From afar, Julie’s formative years looked perfect.

A father with a good, steady job. A stay-at-home mother who loved to read. A spacious yard filled with toys and games for her and her two siblings. Yet for those who looked just a little closer, Julie’s house was the one the neighbors whispered about, the place on the block that parents didn’t want their kids to visit.

The front door of Julie’s home hid dysfunction, abuse, alcoholism, neglect, and fear. Her father’s blind selfishness, Jekyll-and-Hyde moods, and fists that left bruises on his wife dominated the home, inflicting daily trauma on the family. Her mother tried her best, but ultimately her husband’s abuse led to lethargy and parental neglect, burdening her children with even more hardship as her autonomy was whittled away.

Abuse doesn’t just affect us in the moment. We carry trauma, and particularly sustained trauma, throughout our lives, sometimes even passing it to the next generation. In Life with Less of Me, Julianna Burmesch reflects upon how her upbringing influenced her life, its trajectory, and even her health as an adult, through a well documented phenomenon where adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can change a body on the cellular level. Breast cancer and a flesh-eating infection claimed parts of Julie’s body, mirroring her mother’s ever-shrinking life. Determined not to pass her scars to her own children, Julie fought to educate herself, heal from her past, embrace resilience, and become the successful, fulfilled woman she is today.

A candid and deeply reflective account of growing up in a home where the front door hid dysfunction, Life with Less of Me resonates with readers long past the final page. $5.99 on Kindle.

Weaving together her present reflections with personal dialogue between her current and former selves, “Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning” by Megan Margherio invites readers into the intimate, nonlinear landscape of healing.
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Weaving together her present reflections with personal dialogue between her current and former selves, “Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning” by Megan Margherio invites readers into the intimate, nonlinear landscape of healing.
$9.99 on Kindle.

Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.

With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want? Based on Richter’s years together with musician and visionary composer Lynda Roth, past and present weave together in this intimate journey of awakened eroticism, exhilarating joy, nearly unbearable grief, and moments of spiritual renewal. And through it all, there is music. Art must always come first, Lisa is reminded. The connection to the beautiful which transcends. It is how we survive.

Spare, impressionistic, and deeply personal, Fly, My Darling is a soulful journey of self-discovery and of what awaits when a woman striving to be free, finally is. $0.99 on Kindle.

Debbie is a mom trying to save her daughter. When the unimaginable happens, it is her daughter’s Golden Retriever, Brody, who shows her a new beginning. My Grief Jar is more than a memoir about loss. It’s a story about family, resilience, and the enduring power of love.

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Love was waiting at the shelter, not on Match.com. What does a single woman do when she longs to be a mother and hears her biological clock tick, tick, ticking away, but she keeps dating Mr. Wrong? She adopts a baby, of course. In the author’s case, it was a fur baby named Benny. For fans of Marley & Me, Birdie & Harlow, and Must Love Dogs, Mommy’s Boy is the tale of two lost souls finding the unconditional love, companionship, and emotional support they need, in the process forging a deep and profound bond as close as a mother and child. In his own special way, Benny helps Jennifer overcome her shyness, love without limits, and learn to love herself in preparation for her human soulmate. But when Benny faces a life-threatening illness, Jennifer must face the reality that no matter what we do, our time with our pets is limited.

Mommy’s Boy takes the reader on a transformative journey of love, loss, healing, redemption, and learning to love again. A tender and heartfelt tribute, Mommy’s Boy will resonate with anyone who’s loved a fur baby who was more than “just a dog,” he was family. $0.99 on Kindle.

“One of the best books by a rock musician I’ve ever read . . .” -Danny Goldberg, author of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

A gritty and melodic memoir of a guitarist’s coming of age amid the electric pulse of the Greenwich Village and Los Angeles 1960s music revolutions, when he encountered legends like James Taylor, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Kesey.

A Jewish kid born in Queens in 1947, Peter Gallway grew up with caring but emotionally aloof parents, and when the Leave It To Beaver 1950s gave way to counterculture, free love, and the chaotic rock ‘n’ roll of the next two decades, he took the ride of his life.

From shooting rubber bands in Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe’s Sutton Place apartment to shooting heroin in the backrooms of New York, Gallway plunges into the intoxicating world of New York’s Night Owl Cafe? alongside the Lovin’ Spoonful and James Taylor, through the Troubadour, Mama Cass, the Manson family, and the record companies of LA’s Sunset Strip.

Written in the raw, lyrical rhythm of a songwriter, through poetry, music, and prose, Hardtail Strat is an unputdownable story of music and madness, abuse and opportunity, loss and redemption-and the enduring power of song to set us free.
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More than the story of sailing 25,000 nautical miles across the Pacific, this memoir follows a woman who steps into the unknown and is changed by what she’s asked to face along the way. What begins as a bold adventure becomes a test of endurance, adaptability, and love—a lived story of courage, partnership, and hard-won confidence. It’s for anyone standing at the edge of a new direction, whether on the water or within. $0.99 on Kindle.

After 40 years of sharing quiet companionship with Jack, meeting twice a week, living separately and loving each other in their own way, Marsh Rose is left with more questions than answers after a sudden crisis ends their time together. In her new memoir, Marsh reflects on the mysteries that even deep intimacy can never fully solve.
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An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir. $4.99 on Kindle.