Memoir

Pursued by Michael J. Heil

About Pursued by Michael J. Heil

We had lit a forest on fire…
We were stoned as crap…
My sister was calling 9-1-1…

As I watched the flames dance across the twilight sky, consuming everything in their path, I realized they represented my life. In my pursuit of pleasure and partying, I had ignited an addiction worse than any forest fire. After five arrests, a dozen allegations, a v-squad of cop cars chasing me down center street, and years of worshipping all the wrong things led me to the brink of death, I finally found hope in life. This is a story of how the initially enthralling and sometimes humorous pursuits of drugs, sex, and success cannot satisfy in the way that they promise, but there is One who can.

Embark on a journey of tears, hysteria, and utter chaos that will help you realize you are not as alone in your brokenness as perhaps you once thought. This book is just as much for those who are facing addiction as it is for their friends, mentors, counselors, and teachers.
For all those high schoolers and college students thinking that drinking and partying is the high-life, this will hit home. For all those graduates and working professionals striving relentlessly to build a name for themselves through accomplishments, wealth, status, luxury, and success, this book will resonate.
Maybe you’re at your wits end, and you’re starting to believe you’ll never heal, you’ll always be broken. Maybe you’re in the trenches of addiction or maybe you recently took your first hit or shot, either way these humorous pursuits, sorrowful stories, and powerful truths will help you know you’re not alone in your addictions, your battles, and your hardships, and help you be there for those you love!

Buy Pursued today so you can find a little more hope, purpose, and joy to face tomorrow.

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My Name Is 201 by Dale O. Garrett

About Featured Book: My Name Is 201 by Dale O. Garrett

‘My Name is 201’ is a thrilling and entertaining journey through the life of Dale Garrett, a young man who defies the odds and becomes a law enforcement officer while moonlighting as a professional comedy magician.

The book takes you through Dale’s adventures as he balances his duties as a police officer and his genuine love for making people laugh. Throughout his journey, you’ll get to know the humorous and lighthearted side of police work as Dale describes hilarious practical jokes he perpetrated on his fellow officers.

However, the book is not just about laughs, as Dale finds himself in life-threatening situations that test his skills and training. This book is an exciting, unforgettable ride filled with thrills, laughs, and lessons on life and perseverance.

Whether you’re a fan of true police stories or just looking for an enjoyable, fun read, “My Name is 201” will not disappoint. So, follow the exploits of Dale Garrett, a man who loved both his serious police career and making people laugh, as he lives his life on the stage and behind the badge as the unforgettable 201.

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The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me by Robert W. Norris

About The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me by Robert W. Norris

Excellent Mother’s Day selection.

This intimate memoir traces the trials, tribulations, and unbreakable bond of two Pacific Northwest characters. Spanning nearly a century and several continents, it provides a heart-warming example of how far a mother and son can go in maintaining their bond against great odds. A must read for all mothers and sons, and for those who’ve wondered what the road less traveled would’ve been like had they taken that first step.

“An endearing biography/memoir highlighting the lives of Robert Norris and his mother, Catherine Caroline Murphy. Norris’ engaging and comprehensive narrative encompasses two lives lived by different generations, often on separate continents, but united through lineage and shared characteristics (i.e., charisma, rebellious spirit, intelligence). Norris writes admiringly about the matriarch of his family and the lasting impact she had on him. A true joy to read.”—Philip Zozzaro, Manhattan Book Review

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600 Devils

About 600 Devils

45 years later, a spiritually tormented smuggler reveals his shocking secret life. Born in a refugee camp, the author sidestepped hallucinogens, gangsters, law enforcement and conmen, graduating from pot dealer to personal gopher for a world-class smuggler to an undercover operative for an “adjunct arm” of the U.S. government. Marjan’s path took him to places he really didn’t need to be long before he arrived.

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600 Devils by Marjan

About Featured Book: 600 Devils by Marjan

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The Road to Hancock County

About The Road to Hancock County

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Meet the man who had it all, lost his all, but found true all.

If you are ready for a wild, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing rollercoaster of crime, drugs, and sex- prepare to meet James Odell-a millionaire who spent his fortune on alcohol, cocaine, women, and a lavish lifestyle.

