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Write The Memoir You're Afraid to Write
Patricia L. Brooks
Write the Memoir You’re Afraid to Write delves deep into tried-and-true methods to help you, as an aspiring writer, draft your compelling personal stories. Patricia L. Brooks’ nonfiction content takes you down a path of analysis and reflection about your own story. She opens the window to a structured well-organized design that can be followed easily. She also reveals excerpts from her own experiences that transformed her life for the better. Click on the link to read more:
The Irish Girl
Ashley E. Sweeney
Thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne, forced from her home in rural Ireland in 1886 after being accused of incest, endures a treacherous voyage across the Atlantic alone to an unknown life in America. From the tenements of New York to the rough alleys of Chicago, Mary Agnes suffers the bitter taste of prejudice for the crime of being poor and Irish.
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China Gate: The Year of the Dragon
Frank G. Davis
Joshua Brown and his team have been tasked with fighting The War on Crime. A war has begun in China and a Taiwanese triad has taken advantage of the situation. In the mountains near Taipei the Heavenly Way Alliance triad has new leaders. They use the China war as a distraction to expand their drug trade and other deadly opportunities in America. The Wu brothers, Yen and Li, begin their assault on Chinatown in Portland, Oregon.
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Canyon Cowboy
Sally Harper Bates
The fun story about a young cowboy who grew up riding mules. When it came time for him to leave home, where would he go and what would he do where he could remain in the midst of his favorite animals? He finds his way to the great Grand Canyon in Arizona, and spends his life doing what the cowboys do who work at the Grand Canyon Mule Barn. Click on the link to read more: LINK
Her Wild Yellow Roses
Sally Harper Bates
How could a single woman with seven children survive in the territory of New Mexico and the early statehood of Arizona? With guts, and grit and a lot of prayer! Born in a covered wagon in New Mexico in 1900, she lived to see men walk on the moon!
Follow the path of this brave, bold woman as she works her way through stocking shelves in a general store for five cents an hour to finishing school and becoming a registered nurse. Click on the link to read more: LINK
The Dirty End of the Needle
Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer
Luke slammed the front door. He stormed to his car, getting in. The car was the little Honda Civic Papa bought him when he turned sixteen. He drove toward the highway as heat waves rose off the road in the scorching summer morning. These last days of August were the hottest Phoenix had experienced in a few years. The extreme heat in Arizona summers caused weird wavy mirage lines. Very often the temperatures could be over one hundred degrees by ten a.m. ... Click on the link to read more: LINK
Reckless: Sex, Lies and JFK
Mike Rothmiller & Douglas Thompson
Drawing on new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption of America’s Camelot.
For a time, John F. Kennedy ran the US and the world like a player with loaded dice. All his life, he expected to be serviced. For most, sex is an optional side order; for JFK, it was demanded: a manifestation of his majesty, his power, a display of entitlement and godlike behaviour – the resulting mess was for others to clean up. Click on the link to read more: LINK
I Dream I Wake I Write
Jane Ruby
This book contains stories that began as writing exercises for a creative writing class. Stellar grades from the instructor indicated merit to the writing, so they and additional works were composed and compiled into a book. Most came from real life experiences while others came from dreams. All story characters came from people the author had the pleasure or pain of meeting in real life.
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The Guatemala Reader
Mark D. Walker
Join me on an epic journey through the fascinating, yet often misunderstood Central American neighbor. I've studied and written about Guatemala for fifty years, and in this book, I've focused on some of the extraordinary people of Guatemala and their amazing stories. Given the crisis of democracy in Guatemala and the continued turmoil on our border, this is the time to understand the human realities better and take action to secure a more promising future. Click on the link to read more: LINK
Leaning Into Curves
Linda Sandel Pettit ED.D.
WINNER OF THE 2024 MAXY AWARD
Leaning into Curves is a deeply revealing memoir by Dr. Linda Sandel Pettit, an international speaker, author, personal consultant, and therapist with 37 years of experience. This is not just a psychologist’s tale; it is a journey of following the intuitive wisdom of the heart. Dr. Pettit shares her raw and honest experience of losing her way amidst anxiety, depression, mistrust, pain, exhaustion, and grief.
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Ariel's Song: Published Poems 1987-2023
Dawn Pisturino
Ariel's Song is a collection of intensely personal poems written between 1987 and 2023 that features various styles and themes, from twisted limericks that make you laugh to traditional sonnets that make you think and feel the world around you. There is something for everyone to enjoy: dark poems, love poems, nature poems, funny poems, poems about death and grief, poems about abuse and heartache, children's poems, and experimental poems. Click on the link to read more: LINK
Chloe's Secrets Los secretos de Chloe
Maria Retana
Chloe's Secrets/Los secretos de Chloe is a bilingual historical non-fiction picture book, written in English and Spanish. This title is the “pilot” book for what will be a new series titled Isabella & Chloe by Authors María Retana, Miles Last, and illustrator Salva Ferrando. María Retana's source of inspiration for the above title was her collection of dolls. She recounts the tale of slavery in the South during the 1800s from the perspective of a seven-year-old. Click on the link to read more: LINK
Ember of War
Daniel Dickinson
Life was complicated, but Korrith had the love of his life by his side. Together, they thought they would be safe from the growing hatred that Mages faced on a daily basis. When Korrith takes a supposedly easy job with his friend Edrin, it turns out to be far more insidious than they had imagined. Now, they are thrust into a fight for their lives as tensions between Clerics, Mages, and Kingdoms flare. Can love survive? Or will they become pawns in a much larger scheme? Click on the link to read more: LINK
Nostalgia: Stars of Yesteryear
Jack Hawn
Now, in the twilight of my writing career, but still ambitious, I decided that writing a third book following "Blind Journey: A Journalist's Memoirs" and its sequel, "Insomnia: Two Wives, Childhood Memories and Crazy Dreams" would simply be too much work. Wow! That word, work, suddenly reminded me of the time I was among a theater-full of struggling members of the Writers Guild attending a movie preview.
