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120 Seats in a Boiler Room: The Creation of a Courageous Professional Theater by Lewis Kempfer

Uplifting, gorgeously written, emotional, and entertaining… Award-winning Kempfer narrates the fascinating story of how a near-century-old boiler room building at The Factory at Franklin minutes south of Nashville became a thriving theater company in his latest book. Kempfer had teamed…
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Listening to Chopin while fighting Nazis: A Journey into my Family’s WWII Polish Past by M. Alexander Charns

A deeply revealing, intimate account of a family’s Polish history… As a six-year-old boy, Charns came across a book named ‘I Survived Hitler’s Hell’ by A.P. Gwiazdowski and became curious about his family’s Polish history. As he grows older, he…
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Arc of the Poet: A Poetic Memoir by Roger Darnell

Breathtakingly candid and deeply insightful… An impressive memoir. Darnell celebrates his relationship with art in this immersive memoir. Drawing on personal experience of decades, Darnell applies psychology to real life in surprising ways, artfully building tension into his storytelling—from the…
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Karl’s Diary: It’s a Dog’s by Sharon Winters

A beautiful book that’s guaranteed to generate giggles, guffaws, and a few tears… Karl, a Boykin Spaniel rescue, finds his forever home, one filled with unconditional love and makes some fascinating friends thanks to a compassionate couple who adopt him…
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LION TAMER Book One: How It All Turned Out by Therese Marie Duncan

A deeply involving and consistently moving story of overcoming trauma… Duncan tells her story straight from the heart in her debut installment in the Lion Tamer series. Born as the sixth of ten children, in the Pacific Northwest, in Seattle,…
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A Season of Disruption by Jacqueline P. Walker

A deeply poignant and intense tale… Walker creates a captivating tale of courage, strength, and perseverance taking readers on a family’s journey to overcome a devastating loss. Life for Murna Moreland, a young Jamaican homemaker and mother of five, is…
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Swimming, Not Drowning: Poems by Mari-Carmen Marin

An enlightening, original and deeply poignant book about pain and healing… Writing in free verse, Marin takes the reader on her journey through her struggles with the anxiety disorder that often leads to depression, prompting dark thoughts. The first part,…
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How Did I Do That?: A Life of Risk and Reward by Bill Dutcher

Candid, gripping, original, and occasionally funny… Dutcher, the founder and chairman of Anadarko Minerals, Inc., an Oklahoma City independent oil and gas producing company and author of two books, chronicles his journey of surviving a turbulent boyhood and turning a…
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Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement by Frederick Douglass Reynolds

Vivid and persuasive… Rich in history and humanity Reynolds, whose career as a cop and detective in Compton, CA—a.k.a. “Hub City” for 32 years is marked by numerous commendations and awards, recounts stories of his own life and career and…
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INTO TROUBLE by Paul Gorman

An utterly engrossing travel account that doubles as a remarkable coming-of-age story… Fabulous. Gorman’s deeply personal narrative is as much a coming-of-age story as it is an engrossing history of a bygone era. Raised by a sympathetic mother and abusive…
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Discovering twins: A Journey into Lives by Stella Ter Hart

Emotionally charged and beautifully written… A page-turner. Ms. ter Hart debuts with this expansive, eloquent tale depicting the horrors of the Holocaust as she sets out to uncover her family’s history in Holland. ter Hart, who never fully understood why…
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Consequences: An Intelligence Officer’s War by David Grantham

A stirring chronicle of what it’s really like to be a counterintelligence officer in a war zone… Grantham’s powerful account takes the reader inside America’s many counterintelligence missions. As a counterintelligence officer with the elite and secretive Air Force Office…
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Tales From The Mud Hole, Why Pigs Are My Friends by Vally Mulford

Precisely observed and beautifully written… A rewarding book. Mulford debuts with this endearing personal memoir, taking readers on his year-long journey as the manager of a commercial hog farm. When Mulford, newly married and just out of college, decided to…
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20-Year Letter: An Afghanistan Chronicle by Benjamin R Warner

Intense, authentic, and engrossing… Warner offers a firsthand glimpse at the camaraderie, peril, and gratifications of service in his engrossing memoir. A few short months removed from the events of 9/11, the young reserve officer, LT Warner, jumped on the…
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Song Over Silence: A Story About Finding My Voice While Healing Child Incest Abuse by Jill Dyann Bittle

Raw and authentic… A candid and courageous memoir about incest abuse. In this striking and moving memoir, Bittle details her harrowing journey of recovery from incest abuse, turning an unflinching eye on the time in her life that has influenced…
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Becoming a Doctors’ Doctor: A Memoir by Michael F. Myers

Moving, eloquent, and a life-changing book that needs to be experienced…                   Myers, a professor of clinical psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York and the author and coauthor of eight previous books dealing with medical students…
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Arizona Awakening: A Memoir of Romance, Race, and Redemption by Richard C Lin

Eloquent, adroitly written, and candid personal story of love and identity… In this hard-to-put-down memoir, Lin delivers a revealing account of his experiences as an American born to Chinese immigrant parents. As an immigrant in America from Taiwan, Lin’s father…
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The Brazen Biddy’s Club: A Mother Daughter Late Life Adventure by Ruth Newell

A fresh, funny take on mother-daughter bond… Newell humanizes the mother-daughter bond in this witty fictionalized semi-autobiographical tale of a middle-aged daughter who finds herself living with her elderly mother after a 40 year hiatus. She writes, groping her way…
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Zimbabwe Safari: A Memoir by Tim Good

An entertaining, eloquent memoir… In this enjoyable memoir and adventure guide, Good takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the rugged wilderness of Zimbabwe, sharing the story of his successful hunting trip taken there. The narrative follows Good through his…
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Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love by Marylee MacDonald

Startling, riveting, and compulsively readable… MacDonald recounts her life as an adoptee and how it influenced her psyche in this searing memoir. Filtered through decades of reflection and introspection and written with a haunting precision, the book narrates MacDonald’s life…