In his breathtaking, shocking, and mesmerizing autobiography, “The Road to Hancock County,” James Odell tells about his life in organized crime and shows his long fall from power, position, and prestige. He shares how he became a heroin addict and an alcoholic. Finally, he ended up losing all the money that he made and everything that made life worthwhile, including his family.

One day in the small town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, James was arrested and had a spiritual experience with God through Jesus Christ. He gave his life to the Lord. Miraculously, God opened the way for him to witness the goodness of God to thousands. He became a living witness of grace in the Hancock County Jail, in schools, treatment centers, and churches all over South Mississippi. James Odell did all of this while he was in prison. He would eventually become a college student at America’s largest Christian university. You should hold on tight because James Odell gives you a riveting account of his former life and a beautiful testimony of God’s grace.

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The Londoners: An expat’s memoirs and survival guide to the UK

About The Londoners: An expat’s memoirs and survival guide to the UK

Don’t move to the UK before your read this!

Do you want to make the most of your expatriation?

Discover tips and tricks from someone who made it all the way there and back again.

In her memoir, Estelle Van de Velde invites readers into her world. She had thought moving out of her country of origin would be scary. But the UK isn’t as terrifying as it sounds. From learning the language to studying and working in an English country, she describes the experiences that have shaped her, and taught her to see the world in a different way.

In The Londoners, you’ll discover:
– How to learn a new language and nail the IELTS exam;
– What to think about before moving in and out of a new country;
– How to find your first rental house in London;
– How to navigate the British university system;
– How to find a job that matters to you in the UK;
– And much, much more!

You’re gonna love this book about London, because it’s going to change your life forever and give you a new insight you never thought you’d need.

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Freed by Flamenco by Sandra Samore

About Freed by Flamenco by Sandra Samore

Freed by Flamenco (a memoir) is not just about dance. Pursuing a passion and “making your own sunshine” is the theme. Dance and journaling were the mental health therapies for Sandra Samore: mother, teacher, and librarian, who was born and raised in Iowa and South Dakota. She discovered a passion for flamenco dance while visiting Spain. This passion was always running in the background of her mind, until she could find a teacher with whom she then performed. Journaling, music, and dance lifted her from depression, S.A.D. (seasonal affective disorder), grief, and the sameness of life to a gypsy-spirit catharsis. Her family’s mental health issues of alcoholism, addiction, suicide, Alzheimer’s, and O.C.D. also contributed to the weight of the sadness that she suffered.
Chapters end with the following:
• “Thoughts & Ideas” for the reader to use as a journal starter to pursue their own passion for self-discovery, motivational creativity, and improved mental health
• Photos of Sandra’s path of performance for 25 years and still going
• An inspirational quote at end of each chapter
Titles of the Chapters
• Souvenir of Seville
• Always on My Mind
• The First Class
• Opening Night
• Marga’s Story
• Life on the Edge
• My Father’s Gift
• SAD in South Carolina
• Mother’s Cliffhanger
• Motherhood: The Cycle of Life
• Taming OCD
• Cultural Clash and Connection
• Path of Performance
• Life’s Chapters
• Bibliography and Related Reading
• Recommended Mental Health Resources
• Notes
• Dance Glossary
• Spanish Glossary
The hope is that you find inspiration from a life-long journey to not give up despite the odds. “You’ve Got to Make Your Own Sunshine.” Only you can make it happen.

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Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

About Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn’t right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness.

As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

With a driving perfectionism, she graduates college with honors. But at sixty-nine pounds, Rachel is a shell of nervous and obsessive behaviors that have controlled her life. Years of self-harm and self-loathing have fueled the inner battles between good and evil, health and sickness, and life and death.

Acting on stage offers her moments of freedom from the skewed perceptions she’s constructed over the years. But her dream of a career in theater is not enough to save her. What is the secret that will finally unleash her will to recover?

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Cruising the Mediterranean by Al & Sunny Lockwood

About Cruising the Mediterranean by Al & Sunny Lockwood

Named best nonfiction book by Seven Sisters Book Awards and gold medal winner of Wishing Shelf Book Awards, this day-by-day exploration of some of Europe’s grandest cities takes readers on the trip of a lifetime.

