In parts funny and nostalgic, this book about being a teenager in the 60s, brings back the food, fads, fashions, music of growing up in Australia. Free on Kindle.
Free: Once I was a Teenager
March 12, 2015 By
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
March 10, 2015 By
A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.
The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of Theodore Roosevelt, and wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt witnessed some of the most remarkable decades in modern history, as America transitioned from the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Depression to World War II and the Cold War. $1.99 on Kindle.
Wounds of the Father: A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption
February 22, 2015 By
In the bestselling tradition of Smashed and Glass Castle, this raw, eye-opening memoir tells the powerful story of Elizabeth Garrison’s fractured childhood, descent into teenage drug addiction, and struggle to overcome nearly insurmountable odds. Elizabeth invites the reader behind the closed doors of a picture-perfect Christian family to reveal a dark, hidden world of child abuse, domestic violence, and chilling family secrets all performed in the name of God under the tyrannical rule of her father. With smack-you-in-the-face honesty, Elizabeth chronicles the dark realities and real-life horrors of teenage drug abuse, living on the streets, foster homes, and treatment centers. She paints an unsparing portrait of scratching and clawing her way out of the grips of child abuse, addiction, and betrayal to find the strength within herself to save her own life.
Free: “How Many Planes to Get Me?”
February 19, 2015 By
The is the true story of a family who adopted children of various nationalities. When thwarted from adopting an abandoned baby boy in Romania, Jonquil found two baby girls languishing in an orphanage. The mothers agreed to the adoption, but the courts accused her of wanting children for slave labor on the family’s kiwifruit orchard, or to sell, or worse – for body parts. This story about nine children adopted into a New Zealand family is crazy enough to make you laugh and cry. Free on Kindle.
Free: “I’m Just Sitting on a Fence”
February 18, 2015 By
I’m Just Sitting on a Fence chronicles Dax Flame’s travels in India, Hollywood, Rome, Mexico, San Francisco, and the Grand Canyon, where he volunteers at an orphanage, auditions with a movie star, falls in love, kills a fish, goes through a nervous breakdown, and has an epiphany-inducing near-death experience. It is Dax Flame’s debut memoir. Free on Kindle.
Out of the Cage
February 6, 2015 By
Many people’s minds live in cages. People are limited to what they will accept and are stuck in their way of thinking. Seeing what I’ve seen and overcoming all that I’ve overcome has allowed me to be more open minded and look at life from different angles. To be “Out of the Cage” means to break free from the demons that keep us from being all we can be. The book contains thirty memoirs that address the different demons we have within ourselves such as fear, pride, overthinking, bitterness and many more.
Free: “25 Years in the Rearview Mirror”
February 1, 2015 By
What were you doing 25 years ago? Where would you like to be 25 years from now? This collection of lively essays will get you thinking about your past and future and inspire you to make the small steps that will take you down the right path. Fifty-two authors give a sneak peek into their romances, hardships, joys, careers, and setbacks. Discover new authors for your to-read list as you get insight into their lives…and your own. Free on Kindle.
Contact
January 3, 2015 By
In “Contact” the author recounts his experiences of two tours in Northern Ireland (in Belfast and Crossmaglen) as a Commander with Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment during the blood soaked 1970’s. Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan comment on how relevant the book still is today, as the dangers, political agendas and religious roots underlying the conflict are eerily and heartbreakingly similar to their own recent experiences. Feel what it’s like to live each day with senses on high alert, waiting to be shot by a sniper or blown-up by a well-hidden bomb. Enter the mind of a soldier ordered to hold the lines in an ancient quarrel they have little affinity for, but whose consequences are deadly.
My Other Ex
December 29, 2014 By
An anthology of 35 true stories of friendship breakups and friendship loss written by female writers. $0.99 on Kindle.
Double Happiness
December 22, 2014 By
An award-winning memoir of a journey across China and through the soul of a young American, Double Happiness not only paints a fascinating portrait of life in the Middle Kingdom but recounts a groundbreaking story of coming of age in today’s era of globalization.
Tony Brasunas’s rugged road brings daunting perils, unexpected romance, and wild twists of fate that transform his understanding of right and wrong, beauty and truth, suffering and happiness. $1.99 on Kindle.
