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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Russell (Author)My story 'Her Place Was With God', was written for you and for me. I wrote it for my kids, my grandkids, my mom, my dad's, my sisters and brothers and for all of my family and friends as a whole. I wrote it for you and your neighbor and for the family who had one of their loved ones come home from war and their heart is broke when they are so angry and torn up inside that slowly and loudly the abuse is everywhere. It's about you or some...

This Is Getting Old: Two Boomers and Their Generation at Dusk

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Taylor (Author)In This Is Getting Old, Paul Taylor tells two intertwined stories.One is the tale of a long marriage shaped by time, as he and his wife navigate the realities of aging in the Adirondack community where their story began.The other is a candid reckoning with the Baby Boom generation, what it was given, what it got wrong, and what it leaves behind.Blending memoir with cultural and political insight, this is a thoughtful, often funny, sometimes ...

Shattered at Seven: Surviving abuse, addiction, and then darkness that nearly took me

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Report copyright infringementby Jessy Spruell (Author)Some childhoods leave scars. Others leave fractures that echo through an entire lifetime.In Shattered at 7, Jessy Spruell shares a raw and deeply personal memoir about growing up in an environment shaped by trauma, abuse, and instability. What began as a childhood defined by fear and confusion slowly turned into years of struggle with addiction, self-destruction, and the painful search for identity and purpose.Through unflinching honesty, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ingrid Teresa Pryde (Author)Stories about bullying seem to be in the news every day. Sadly, these stories often follow a tragic event, and they usually involve children and teens. But bullying is not just a childhood phenomenon; reports of bullying in the workplace, among adults, are on the rise. In The Dark Side of Nursing, author Ingrid Teresa Pryde shares her story of bullying in the health-care fi eld. When she decided to make nursing her lifework, she had...

The Meateater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Rinella (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An indispensable guide to surviving everything from an extended wilderness exploration to a day-long boat trip, with hard-earned advice from the host of Netflix's MeatEaterFor anyone planning to spend time outside, The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival is the perfect antidote to the sensationalism of the modern survival genre. Informed by the real-life experiences of renowned outdoorsman Steven ...

Making My Way: A Story of Grit and Grace

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Report copyright infringementby Damaris Melo-Gyasi (Author)From the crowded streets of São Paulo to the wide, unfamiliar skies of the American Midwest, Damaris Melo-Gyasi has spent her life crossing borders-geographical, cultural, economic, and spiritual. In this gripping and deeply personal memoir, she reveals how a young Brazilian girl with big dreams learned to survive, rebuild, and rise in a world that repeatedly told her she was "too much."With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, D...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Ryan (Author)Louise Ryan recieved an unexpected letter from her father with whom she had cut off all communication many years before. His words disrupted the peace and distance she had worked so hard to create over nearly two decades, exhuming a buried past and opening a strongbox of secrets she'd been carrying all her life. She went to visit her dying father not knowing what she would say or how she would feel when they came face to face. This Will Be T...

Nine Ways to Crazy: Surviving My Mom's Dementia

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Report copyright infringementby Dj Taranto (Author)Deborah J. Taranto thought when her mother joined her in New York, she'd finally be able to help her maintain her health. What she hadn't considered was how she'd maintain her own health: Her mother's deteriorating mind and constant demands made it almost impossible to get anything done. In this memoir, which includes numerous journal entries, she relives the guilt of struggling to take care of an elderly parent with Alzheimer's who managed t...

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Report copyright infringementby D. Margaret Hoffman (Author)Saving Our Lives: Volume Two-Essays to Release the Writer in YOU is a book of personal essays and writing advice designed to entertain readers and to encourage writers. Hoffman fashions her opinions, experiences and life stories into essays on a variety of topics with the intent of convincing readers that their opinions, experiences and life stories are valuable and worth saving-one small piece at a time.Volume Two continues the work...

Living with Adversity: Eighteen Personal Accounts

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Report copyright infringementby David Benatar (Editor)Adversity is widespread. While many people recognize the challenges posed by destitution, disease, disability, or discrimination, considering only these conditions seriously underestimates how much adversity there is. We meet and interact with many people, but only rarely do we know anything about the hardships they confront. The eighteen personal accounts in this collection provide a range of examples of the kinds of physical, psycholog...