From Amsterdam’s historic canals and Athens’ scary Acropolis lift to Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Al & Sunny Lockwood share delicious fun, playful adventure and dazzling beauty

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Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change by Sherri Moshman-Paganos

About Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change by Sherri Moshman-Paganos

Jill and Alex, a young married couple, are fresh arrivals to Manhattan in the late 1970’s. Embarking on new careers and a new life together, can they resolve their conflicts and make their marriage work?
Back then the New York City subway conductors used to say “Step Lively,” when you got off the train. “Step lively” is also the couple’s need to adjust to their new life in the big city. The 14 tales of this memoir are told through different voices while Jill and Alex interact with various characters, such as a talking parakeet, Jill’s grandmothers and a born again elevator man, as well as Jill’s bicycle, which even has its own voice in the memoir.
If you like nostalgia and reading about the ebb and flow of love, and Manhattan of past years, then you’ll enjoy Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change.

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Wrong Note Right: The Story of an Accidental Piano Man by Winston Hall

About Wrong Note Right: The Story of an Accidental Piano Man by Winston Hall

Come along for the fun as award-winning piano entertainer Winston Hall takes you on a musical adventure in this e-book adaptation of his highly acclaimed one-man show, Wrong Note Right: The Story of an Accidental Piano Man.

In Wrong Note Right, Hall offers a genuine and humorous examination of his lifelong pursuit of playing the piano. From a bumbling start as a below-average piano student in Central Texas to a brief twelve-minute stint as a Hollywood piano coach, Hall explores the comical, colorful, and highly unpredictable world of a piano man.

On his unlikely journey toward becoming a piano man, Hall has crossed paths with everyone from movie stars to broken-hearted lovers and chimpanzees to ex-presidents. Around each unpredictable corner, Hall shares his inspiring story of overcoming obstacles that would have stopped most people — an inability to read music, self-doubt, and debilitating stage fright — to become one of Northwest Louisiana’s most popular piano entertainers.

Poignant, heartfelt, and sure to make you laugh, Wrong Note Right will inspire you to pursue the “music” in your own life – no matter the cost.

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Zaidy’s War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man’s Impossible Story of Endurance

About Zaidy’s War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers. One Man’s Impossible Story of Endurance

Benzion Malik was on a path of discovery. He was keen to learn about everything in life through the teachings of his faith and only something cataclysmic could throw him off this course. In 1939, the 21-year-old Benzion was called up to the Romanian Army. Little did he know that he would not be a free man until 1945.

During six long years, Benzion served in three further armies. He was forced into hard labor and was constantly abused because of his Jewishness by the Hungarian army. He was then made to serve the German army which simply needed disposable bodies to be targets for Soviet bullets. Finally, the Soviet army needed young men like Benzion to help with the effort to fight the Nazis.

None of these acts of service and servitude were easy. Benzion was in a continuous dance with death but clung to life through the goodness of strangers. When WWII was over, Benzion had to make the 2,600-kilometer walk home and narrowly escaped being poisoned to death by mushroom soup. At home he was confronted with the ruins of his family, community, and people. Yet, he was not defeated.

Lovingly written by his grandson, this book provides an account of a man’s resilience to not give up on the world after extreme destruction, but instead to help rebuild a community and practice Tikkun Olam – Repairing of the World – by believing in cosmic justice and leaving an imprint on his family, friends, and strangers for generations.

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Make or Break

About Make or Break

From the gangs on the streets of Western Sydney to sustaining a life-changing injury in Queensland, Paul Innes’ life has been an extreme but inspiring rock and rollercoaster ride.

Not becoming weakened by his injury, but truly being empowered in diverse ways, what would have broken most people was the making of Paul Innes.

Thirty-four years after the accident that left him a quadriplegic, Paul says he is living all of our best lives. His prosperous business, a disability care service, runs independently of him while he records with his band, does hilarious interviews and skits for his sit-down comedy and searches for the next property that he will turn into a self-sufficient resort style sanctuary.

Assisting local psychics to move on negative entities as just one of his side hobbies, his spirit is fearless. Having successfully created a sanctuary that brought back from the abyss, four of Queensland’s missing frogs, to being the founder of a rights incorporation – Paul has led a remarkable and widely influential, contributory life.

