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Fourteen Days

by Momoko Uno

In the midst of a global crisis, where every day felt like an unending struggle against isolation and uncertainty, Momoko Uno's life took a heart-wrenching turn. She found herself stranded in New York, on the opposite end of the world from her home in Perth, Australia after borders closed to all citizens. Driven by urgency to be by her mother’s side after a rapidly approaching terminal diagnosis, Momoko embarked on an emotional odyssey. Her journey navigated the complexities of resilient gri... more

The Shaman's Wife: A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery

by Alicia M. Rodriguez

When Alicia M. Rodriguez, a successful entrepreneur recovering from divorce and loss, accepts an invitation to Ecuador to help a friend who is studying with a shaman, she has no idea how profoundly the decision will change her life’s course. In Ecuador, Alicia meets Napo, a powerful shaman, and they begin an extraordinary relationship that spans two continents and eight years. As their connection deepens, Alicia learns the principles of shamanism and witnesses Napo’s remarkable healing abilit... more

I'm All Better Now

by Tari Johnson

What began as a quest to solve persistent digestive issues morphed into a battle of body and mind as the experiment evolved into a raging eating disorder that went much deeper than body image issues. The resulting drive to achieve the elusive standard of "clean" eating and burn away every calorie consumed, eventually became the entirety of Tari’s existence. She hovered between life and death, shrouded in the distorted perceptions of a malnourished mind. Her grip on sanity was tested when ... more

The Hipster's Legacy

by Lorraine Cohen

The coming of age of a late bloomer and quiet dreamer set in a small beach town community of southern California during the early 1960s. Thomas Wolfe famously said “You can’t go home again” and this holds true for 22 year old Lorraine who, finds her life is completely different living with her peripatetic older sister, her younger brother and her sister’s three vivacious small children instead of her very practical mother. What happens at the red cottage by the sea with its off beat ... more

Wanderer's Journey

by Vedran Dedić

Born in Bosnia, a boy was uprooted by civil war and thrust into a life displaced. Arriving in a new country, not once, but twice, he faces challenges of language barriers, cultural differences, and starting over. Always an outsider, always looking for a community, a resting place, a home. The young refugee finds solace in the beautiful game. Determined to pursue his quest for identity, he searches across continents for a football club that he sees himself in and will help him realize his dream o... more

A Place of Truth

by Julian King

A Place of Truth immerses readers into a stream of vivid recollections –stories within stories - of experiences from earliest personal memory to later adulthood, while offering relevant historical context, such as music, social norms, and times of war. How does a child make sense of their world, when it is rife with challenges involving betrayal, losses, rejection, chaos, and the turmoil of abandonment? Julian’s vibrant characterizations of childhood encounters and significant relationships,... more

THE VOICE OF HEART

by Alexis karpouzos

Alexis karpouzos is a visioner in the development of post-history sense of cosmic unity and the integral consciousness. For him, spirituality is not just about personal enlightenment but is deeply connected to moral action. He view ethical living as a natural outgrowth of spiritual awareness. In his worldview, the divine is not something distant or abstract but is present in every human being, and this awareness should lead to moral behavior that reflects love, justice, and equality. In many of ... more

Flew Too High

by Louie Mandrapilias

A southern gay college boy sets out for the Big Apple where a demonic Svengali lures the naïve student into the underworld of international drug smuggling. Upon arriving in Bombay, Louie — now rechristened Eli — detours to the mind-expanding ashram of guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Netflix’s "Wild, Wild Country") and explores new possibilities. Guided by a flawed moral compass, he’s trapped in purgatory: Is it too late to walk away, or is he fated to follow in the nefarious footsteps of his father... more

I Saved You, Now Do the Dishes. Love, Your Caregiver The Other Side of Cancer

by Carrie Severson

Author and motivational speaker Carrie Severson spent years learning how to heal from her experience with burnout and medical challenges. But none of that prepared her for the overwhelming responsibilities she would face when she stepped into the role of her husband’s caregiver and advocate after he was diagnosed with cancer. Carrie candidly shares her frustrations with healthcare professionals and her struggles with caregiving burnout. She also highlights the essential role of caregiving an... more

Around Vancouver Island on my Kayak

by Felipe Behrens

This book is tells the story of a one-thousand-mile solo kayak circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. It’s rich in detail with vivid storytelling that brings together Island history from West Coast Native peoples to Captain Cook, George Vancouver and the towns, outports and parks of today’s Vancouver Island. It’s also replete with fascinating accounts of the flora, fauna, hydrology, and geology of one of the world’s most exotic destinations. It also includes a host of beguiling and often wacky ch... more

Out and Back

by Curtis Smith

Synopsis Wanting to break from the mundane life we had settled into, my loving wife, our two adorable boys, our faithful dog, and I embarked on an epic adventure that ultimately changed our lives. I quit my cushy college administrator job and took a position teaching in England. What was supposed to be a one-year and one-country sabbatical turned into a multi-year and multi-country journey that took us around the world. We didn’t know what we were doing but figured it out along the w... more

How Can You Tell If a Lawyer is Lying?

by Mark Joseph Neary

From a small town to a small college; from the Big Ten to the big city; this is the story of Mark Neary. A tail ender of the baby boom generation, he stumbles through a life and world beyond his dreams, expectations, and understanding. While living around the world, or at least in every state in the Midwest which starts with an "I", he gathers stories great and small which all add up to a life full of joy, heartache, and all the other emotions that make us human. Or at least humanoid.

What's Next: An Expanded 21st Century Time Statue Harvest

by Robert F Morgan

Time is a place. Each moment is a statue in time, always rooted in that time and that place. Visits include Singapore, Guam, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, San Francisco, and Albuquerque. In this book of a lifespan revisit to international time statues from the first quarter of the 21st Century, they are followed by ones that may come after.

A China Story: Growing Up in Mao's Cultural Revolution

by Ying Qian

In her award-winning memoir, Ying Qian gives a first-hand account of Mao's deadly Cultural Revolution and shares her emotional journey of uncovering the truth of the murder of her father, a renowned nuclear weapons expert, by the Chinese military during that period.

On a summer day in 2010, Ying Qian returns to Beijing from America to visit her family and receives information on how her father was killed during the Cultural Revolution 40 years earlier. The revelation forces her to w... more

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis

by Alex 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 begins to wonder about his family’s claim about risking their lives for their Jewish neighbors in Suwalki, Poland, during WWII and his maternal grandfather Alexander Peter Gwiazdowski’s antisemitic... more

Δρ Κύπρος Χρυσοστομίδης

by Kypros Chrysostomides

Σε μια ιδιαίτερα κρίσιμη για την παγκόσμια κοι- νότητα/ανθρωπότητα, την Ευρώπη, την Κύπρο και το Κυπριακό, περίοδο και συγκυρία αμφι- σβήτησης Αρχών και Αξιών -που προσδιόρισαν τη μεταπολεμική διεθνή δικαιοταξία- το ανά χεί- ρας πόνημα του Κύπρου Χρυσοστομίδη αποτε- λεί μια ακόμα αφορμή/ευκαιρία για τον επιβαλ- λόμενο αναστοχασμό όσον αφορά το μέλλον της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας, μέσα στο αενάως με- ταβαλλόμενο διεθνές περιβάλλον. Και από αυτή τη σκοπιά, η έκδοση αυτή συνιστά ένα ιδιαίτερο γεγονός,... more

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