Caves, Huts, and Monasteries: Finding the Deeper Self Along the Footpaths of Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Kacik (Author)When the anxiety of materialistic excess overcomes your soul, and you hear a cry from deep within, what do you do?Author Mark Kacik traveled the remote back roads of Asia in search of a peaceful mind, a deep understanding of self, and an alternative to his hectic and materialistic American lifestyle.Probing remote footpaths and following the breeze of his soul, Kacik serendipitously encounters Buddhist masters in out-of-the-way temples and mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Cameron (Author)Faced with every parent's worst nightmare, Kim's world shattered when her ten year old daughter Ella collapsed from a sudden severe headache. The result of a fatal brain bleed, caused by a condition she was born with that her family had no idea she had. Determined to live a life of meaning and purpose in her daughter's honour, Kim was led to healing spaces where she could unravel and process intense layers of grief and trauma. Here she foun...

Standing at the Edge: A Year of Days After Sudden Death

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Report copyright infringementby Meg Tipper (Author)This memoir chronicles the author Meg Tipper's journey in the land of grief for the first year after the sudden death of her 22 year old daughter Maggie. These starkly honest observations weave inspiring and amusing details of Maggie's life with universal feelings of grief. Through the daily entries and occasional photographs other stories of Meg's life unfold as well: long-term recovery in a twelve step program, the first year of retirement ...

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Report copyright infringementby Fleur Boal (Author)The Psychologist's Daughter is the unembellished, yet emotive, true story of heartache, perseverance and spiritual strength. The book reveals glaring discrepancies in one man's professional and personal lives and the consequences of these extremes on his family.John Redman was a psychologist, revered among academic and professional peers. But for his daughter, he was a painful enigma-cruel and explosive, distant but protective. Fleur candidly...

The Girl Who Saw More: A magical journey of self discovery as a channel for the divine, whilst navigating life as a child, teen & young woman.

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Report copyright infringementby Georgina Elford (Author)The Girl Who Saw More is much needed in a world that constanltly tries to separate us from our own divine authenticity. The belief in a higher power so innocently and effortlessly experienced by many is supressed. Spiritual gifts are experienced by us all. Many need this confirmation, those who do not see themselves as able or special, is simply not true. We all have gifts, spiritual abilities may not be seen in the ways we would expect,...

Negotiation + Influence = Success: Quick Lessons to Help You Win in Corporate Life

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Report copyright infringementby Giuseppe Conti (Author)What if three minutes a day could transform your career?Negotiating effectively and exerting influence are crucial skills that can feel overwhelming.Negotiation + Influence = Success: Quick Lessons to Help You Win in Corporate Life solves this problem with a series of bite-sized practical lessons that you can apply immediately.With over 25 years of experience across top global firms and business schools, Giuseppe Conti shares proven techn...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Rehn (Author)Marietta, Georgia. The mid-1990s. An affluent suburb with rolling hills, manicured lawns, and top-tier schools. An idyllic community brimming with privilege and promise. But behind closed doors, thirty of our close friends fell to drug addiction.How did so many in our circle die from drug-related deaths? And how the hell did we survive?In this raw collection of memoirs, five friends recount their battles with addiction, set against the backdr...

I Decided to Live as Me: An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Suhyun (Author), Anton Hur (Translator)The million-copy internationally bestselling illustrated life guide about how to stop comparing yourself to others--especially on social media--and how to find the strength to be yourself In a world where it can seem impossible to feel that you are ever good enough, and where it's easy to judge yourself by the unrealistic standards of social media, I Decided to Live as Me offers guidance and encouragement for celebrati...

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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Report copyright infringementby David Brooks (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel ...

Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence about (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Select

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Syme (Author)A literary jaunt in praise of the lost art of letter writing that explores a cultural history and the undeniable thrill of old-school correspondence--from journalist and cultural critic Rachel Syme. Inspired by a famed correspondence handbook penned by a persnickety Victorian who had strong opinions on how to lick a stamp, cultural critic Rachel Syme has rewritten the staid letter-writing rules of yore for the letter writers of today. Syme i...

Facing Her: A Sacred Child's Journey To Freedom

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Report copyright infringementby Coulsander Johnson (Author)Born The seventh of nine children in Greenville, Mississippi. Coulsander Johnson was uprooted at five years old and transplanted in the streets of Watts, South Central Los Angeles, carrying wounds no child should have to carry. What followed was a life that refused to be simple. She buried two premature infants. She survived a car accident that putt her on life support for three weeks. She walked across the high school graduation stag...

