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3mph: The Adventures of One Woman’s Walk Around the World by Polly Letofsky

3mph: The Adventures of One Woman’s Walk Around the World by Polly Letofsky

Polly Letofsky left her Colorado home and headed west across 4 continents and over 14,000 miles–by foot–to become the first woman to walk around the world. In a spirit of adventure, along with the goal of raising global awareness for breast cancer, strangers welcomed her into their homes. The world had embraced her. But in the middle of Polly’s journey, 9/11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history, and she found herself navigating a vastly changing world.

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Pursued: God’s Relentless Pursuit and a Drug Addicts Journey to Finding Purpose

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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 hysteria, weeping, and laughter as you realize you are not quite so singularly broken 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 wit’s end, believing that you will never heal, you will 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 battles and your hardships. More than that, this book will empower you to stand and fight for yourself and for those you love!

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Pursued: God’s Relentless Pursuit and a Drug Addicts Journey to Finding Purpose

About Pursued: God’s Relentless Pursuit and a Drug Addicts Journey to Finding Purpose

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

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Nobody’s Legend by Jason Ferguson

Nobody’s Legend by Jason Ferguson

Nobody’s Legend recounts Jason Ferguson’s remarkable journey from athletic promise to addiction, despair, and ultimately, redemption. Once a Division I football hopeful, he faced career-ending injuries that derailed his dreams. In the face of loss and identity crisis, he spiraled into opioid addiction for over a decade. But in the depths, he chose to rebuild—starting from the inside out. Ferguson candidly details his struggles, mistakes, breakthroughs, and the battles no one sees. Rather than letting his past define him, he demonstrates that transformation is born in the resolve to rise. Through raw storytelling and practical insight, the book offers lessons in resilience, self-worth, and rewriting the narratives we tell ourselves. It’s a call to anyone who’s been underestimated, stuck, or haunted by their past: your story isn’t over until you reclaim it.

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You Still Can’t Make This Up! : More Memoirs of a Social Worker by J. Traveler Pelton

You Still Can’t Make This Up! : More Memoirs of a Social Worker by J. Traveler Pelton

In this second book about my twenty-eight years in professional Social Work, I reached back in my memory vault to put stories to the faces that still come to mind when I sit back and recall those days. Some of them are drop-dead funny, some are sad and some simply infuriated me. I’ve met people from the privileged to the poor and most their relatives. Book two continues the short, almost true history of that career, funny to tragic. Names have been changed to protect innocent and guilty. It gets greasy, gritty, gracious and no way glamourous here. If you like true to life stories, odd characters funny to tragic, you will love this book.

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Hungry for Life by Rachel Richards

About Hungry for Life by Rachel Richards

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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Once Was a Girl (A Harrowing Journey)

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Once Was a Girl: A Harrowing Journey is a raw, powerful memoir of survival, transformation, and the strength of the human spirit. Born into middle-class comfort, Josie Townsend was thrust into a life of hardship, facing abuse, addiction, abandonment, and loss.
From the streets of Sydney to the haunting Outback, she descends into darkness but within that darkness, she finds unbreakable strength. Stripped bare by heartbreak and betrayal, Josie rebuilds herself with courage and grace, emerging fiercer than before.
Controversial, deeply moving, and ultimately redemptive, Once Was a Girl is more than a memoir. It is an inspiring story for anyone ever told they weren’t enough.
Hold fast to your dreams. Even in your darkest hour, you are not lost. You are becoming.

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Feeling My Way Through the Midlands: Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss by Chris Martin

About Feeling My Way Through the Midlands: Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss by Chris Martin

Are you lost in an emotional middle ground after losing a loved one? You’re not alone.

Narrating a widower’s grief journey, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is more than simply a memoir of loss of a spouse. It movingly articulates and validates the turbulent emotions and lessons learned in the grieving, while renewing faith and hope for the future.

At age forty-one, Chris Martin’s life changed forever when he lost his wife of twenty years to cancer. With refreshing vulnerability and authenticity, this book shares his story of loss and his emotions along the often-confusing road of grief through a series of reflective insights and a collection of more than ninety heartfelt poems. It grapples with the difficult parts of the grief journey—questions, fog, loneliness, guilt, emptiness, pain, bitterness, regrets, lamenting, powerlessness, and deep sorrow. At the same time, it keeps sight of an eternal perspective based in faith in God, reflecting on legacy, gratitude, contentment, and hope in the midst of it all.

Part grief poetry book, part grief memoir, and part guidebook for grievers, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is a supremely relatable walk through the aftermath of personal loss, challenging readers to embrace, express, and share their own grief emotions as part of their healing process while moving forward one day at a time.

A balance of raw emotion, encouragement to keep going, and wisdom for the road ahead, this book is a valuable companion on the grief journey.

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The Girl Who Cried Love by Lindsay Manfredi

The Girl Who Cried Love by Lindsay Manfredi

In The Girl Who Cried Love: A Pivot to Self-Worth, musician and author Lindsay Manfredi delivers a vulnerable and raw memoir about chasing love, losing herself, and ultimately reclaiming her identity. From a childhood marked by shame and secrecy, she details how she repeatedly fell into toxic relationships and addiction in search of validation—only to find heartbreak, betrayal, and a shattered sense of self. Each relationship becomes its own heartbreak, yet each broken piece also shapes a larger mosaic of resilience and healing. Manfredi invites readers to see true love not as something outside to be begged for, but as the relationship we build within ourselves. Through unfiltered honesty, she explores emotional wounds, boundary setting, and the journey toward self-acceptance. Her story is a rallying cry for anyone who’s ever lost themselves in love and longs to pivot toward strength, worth, and wholeness.

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