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From the Danube to the Californias, from World War 2 to the American Dream
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Ildiko Bartnicki had a simple but secure childhood in her native Hungary. But soon there were whisperings of war—first came the arrival of refugees from Transylvania, then the isolation and segregation of her Jewish friends and neighbors. It was...
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Empowering Ourselves to Uplift Humanity
How My Journey Becomes Our Journey to Create a More Humane and Sustainable World
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What if every trial were a doorway to deeper compassion? From a tumultuous childhood marked by an early near-death experience, constant tension and fighting at home, to his wild and reckless days as a teen alcoholic, in-and-out student, and...
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An Ocean to Resilience
Charting a Course through Trials, Illness and Endurance Across the Pacific Ocean
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Get ready to experience an epic adventure replete with challenges, trials, battles with unseen ailments, and the determined drive to complete an ocean crossing under sail. Rob and Lisa are what one might consider a normal, professional,...
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Living in Two Worlds
A True Account of Alien Encounters
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At three years old, Lisa witnesses something extraordinary in the field bordering the rowhouse where she lives in Cambridge, Ontario: a strange, glowing light, something like a “second sun,” that descends before her eyes before taking off at warp...
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Buckle Up!
Life with a Spinal Cord Injury
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In Buckle Up!, I share the story of my life before a collision, the challenges of adapting to life afterwards with a spinal cord injury, and the years that followed as I learned to navigate my wheelchair in a world that suddenly looked very...
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Happiness With Scars
A Jouney Toward Healing and Transformation
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"Scars are the evidence of a life fully lived." Happiness with Scars is an intimate and sincere work that explores emotional resilience and the idea that happiness can exist alongside pain rather than in denial of it. Drawing inspiration from the...
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On Acting ... and Life
A New Look at an Old Craft
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Dozens of books on acting exist, but none of them are quite like this. On Acting and Life provides both insightful acting advice and the memoir of an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen. Modelled after Stephen King’s bestseller, On Writing,...
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Songbirds Keep Singing
A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation
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In 2017, forty-five-year-old Lisa Lauter experienced mysterious neurological symptoms. For months, she didn’t feel like herself and doctors had no answers. A mother of three preteen boys, Lisa had many reasons to explain away her odd symptoms. In...
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7 Days to Death?
One Woman's Battle Against GBS*
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What would you do if you were suddenly stricken with some sort of disease that left you a paraplegic? How would you cope if your condition could even kill you? This is what happened to me. But I am still here. This story details my struggles as I...
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The Anderson Family and 80 Years of Horseracing
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This memoir outlines the 80-year continuous involvement of the Anderson family in horse racing primarily in Winnipeg, Canada. The family raced its first horse on September 11, 1945 at Polo Park Racetrack and went on to breed, race, buy and sell a...
