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Once Was a Girl (A Harrowing Journey)

About Once Was a Girl (A Harrowing Journey)

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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Leaving The Boadroom

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Leaving the Boardroom: Fighting for Family, Health, and Hope

What do you do when the life you built suddenly unravels?
After losing the woman he loved, facing a crushing health scare, and watching his sons wrestle with hidden battles, Kevin discovers survival isn’t about working harder—it’s about learning to let go.

Told with raw honesty and unflinching heart, Leaving the Boardroom is a story of loss, fatherhood, resilience, and rebuilding. Not through grand victories, but through the quiet, stubborn decision to keep moving when the future you dreamed of collapses.

This isn’t a tale of perfect endings. It’s about standing back up. About loving fiercely. About holding on to what matters when nothing makes sense.

If you’ve ever found yourself in the wreckage of a life you thought was secure… if you’ve ever needed proof that broken does not mean beaten—this book is for you.
You are not alone. And your story isn’t over yet.

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

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

You won’t find anything more fascinating than real life. These are true to life stories, odd characters, and survival in a not to be believed world of bureaucracy, poverty and families in crisis. Heart, chaos, and comedy—uncensored; with real lives, real laughs, real heartbreak. Join me as I remember the stories, faces and work of a career in social work spanning 28 years.
This book will keep you up and make you think. Maybe life in your world isn’t so bad after all…

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Written Off by Lisa Phillips

Written Off by Lisa Phillips

In Written Off: The Journey Begins, Lisa Phillips shares her raw and redemptive story of parental rejection, identity loss, and spiritual healing. From her parents’ divorce in childhood to the heartbreaking emotional invalidation and gaslighting by her mother, Lisa navigates through layers of trauma that steal autonomy, joy, and self-worth. Yet amid the pain, something stirs within her spirit — a whisper of hope rooted in faith. The book traces three generations of mothers and daughters and explores what it means to be “written off” by those who were meant to bless you. With biblical reflection, courageous vulnerability, and soul-deep insight, Lisa offers readers more than a memoir — she offers a mirror. This is a story for anyone who’s experienced rejection or neglect and longs to be seen, known, and restored.

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FINDING LALLA’S ANNA by Anna Dao

FINDING LALLA’S ANNA by Anna Dao

Born to a globetrotting diplomat father and haunted by the silence of her absent mother, Anna’s childhood is a tapestry woven from fragments of different cultures. Guided by the unwavering love and wisdom of her Malian grandmother, Lalla, Anna seeks solace in ancestral traditions as she navigates a life marked by loneliness and displacement.

But years of nomadic existence take their toll, leading to emotional burnout in the bustling heart of New York City. Facing fractured relationships and the ghosts of her past, Anna embarks on a transformative journey. Fueled by resilience and Lalla’s enduring spirit, she confronts long-buried truths, mends broken bonds, and finally discovers the courage to embrace her true self.

Finding Lalla’s Anna is a captivating memoir of cultural identity, family, and the unwavering strength of love. It’s a poignant exploration of belonging, self-discovery, and the power of ancestral wisdom to heal even the deepest wounds.

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BATTLEFIELD UKRAINE: Three Heavy Days of a Tank Company Commander by Alex Kolis

About BATTLEFIELD UKRAINE: Three Heavy Days of a Tank Company Commander by Alex Kolis

This book recounts an event that unfolded in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, from February 24th to 26th, 2022. Owing to the region’s proximity to Crimea, Russian forces were rapidly advancing, thus threatening to surround and annihilate Ukrainian military forces on the left bank of the Dnipro River. In response, Ukrainian forces urgently attempted to retreat to the right bank.
In a daring move to assist his comrades in arms and enable their escape from the encirclement, a fearless young Lieutenant, the commander of a tank company, risked his life to secure an exit for a large Ukrainian military convoy over the Antonovsky Bridge. Engaging the enemy in battle, he defended his country, thus etching his name into history as a hero.

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The Door to Time: The Time Machine Is Within You

About The Door to Time: The Time Machine Is Within You

What if time were not a clock but a living map—layers of experience you can reshape so they start to work in your favour?

This book invites you through doors you already carry within you – a song that lingers, a scent that stirs, a gesture, a familiar place. These memories are given new weight when hidden rhythms return to the surface, and choices can be made with calm assurance. Through fragrances, music, objects, light, places and dreams, what was once muted can be set back into motion and what seemed unmovable can finally be faced. Time stops being a straight line; it becomes a series of folds and layers you can step into once you learn how to read their signals.

The Door to Time speaks to those who have felt displaced after life has struck hard – to those living with grief, anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress. It shows that time is not linear but open terrain – one that can be rediscovered and quietly transformed.

Readers will discover how seemingly ordinary details—an old melody, the smell of rain on stone, a forgotten object found in a drawer—can become gateways to healing. Each page encourages you to see memory not as a burden but as a resource, a way of entering your own history with fresh eyes. This is not about escaping the past, but about re-entering it in a way that restores strength and perspective.

If you’ve ever wished to pause time, to revisit what you lost, or to find new meaning in what remains, this book will speak directly to you. Its language is clear and poetic, blending insight with comfort. It does not promise quick fixes, but it opens a path—a way of walking through your own timeline with greater awareness and less fear.

Whether you are searching for solace, inspiration, or simply a different way of seeing the hours of your life, The Door to Time offers a quiet companion for that journey. Step through, and you may find that time itself has been waiting for you.

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