Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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China Mishkid
My Life as a Missionary Kid in China (1938–1955) by A. Donald MacLeod
[***Do not include in book itself - only for metatdata submission***] This true story of growing up under the turmoil of war in the Far East raises important questions. How far is it justified to risk the life and wellbeing of a child so that ...
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The Secret Tribe
A Memoir of Resilience by Janet A Handy
The Secret Tribe is a powerful, insightful memoir about one woman’s survival from childhood physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Janet A. Handy offers a new perspective on resilience; in the moment of abuse the critical question of “How do I ...
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My One Extraordinary Life
The Memories of Leona King by Leona King
After being diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease I began journaling. It became a healing process. In between relapses I began writing stories of my youth and continued to what could now be called the last third of my life. Reflections of happy ...
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Culture Shock
Living and Working in China at Age 68 by Marlene Ritchie
Marlene Ritchie is off to teach in China at age 68. She’s just divorced and retired from the auction business she and her husband founded, and is now examining her past and finding the self-confidence to start anew. She’ll be embedded in the commune ...
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Taking a Cruise on a Dusty Gravel Road
by Kelly Ried
“I fell upon a caravan of destiny unknown …” Taking a Cruise on a Dusty Gravel Road is a collection of personal accounts and day-to-day observations about life, love, family and nature—moments in time filtered through a poet’s senses. The sound of a ...
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Without Reserve
by Dorinda Vollmer
Dorinda Vollmer has lived a life full of music, art, and poetry, which have sustained her in the happiest and the darkest of times. Her abiding passion has always been to live a life of purpose. With determination and courage, Dorinda often chose ...
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It's Good To Be Here
Stories We Tell About Cancer by David Giuliano
It’s Good to be Here: Stories we tell about cancer is a courageous and deeply personal book about the author’s 25 year journey with cancer. It is part memoir, part spiritual meditation in which Giuliano challenges the ubiquitous and one dimensional ...
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Mastership
The Journey From Bankruptcy to a New Life by Master Lorne Davidson
In 1996 at the age of 48, Lorne Davidson declared bankruptcy and was forced to take a hard look at his life as a touring musician. With debts racking up and no answers in sight, he felt he had hit rock bottom. After a suggestion from his wife to try ...
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Broken to Blessed
by Angela Dawes and Vanessa Sullivan
Have you ever looked in the mirror and not recognized the person looking back at you? Have you ever looked at your body and thought you were facing your own worst enemy? Have you ever thought you had hit rock bottom only to discover you had further ...
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Holy Cream Puff
by Nicolas Ardanaz
Holy Cream Puff recounts the incomparable encounters of a young boy who revels in the joie de vivre of Maisonneuve, an East End of Montreal francophone community in the 1940s and 1950s. Charged with an abundance of humorous and mischievous ploys ...
