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Can We Play Baseball, Mr. DeMille?

by Mark Angelo

Set in 1958, a young boy and his friends want to be baseball players just like their Dodger idols. There’s just one problem: they don’t have a field to play in. Luckily, the kids know a secret. There’s a mansion around the corner with a yard big enough for an entire ball field and the hedge surrounding it has a gap just big enough to crawl through. Apparently, the owner is a big-time Hollywood mogul. He won’t mind a few ball games, right? This sensational true story of a young boy's encounte... more

The Man Behind the Makeup: The Professional Wrestling Life And times Of Jeff Bearden, Who Wrestled As Giant Warrior, Big Tiger S

by Jeff Beardon

nternational pro wrestling star Jeff Bearden has gone by many names: Butch Masters, Giant Warrior, Big Tiger Steele, and Colossus the Gladiator. Under these guises, he became part of wrestling history. Enter the wild, bloody life of pro wrestling during its Golden Age, from the viewpoint of one of its "biggest" stars. At seven feet tall, Jeff Bearden towered over his competition from the time he premiered in territory wrestling in 1987, through the crazed and dangerous wrestling scenes, infamy, ... more

How To Be Quiet In Small Spaces

by Steve Wellington and Marybel Salis

How to be Quiet in Small Spaces by Steve Wellington and Marybel Salis is a comprehensive guide to finding peace and tranquillity in even the busiest environments. The authors explore the reasons why modern life often feels overwhelming and noisy and offer practical strategies for reducing stress and cultivating inner stillness. Drawing from their own experiences and expertise in mindfulness and meditation, Wellington and Salis provide readers with simple yet effective tools for developing a quie... more

Two Counsellors Wandering Around A Prison

by Katie Carlyon

The book follows a counsellor and her colleague as they fight to set up counselling in a prison. Within their time of counselling questions are asked around the system and where the men reside including should a man die in prison? and what therapy have the men previously received?

How to Get Through Hell on Earth Without Drinking a Keg or Kicking a Garden Gnome

by Ryn Gargulinski

Ryn Gargulinski (aka Rynski) went from a scruffy drunken rebel without a house on the streets of New York City to an award-winning writer, artist and speaker thriving in Florida (who is only scruffy every other Thursday). This book tells you how it happened, complete with handy tips along the way. Come along for the ride, and you’ll discover: •\tHow to get out of kissing a scrawny squatter without making him mad •\tWhat happens when you drink an entire bottle of gin in 52 seconds •\tWhy ... more

A Starving Spark

by Chase Bayless

This book is a representation of my life, expressed in a way that provides the emotional context of my experiences without the practical context. It's intended to allow for the reader to emphasize with my lived experience without necessarily understanding those experiences.

Two Tickets to Paradise: From Cult to Comedy

by Katie Love

The year is 1970. The horror soap opera Dark Shadows is all the rage, the Vietnam War is raging and nine-year-old Katie, an imaginative and independent latch-key kid, comes home from school to discover her mother's suicide. Taken in by her older sister who has recently become a Jehovah's Witness, Katie is shown an illustration from a bible picture book featuring wild animals peacefully lounging by a pool of water, surrounded by happy people picking fruit. An enticing offer is made: "Katie, this ... more

Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure

by Stephen Watts

What started as a project to archive a family’s genealogy files became an insightful window into the life of Charles Watts, one of the millions of Dickens-era working-class English emigrants who risked everything for the possibility of better opportunities in distant lands. Searching for Charles is the chronological account of Watts’s experiences as told through his letters home—and the subsequent five-decade multigenerational search by his descendants. This book contains the only published, ... more

Life : Full Bloom Just JUSTIN

by Gene booker

The Story Teller Full Bloom : The dreamer, one who dares to never give up on his imagination, his ideas. To think it as an idea or thought, his a perfect picture in mind ,heart , soul and spirit. Just do it , the guts to make it happen, the loner, believing in self , simply "getting the job done" .Faith and God , finally , execute

what ever is ,you were always it , " OZ and the Tin Man ". you know

"his story" a friend

Justin and the Story Book Justin Justin

by Gene booker

Life of Gene Ricardo booker/ Pin JUST JUSTIN The educational process, love and work ,as sharing the experience JUST JUSTIN

FORCED TO MARRY HIM

by Davinder Kaur

Jacket Copy: In the late 1980s, Davinder Kaur was forced to marry a man she didn't know. When she was only fourteen years old, the marriage was arranged and set to occur when she turned eighteen. After four long years of internal turmoil and despair, she had two choices: adhere to the customs and traditions of her family, or risk bringing dishonor to their home. Davinder didn't like either option, so she made a plan—a plan to survive. In Forced to Marry Him: A Lifetime of Tradition and the W... more

Unmatched

by Sarah Lavane

An Orthodox woman's memoir of being "unmatched" in a "matched" Orthodox society. Lavane recounts her mystifying journey to find marriage and meaning.

The Caregiver

by Troy Donahue Jackson

The Caregiver book purpose is to recognize, uplift and empower caregivers worldwide. This is A-must have book, can be pass down to next generations. Aging love ones need this care so bad. Humanity is paramount above everything else. Troy is the caregiver for his mother and gives her love everyday with passion. Description This book details the challenges caregivers face on a daily basis and how to overcome them. Overall, the book can and will make you understand and respect all caregivers for ... more

It Won't Hurt None: A story of courage, healing and a return to wholeness

by Rebecca E Chandler

“This book serves a therapeutic purpose for readers, giving them hope that not all is lost, even if they feel alone and abandoned.” Reader’s Favorite

Rebecca E. Chandler was living in Kenya when she turned to a surgeon in Dubai for a “routine procedure.” Within days of the operation, her mental and physical health collapsed. As her mind and body deteriorated,, flashbacks of her childhood sexual abuse began to re-emerge. Depression took over a... more

A Conservation Notebook

by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

This highly personal volume from the former head of Creative Services for WWF International wanders from crowded UN conference rooms in Rio to simple farmers in Bhutan, to coral reefs in Micronesia and the Philippines to the wild regions of Indonesian New Guinea where outsiders want a piece of a poor farmer’s soul to the rainforests of Borneo where indigenous tribesmen fight for their land. From a mythical sacred mountain in India to holy groves in Burma to an ecological war zone in Zimbabwe, fr... more

Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire

by Jen Berlingo

Midlife Emergence is a revelatory memoir and an inviting guidebook; it is a compassionate companion that belongs on the bedside table of every woman who finds herself burning to reclaim powerful parts of herself that social conditioning has locked away. Midlife doesn’t need to be a crisis or an emergency—rather, it’s an emergence, an opportunity to make those beautiful, unexpressed facets shamelessly visible. When psychotherapist and coach Jen Berlingo traversed her own midlife portal, she exp... more

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