Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Not So Normal
Memoirs of a Gay Boomer From Wild Rose Country by Tom Symington
Growing up in post-World War II Alberta in a stable, loving home, Tom Symington didn’t feel that he was “different.” Evading early pressures of romance and sexual exploration, repressing instances of name-calling (“femmy”), and hostility from...
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My First True Love
Collected Stories by Nina Lee Colwill
Do you remember your first true love? Are you still with that person today? And if not, do you still cherish those memories and marvel at the lessons you learned about romantic love? But maybe your first love wasn't a romance. Maybe your first...
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Opening
A personal story of Mediumship, Grief and Family Healing by Ashley Tyms
One afternoon, Ashley received the most dreaded of phone calls: her brother, Ryan, was dead. A victim of childhood bullying, Ryan had struggled with addiction for over a decade. Ashley was devastated, but soon discovered that Ryan’s soul was...
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Peace Corps Victim
A Peace Corps Volunteer Story of Trauma and Betrayal by Patrick Shea
Witness the harrowing true story of an idealistic American Volunteer who ventured into the heart of Eastern Europe with the honorable intention of serving in the United States Peace Corps. What awaited him in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia...
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Metered Moments
Diary of a Cab Driver by Nipun Sharma
Conversations have the incredible power to connect people. Even a seemingly simple chat can transform a stranger into someone you’ll remember for the rest of your life. Almost no one knows better the power that conversations hold than taxi and...
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Along the Camino Portugués
An Illustrated Travel Memoir by Julia Zacharias
Pilgrimages have great historical and religious significance. The Camino Portugués is one such pilgrimage. Its origins date to medieval times, and people today still walk the trails, some for spiritual purposes, but others simply for the joy of...
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The Monster Within
by David R. Worrell
In spring of 1985, Dave Worrell, a police detective on Canada’s Sunshine Coast, received a call: a young female provincial ward reported that she had been sexually assualted by her school principal. Dave was no stranger to investigating...
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Platypus Flats
In The Shadows of The Honey Trees by Neville West
We don't cry because we are weak! It is our healing power speaking. As a survivor of abuse I carried the burden alone for 60 years. When I did speak out I changed; my world changed. So did my words. The djinn of denial could not be put back in...
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On the Margin
A Memoir by Robin Bury
Protestants have had a tradition of keeping their heads down since before Irish independence in 1922, and still have. Most of them have gone into Omertà. They had their own social networks, businesses, large manufacturing companies like Guinness...
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The Shell of Me
A Survivor's Story of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Donna Patricia Castle
“Your life has had and still has beautiful things in it, but there are lots of weeds. You pull the weeds out, and for just a little while, everything is beautiful again. Then come the new weeds, and you must pull those out too.” When Pat Castle...