Trading Places: Becoming My Mother’s Mother is a heartfelt look at the role reversal that often occurs when caring for an elderly parent. The stories are touching and share heartbreaking and comical moments. Trading Places helps caregivers face many challenges with the knowledge that they are not alone. These stories amuse, encourage, and uplift those in a caregiving role and provide clever and funny insights into the caregiver’s daily life. Trading Places is written with love, respect, and compassion. It is perfect for those in a caregiving role as well as for those facing that role in the future. $0.99 on Kindle.
Trading Places: Becoming My Mother’s Mother
Forgiveness Unforgettable
Walking the Wild Side: The Life of a Sex Tourist
A candid look at a young man as his life unfolds while he holidays in Thailand between the years 1996-2002. He meets numerous characters along the way, developing his sexual awareness and becoming quite insane as the culture shock takes effect. A string of anecdotes in chronological order, both comical and thought provoking as the main character works his way through some unimaginable situations. $0.99 on Kindle.
Dancing in Heaven – a sister’s memoir
Annie never outgrew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Her parents fed her, changed her clothes, and carried her in their arms from bed to chair and back every day of her life.
Annie rewarded them with her smiles.
Grote’s memoir of her sister Annie’s life and death is a story about strength, compassion, determination and unconditional love as their family adapted to Annie’s limitations and surrounded her with genuine love. But more importantly, Annie’s story is a testament to the basic intrinsic value of human life. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Boy No One Loved: A Heartbreaking True Story
Justin was taken into care at the age of five after deliberately burning down his family home. Six years on, after 20 failed placements, Justin arrives at Casey’s home. Casey and her husband Mike are specialist foster carers. They practice a new style of foster care that focuses on modifying the behaviour of profoundly damaged children. They are Justin’s last hope, and it quickly becomes clear that they are facing a big challenge. $0.99 on Kindle.
Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs, and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway
“Peter Zheutlin has written a lovely, moving, important book about a subject that is both heartbreaking and joyful.” – Dean Koontz
How far would you go to save a life? This is the extraordinary story of one man who has driven more than 1 million miles to rescue thousands of dogs from hunger, abuse and neglect and give them a second chance at life and love.
For years, Greg Mahle struggled to keep the last of his family-run restaurants afloat in Ohio. When it finally closed, he was broke and unsure what to do next. Then a stranded van-load of puppies changed his life forever.Join journalist Peter Zheutlin as he travels with Greg from Ohio to the Gulf Coast on his Rescue Road Trips to bring hard-luck dogs from the deep South to loving “forever families” up north looking to adopt a pet, with the help of many selfless volunteers along the way. $1.99 on Kindle, today only.
Memories Before and After the Sound of Music: An Autobiography
Agathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the Trapp Family Singers, offers readers the real story behind an American classic in her poignant and fascinating autobiography Memories Before and After The Sound of Music. The courageous family and events immortalized in the beloved Broadway musical and hit Hollywood film come vibrantly alive in these pages, and Agathe’s post-Sound of Music life is equally compelling. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Alchemy of the Afterlife, A Memoir
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.
It’s Not Your Journey
In her first published work, Rebecca Lombardo collects her internationally followed blog into the pages of It’s Not Your Journey. Rebecca shares her struggles with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, self-injury, and recovery from a suicide attempt.
Rebecca candidly reveals her real and raw feelings on these subjects, as well as addressing other issues that have contributed to her downward spiral and eventual climb out of her own pit of despair. Issues such as the loss of her mother to lung cancer, the death of her brother, abandonment from friends and family members due to her hospitalization, and more.
At 42 years of age and happily married for nearly 14 years, Rebecca can finally say that she is on her way to reaching her dream. Not only does she hope to help people that are struggling with depression, she hopes to help everyone realize that you are never too old to find your voice. $4.99 on Kindle.
The Heart Sings: A Perfect Love
Free: Oprah Queen of Media
Oprah Winfrey is an American icon. Her name and persona is known around the world. The story that has never been told until now, is how is made her billions. In this compelling biography, you will learn in detail how the “Queen of Media” triumphed over adversity and changed the world. Free on Kindle.
Off My Rocker
From his early years as a radio DJ, music critic, and rock singer to his lengthy career as a concert promoter, Kenny Weissberg lived all his childhood dreams—some of which turned into nightmares. In Off My Rocker, he presents a rollicking backstage look at the joy and pain of a life devoted to music. Surrounded by an all-star cast, he shares vivid, uncensored stories about James Brown, Whitney Houston, Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Bill Murray, and countless other showbiz legends. A spicy confessional filled with trenchant insights and self-deprecating humor, this memoir will take you on an unforgettable ride through six decades of pop culture. $0.99 on Kindle.
Running from the Mirror
Shortly after birth, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, lips, and lower eyelids, a tragedy made all the more horrific when his parents abandoned him at the hospital. As ward of New Jersey, he was placed under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face.
With striking candor, Howard recounts the unforgettable journey he took to find his place in the world, ultimately going from bullied outcast to successful entrepreneur. $0.99 on Kindle.
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. $0.99 on Kindle.
Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness
Winds of Skilak traces a young couple’s adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-tempered Skilak Lake. As the Wards adapt to a life without running water, electricity and telephones, the unforgiving, desolate environment tests their courage early on. Facing sub-freezing temperatures, unfriendly bears, and cabin fever, the Wards find strength in new friends, each other and the awe-inspiring beauty of “the last frontier.” Just when they finally settle in, a freak accident proves to be the ultimate test of their resolve. Will they be able to survive in this isolated wilderness filled with unseen dangers?
Award winning author Bonnie Rose Ward chronicles an exciting and thought-provoking tale of one couple’s faith in God and dedication to each other through all of Alaska’s curveballs. Winds of Skilak is a true tale of absorbing force, sure to bring out your own sense of adventure.
WINNER of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards memoir (other) category.
FINALIST of the 2014 USA Best Book Award Autobiography/Memoir category.
HONORABLE MENTION of the 2014 Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards. Adventurer & Recreation Category.
FINALIST of the JOURNEY AWARDS for Narrative Non-Fiction Chanticleer Book Reviews
$5.99 on Kindle.
A Life Stolen: My Father’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s
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. The hope is that it will make the road for others an easier one to travel. Sometimes you just need to feel like you’re not alone. $0.99 on Kindle.
Maude
In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second, she squeezed my hand and looked back in my eyes. She said, “You’ve always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?”
I didn’t understand, but I nodded my head anyway. It sounded strange to me, the way so many things did. I would do what she told me. I didn’t have a choice, any more than I had a choice in being born. $3.99 on Kindle.
Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey
“Mom, I’m gay.” With three little words, gay children can change their parents’ lives forever. Yet at the same times it’s a chance for those parents to realize nothing, really, has changed at all; same kid, same life, same bond of enduring love.Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer than ever, but not without a struggle. Coming from a republican family with conservative values, Betty needed time and education to understand her daughter’s homosexuality — but her ultimate acceptance would set the stage for a far more public coming out, one that would change history.
In Love, Ellen, Betty DeGeneres tells her story; the complicated path to acceptance and the deepening of her friendship with her daughter; the media’s scrutiny of their family life; the painful and often inspiring stories she’s heard on the road as the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaigns National Coming Out Project.With a mother’s love, clear minded common sense, and hard won wisdom, Betty DeGeneres offers up her own very personal memoir to help parents understand their gay children, and to help sons and daughters who have been rejected by their families feel less alone. $0.99 on Kindle.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE “I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.”When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world. $3.99 on Kindle (2/14 only).
OinK! Only in Korea!
OinK! Only in Korea!
In 1980, years after Vietnam and even more years before Desert Storm, America was experiencing a seventeen-year period of peace. One of the few places a young army officer could find adventure was on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Korea, Freedom’s Frontier. The second day in-country, the lieutenant was no longer a Korean cherry boy. Hours later he found himself inside the DMZ. By the end of the week, he was wounded.
As the intelligence officer for the battalion, he knew the area around the DMZ was a dangerous place. The minefields took many casualties, small arms fire got others, and artillery short rounds claimed even more, leading up to the bizarre episode of a missing severed hand and the search for the diamond ring that was no longer on it. Even something as simple as crossing the Imjin River after the monsoons turned deadly. And then there was the most feared affliction of all, catching river blindness. It’s not a disease – it’s going down to the river and getting your eyes shot out.
The lieutenant’s daily routine was anything but routine. The averages told the story: a shooting incident every ten days with thirty-three combat related deaths during the year. The patrols were long and cold, the guard posts were desolate, and Freedom Bridge operations droned on until enemy frogmen shattered the monotony. Peace, in that part of the world, had a unique definition. As they say, the DMZ isn’t hell
Where Memories Meet: Reclaiming my father after Alzheimer’s
Christine Grote’s memoir of losing her father to Alzheimer’s, and her father Jerry’s account of the defining moments of his life from birth in the 1930’s are two stories interwoven in one book. Grote invites us into her parents’ home where accommodations are continually made for her father’s declining condition, and she allows us into her heart as she struggles to accept his loss. The two stories move in opposition as Grote’s story of struggle and loss travels backwards in time. The unconventional story timeline allows Grote to move past memories of the heartbreak of Jerry’s last years, and in effect, reclaim her father after Alzheimer’s. $0.99 on Kindle.
Maude
In 1906, I was barely over fourteen years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She opened her mouth to say something, but then her face flushed, and she turned her head to look out the window. After a second, she squeezed my hand and looked back in my eyes. She said, “You’ve always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now, you’re going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?”
I didn’t understand, but I nodded my head anyway. It sounded strange to me, the way so many things did. I would do what she told me. I didn’t have a choice, any more than I had a choice in being born. $3.99 on Kindle.
Yellow Crocus
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she grows older, Mattie becomes more like family to Lisbeth than her own kin and the girl’s visits to the slaves’ quarters—and their lively and loving community—bring them closer together than ever. But can two women in such disparate circumstances form a bond like theirs without consequence? This deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity.Revised edition: This edition of Yellow Crocus includes editorial revisions. $1.99 on Kindle.
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church’s highest ministry, speaks of her “disconnection” from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape.
In this tell-all memoir, complete with family photographs from her time in the Church, Jenna Miscavige Hill, a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization, offers an insider’s profile of the beliefs, rituals, and secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions, including some of Hollywood’s brightest stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta. $1.99 on Kindle.