Category: Biographies & Memoirs

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... [Read More...]

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. ... [Read More...]

Free: A Version of the Truth

After 40 years of sharing quiet companionship with Jack, meeting twice a week, living separately and loving each other in their own way, Marsh Rose is left with more questions than answers after a sudden crisis ends their time together. In her new memoir, Marsh reflects on the mysteries that even deep intimacy can never fully solve. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Mountains Within: A Life of Achievement, a Quest for Meaning, and the Mountain that Changed Everything

When Winning Isn’t Enough: Lessons from Sport Science, Faith, and Finding MeaningJack Groppel was driven to succeed long before he understood why. The son of a demanding, alcoholic father, Jack learned early that achievement was the only path to approval. By his twenties, he had already become among the youngest NCAA tennis coaches in the country, despite never having formal tennis training. Soon after, he was helping shape the future of sport science, training world-class athletes, and speak... [Read More...]

Free: Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir (2nd edition) Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Two GIs In Tokyo

December 1945. The bombs have stopped falling, but Tokyo is still smoldering. My grandfather always dreamed of publishing the story of his unforgettable week there—just months after Japan’s surrender—when two twenty-something GIs from Guam, armed with nothing but a seven-day pass and cases of black-market cigarettes, landed in the enemy capital they’d helped burn. What follows is an extraordinary week of the Pacific War: treasure hunts on the ashes of the Ginza, back-alley deals, dinner... [Read More...]

Free: Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: Karina: One Woman’s Journey from Fear to Freedom

A poignant story that illustrates it is possible to rediscover yourself and become the person you were always meant to be.Born and raised in Poland, Karina accomplished her goals-traveling and learning languages, moving to the United States, climbing the corporate ladder, marrying, and building a family-but she never truly felt happy.In an effort to please the people around her, Karina denied her needs and squashed her own identity.Twenty years of building the life she thought she longed for in... [Read More...]

Ascending America: Five Kidney Donors, Fifty Peaks in Fifty States, One Record-Breaking Journey

When retired emergency physician and kidney donor Matt Harmody joined a team of four other donors to climb the highest peak in every U.S. state, they weren’t just chasing a Guinness world record. They were out to prove a radical truth: Life after kidney donation has no limits. Both a pulse-pounding outdoor adventure and a call to action, Ascending America shows how extraordinary things happen when courage, science, and human generosity collide. $1.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]