When sickness and life’s trials test you, what is your strength? Sherman Turner knew that belief in God conquers all “God remember me.” Doctor refused him medical care for his stroke and left him dying because he was minority person. How did God protect Sherman who was 99% paralyzed and dying? “God remember me.” $0.99 on Kindle.
A Way Out: A Memoir of Conquering Depression and Social Anxiety
A Way Out gives an unfiltered look into the life and thoughts of a young woman, Michelle, experiencing depression and social anxiety. She is able to share her experiences in a way that allows others to go along for the ride with her: the highs, the lows, and the amusingly unexpected. It artfully conveys Michelle’s journey through mental illness and toward mental health. Beyond the haunting honesty, A Way Out delivers heart, humor, and hope. $2.99 on Kindle.
With Angel’s Wings
Laura’s world spins as pediatricians throw words at her like heart failure, seizures, and g-tube feeds…when all she wants is to hold her baby tightly and be the mom she’d always dreamed of being.
Join Laura on her emotional journey as she strives to rise to the unexpected challenge of motherhood to two special needs daughters.
Witness her dance along the edge of sanity through a whirlwind of mind-numbing diagnoses, from a rare chromosomal disorder to autism. Experience heart-wrenching medical drama, from IV cut-downs to code blues. And…just as Laura begins to lose all hope…share in the joy of true love discovered. With Angel’s Wings – an honest and raw, 100% true story. $0.99 on Kindle.
Mother, It’s Hard to Forgive You
Free: Where is Home?
World War II interrupted Anneros Valensis childhood. Born in East Germany in 1938, she was just six years old when the war and its fallout struck her and her family. In Where is Home? she shares the story of how she survived the miseries of war.
In a narrative told from the perspective of a six-year-old child, this memoir shares the realities of what life was like during that time and what needed to be done to stay alive. Valensi tells the stories of war, beginning with the cruel Russian occupation of her homeland, the trauma of an unsettled life, her family’s move to West Germany in 1946, the drafting of her father into the army, and life with her mother and four siblings when there were scant food and no shelter. Where is Home? follows Valensi as she seeks a new life first in London and then later in the United States.
Providing stark, firsthand insight into the realities of war, Where is Home? tells one family’s story, the challenges they encountered, and the long-term effects on their psyches. Free on Kindle.
The Three Kitties That Saved My Life
“This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.”
FINALIST for the 2014 RONE AWARD
A True Romance Memoir
Love was then.
Love is now.
Love is forever.
When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet dating, brought love, romance, and laughter back into my life.
If you love reading feel-good memoirs, then don’t miss THE THREE KITTIES THAT SAVED MY LIFE, where “Mike Meyer pens a tender tale of love, loss, and renewal. The depth of emotion is palpable…The Three Kitties will tug at readers’ heartstrings, as they ride through the emotional highs and lows of Mike Meyer’s remarkable story.” – InD’tale Magazine $0.99 on Kindle.
Please Stay
Please Stay is the story of Holly, a healthy 39-year old college professor struck down by a sudden, near fatal brain aneurysm.
Readers learn about her through letters sent by close friends and former students, who sent memories to be read at her bedside while she was on a respirator, fighting for her life, about the impact she had on their lives. They plead with her not to die through their words and share what she means to them. The story is told through actual correspondence which updated friends, colleagues and loved ones through long emails at the end of each of 24 ICU days; text messages sent back and forth to Holly’s sister as things unfolded; and photos documenting events as Holly fought to live.
Replete with tender anecdotes, the book calls readers to question their own legacies and to celebrate their lives and the love of the people in them. See price on Kindle.
Free: I Love You My Child, I’m Abandoning You
Free: Before I Let You Go: Stories for My Grown Son
Put this on your Mother’s Day gift list! “Before I Let You Go” is a memoir that takes you on the emotional journey of striving to raise a perfect child knowing how imperfect we all are. It draws empathy from deep within each reader so grab your tissue box! Kirsten bravely shares the lessons that mothers know will help their boys become good men. Free on Kindle.
