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This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to.
So begins this multigenerational memoir that explores the author's maternal history of repeated trauma, separation, adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and their impact on mental health. Set against a twenty-year dialogue with her mother Barbara who suffers from long undiagnosed PTSD, author Elizabeth Wilcox opens her maternal...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Picture in your mind--that is, if you haven't already come across this--a 9- or 10-year-old child that has taken his or her own life because of bullying. Or how about a teenage high school girl who also takes her own life due to the fact she was raped and sexually assaulted inside the auditorium of her school? All of these children, regardless of their ethnicity, share one common factor as it pertains to bullying. They all share the lack of support...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In my more than half a century of studying the issues of the assassination, I have heard many stories and have never been as impressed as I am with Bruce's. I do believe that this is a true and factual story concerning the assassination of President Kennedy, finally. In the fourteen publications that I have released since 1975, I have always dealt with the physical evidence in the case and never tried to deal with a story of the inner workings of...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"This book shares the adventures and experiences of a middle-aged private pilot and his friends. These collections of autobiographical memoirs are an open door into a somewhat exclusive but less than perfect fraternity, with thousands of funny and not so funny stories to tell. An uncomplicated first-hand insight for those with only a passing interest in aviation or those who are unable to or are not bold enough to physically enter into the real world...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Ever wonder why Mormons have extreme road rage or why dating a cop is like playing Russian Roulette? Perhaps you are confused as to why you need to shave your butt or how viewing pornography will turn you into a serial killer. Luckily for you, Laura LeBrun answers all this and more with the wisdom of a woman who has been there and has your back! Not for the faint of heart, this book was written to make you laugh while educating you on the horrors...
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Elm Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Is it possible to find hope in the midst of tragedy? Or joy in the hardest times? When Char Harryman suffered a series of grand mal seizures and was rushed to the hospital on Easter Sunday, her life and that of her husband Steve would never be the same again. With Char's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor requiring life-saving surgery, that tragic event in their lives would mark the beginning of a remarkable journey of faith and perseverance spanning...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Not only a memoir, but a love letter to rich and memorable relationships that gives hope that there can be sweetness after loss, humor in remembrance, and stories to hold our joys past and present." -- Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart, Abandon Me, and Girlhood. My Father Called Me Bobby is an intriguing memoir detailing Bobby's experiences growing up in an Italian family in the ' 50s and exploring the sexual revolution a few decades later. The...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Ida Grace Nina Dudman -- known as Dolly to her family -- was born when Queen Victoria was the Empress of India on 18th December 1897 and died on Easter Sunday 1983. She was brought up like a little princess but suffered much tragedy and upheaval in her life -- two world wars, the Indian independence struggle, partition and most of all her long separation from her great love although they did manage to be reunited after seventeen years apart. Despite...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The true story of a woman who lost the most precious thing in her life because of another woman. Apparently, we can forgive as much as we are able to love, but I have found this is not always true. Today, even after so much time has passed, and although I have accepted what happened to me, I still don't understand what it was supposed to teach me. I won't get the answers that would enlighten this darkness in the time I have left on this earth. I...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Dream in a Suitcase unravels a fast-paced journey of survival, resilience, and the power of love. It is the first English language memoir of a female Romanian-American survivor of the worst communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain. The story offers a rich multicultural mosaic of a life divided not only between two cultures and languages, that of the heroine's native Romania and her adoptive US but also between Chicago's urban culture and that...
11) Shade of Pink
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"This is the true story of breast cancer. Not from the lens of thankfulness for what personal awakening cancer might bring. Screw that, cancer sucks. This is a raw tale of what it is really like from a person who went through it. Monica was diagnosed with breast cancer at 44, while undergoing her very first mammogram ever. This book chronicles her experiences from the phone call letting her know of her diagnosis, to all the doctor's visits, the chemotherapy,...
12) Fierce, Funny, and Female: A Journey Through Middle America, the Texas Oil Field, and Standup Comedy
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Stay Strong Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Fierce, Funny, and Female is the prequel to the critically acclaimed, nationally award-winning and bestselling memoir, Never Give in to Fear. In her raw, vivid, and unabashed style, author Marti MacGibbon delivers a sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious, always engaging account of her passage through trauma, betrayal, and loss in adolescence and young adulthood to discover her inner badass self. As one of the first women to work as a laborer in...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Carol Duncombe worked as a midwife for a long time, mostly in the community but had hospital experience too. She delivered over 2000 babies throughout her time as a midwife. This is her second book. The stories here are true and show the variety of families that a midwife may meet during her career."--
14) Bermuda Shorts
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Santa Fe Writer's Project
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear – and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson's fundamentally serious but playful literary style. Patterson writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with all the contradictions that implies - a philosopher who thinks best over a glass of fine wine; an ex-Catholic still haunted by the image of the Crucifixion; an irreverent...
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Publication Consultants
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Listeners of Alaska Outdoor Radio Magazine turned up the volume just a little as Evan ended his show with \"And now before we close the show, there's just time for one last cast.\" One Last Cast is the collection of 120 of listeners' favorite one last casts. It's more than fishing Alaska. It's flying with Charlie's pilot, an early-morning walk on a deserted Kachemak Bay beach, digging clams, pulling crab and shrimp pots, taking pictures, keeping a...
16) Just Plain Becky
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Vision Publishers LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Becky and her husband were committed to providing a haven in raising their four children in the fear of God. Their lovely neighborhood was increasingly dangerous and running counter to their commitment. What should they do? Where could they go? Where would He lead? How would this affect the relationships they had forged with family and the many friends they had made in the churches they attended in their spiritual journey? Little would they know that...
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When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In the memoir As I Walked Out One Evening Donald Wetzel explores what it is like to enter into the realm of old age. He approaches the changes within his life with the same sense of humor and of awe with which he approaches everything. He is looking for clues. Running through his family is a propensity towards Alzheimer's disease, and Wetzel wonders when, and if, Alzheimer's will claim him.
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Spirit Reign Communication
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Whether your dreams have been derailed by self-inflicted choices or second-hand circumstances, From Felon To Forbes, delivers a fresh breath of possibility for what a person can achieve with their life. Coach Jae's ability to connect, coach, and empower with a mix of relevant analogies, shameless transparency and results-based strategies truly makes him a '1-of-1' amongst today's personal success coaches. The gift, you are now holding, is simply your...
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