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The Sky People And Our Ancestors
Dan Baldwin & George Sewell
In their paranormal research, Dan Baldwin and George Sewell often encountered reports of ancient people’s interactions with “Sky People” or sometimes “Star People.” That ancient history is a worldwide phenomenon and in investigations for Sky People and Our Ancestors, they engaged with spirits and highly-evolved entities who had contact with “people from the sky.”
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I'm Looking for People Who Can't Write Good
Dan Baldwin
Dan Baldwin, in his understated brilliance, has caught the essence of what it means to be a writer and how to go about doing it even if you’ve never written more than a few sentences in a letter to a friend. There are so many anecdotes and stories from his extensive experience that you will find yourself laughing and taking notes at the same time. Throughout the sections he delves into all the various areas needed to be a successful writer.
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Your Forgotten Sons
Anne Montgomery
Bud Richardville is inducted into the Army as the United States prepares to enter World War II in 1943.
A chance comment has Bud assigned to the Graves Registration Service, where his unit is tasked with locating, identifying, and burying the dead. Bud ships out, leaving behind his new wife, Lorraine: a mysterious woman who has stolen his heart but whose shadowy past leaves many unanswered questions.
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Until Italy: A Traveler's Memoir
Debra VanDeventer
Her life was calm, comfortable, predictable… Until Italy
Debra has settled into a routine in retirement—planning meals in advance, scheduling laundry and grocery shopping days, and eating lunch in the same local sandwich shop. She lives her life in a bubble. A bubble that is slowly suffocating her. On the eve of a monumental birthday, she decides she must escape. Her ticket: Italy.
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OJ's Moon: Untold True Stories From The Other Side
B.T. Wedemeyer
A few years ago, Brian Wedemeyer, an elementary school principal in rural Arizona, is watching a documentary about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman when a question suddenly pops into his head. He expects to get a quick answer on his cell phone, but it is nowhere to be found. A former journalist, Wedemeyer does not give up.
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The Butterfly Bush
Josephine DeFalco
Growing up and figuring out who you are has never been easy. When Leandra’s mama yanks her off the family farm in Appalachia to fulfill her own big city dreams, Leandra learns that survival is best accomplished by pushing aside her country identity to fit into city life. Yet her Appalachian ways call to her heart, pulling her back to Mamaw, Papaw, the butterfly bush, and home.
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Dervla Alarms the Nanas
D.R. Ransdell
A morning jog, an unlocked door, and an angry lover add up to murder!
After Dervla’s boyfriend abruptly breaks up with her, she’s ready to kill him! His own grandmother and great-aunt are furious and applaud Dervla for throwing his stuff out the window. The next morning, however, Emil is wrongly accused of murder. The police are sure he’s guilty, so they can’t take time to investigate. The nanas call Dervla.
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A Tuesday Sister
Lewis Kirts
In this sequel to Texas in the Rear View, all is well… until it isn’t.
One phone call from FBI Special Agent Manny Waters disrupts the calm Arena Autry has found among friends.
It’s a familiar danger she has learned to escape… by running. But all those times in the past, she was running to save herself. Now, there are others to protect. Friends… and one man who could possibly be more. Click on the link to read more: LINK
Prickly Pear
Lewis Kirts
After decades of ranching, her father had made at least one vengeful enemy, and incarceration had only aided in festering that need for vengeance.
Then in 1886, Just before the age of twenty-one, Rebecca Morris' father passed, leaving her the Blanca Vista ranch. Her husband of less than a year, wants the money they could make by selling the ranch. But when Rebecca Morris refuses to sell, how will he react?
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Inside: A Howard Hamilton Ride-Along
J.C. De Ladurantey
Policing the streets is less precarious than the intrigue and drama behind the balusters and
bulletproof glass of a police station. The interaction with the public can be the escape our men and women in blue need to avoid the administrative bureaucracy that controls their actions and often dictates what they can and cannot do. Orchard Hill PD is not immune to the intrigue and changes that drive today's police departments.
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The Merchant of Texas
Harald Lutz Bruckner
Abramof, aged 106, relates the story of his turbulent life to his great-grandson, Daniel, an aspiring writer. Events shared with the reader commence on the morning of the second anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war. A tale of intrigue takes the reader through the fall and rise of a family in two worlds, the exciting account playing out in Austin, Texas, and Jerusalem, Israel.
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