A Garland for Ashes
December 4, 2014 By
When little Hannelore (Hanna) Zack left Cologne, Germany, on a train bound for London as a seven-year-old Mädchen (young girl) on July 24, 1939, she had no way of knowing that she was part of the Kindertransport, an epic rescue effort that would save 10,000 Jewish children from Hitler’s Nazi regime by granting them safe passage to England. $4.99 for a limited time.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
November 25, 2014 By
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At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. $3.99 on Kindle
Memoirs of a Starving Artist
October 3, 2014 By
What if you risked everything to follow your dreams… and they didn’t quite come true? Would you regret having tried at all? How about if those choices led to a life full of freedom and adventure? This is the story of one man whose 25 years as a struggling writer meant learning to accept near constant rejection while at the same time traveling the world on a shoestring and reveling in all of the wonders that life has to offer. It is a tale of love and loss, hopes and aspirations, and ultimately the realization that true happiness comes not from succeeding on someone else’s terms, but in the ability to redefine success on one’s own.
“Memoirs of a Starving Artist” follows the author on a lifelong journey from Australia to Tahiti, Ireland to Estonia to Budapest and beyond. It is an inside look at what it means to be an ex-pat American writer in the era of the ebook revolution.
Kill Daddy
September 2, 2014 By
Trauma from the past becomes a part of who you are. It weighs down on the present, suffocating life and preventing you from healing and moving on. If you continue to carry this baggage around long enough, you will eventually become who you are not. Believe in the essential goodness of your true self, however, and you will accept the past, but let go of the burden and finally become the real you. This is the story of one man’s struggle to accept the past and move on before it destroys everything he is and could ever hope to be. In desperation Gerry flees society to save his sanity and ends up in the remote villages of East Africa. Midst the poverty, he encounters hope and more love than he could imagine. Will it be enough to save him? Can he repair the damage done to him in his childhood or will his abusers win in the end?
Pony Tales
July 25, 2014 By
Pony Tales is based on the true life adventures of Peta, a young woman trying to establish a riding school in the wilds of Canada. Read about her escapades and those of her students as they battle their way through eccentric characters, poverty, and the treachery of those mothers willing to do anything to win! If you love ponies, funny characters and mischief this is an entertaining read that will delight.
Abandoned in a strange country with three small children, Peta struggles to keep ponies from wandering, goats from scaring unsuspecting mothers and cows from walking through fences as she tries to establish her riding school. She is plagued with the strange antics of parents, farmers, and even has to battle the mayor to rescue her cow from the local pound! Barely more than a kid herself she tries to keep her pupils from too much mayhem as they scare the locals while galloping madly through their gardens. This is a heart warming story about the struggles and triumphs of an unusual life.
Autobiography of Charles R. Barefoot Jr.
June 17, 2014 By
Charles R. Barefoot Jr. the World Imperial Wizard for The Church of the Nation’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had everything, fame, wealth, good friends and a great marriage. Then one day things began to fall apart. This first episode tell how all his troubles began, as well as giving insight into his childhood and the events that made him who he is today. Determined to keep his integrity and abide by the code, he finds himself fighting for his life as those he thought loved him conspired to murder him. This real live man lived a life like those we watch in movies or read about in fiction novels. Imagine at the age of only five years old suddenly being responsible to defend the lives of those you loved dearly. This was only one of the incidents that molded Charles Barefoot’s life.
Excerpt: It was dark, he couldn’t see anything. Junior opened the window so he could hear the car. Junior then jumped down and turned off the inside lights hoping it would help him see better and keep them from seeing him. Junior hated that it was a bit foggy and he couldn’t see. Junior knew that if they turned on their lights, he’d know exactly where to shoot. But if not, he’d have to rely on his hearing. Propping himself up at the best angle to do the most damage. Junior sat in anticipation with the gun aimed and cocked. Junior listened carefully. He wasn’t afraid, but he didn’t like not being able to see the car. Junior was determined to keep them from getting shots off that could hurt his pops or Lonnie.
Home
May 23, 2014 By
This book is in tribute to my father. It brings into focus all the longing we have for an ideal place, the home of our childhood. The idea for it came to me during the mourning period for his passing:
This is the place where he put pen to paper…
But clung to the wall, the shelves are now bare.
All that remains of his words is but vapor …
All you can spot is but a dent in his chair
Six years after I discovered my father’s poems, a moment which happened in my childhood home while mourning for his passing, I present a tender tribute: a collection of poems and prose, half of which is written by me, and half—by my father, the author, poet and artist Zeev Kachel. I have been translating his poems for nearly a year, with careful attention to rhyme and rhythm, in an effort to remain faithful to the spirit of his words.
