In 1974 John Egenes rode his horse, Gizmo across the United States. Travel with them as they witness an America that no longer exists. It’s an experience you won’t forget. $0.99 on Kindle.
Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America
Sweet Melissa Ignorance is not Bliss
At 18, I left the love and security of my family for a nightmare of drug addiction and crime. Struggling on the streets of Los Angeles and too ashamed to go back home, I submitted to a subculture of misfits that held me captive in more ways than one. Little did I know that what I left behind would be the one thing I longed for the most. Would I ever find my way out out this self-produced nightmare??? Only time would tell…$0.99 on Kindle.
Sweet Melissa Ignorance is not Bliss
Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain
Praise for Dancing with Elephants:
“If you need some encouragement in living with joy, read this book. It will change your perspective on everything.” —Lana Philips
“Sawatsky beautifully models a way to dance in the gale of full catastrophe, to celebrate life, to laugh with it and at himself.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, national bestselling author of Full Catastrophe Living
“…beautiful and inspiring book…full of humor and wisdom about the pain of loss in our life, by someone living with a debilitating disease.” —Jean Vanier, national bestselling author of Becoming Human
Want to enjoy the life you are living, even as you face major life challenges?
Is your mind succumbing to age? Is your body failing you? Can you ever find joy, peace, or fulfillment in these challenging conditions? The answer is a resounding YES.
Author Jarem Sawatsky saw the countless guides out there for those caring for the ill and healing the curable, but when he was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease he found there was nothing for those living with incurable illness. He quit his job as a professor and devoted his life to exploring the possibilities of living with chronic conditions. Now he’s bringing his findings and insights to you.
In Dancing With Elephants you’ll discover:
Simple practices to bring healing to your heart and life to your new outlook
Humorous (and occasionally heart-wrenching) stories of Sawatsky’s own journey
Multiple ways to build confidence in yourself, even when you’ve been shaken to the core
A new perspective to transform your pain and renew your spirit
Practical tools to face your seemingly inescapable fears, and much, much more!
Based on the popular blog of the same name, Dancing With Elephants includes insightful interviews with chronic disease experts Jon Kabat-Zinn, Lucy Kalanithi, and Patch Adams. Sawatsky’s landmark book provides support that only a fellow traveler down this road can offer.
If you like touching stories, mindful wisdom, and a touch of irreverent humor, then you’ll love Sawatsky’s life-changing book. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Art & Science of Happiness
Meet Dr. Zeev Gilkis, former Israeli Army senior special intelligence officer and virtuoso of life transformations. Trained as a mathematician, he went on to lead a successful, state-of-the-art (secret!) army project that nobody believed would work. He then morphed into a successful investment manager, later leading five new biotech start-ups. Once a “couch potato” geek, Gilkis competed in a triathlon at age 66! And after a diagnosis of advanced cancer, he went on to be a healthy, happy person. Free on Kindle.
More . . . Journey to Mystical Union Through the Sacred and the Profane
Free: Endless Possibilities
The Samoan Pyramid
A forgotten pyramid. An ancient curse. The true story behind an extraordinary mystery. The Samoan Pyramid interweaves the spellbinding stories behind archaeology’s centuries-long quest to find the forgotten pyramid with the author’s own journey into the jungles of Samoa as she unravels one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of the Pacific. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Florencia, An Accidental Story
A real life personal tragedy turns into a hope filled story for an 18 year old single mother, merely existing on crutches in the bush of Mozambique. Two writers minding their own book stumble on her story, 217 words in National Geographic article. A remarkable series of events brings together high school students, university seniors, a Handicapped International deminer and his wife, and a 79 year old Indian ‘Gandhi.’ From three continents the players enter the drama to do impossible. This story will restore your faith in humanity and call you to join a movement to restore dignity and justice to 10,000 innocent ones in Mozambique. Free on Kindle.
Free: Out of the Shoebox
A fascinating journal that reads like a detective story, comes across as an imaginative quest into the past, yet is the true personal story of the writer, Yaron Reshef. An unexpected phone call hurls Reshef into an intensive two-year journey, during which he has to solve a mystery that took shape in the 1930s and gradually unfolded in the present. A mysterious lot, a forgotten bank account, a people long gone – along with their memory which were obliterated during the Holocaust. All of these rise to the surface, bearing with them memories and emotions previously hidden away in the shoebox. Free on Kindle.
A Life Stolen
A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. Its purpose is to give guidance to others caring for loved ones with this terrible affliction, whether it is in providing helpful information, feelings of support or simply words of encouragement. The hope is that it will make the road for others an easier one to travel. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Courage and Grace
I Think I’m Alright: A Collection of Personal Essays
Sweet Melissa Ignorance is not Bliss
Free: Unbreakable, A Story of Faith and Belief
She uncovered extensive bank fraud and received death threats. She exposed irregularities in nonprofit organizations that helped Holocaust survivors and struggled to bring the truth to light in the face of legal battles, persecution, and financial ruin. Meet Yaffa Golan, who was born in Lebanon and immigrated with her family to Israel, grew up in poverty, but against all odds became the manager of a bank branch and a highly successful businesswoman. Free on Kindle.
