Bearing the Sword, Not in Vain: Serving the Lord as a Los Angeles Police Officer

Bearing the Sword, Not in Vain: Serving the Lord as a Los Angeles Police Officer

Bearing the Sword, Not in Vain is a powerful collection of real-life police stories from a man who walked the thin blue line with conviction, compassion, and an unwavering faith in God’s calling.

With over 25 years in law enforcement, Shelley Alan Gale recounts moments that tested his courage, his conscience, and his soul-armed standoffs, split-second decisions, and the quiet, unseen battles of a life in uniform. Each story reveals not just the harsh realities of police work, but the deep spiritual truths that carried him through.

This is not just a book about crime and justice. It’s about purpose. It’s about wrestling with what it means to bear the sword in a world of brokenness – and to do so not in vain. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Hungry for Life

Hungry for Life
In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel knows something isn’t right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts and behaviors, she shines a light on the mystery of mental illness. Experience the fascinating and flawed treatment process and learn the secret that finally unleashed her will to recover. Free on Kindle.
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Conjuring the Hurricane: The Best Way to Save Your Life is Any Way You Can

Conjuring the Hurricane: The Best Way to Save Your Life is Any Way You Can
When Sarah Hanson realized that she had to leave her abusive marriage, she didn’t have a plan. She had instinct, fear, a body that had learned to brace against danger, and a small, stubborn voice insisting she deserved more. This is the story of what it takes to leave a life that is killing you, and who you can become on the other side.
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Conjuring the Hurricane: The Best Way to Save Your Life is Any Way You Can

Conjuring the Hurricane: The Best Way to Save Your Life is Any Way You Can

When Sarah Hanson realized that she had to leave her abusive marriage, she didn’t have a plan. She had instinct, fear, a body that had learned to brace against danger, and a small, stubborn voice insisting she deserved more. This is the story of what it takes to leave a life that is killing you, and who you can become on the other side.
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Welcome to Humanity: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir and Case Against the Mental Health System

 

A psychiatrist who spent 37 years and more than 30,000 conversations inside the mental health system reaches a verdict: the system has been solving the wrong problem. This is the account of how he found that out, and what he found instead. On March 6, 2026, psychiatry fired Dr. Fred Moss by video call. What he felt, underneath the anxiety, was relief. Welcome to Humanity is his reckoning – part memoir, part manifesto, part love letter to every person who has ever wondered if something was permanently broken inside them. There may be nothing wrong with you. There may never have been. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Life with Less of Me

Life with Less of Me

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.
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Life with Less of Me

Life with Less of Me
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.

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.
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Sacred Miles on the Camino: A Transformative Journey from Self-Abandonment to Self-Worth

Sacred Miles on the Camino: A Transformative Journey from Self-Abandonment to Self-Worth
What if the life you’ve been trying to survive… was never meant to contain you?

In the summer of 2013, Marise C. Tourigny reached a breaking point. After decades of silencing her voice inside a marriage that left her feeling invisible, she found herself untethered—unsure of who she was, or if she mattered at all.

So she did something radical: she walked away.

Not just from a life that no longer fit, but onto the ancient path of the Camino de Santiago.

Sacred Miles on the Camino is a deeply personal, soul-level reckoning. Across 800 kilometers of rugged terrain—from the mist-covered Pyrenees to the wild Atlantic coast—Marise confronts the patterns that kept her small and begins the courageous work of reclaiming her worth. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Stripping The Scales: A Workplace Sexual Assault Survivor’s True Crime Story

Stripping The Scales: A Workplace Sexual Assault Survivor's True Crime Story
A childhood without a father’s presence, marked by a violation that left lasting scars, and a youth spent navigating the cold realities of foster and group homes that offered little comfort. This tumultuous start propelled me into a life where boundaries blurred, leading to brushes with the law and periods of imprisonment. I walked unexpected paths, from the spotlight of performance to the quiet solitude of domestic work, where an insidious act of violence shattered any semblance of peace. The pursuit of justice proved to be a cruel illusion, where I was met with indifference and deception from those meant to serve. Then came my penultimate trial, followed by a devastating loss that would change my world forever. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.

Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.

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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Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.

Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning.

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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FRACTURED: A Deep and Intimate Memoir

FRACTURED: A Deep and Intimate Memoir
Based on a true story and the memoirs of the author’s unbridled words, written without polish or prose, that is. . .

