Biography & Autobiography
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Family Shattered
A Daughter's Heartbreak Through Elder Manipulation and Exploitation by Piper-Lynn
“So,” I would ask, again and again, “you actually believe this is acceptable? That it’s normal for a caregiver to become this embedded, this involved?” The worst part was hearing it from the people closest to me. “But your dad seems happy,”...
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Mindful Travel Sketching
A Memoir of Journeys Inner and Outer by Hiroshi Shimazaki
In this third and final volume of the Mindful Art series, Hiroshi Shimazaki explores what has always been at the heart of his sketching/painting activities, whether for academic research or for pure pleasure. Here he reminisces about times on...
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Remembering
A 45 Year Engineering Career by John McMillan
John McMillan began his mechanical engineering career in 1971, joining Combustion Engineering (C-E) as a junior engineer trainee for a six-month probationary period. He describes what engineering life was like in the 1970s when there were no...
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Resilience in Residence
A Story of Survival, Strength, and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living. by Ness Mickey
Ever looked at someone and wondered, How did they survive that? Want to know what it really takes to rebuild a life from the inside out? Resilience in Residence isn’t just Ness Mickey’s story of survival—it’s a guide for reclaiming your life and...
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Behind Closed Doors
Abuse, Survival, and Endurance at the Lourdes Home Orphanage by Clare L.D. White
Please take good care of my baby, thinks Maggie, as she places Dorita in the arms of a nun at the Lourdes Home orphanage in Gozo, Malta. The young mother has no way of knowing that Lourdes Home will eventually become notorious, its name...
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Shadows in the Burmese Jungle
The Story of Red Maddox Behind Enemy Lines 1941 - 1945 by Rodney W. Anderson
Often referred to as the Forgotten War, the Battle for Burma was fought in a geographically challenging and isolated region far from the major population centers of the time. But for the people who took part in it, the battle was a personal...
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My Drive Through Hell
A Divine Intervention, A True Story by Judy Isiah Foran
My Drive Through Hell: A Divine Intervention is the personal story of Judy Foran’s journey through pain, betrayal, and faith. After a devastating accident leaves her with severe injuries and a diagnosis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Judy’s...
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In the Company of Men
Who We Are And How We Become by Patricia Carlson
When Patricia Carlson walked through the doors of a men’s homeless shelter in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1995, she had no idea how profoundly her life—and the lives of countless others—would be changed. As the first female director of a...
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Carry Forward
Against the Tides by Truong Ly
On nights of flight, a mother pressed her son against her chest—through jungles, graves, oceans, and silence. She carried him beyond war and betrayal into a future she would never see for herself. Carry Forward is not only about escape from...
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21 Smithfield Drive
Family Stories by M. Gail Stelter
21 Smthfield Drive is part family history, part memoir. Author M. Gail Stelter shares these stories across three sections: her parents' lives, leading up to and including World War II, her own childhood in the post-war years, and finally her...
