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Report copyright infringementby Betty Jessie Maddox (Author), Eric M. Maddox (Illustrator)"Oh, to Be Kept by Jesus" is a gospel song with the promise that God, through Christ Jesus, will keep us AGAINST ALL ODDS if we would trust Him and keep our minds stayed on Him, His Word, and His will. The author's story recounts many of the times that God kept her from despair regarding health issues of all family members and the homegoing of their two younger children and her mom, from harm during a ca...

Recalling My Beginnings: The Kentucky Years

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Report copyright infringementby Vana J. Plaisance (Author)"Vana has exhibited an ability to develop scenes and characters and condensed narratives that are often gripping, moving, and unexpectedly funny." -- Robert Root, author of Happenstance Vana Plaisance recalls her childhood memories, with vivid details on her family's history, and her happy, loving marriage. Themes on faith, Christian values, healing, and love punctuate the narrative, creating an enchanting piece. Deep emotional landsca...

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Report copyright infringementby J. W. Lee (Author)Every man, in his walk through life, must make choices. Life is full of choices. And life can be our greatest teacher. It's those choices that are inevitably molded by our morals, our values and mostly our experiences. The challenge to the choices we make is that we cannot see the end (result) at the beginning (action). However, wisdom will allow us to stop and think about our choices - what we say or what we do - and ponder the outcomes befor...

Long Stories Shortened: Go past the Dak, catch the San at the Loop and cross the powerlines... into the sticks.

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Report copyright infringementby William J. Peters (Author)Long Stories Shortened is a collection of short stories and vignettes; largely about growing up in South Winnipeg in the 1960s and 1970s, but also the author's escapades as a kid and teenager, and his life as a communications professional, photographer, husband, father and musician.Long ago memories are brought to life with poignancy, humour, insight and charm!"Bill Peters asked me to write an offhanded, maybe even funny blurb for this...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria G. Parnham (Author)Word hit a child as hard as a fist. I know because I lived with a wicked witch, whom I called mother, for nearly twenty years.The hurt, pain and suffering caused by constant criticism, belittling and insulting behavior takes many years to get over. I did not know until many years later, that she was sexually abused. Could this be what caused her behavior or the way she treated us? I don't know. My brother and I suffered from such hor...

On the Yellow Brick Road: My Search for Home and Hope for the Child with Autism

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Kaplan (Author)We are all on some type of search to find home, a place we feel supports our uniqueness, our curiosities, our passions; acknowledges our contributions; helps us feel connected; and, most of all, offers us safety, love, and a sense of well-being.In this book, Karen Kaplan takes us on her search to find her own home through her dedication to children with autism, to give hope to the families who love and support them and the professionals who...

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Report copyright infringementby T. C. Bartlett (Author), T. C. Bartlett (Designed by)Inspired by actual events, T. C. Barlett's Roads Over Brown County is a poignant and sensitive story, giving us a luminous peek into the trials and tribulations of a hard-working young countrywoman, born and raised on a small farm in Indiana, and the challenges she faced along the roads of her life. From tragedy to triumph, from despair to hope, from heartbreak to love. Number of Pages: 310 ...

Kerri On: Lonely child, abandoned teenager, to an abused woman

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Report copyright infringementby Kerri Krysko (Author)Kerri shares an inspirational journey from a lonely child, to an abandoned teenager, abused wife, to an independent woman. She was belittled and victimized by people whom she loved and a man who used her in his own vindictive games and rise to power.By finding the warmth inside her heart and watching those around her, she transformed her own self-built prison walls of self-loathing to self-discover"We are not alone, she tells us. We are all...

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Report copyright infringementby Miriam Levine (Author)To Miriam Levine, "devotion" implies love and self-creation; to her mother's generation, it meant martyrdom and self-denial. The domain of this memoir is the interval between those attitudes. Devotion is the expression of a sensibility that trusts the physical--a facet of women's existence that is at once ennobling and primary, transcendent and spiritual. Affirming her deep connection to people, Levine draws from a rich expanse of memories...

The Strength in the Life of an Ex-Military Wife

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Blake (Author)Strength like no other I've faced in all of my fifty three years made me who I am today. Experience as an ex-military wife taught me that even in that life I am a conqueror. If I can make it through all that was thrown my way after leaving, I can make it through anything thrown at me after winning my peace, my freedom and my sanity. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.58 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Dunstan D. Arlington (Author)A true story documenting the struggles of a father trying to parent responsibly despite the challenges of a difficult ex-partner, and the inflexibility of a family law system the gears of which never stop grinding. From some of the lowest times in his life to some of the highest, this emotional roller coaster recounts one man's journey as he rebuilds his life from the aftermath of the old. Number of Pages: 246 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Barchelle Bolger Wathen (Author)Shayla and Friends is based on the true story of an adorable shepherd/wolfdog Shayla who grew up at a Christian orphanage, Otchiy Dim (Father's House) in Ukraine. In these pages is the story of her journey to America, and the special friends she made along her way. Shayla and her friends teach valuable lessons on friendship, acceptance of others, facing challenges, and finding inner courage.Shayla, tho abandoned at a young age in...

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Report copyright infringementby James Phinney Munroe (Author), George H Ellis (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Osborn Douthit (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impo...

Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Baron Nicorvo (Author), Geoff Dyer (Selected by)In the winter of 1984, Sharon Nicorvo was violently raped while delivering pizza to Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. At the same time, her seven-year-old son Jay was being subjected to repeated and secret sexual abuse by his babysitter. Best Copy Available delves into these devastating events and their long aftermath. Thirty years later, Nicorvo receives a photocopy of the criminal investigation report d...