PFC John Gurecki
John Gurecki fought with the US First Army in Europe during World War II. During his time in the army, he documented his experience through photographs and writing his thoughts down in a notebook, a postcard book he bought in Versailles, and a passport he took from a Nazi solider whom he killed in combat. ‘PFC John Gurecki’ shares his experience through his own words and photographs. $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: Nazis and Nudists
Is history repeating itself? Like many baby boomers, David Haldane got swept into the turbulence of the late 1960s and early ’70s, first as a radical activist and then a writer for an underground newspaper. Eventually, after self-imposed exiles in Europe and Mexico, he married, started a family and graduated to a significant position in mainstream journalism from which he chronicled many of the events that shaped an era. But Haldane always longed for something more, a “green leafy space” in which he could feel at peace. Finally, after a painful divorce, he found it in an unconventional way; with a dark-haired woman met on the Internet and wooed on the exotic islands of the Philippines. Nazis and Nudists is an award-winning series of poignant – and sometimes humorous – essays recounting that long journey. It is a story of love lost and love found. More importantly, it is about the lifelong spiritual quest for a place to call home. Free on Kindle.
Sweet Melissa, Ignorance is not Bliss
Secrets Of a Crazy Mental Health Counselor
I know you think all counselors are perfect right? Well truth be told counselors keep secrets. These secrets will have you questioning why these people are even counseling. This book introduces readers to the world of counselors. It goes into the world of one counselor, who has never had life easy. You will learn about her deep dark struggles. The kind of struggles no one will ever reveal.
“Secrets of a Crazy Mental Health Counselor” is a guide, self-help, motivational and pure inspirational book. This book tells a story about life issues and how to overcome all traps that have been set up to make you fail. Written for mental health counselors, workers, women, teenagers, entrepreneurs, and anybody struggling with life each day. This book gives readers:
Inspiration and insight on accepting issues then balancing them.
Behavior techniques that help you change your mindset as a working professional.
Life plans that are actionable steps to becoming successful in your career.
Facing all adversity, while still being motivated and a motivation for others.
Patrice Brown, a Mental Health director and counselor of Restoring Bodies and Minds has been the owner for five years. She credits her extensive fourteen year mental health background to helping her write this book. Patrice shares a tell all book about the life struggles she faced. Patrice describes the years fighting opposition without ever giving up or having regrets. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Alaska Man
Intriguing LARGER THAN LIFE story of George Davis and his intoxicating adventures of growing up in Alaska’s untamed, and unforgiving environment. He survives this perilous wheel of fortune, and thrives in the face of danger! I would like to add to why my book is important, is that we are true authentic Alaskans that live life off of the grid and that we have been entrepreneurs, making our living off of the land and sea. We are wilderness and off the grid consultants if that is important. On our website we have a variety of things we consult on from sport fishing, hunting, adventures, lodges/outfitters, developing or improving remote properties, and much more. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Tour Guide, Intrigue on the Nile
A vacation on a Nile Cruise in July 1996 is the beginning of Brita’s Egyptian nightmare. On the “Princess Amira” she meets the enigmatic cross-eyed Nubian archaeologist turned tour guide, Abdul. There is a powerful attraction between them and against her better judgment, Brita allows herself to be drawn into his life, a life she will find is filled with mysteries. Brita then attempts to build a new business in the USA with Abdul’s employer, the Egyptian tour company Cataract.. Unwittingly, she has now become involved with a criminal organization whose scope and true nature are unknown. Her quest for the truth about Cataract and Abdul’s true identity puts her through terrifying experiences. She is date-raped by Abdul and stalked by unknown strangers. The FBI, U.S., and Egyptian government officials to whom she turns for help agree to do so at first, but then shut the door on her. Free on Kindle.
The Munich Girl
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.Eva’s story reveals that she never joined the Nazi party, had Jewish friends, and was credited at the Nuremberg Trials with saving 35,000 Allied lives. As Anna’s journey leads back through the treacherous years in wartime Germany, it uncovers long-buried secrets and unknown reaches of her heart to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that always outlast war. $1.99 on Kindle.
Forgiveness Unforgettable
Free: Light in Shadows
At the age of 12, Adam’s 40 year old mother left the family for her 20 year old ski instructor. With the divorce leaving his father emotionally absent. Adam’s life began to spiral downward. Living with friends and a surrogate family, he found himself threatened with a restraining order, kicked out of high school, living with a drug dealer and pushing away a girl he loved who gave him a chance. Losing his sense of self, Adam moved downtown with his band mates. When he woke up in the hospital a second time, it was then in his darkest hour with a poisoned body and a deeply troubled mind that it came to him – an epiphany of hope and awakening. Light in Shadows is a cautionary tale of adolescence, a young man’s journey to his darkest corners where at his absolute end, he discovers his spiritual beginning. Free 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.