Free: I’m Not From Around Here
Free: The Strange Ways of Providence In My Life
The Real Reh Dogg
The story of a little boy who never had a happy childhood. He was forced to deal with pain and misery not meant for children. Driven to wrath was the only survival technique for him to bury the internal suffering he will carry with him until he perishes from the earth. Many urinated on his back and called it rain. The self-destruction is imminent. Happiness comes his way and he shoots it down and runs for cover. His safe zone is sadness and sense of being alone so he never feels the pain inflicting upon him ever again.
Emotions weren’t allowed to develop naturally so he’s left with emotions triggered by one bad event after another. Fearing as he grows older he may become a monster he avoids people at all costs. Life had more downs the ups all triggered by accepting people into his life that cared very little for him or cared in an obsessive way forcing him to export the same emotions leading to the tragedy of loss. The boy learns that being alone for the rest of his life is something he must embrace for him to feel any sense of happiness. $9.99 on Kindle.
Free: Stronger Core
Stronger Core is a powerful personal journey of one woman’s gritty determination to handle life’s challenges with grace in the face of great adversity.
Da’Veta grew up on the southside of Chicago. Forced into adulthood too soon after the unimaginable happened to her, she was determined not to spend the rest of her life as a victim. Through the ups and downs of romantic entanglements, fair weather friends, and holding down several jobs while raising two children as a single mother, Da’Veta often wondered if she would ever find her happily-ever-after. Although life’s obstacles tried to weaken her, she never doubted that she had a stronger core.
Inspirational, honest, and often humorous, Stronger Core is a candid look at childhood trauma, broken friendships, toxic relationships, and learning how to let go and move on from the people that hurt us the most. Free on Kindle.
Free: In First Person
Free: The Way of Fate
Free: White House in a Gray City
Free: American Made
Set in a world where crime and government coexist, American Made is the jaw-dropping true story of CIA pilot Barry Seal that the Hollywood movie starring Tom Cruise was afraid to tell.
Barry Seal flew cocaine and weapons worth billions of dollars into and out of America in the 1980s. After he became a government informant, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel offered a million for him alive and half a million dead. But his real trouble began after he threatened to expose the dirty dealings of George HW Bush.
American Made rips the roof off Bush and Clinton’s complicity in cocaine trafficking in Mena, Arkansas. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Woman in White: An Extraordinary Life
Free: The Way of The Cat
Music to My Years: Life and Love Between the Notes
Artie Kane who conducted scores for over 60 motion pictures, wrote music for over 250 television shows (“Wonder Woman,” “Vegas,” “Loveboat,” “Hotel,” “Dynasty,” “Matlock,” “Question of Guilt,” “Man Against the Mob”) and seven motion pictures, such as “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” “Eyes of Laura Mars,” “Night of the Juggler,” and “Wrong Is Right” working with such stars as Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Quincy Jones recounts his life in Hollywood and New York with eight marriages and a career spanning over eight decades. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Pablo Escobar: Beyond Narcos
The mind-blowing true story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel beyond their portrayal on Netflix.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a devoted family man and a psychopathic killer; a terrible enemy, yet a wonderful friend. While donating millions to the poor, he bombed and tortured his enemies – some had their eyeballs removed with hot spoons. Through ruthless cunning and America’s insatiable appetite for cocaine, he became a multi-billionaire, who lived in a $100-million house with its own zoo.
PABLO ESCOBAR: BEYOND NARCOS demolishes the standard good versus evil telling of Pablo’s story. The authorities were not hunting Pablo down to stop his cocaine business. They were taking over it. Free on Kindle.
Free: A Girl Called Renee
Free: In First Person
Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain
With Angel’s Wings
Laura’s world spins as pediatricians throw words at her like heart failure, seizures, and g-tube feeds…when all she wants is to hold her baby tightly and be the mom she’d always dreamed of being. Join Laura on her emotional journey as she strives to rise to the unexpected challenge of motherhood to two special needs daughters. $0.99 on Kindle.