heartbreak, and finally to a lifelong quest for answers to release hidden immutable grief. A deeply felt, bittersweet reflection on how youthful passion changes you and clings to you forever, this is a story that has embedded itself in Julie’s heart and mind for forty years. It is time to share it.

Letters play a fundamental role in the memoir, each chapter beginning with a letter that Luc has sent during their separation, and each letter foreshadowing what is to follow. Time moves quickly in the final chapters, and Scolnik’s self-discovery about the role of memory in our lives brings satisfying closure to the story. John Irving wrote of the ending: “It’s a good story, but what sets it apart is the resolution at the end.”

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Safe, Wanted, and Loved by Patrick Dylan

Safe, Wanted, and Loved by Patrick Dylan

“Pat, we need to kill the dog.”

When a sudden mental illness struck his wife, Patrick Dylan found himself living with an eerie stranger. Scared and unprepared, he began a desperate battle to protect her from a mysterious disease, shelter their children from her bizarre behavior, and recover the woman he loved.

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Fancy Prison: Calling BS on the Child Welfare Industry by Tina Fumo-Martin

Fancy Prison: Calling BS on the Child Welfare Industry by Tina Fumo-Martin

An instinctual pull as old as time – a grandmother wanting to hold her newborn grandchild – brings readers into an unbelievable ordeal. Author Tina Fumo travels to a small town in Canada and finds herself in the most stressful situation of her life. The ‘authorities’ have apprehended her two-week-old granddaughter. What her and her family go through to get back their baby will absolutely shock you. You’ll wonder if this is really Canada. You will surely cry. You may even laugh. But make no mistake…what you find out in the end will make your jaw drop.

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Precious Silver Chopsticks by Mae Adams

Precious Silver Chopsticks by Mae Adams

Precious Silver Chopsticks is a real-life story, a kaleidoscopic tapestry interwoven with threads of the lives of these family members:
Grandpa, a descendant of a Chinese imperial scholar and a Korean princess, was a landlord, herbal medicine doctor, a Christian minister, and a Kung Fu instructor.
Grandma, a commoner, and ex-sea-diver raised Mae and gave her the silver chopsticks to symbolize her love.
Father, a prodigy and a musician, suffered from tuberculosis.
Mother, the daughter of a nobleman, was a college graduate when society considered women as second-class citizens. Her relationship with Mae was stormy.
Little-Pa, a mathematical genius, loved Mae like a father.
Big-Sis, Mae’s older sister, was a movie star in the 1950s.
Intaek, Mae’s little brother, was a commercial designer-artist.
Mae, the useless second daughter, is the narrator of this book.
A U.S. Marine Colonel, Hewitt Dayne Adams, commanded the First Marine Regiment during the Korean War and later married Mae.
Mae uses ironic humor to tell us about the Korean spirit and culture through her birth and education, her father’s death and his funeral, Grandpa’s sixtieth birthday, and a Korean wedding that coincides with the Japanese occupation. After World War II, the family escapes to South Korea at the personal loss of Grandma. Her story of the Korean War from a refugee’s point of view and survival through the indescribable chaos is vivid and heartbreaking.
The telling of her life story—the good, the bad, and all in truth—was an arduous task that demanded much emotional exertion. Since English is Mae’s fourth language, she wrote this book from her heart, out of love and gratitude for her grandma and husband. You will get some insight into other people’s lives lived in different corners of our world at another time in history through the journey of this book.

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WHY ARE THERE MONKEYS? (and other questions for God) by BROOKE JONES

WHY ARE THERE MONKEYS? (and other questions for God) by BROOKE JONES

1 minute I was ALIVE, the next minute I was DEAD, and THAT’S when the FUN BEGAN! 8 minutes passed here on Earth while I was busy being DEAD, but I wasn’t on Earth — I was at Heaven’s front door having a Question and Answer Session with God, and I KNOW IT REALLY HAPPENED because I was given PROOF THAT NO ONE COULD DENY! If you think a CONVERSATION WITH GOD could not possibly be FUNNY, you’re in for a big surprise!

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