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Report copyright infringementby Shon Faye (Author)A Sunday Times (London) bestseller. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue, Vulture, and ELLE UK."Uncommonly wise and honest. Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope. A masterpiece from start to finish." --Maggie Nelson, author of Like Love "Should be required reading for anyone who wants to join a dating app, love ethically, or experience true partnership with other humans." --Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood and The Dry...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonthan Downing (Author)Intentional Child-Rearing is a book focused on the importance of raising a generation of godly children and the generations within each. We cannot wait to pour into our children when we think they are old enough to understand. It has to start in the womb. According to Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV), God knew us and ordained us at this early stage of life as prophets. Failure to start early and raise a godly seed in the home has caused much rebuttal ...

26 Seconds: Grief and Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash

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Report copyright infringementby Rossana D'Antonio (Author)Much as Eric Schollsberg's Fast Food Nation made people think about the way we eat, this provocative memoir and expos? challenges readers to question why, given its long history of cover-ups and systemic safety gaps, we continue to trust the aviation industry. On a stormy late May morning in 2008, TACA Airlines Flight 390 crashes at one of the most dangerous airports in the world, Honduras's Toncontin International Airport. Five peopl...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Riegel (Author)In Our Bodies Are Mostly Water, grief comes in pieces, fragments, prose poems, and dreams. We slip in and out of time when we're grieving, how we feel we can't bear it and yet we do, how we create art in the face of loss because that's how we make meaning of this inevitable human experience. Katherine Riegel finds a way through her grief in her compassionate and lyrical memoir of her sister's life and death. Her sister-grief becomes a c...

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Calhoun (Author)There are multitude of books for caregivers of individuals with dementia that offer advice in finding available resources, a support group, strategies to deal with stress, how to take care of oneself, dealing with difficult family members, knowing when to place a loved one in memory care, or making hard financial decisions. However, there are fewer books that discuss the rigors of caring daily for someone with dementia and the toll it ...

The Courage to Begin Again: Stories of Resilience, Courage, and Reinvention

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Report copyright infringementby Kirsten Harty (Compiled by), Lisa Michelle Umina (Author) Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 08, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Sylvie Messing (Author) Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 11, 2025

Portraits from Paris: School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light

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Report copyright infringementby Gavin Cologne-Brookes (Author)Written between 2019 and 2024, Portraits from Paris is a novelized memoir of a boarding-school childhood in 1970s England, interspersed with journalistic sketches of cities as diverse as Montevideo, Kolkata, and Moscow that draw from the travel-studded years between school and the author's move to France. Along the way, Gavin Cologne-Brookes reflects on historic events ranging from Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian inv...

Meet Me Here: For The Mother Who Holds So Much

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Report copyright infringementby Angelina Kim (Author) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.35 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: May 01, 2025

Parallel and Separate: The Tale of Two Sisters

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Report copyright infringementby Beverly Park Williams (Author)Parallel and Separate - This is the story of two sisters who were separated at birth, to be reunited 70 years later. The details of each sister were indeed parallel to the other as they grew up in the same city of Cincinnati, one living on the west side and the other on the east side. Despite many opportunities to cross paths, neither sister was aware of the existence or proximity of the other until the internet research of their c...

My Life Before: A Memoir of a Family Created Through Adoption

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Report copyright infringementby Pippa Seichrist (Author), Andry Seichrist (Author)"What's the first thing you remember?" The question was asked by a mother looking for a way to get to know her newly-adopted, 13-year-old son. She wondered if the boy would understand her question, or speak enough English to be able to answer. Before coming to the States a few months earlier, he had been in a Ukrainian orphanage. The boy's answer was so remarkable she wrote it down. The memory he shared was, at ...

And the Beat Goes On: My E-Ticket Ride Writing about, Working for, and Running through Disney's World

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Report copyright infringementby Chuck Schmidt (Author), Leslie A. Sklar (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 10, 2025

Without Explanation: A True Story of Love and Loss in the Jungle

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Report copyright infringementby Rod Jasmer (Author)It was going to be the trip of a lifetime. An enchanting trek through the Guatemalan jungle, viewing the mystical Mayan Ruins, a breath-stealing sunset from atop an ancient temple, a magical entourage of a million fireflies. Then suddenly our wonderful adventure became a nightmare. What followed was a roller coaster of hope and despair that would span the longest days of my life. As we frantically fought for my wife's life, we found ourselves...

Dad Lore True Stories, Real Adventures, and How Dads Become Legends

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Report copyright infringementby G. J. King (Author)Since the beginning of time, humans have been storytellers. Around campfires, at dinner tables, in rocking chairs on front porches. Stories have shaped who we are, how we see the world, and the legacy we leave behind.But there's something different about the way a dad tells a story.Maybe it's the way he brings the past to life, turning a simple memory into an epic adventure. Maybe it's the way he adds just enough exaggeration to keep you wond...

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The Heart Word: How I Lost It All and Found Myself

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Chava Rose (Author)A month after Lauren estranges herself from both of her parents, peculiar things start happening in her apartment. Ants multiply and disappear. Moth larvae emerge from beneath her bed and consume everything she owns. Each intrusion is weirder than the next as a series of events that rival the Biblical plagues descends upon Lauren's home. Is she being punished for leaving her family? Lauren has no idea how that would even be possible, b...

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Scott Curtis (Author)My husband has AIDS. I miraculously don't. How am I going to survive? ...I try to keep from screaming, "Dennis, you can't do this to me now. I left my family, my friends, my job, pulled the kids away from their school and friends-you can't quit on us. You can't." Through clenched teeth, he controls his response, "Scott, I'm tired. I'm dying." Dennis is walking away and does not sound tired; he sounds angry. "Have you not heard anything...