Category: Biographies & Memoirs

Free: Me and The Japanese beauty standards

“It’s terrific as a combination of autobiography and professional wisdom. I appreciate your emphasis on helping people avoid a “one size fits all” mentality. As you agree, human dignity is based on one person living one’s own life. No other standard is possible, and to try to live otherwise always leads to disaster. About the book: •You will feel as if you are not alone. This book will help to show you that the insecurities, struggles, mistakes, and shames we face in... [Read More...]

My Courage to Tell

My Courage to Tell is the story of one woman’s struggle to overcome a childhood of abuse at the hands of her cruel, bullying brother. Memories of this abuse remain deeply buried until an Aunt dies in Manhattan, leaving an estate Laura Corbeth must settle with her estranged brother. As she tries to administer the estate, Laura is plagued by symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Suppressed memories start to rise to the surface. Travel with Laura as she uncovers her past, finds the help and cou... [Read More...]

Smuggler

2019 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner follows a group of Americans into the heroin trade. When twenty-something post-grad Nick Fillmore discovers the zine he’s been recruited to edit is a front for drug profits, he begins a dangerous flirtation with an international heroin smuggling conspiracy and in a matter of months finds himself on a fast ride he doesn’t know how to get off of. After a bag goes missing in an airport transit lounge he is summoned to West Africa to take a fetish oath wi... [Read More...]

Free: The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward: A Workplace Memoir

Follow the wryly-told embattled adventures of a socially isolated, non-conforming union leader as she battles toxic management and co-worker idiocy in a well-meaning Social Services office. Chock-full of insights, foul language and The Five Stages of Grief, The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward is relatable to any and everyone who has ever lived, died and gone to hell in their job, work environment or both. Free on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Free: 90 Days to Live

When an out-of-the-blue cancer diagnosis quickly turned into a 90-days-to-live death sentence from his doctor, Rodney Stamps and his wife Paige defied the medical establishment and drew their line in the sand. With both a growing family and business–and given that their doctors promised only to briefly extend his life with chemotherapy–the Stamps gave a resounding “No” to chemo and radiation. 90 Days to Live recounts the Stamps’ incredible and inspirational journey... [Read More...]

Free: Fractured Grace: How to Create Beauty, Peace and Healing for Yourself and the World

Fractured Grace is a prescription for individual and collective healing—a resounding call for wholeness in today’s escalating state of chaos, separation and fear. With a unique and intimate journey into the author’s own healing process, from an early childhood Near-Death Experience to a freak accident with several broken bones, you are invited to step outside of an outdated worldview to create more beauty, peace and healing for yourself and the world. Dr. Julie Krull offers an impassioned... [Read More...]

Waking up Cattywampus: Memoir of a Transplanted Southerner

This inspiring new memoir examines a life well lived. Joyful and heartbreaking in turns, Cattywampus details the search for self – and provides a roadmap in seven delightful appendices. The search for meaning is a life-long quest and never straightforward. We are all born “cattywampus.” $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Devil In The Wind

Devil In The Wind is an account of catastrophic fire and its immediate aftermath. In February 2009, wildfires burnt through entire communities, taking 173 lives and injuring hundreds, while destroying thousands of houses and other buildings. Up to 400 fires destroyed 450,000 hectares of forest, native fauna and habitat, livestock and farmland. In the aftermath of the fires, the voices of people who had lived through the experience — victims, rescuers, and observers — were spoken and were he... [Read More...]