FRACTURED

In the pages of *FRACTURED*, the author shares her journey from childhood through her teenage years and into early adulthood. She recounts her experiences within a destructive family dynamic, enduring trauma, abuse, and interpersonal misconduct, along with deep, painful secrets. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Fly, My Darling: A Love Story

Fly, My Darling: A Love Story

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.
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Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood

Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood
Growing up as an adoptee and identical twin, Julie McGue will take you on her journey for identity and individuality, searching for answers through tragedy and adversity.
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Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging

Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers—which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.
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Free: 40 Miles to Happy, the Love Story of a Rancher and his Wife

40 Miles to Happy, the Love Story of a Rancher and his Wife
From their first dance in 1947, to their last, touching goodbye, Denny and Della follow their dreams of owning a ranch. Along the way, they are guided by the legacy of four courageous women forebears who braved frontier living while facing opposition to their religious practice of polygamy. Don’t miss this captivating journey of true love, and quiet courage. Free on Kindle.
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My Grief Jar: Still Growing After the Loss of My Daughter

My Grief Jar: Still Growing After the Loss of My Daughter

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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Belonging to the World: A Journey from Grief to Connection in Every Country on Earth

Belonging to the World: A Journey from Grief to Connection in Every Country on Earth
Belonging to the World is a deeply felt memoir of healing from grief, finding resilience, and forging human connection across the globe. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Inner Ember: Five Days Alone in Death Valley in Search of My Authentic Self

Inner Ember is the story of one man’s journey to find something larger than himself and his ongoing efforts to remain connected to the self he discovered ten years ago in the desert—even while living in the grip of our chaotic and disconnected modern age. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Walking Testimony

The walking testimony
Brenaji was not supposed to walk, but however ,miraculously she did. School was where she found out she was different in a negative way. She began getting bullied and seeked help from her principal who began to bully her as well, she held her back a grade. Things got worse then next year with a new teacher who was after destroying her. Brenaji had a choice to make, walk on the path of forgiveness or unforgiveness she chose forgiveness. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Mommy’s Boy: How My Doggie Soulmate’s Love Rescued Me

Mommy's Boy: How My Doggie Soulmate's Love Rescued Me

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.
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Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Songs and Stories

Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Songs and Stories

“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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Taking The Helm

Taking The Helm

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.
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Medicine at 50 Below: A Memoir of Healthcare, Healing, and Hope in Remote Alaska

Medicine at 50 Below: A Memoir of Healthcare, Healing, and Hope in Remote Alaska
A Nurse Practitioner’s Story of Grit, Care, and Innovation

In today’s medical world, burnout is rising and rural clinics are left understaffed, and many clinicians feel trapped in a system that has forgotten its purpose. Professionals try cutting hours, switching jobs, even turning to corporate locum tenens agencies—only to find the same disillusionment waiting for them. The frustration is real: exhaustion, moral injury, and the sense that the heart of medicine is slipping away.

But there is another path—one discovered in the most unlikely place: the remote villages of bush Alaska, where temperatures plunge to 50 below and a single clinician may stand between a community and catastrophe.

Medicine at 50 Below offers a different path. By sharing her years as a nurse practitioner in bush Alaska where she was often the only provider for hundreds of miles, Mary Ellen Doty reveals how reconnecting with purpose and autonomy can revive both the clinician and the communities they serve. Her experience led to the creation of Wilderness Medical Staffing, now staffing more than 150 rural and remote clinics with physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants seeking meaningful work.

Mary Ellen writes with clarity, humility, and a deep respect for Alaska’s people and land. Her purpose is simple: Show readers that there are solutions for rural healthcare and that there is a way for clinicians to reclaim the meaning they thought was gone.

In this book, you’ll discover:

The realities of practicing medicine in extreme environments—and the resilience it builds.

How rural and remote medicine can restore professional purpose and reduce burnout.
Why rotational staffing solves problems permanent placement never could.

How community-centered care leads to better outcomes for Native Alaskans.

A founder’s blueprint for creating a mission-driven healthcare company without losing your values.

If you’re ready to see what meaningful medicine can look like again, Medicine at 50 Below will show you the way. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Things Left Unsaid: My Dad, the Mob, and Growing Up in the Nevada Gaming Industry

Things Left Unsaid: My Dad, the Mob, and Growing Up in the Nevada Gaming Industry
In this true story, an unexpected revelation upends a son’s understanding of everything he thought he knew about his father-setting him on a journey of discovery as he attempts to piece together the truth. $0.99 on Kindle.
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