In his memoir, he reminds you that you can do anything you can imagine in this world. Drawing on his very different life experiences, replete with its awe-inspiring highs and heart shattering lows, Paul challenges and inspires you to enjoy the infinite strength of your own spirit and life, while being buoyed and empowered by his, as some of his one-liners suggest-

Don’t be affected, stay cool, calm and collected.
In alarm, breathe, be calm.
Endure the length with courage, with strength.
In the midst of rigour, remember your vigour.
Don’t just fold, be strong, be bold.
Let no fool, break your cool.

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Speak No Evil

About Speak No Evil

It is rare that a book can claim to challenge the way we view ourselves, view others and the way we seek out romantic relationships. Speak No Evil – In Search of our Self-esteem, Self-Empowerment, and Self-worth is such a book. It is the culmination of twenty years of communication strategies and concepts developed by Dr. Frank Plateroti whom inspired thousands of university students.

Now everyone can take the challenge to see if they view their world the same way after reading Speak No Evil – In Search of our Self-esteem, Self-empowerment, and Self-worth.

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Endurance: 480 Codorus Street Book 3 by Sandra L. Kearse-Stockton

About Featured Book: Endurance: 480 Codorus Street Book 3 by Sandra L. Kearse-Stockton

When I wrote 480 Codorus Street, it was a courageous act of self-preservation.

Through the toughest of times, I was blessed with a powerful support system from those closest to me. My mother’s unwavering faith and unconditional love helped buoy my spirits when hope seemed lost – from her wisdom came understanding.

In contrast to that, my husband Aaron’s compassionate presence allowed him into places even his own heart could not venture on its own. He was my rock through every chapter of this journey.

We’ve faced many trials together, but everything we endured only brought us closer as he stood steadfastly by my side through all our memories, struggles, and losses alike.

After plenty of soul-searching, I chose to take up the gauntlet of life’s toughest challenges. When fear seized my heart and hardship clouded my judgment — it was resilience that gave me strength beyond measure.

It enabled me to persist against all odds in pursuit of a future where success was more than just mere achievement. The future I wanted was the one where I put myself first, where I fought for my mother’s beliefs in me, and where I fought for my children — that was what success looked like to me.

When I made the decision to write this I knew that doing so would dredge up painful memories, yet it would also serve as an encouraging reminder for future generations that regardless of what obstacles come your way, you can overcome them with resilience and determination.

This fight begins with myself; one written at 480 Codorus Street as a testament for generations to come.

Get lost in this powerful 3-part story that explores the different struggles and triumphs of life. A candid look at what life is really like. But by the end of it, know that through prayers, faith, friends, family, and resilience, know that everything is possible.

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Diary of a Platonic Co-Parent

About Diary of a Platonic Co-Parent

Nick Farrow’s honest, touching and humorous memoir will show you how one man’s desire to have a child of his own led him to explore a whole new concept in platonic co-parenting that would change his life forever. The book covers the key events from the twelve months leading up to the birth of his daughter in 2015 until the present day. Nick shares the obstacles and the successes, joy and tears for anyone interested in learning about, or even starting this journey for themselves.

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Secrets of a Nun: My Own Story by Elizabeth Upton

About Secrets of a Nun: My Own Story by Elizabeth Upton

Awarded a 5-Star 2022 Editorial Book Review by Reader’s Favorite!

Secrets of a Nun is a revealing, uncompromisingly honest, and deeply moving look into one woman’s soul.

At fifteen, Elizabeth, a talented athlete, gives up her dreams of competing in the Olympics to become a nun. Separating from her mother and twin sister, she leaves her friends and familiar world behind to pursue a saintly life. But she finds herself unprepared for what lies ahead. While her cloistered life commences as a profound spiritual and emotional journey, personal disenchantment takes root and slowly grows over the next twenty years. Elizabeth recoils against the restrictive atmosphere of convent life. She struggles with conflicting emotions until a forbidden love affair forces her to come to grips with her needs as a woman.

Over the course of striving to find her authentic self, she ultimately feels compelled to leave the Order. A true story inspires this fascinating account of courage and passion. It will shock you and bring a smile to your face as you follow the course of a young woman’s obsession to become a spiritual seeker—an obsession that, over time, transforms into a deeply felt desire for personal liberation. (E-book on sale $1.99 until Jan. 1st, 2023)

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