About Featured Book: Listen To Me: How My Down Syndrome Brother Saved My Life by Lynne Podrat Thirteen-year-old Lynne watched her parents wrestle with the fact that their newborn baby Bruce, her new brother, had been born with Down syndrome. Over the years, Lynne struggled to ensure that Bruce would be included as part of the family and vowed to protect him from a young age, while also making sure that her nine-year-old brother, David, was not also left behind amidst the chaos. As time passed … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Listen To Me: How My Down Syndrome Brother Saved My Life by Lynne Podrat
Featured Book: Many Million Dreams Ago: A Recollection of Romances by Dre Carlan
About Featured Book: Many Million Dreams Ago: A Recollection of Romances by Dre Carlan Free eBook: Sat. 7/24 - Mon. 7/26, 2021 Three Lovers. Three lessons. Many Million Dreams Ago defies a typical “romance memoir” by dealing with the deeper consequences of discovering such feelings too early on. Its realism is recounted in three eras of a life gone awry from self-harm, codependency, and casual intimacies. Through the endless pursuits of a hopeless romantic in trying to find his other … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Many Million Dreams Ago: A Recollection of Romances by Dre Carlan
Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard
Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard "Gritty, graphic, and real." Winner of several major book awards! Senior Infantry Sergeant Chad Rickard takes you through a harrowing tour as an embedded infantry advisor to the Afghan National Army. A veteran of numerous combat tours with the U.S. Army, Rickard faced his ultimate challenge in Khost Province Afghanistan as he battled Haqqani Taliban in 2009. Often outnumbered, his team skillfully directed artillery and … [Read more...] about Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard
Featured Book: Whole Heart by Michelle Felix
About Featured Book: Whole Heart by Michelle Felix This book is bargain priced at only 99 cents for the week of 6/22/201 - 6/25/2021 "Whole Heart" is an honest and inspiring memoir. This is an inspiring true story that proves darkness can lead to light, and joy is possible on the other side of pain. At once heartbreaking and joyously uplifting, "Whole Heart" is an unflinching portrait of one woman's fight for self-discovery, opportunity, and hope. There is … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Whole Heart by Michelle Felix
Interview with Author – LaMonique Mac
Author Bio: LaMonique Mac is an Amazon Best Selling Author. She’s also a publisher and a writing coach based in “Roll Tide” country Alabama with her family. The books she has written and published are known for having a southern flair. She can be spotted coaching new authors on how to write, edit, and publish on YouTube at Author LaMonique Mac. What inspires you to write? Ever since I was a child i've always hidden my true personality inside of my writing. Back in the 80's … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – LaMonique Mac
Interview with Author – Edgar Rider
Author Bio: Edgar Rider's first book is entitled Riding Out The Kipling Effect. It is a narrative journey he undertook with a friend living in an eccentric ladies front room. The Kipling Effect is about navigating through outside challenges and obstacles at the same time trying to focus on a specific objective. The main character Carrie Kipling lived in complete turmoil and had anxieties mostly due to manufactured health problems and hanging out with manipulative moocher friends. He has also … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Edgar Rider
Interview with Author – Charlotte Matthews
Author Bio: Charlotte Matthews’ published works include a memoir, Comes with Furniture and People and three poetry collections: Still Enough to Be Dreaming, Green Stars and Whistle What Can’t Be Said. Recipient of The Adele F. Robertson Award for Excellence in Teaching, she has received fellowships from The Chautauqua Institute, The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is Associate Professor at The University of Virginia. What inspires you to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Charlotte Matthews
Interview with Author – Jill Dobbe
Author Bio: Jill is an international educator, travel writer, amateur photographer, and author of three travel memoirs, who writes about her experiences living and working in schools and countries around the world. She presently lives in her seventh country, Honduras, with her husband, and Yorkie-Poo, Mickey. While working as an elementary principal, Jill continues to read, write and take photos of the beautiful people and countries of Latin America, while muddling her way through the Spanish … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jill Dobbe
Interview with Author – Robert Crown
Author Bio: After living through the events depicted in his self-transformational memoir, Suffering Ends when Awakening Begins, Robert succeeded in breaking the cycle of dysfunction handed down from earlier generations in his family and the limitations to success tied up in that. Robert Crown was born in Chicago and raised in the northwest suburbs. Despite all he went through in his youth even when he escaped premature births to the afterlife more than six times, he overcame his trials and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Robert Crown
Interview with Author – Yvonne deSousa
Author Bio: Yvonne deSousa has worked as a street sweeper, a shell seller, a babysitter, a candy peddler, and a guest house manager, all before the age of sixteen. Later on she worked as a waitress, sales clerk, library assistant, victim’s advocate, and at the front desk of a doctor’s office. Two years before Yvonne’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a relative volunteered her to write an article for a local newspaper. Little did she know it was the beginning of a writing career. When MS … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Yvonne deSousa
