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Danse Macabre
Have you ever had to pick out a casket for a loved one? I have. This doubtful honor is a right of passage for many family members. The memory of this event is often surreal. Its grim reality weighs...
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Only Your Mum Will Read It
Why do people write non-fiction? I don’t mean the dry sort that people who ‘don’t have time for fiction’ read. They will never understand that storying is part of being human, whereas we know that the...
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Sneak Peek: Wonderment
Today we have a sneak peek from author Nigel Hey’s memoir: Wonderment. Wonderment keeps the action going from the author’s childhood nightmares to the suspense of a brush with death in the neurology...
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Book Brief: Here We Are and There We Go
Here We Are & There We Go: Teaching and Traveling With Kids in Tow by Jill Dobbe Genre: Travel Memoir Word count: 60,000 Who says you can’t travel with kids? Dan and I find out we can do just that...
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Sneak Peek: Walks on the Margins
Today we have a sneak peek from the memoir by Kathy Brandt and Max Maddox, Walks on the Margins. In Walks on the Margins, mother and son weave two narratives into a single powerful story of what it...
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Featured Author: Julia Ibbotson
Julia Ibbotson is the award-winning author of The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen, first published to acclaim in the USA and now re-launched with a brand-new cover by her new English publisher...
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Featured Author: Hi-Dong Chai
A native of Seoul, Korea, Hi-Dong Chai was educated in the United States. He received a Ph.D. in engineering. After working for IBM for 19 years and subsequently teaching at San Jose State University...
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Book Brief: Dog Water Free
Dog Water Free A Memoir by Michael Jay Genre: Young Adult – Coming of Age Word count: 70,000 Meet Joe Black visits The Wonder Years in the true story of Dog Water Free. It chronicles the journey of a...
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Book Brief: Love’s True Second Chance
Love’s True Second Chance by Jeff Dawson Genre: Memoir Word count: 50,000 Join Debbie and me for the love of a lifetime. From the halls of high school, to the joys of her accepting my class ring....
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Book Brief: Stumbling Through the Dark
Stumbling Through the Dark by Thelma Zirkelbach Genre: Memoir Word Count: 62,000 In October 2004 Thelma Zirkelbach’s husband was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia and began a journey from which...
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Book Brief: Turning This Thing Around
Turning This Thing Around by Keith Maginn Genre: Nonfiction/memoir/self-help Word count: 24,000 Turning This Thing Around is an inspiring memoir of overcoming personal struggles. This brutally honest,...
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Featured Book: Betty’s Child
Betty’s Child by Donald R. Dempsey Available from Amazon. In the tradition of Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes, Don Dempsey uses Betty’s Child to tell the story of life with his cruel and neglectful...
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Book Brief: The Color of the Wild
The Color of the Wild by Gin Getz Genre of this Book: Memoir/Nature Word count: 64,353 The Color of the Wild, an intimate look at life in an untamed land. An original, inspiring work of literary...
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Featured Book: Hey Joe
“Hey Joe” Poems and Stories from the Peace Corps by Robert Nicholas Genre: Travel, biography, memoir Available at Amazon. Most Peace Corps Volunteers experience some form of culture shock. But which...
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Featured Book: On the Right Side
On The Right Side: My Story of Survival and Success by Karen Magill biography, memoir Available from Amazon. When Karen Magill woke to find herself partially paralyzed on one side of her body, she...
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Book Brief: With Angel’s Wings
With Angel’s Wings by Stephanie Collins Genre: Memoir Word count: 100,000 With Angel’s Wings is the true story of Laura, a young wife and mother of a three-year-old daughter. Her husband, Kevin, a...
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Book Brief: On the Right Side
On The Right Side: My Story of Survival and Success by Karen Magill Genre: Memoir Word count: 43,000 What if you woke one day to find yourself paralysed on one side of your body? That’s what happened...
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Featured Book: Any Road Will Take You There
Any Road Will Take You There by David W. Berner Genres: travelogue, memoir Available from Amazon.com and Amazon UK Recently divorced and uncertain of the future, a middle-age father takes his teenage...
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Featured Book: She’s Not Herself
She’s Not Herself by Linda Appleman Shapiro Genres: memoir Available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK. Young Linda grew up with a mother who was “not herself.” Years later, as a psychotherapist, Linda...
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Book Brief: With Angel’s Wings
With Angel’s Wings by Stephanie Collins Genre: Memoir Word count: 100,000 With Angel’s Wings is the true story of Laura, a young wife and mother of a three-year-old daughter. Her husband, Kevin, a...
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