Category: Biographies & Memoirs

Like an Egg in a Bowl of Cherries is partly a travel memoir, and partly an illustration of the transformative power that culturally immersive experiences can have on expanding cultural humility and facilitating healthy identity development. Drawing from hand-written journal entries and emails sent home while living and working for a year in Dalian, China (2002-2003), readers are taken on an entertaining ride filled with humor, sarcasm, and irreverence. With topics ranging from the challenges an... [Read More...]

Read it in order, look at the drawings, take it for what it is. A simple but beautiful glimpse into the thoughts and gut wrenching fears of a person who has lived,loved and lost. The morsel of the earlier years of my life packaged up for your eyes only. Thank you. $1.99 on Kindle ... [Read More...]

Michael Sunset’s memoir describes textbook narcissistic abuse. It details the way he was systematically manipulated by his ex-wife, her father, his mother, and sister to believe he had a mental illness that he did not have. His ex-wife worked to manipulate mental health professionals and the family court system to obtain control of their finances and daughter during their divorce process. He describes how confusing this type of abuse is to experience and how to defend against it. Many vic... [Read More...]

Meet Dawn, a woman bound in the addiction of heroin and crack cocaine. Witness as she commits crime upon crime, to obtain her fix. Which leads her to a lengthy prison term. It’s there that the real struggles begin. With all that she faces and all of the trials. Will she come out of this alive? Could she be saved? Learn of a love so relentless and a redemption so radical, that it changed the course of her life, and many others, for eternity. See Price on Kindle ... [Read More...]

Becoming American is the inspiring story of the author’s transformation from a child of Holocaust survivors in post-war Europe to an American lawyer, academic, and activist associated with such famed political leaders as Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, Jerry Brown, and Tom Hayden. ... [Read More...]

Jennifer Lawrence’s Mother Unleashes Revealing Tell-All in New Memoir Bombshell book details the Hollywood star’s early childhood years, estrangement from her mother, and bizarre disappearance. Long before “Jennifer Lawrence” landed the lead role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, she was a simple, humble young girl living in Grand Lake, Colorado. What happened to Jennifer and her family during her early teenage years is nothing short of heartbreaking. As the famous actres... [Read More...]

It’s a wild ride into the mystery of what it means to find God’s strength in my weakness after a simple prayer supplication was made. After 36 months of frustrating unemployment, God reveals a path leading to Guangzhou China. At the end of the road is a mustard seed that is planted in a provincial classroom. I need to go where the seed would produce. The dilemma: If I don’t go to Guangzhou am I being disobedient to God? I am 55 years old and live in Chicago. $0.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

This book is about the fallibility of us all, including the doctors who are supposed to care for us. It is about how to change the norms of medical practice in light of human weakness. It’s for individuals who suffer from mental illness. It’s for their loved ones. It’s for anyone who interacts with someone with a mental illness. ... [Read More...]

A page-turning debut that should not go unnoticed. A memoir that recounts the cancer journey of a wife and mother reveals the universal truth that appreciating life is complicated. In August 2017, Cramer was told that she had stage 4 ovarian cancer. During a routine medical appointment, a nurse practitioner examined a bump on the author’s pelvis and quickly handed her a slip to get an urgent CT scan, as though it were a baton in a “relay race.” She was later told that she had ... [Read More...]