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Report copyright infringementby Lois Dasilva-Knapton (Author)In Overcoming: Turning Trials into Triumphs, Lois shares her personal journey alongside practical strategies and tools to help readers face challenges with courage, clarity, and strength. Her story offers proof that obstacles can become stepping stones when we choose resilience. Lois believes that true success comes when we contribute to something greater than ourselves. Whether teaching, coaching, or writing, she brings outside-the...

Look Left, Walk Green: A Shocking Tale of Losing the Past and Choosing to Gain the Future.

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Report copyright infringementby K. Rose Quayle (Author)ECT, commonly known as 'shock therapy, ' has been used to successfully treat various illnesses since the late 1930s and is still in use around the world today. Famous for causing memory loss to some degree, ECT suffers a good deal of misconception about how it works and what it does and doesn't do. In this memoir about the ins and outs of this controversial treatment, K. Rose Quayle chronicles the pitfalls and triumphs of losing the past ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Blake Paul (Author)This is not a story that was written because everything made sense. It was written because it didn't.In these pages, I invite you into a life shaped by love, loss, identity, and the quiet, complicated process of becoming. What begins as a simple writing exercise turns into something much deeper, a record of survival, growth, and the moments that define us long after they pass. From grief at a young age to navigating relationships, hear...

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Report copyright infringementby Chude Jideonwo (Author)In 2016, Chude Jideonwo quit his job as CEO of one of Nigeria's top PR firms to find a new mission. He soon faced clinical depression and considered suicide.During this period, he was inspired by a conversation between Oprah Winfrey and Brené Brown on Super Soul Sunday. This pivotal moment led him to become the host of the viral talk show #WithChude, a director of award-winning films, and the founder of withchude.com, a platform telling ...

Anything but Brave: A Diary into Addiction

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Report copyright infringementby Lesandra Simpson (Author)A raw and powerful coming-of-age memoir that follows a young girl's descent into crystal meth addiction. Told in gripping first-person narration, this deeply personal account captures the inner battle of addiction, the chaos it brings, and the long road to healing. An epilogue offers a glimpse into her journey of recovery, resilience, and hope.Author BiographyLesandra Simpson is a recovering addict and alcoholic living in British Columb...

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Report copyright infringementby Danitra Culp (Author)The Unhealed Healer is a deeply honest journey into the spaces where strength and brokenness meet. Through vivid memories and tender reflections, the author invites readers to walk beside her as she uncovers the little girl she once was and the woman she became while trying to heal everyone except herself. This is not a story of perfect recovery, but of real awakening, of learning to trust the quiet voice within after years of ignoring it.W...

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Making A Life: Things That Matter and How We Create Them

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Austin Casson (Author)"After all, what does it mean to create something-be it a human or a sweater?" How do we define creativity? Is creativity about what we make? Is it our approach to life? Or is it about where we go to find the necessary spark within ourselves to build something new in the world? In this intimate account of one woman's search to understand the art of making, Sarah Austin Casson embarks on a journey around the world to explore how creat...

Joni Mitchell Called Me Ugly: Persuasion and the Power of an Ask

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy J. Boynton (Author)What happens when the most powerful word in the world is the one you're too afraid to say? In Joni Mitchell Called Me Ugly, Timothy Boynton takes readers on an unforgettable journey from the wings of Broadway to the boardrooms of major philanthropy, revealing how one bold ask at a time transformed his life, his career, and the lives of countless others.Part memoir, part masterclass in persuasion, this book is a behind-the-scenes look ...

Pacific Northwest Birding Companion: Field Guide & Birding Journal

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Report copyright infringementby Stan Tekiela (Author)Your Bird-Watching Companion for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Peaceful, relaxing, and inspiring--birding can yield a lifetime of satisfaction. For some, simple observation of birds is enough to fill them with joy. Others prefer to make it more interactive, striving to see a variety of species and learning to identify them. If you're among the latter, the Pacific Northwest Birding Companion is just for you. Written by award-winning author, ...

The Bittersweet Chronicles of JD and Jodi

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Report copyright infringementby Jodi Knapp (Author)What would you do if the life you loved suddenly turned into a nightmare?For Jodi Knapp, caring for her horse JD and chasing her dreams should have been the best years of her life. Instead, they became a terrifying battle for safety, freedom, and peace of mind.Targeted by relentless stalking, phones hacked, drones buzzing overhead, the constant feeling of being watched. Jodi's world closed in around her. Each day brought new fear, and each ni...