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Redefining Normal by Justin Black, Alexis Black

Brutally honest, often sad… A courageous chronicle of abuse, recovery, and success. This absorbing account by two young authors who, as adolescents, entered state’s fostering system is a gutsy account of fragility, abuse, and redemption. With a childhood marred by…
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Autistic and Proud: What Cat Rescue Has Taught Me About Hope, Acceptance, and Never Giving Up by Zachariah Atteberry

Candid and heartwarming… Atteberry chronicles his life journey in this endearingly honest memoir that probes his struggles of trying to make something of his life while dealing with autism. He begins with his painful childhood, his mother’s diagnosis of cancer,…
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A Dreamer’s Life by Laurika Bretherton

A flat-out fabulous memoir… In this lyrical and occasionally philosophical account, Laurika narrates her time spent as a drifter on a journey of self-discovery. With a secure job, a husband, and a cozy home, things seem to be going great…
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A Bagful of Kittens Headed to the Lake: Selected Essays by Cathy Carlton Hews

Brutally honest, compulsively readable, and at times painful to read… In this intimate and gripping collection of essays, Hews shines a light on her own struggles of caring for her father who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s. Hews’s father’s deterioration by late-onset…
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Brooklyn Bred by Dr David Garrahan

A powerful and poignant memoir that doubles as an exploration of family ties, abandonment, forgiveness, and resilience… Former university professor, the Director of Pupil Personnel Services and District Superintendent of Schools, and veteran author Garrahan chronicles his journey of rags-to-riches…
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BAD KARMA: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell by Paul Wilson

A gritty, adventurous tale… Wilson’s chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico that resulted in a complete disaster makes for a compelling debut memoir. Being a one of the not-so-popular guys, twenty-one-year-old Wilson…
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The Boy Behind the China Cabinet: A Memoir about Addiction, Hollywood, Mother Teresa and Me by Paul LaGreca

Uplifting and engrossing… In this intimate and entertaining debut, LaGreca shares his spiritual journey of finding his true calling while growing up in Bronx in a large Catholic Italian family and living through his oldest brother’s drug addiction. Being a…
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Wacky On The Junk by Kathy Varner

  A witty, candid memoir… Varner’s hilarious debut memoir is a charmingly quirky amalgamation of the wrong food choices and erratic mood swings. In a funny, conversational style, Varner narrates her life story as she reflects on her early childhood,…
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Summon the Tiger by Wendy Sura Thomson

  Beautifully written, compelling memoir… Born with congenital abnormalities and missing both the ulna and tibia on the right side along with several other deformities, Thomson had her leg amputated even before she started kindergarten. In a poignant manner, Thomson…
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The Speed of Dark: A Memoir by Joram Piatigorsky

  An exquisitely crafted, moving portrait of a man’s exhilarating journey to success… Piatigorsky, the world-renowned molecular biologist and eye researcher and founder of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the National Eye Institute, recounts his extraordinary journey…
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TWO ONE FIVE by Jeff Jaskolka

A poignant portrayal of a young man’s journey toward happiness… In this fine memoir, Jaskolka recounts his teenager and adult years as a white Caucasian male in a predominantly African-American area in the harsh city streets of Philadelphia, PA, as…
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Enchanted (Things We Lost in the Night #2) by Larry J. Dunlap

Electrifying… In this electric, surprisingly moving memoir, Dunlap takes up where he left off in Things We Lost in the Night and recalls his final years as a member of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves band. Dunlap talks about…
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A Medic’s Mind by Matthew Heneghan

  Powerful and incredibly inspiring… Heneghan takes a sharp-eyed look back at his fractured childhood and personal loss as he chronicles his journey towards a better way of coping. After joining Canadian Forces, Heneghan began experiencing crippling episodes of depression…
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Nature is Unlimited Broadcasting Station: Flowers She Wore on Her Feet by Bertha Mkwelele, Edward Mkwelele

  A short, beautiful account of a young life gone too soon… Bertha Mkwelele and Edward Mkwelele chronicle the short life span of their only daughter and first child Neema Mkwelele in this short biography. After graduating in BA (Hons)…
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Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir by Lewis Kempfer

  A candid, bare-it-all, and highly engrossing memoir… With unsparing candor, Lewis Kempfer chronicles decades of his drug and sex addicted life in intimate detail in Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just Having a Bad Life: A Memoir. Kempfer started struggling…
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1967 – a coming of age story by Richard Doornink

  Thrilling… a candid, poignant coming-of-age tale. A beautiful, gentle coming-of-age tale set in a small Canadian prairie town, 1967 chronicles the emotional journey of a young boy. Raised in Winnipeg, young Doornink is forced to leave behind his friends…
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A Twisted Fate: My life with Dystonia by Brenda Currey Lewis

A spirited, intimate memoir… Recipient of the 2001 Dystonia Medical Research Foundation’s Courage Award, Brenda Currey Lewis’s account of her life as Dystonia patient is both interesting and courageous. When seven-year-old Lewis suddenly started walking on the outer edge of…
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Night People (Things We Lost in the Night #1) by Larry J. Dunlap

  A stunning literary memoir… Set against the backdrop of West Coast, Night People, the first installment of the engrossing, intimate memoir, traces the first three of six years in the life of young members of a rock-and-roll vocal group…
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Journey to the Son by Carla Carlisle

  Multi-layered, emotionally charged read… Journey to the Son narrates Carla A. Carlisle’s eight-year struggle filled with mental turmoil and moral dilemma to get Devon, her foster son, back from a difficult system and a manipulative, abusive birth mother. Years…
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Monumental Moments by Joe R Eagleman

Briskly written, full of fascinating details … Joe R Eagleman is a well-known academician and research scientist whose tornado simulation is used as a pattern for the fifty-foot high tornado model in the Twister building of Universal Studios in Orlando.…