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In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta: The Travels of Ed Tabibian through Asia and Back Again

by Michael Boyajian, editor

In 1355 the travel memoirs of Ibn Battuta came into being and were widely read whereas his journeys surpassed both Marco Polo and Xheng He. Now centuries later the 1971 journeys of Armenian American Ed (Edwin) Tabibian through Asia are available with a perspective and mindset of a world that has changed radically to what we know of today in 2023 and is as different to us today as is the world of Ibn Battuta's book. Join Ed Tabibian back in 1971 as he travels through Asia to Tu... more

The Waiting Room

by Casey Gent

Waiting rooms can be lonely places. Disease may infect one family member, but it affects all of them. This dark autobiography takes the reader to the "healthy" child and how she responds to having a brother with an incurable disease. From strange habits, addictions, hang-ups, eating disorders, and major depressive disorder, the author hides her issues from everyone else while proving her loyalty to her brother, who is her best friend. The difference between how the siblings are treated by other... more

Mellow Your Money

by Mick Heyman

Mellow Your Money teaches, through MIck Heyman's experiences and misadventures, how to manage your money in an uncertain world. Though we all have unique roads to travel in life, most of us struggle with emotional and psychological challenges when it comes to money and building wealth. Learning to overcome these obstacles and changing our money mindset is how we grow rich—both as investors and as human beings. After a lifelong career as a wealth manager, Mick Heyman has discovered achieving gre... more

Days of My Life: A personal story about generational trauma, mental health and one woman’s transformational journey to healing

by Rev Alford

A compelling memoir detailing the intricate journey of Rev Alford’s life. From losing her mother to suicide, to becoming a mother herself with all the challenges that brings. She re-visits skeletons in the closet 20 years on as the generational trauma resurfaces. __________________________________________________________ Rev was 22 years old when her mother took her own life after many turbulent years of suicidal ideation. She believed she could forge on and put that behind her without process... more

Trust the Flow

by Tara Rose

Captivating, poignant and inspiring, Trust the Flow is a mystical memoir, an intimate journey of self-discovery through shamanic initiations on the plant medicine path. Equal parts heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this powerful true story will open your mind and delight your heart, leaving you feeling motivated to seek your own higher purpose -- and empowered to manifest miracles with courage and faith.

The Undiscovered Country

by Diane Meyer Lowman

Diane Meyer Lowman, a divorced, suburban Connecticut-based mother of two grown sons runs away from home at age 57. The balm for her midlife crisis is a “senior” year abroad studying her literary idol. She sells her home, car, and most of her possessions and enrolls in an M.A. program at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford Upon Avon. The thrilling, energizing, and challenging year as a “mature student” and expatriate teaches Diane as much about herself as about The Bard. Take this physic... more

Tinderbox: One Family's Story of Adoption, Neurodiversity, and Fierce Love

by Lynn Alsup

Lynn watched her beloved Clare, newly adopted from Haiti, crawl the house in a frantic search for her lost mother. Preschool Clare enchanted with belly laughs and shining smiles. Also, thrashed and wailed in her room as Lynn crouched on her own bed—pillow clutched over her head—her past trauma triggered. A pre-teen trip to Haiti brought sunshine, ruby red hibiscus blooms, and the music of Haitian Creole. Back at home, Clare shattered mirrors into shards on the subway tiles of thei... more

Ride or Die: Loving Through Tragedy, A Husband’s Memoir

by Jarie Bolander

Modern society has a warped sense of the partner-caregiver role, especially for men. Too often, men are ill equipped to handle switching from provider to caregiver, and the “just suck it up” advice so many offer up falls as flat as the Kansas prairie in the face of the reality of life and death. Ride or Die takes its audience through the intimate conversations and thoughts of a Gen-X latchkey-generation husband—a man who has always had to fend for himself and believed that it’s up to him to sol... more

Not MeToo MeinCharge

by Aphrodite Phoenix

When “God’s people” choose a bragging woman molester and lawmakers pretend he belongs…when journalism trying to tell the plain truth gets called fake by the fakest lout alive…where lies are adored by many millions, and every day the crucial truth is trashed…where respect and admiration from the rest of the world has been dying since 2016… CAN A PROSTITUTE BE A MORAL COMPASS? You bet your life she can. “Absorbing…striking…passionate…informative. Takes a range of institutions and groups to task... more

SIPPING FROM THE NILE, My Exodus From Egypt

by Jean Naggar

To read SIPPING FROM THE NILE, Jean Naggar's lavish memoir of her Cairo childhood, is to be transported to another world, another time. This book is a document of the gorgeous, elaborate rituals of Naggar's Sephardic upbringing. It is series of exquisitely-remembered portraits of the people whose have lives braided into hers-- among them her father, whom she movingly memorializes for imparting to her a novelistic sense of the human world: "I listened, spellbound, to my father's rich store of ... more

Eros and Thanatos; a Hollywood Story

by Max Denken

It’s 3 am. A dejected Hollywood studio employee and filmmaker who had just been fired goes to a coffee shop and meets a woman who will upend his life and bring misfortune to his beloved mother. So begins the true story that took the author from Los Angeles to Munich and from there, via his mother’s wartime memoir, to the bloodlands of Galicia under Soviet, then German, then Soviet again occupations in 1939‒1945. A story of love between a mother and her son and of lust between the son and a woman... more

The Humorist: Adventures in Adulting & Horror Movies

by Mike Cavaliere

Horror movies meet the horrors of growing up in this unique and hilarious collection of personal essays, which examines the culture shock of aging as seen through the prism of pop culture addiction.

Why grow up when you can watch TV, instead?

That’s the question at the heart of this story, in which multi-award-winning humor columnist Mike Cavaliere captures the funny and surprisingly poignant moments that define our journeys to and through adulthoo... more

Young Man, Muddled

by Robert Kanigel

Embark on a serendipitous journey with celebrated author Robert Kanigel, from a Brooklyn childhood through an unexpected career shift from engineering war weaponry to crafting tales of geniuses and grand ideas. A story of a '60s youth in America's throes of change, a transformative love, and a muddled path that led to an unexpected destination: the life of a storyteller. A memoir of love, work, and the muddling through that shapes a life.

The Aerospace Professor: The Man and The Brand

by Jeffery Battle

Who am I, Forrest Gump? The Aerospace Professor’s autobiography is provocative and a compilation of dramatic, emotional, and riveting journeys from the author's early childhood through maturity. With a small amount of imagination, the autobiography resembles the life of a Tom Hanks movie character like Forrest Gump. Find out more. The Aerospace Professor's autobiography is about the life of Adjunct Professor Jeffery Battle and his profile of courage. Read more... Despite the severity of any par... more

SNAP JUDGMENT: Overcoming Racial Bias to Buy My First Home

by Roger L. Edwards, Jr.

Roger, an African-American, shares a memorable moment during his “homeownership” journey when he encountered racial bias. Not only does he reveal six important lessons he learned about racial bias along the way, he also shares how his faith—and the “still, small voice” — helped him overcome unconscious bias when buying his first home. This journey interweaves such a wide range of topics like "The Talk" (and its importance in the Black community), housing discrimination, child sponsorship, and th... more

Maktub- Based on a True Story

by Marwa Schoch

Maktub is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. This book focuses on a young girl's quest to uncover the lessons hidden in her challenging circumstances. She navigates through emotional and physical abuse and trauma to determine her purpose in life, facing several trials and tribulations along the way. This is not just a story of survival, it's a story that focuses on growth, understanding, and courage. It's the story of a woman who refused to be the person she was told to be and wh... more

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