At Close Range: A Memoir of Tragedy and Advocacy By Leesa Ross Publisher: Texas Tech University Press Pages: 192 Pub Date: April 15, 2020 Categories: Nonfiction / Memoir / Personal Transformation / Advocacy Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that […]
Category: memoir
Synopsis I am NOT! When enough of the world comes at you, telling you you’re nothing, you believe. You become what you believe. You become until the pain of becoming is too great to bear. You constantly ask yourself: What if I don’t know the answer? What if I’m wrong? What if […]
Synopsis Two years after her mother’s death from breast cancer, Caitlin, then 20 years old, was admitted to a psychiatric facility after a suicide attempt. There, a therapist diagnosed her with major depression and anxiety, and she spent time as an inpatient. Years later, still suffering from grief and depression, Caitlin decided […]
Synopsis After more than forty years in the United States, Lan still feels tentative about her place in her adoptive country, one which she came to as a thirteen-year-old refugee. And after eighteen years of being a mother, she still ventures through motherhood as if it is a foreign landscape. Lan explores […]
Life in the Camel Lane: Embrace the Adventure by Doreen M. Cumberford Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18 +), 288 pages Genre: Memoir Publisher: White Heather Press Release date: April, 2020 Synopsis Life in the Camel Lane: Embrace the Adventure is what Doreen Cumberford, a Scottish author, calls her learnoire! It […]
LANDING IN MY PRESENT by Mary Clark Biography / Aviation / Historical / WWII Publisher: Hellgate Press Date of Publication: June 15, 2020 Number of Pages: 218 Scroll down for the giveaway! Mary Walker Clark barely knew her father. When he died, he left not only the […]
Synopsis It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O’Brien to learn what is causing that numbness. Months after her 65-year-old mother dies from a fast-moving cancer, weeks after her father is […]
Full Circle: A Memoir by Pamela Lombana Genre: Memoir / Domestic Abuse / Forgiveness Publisher: Wordfall Publishing Date of Publication: December 5, 2019 Number of Pages: 217 Scroll down for the giveaway! Alcoholism and domestic abuse creep silently into people’s lives, shattering dreams. For Pamela Lombana, […]
Perils and Pearls: In World War II, a Family’s Story of Survival and Freedom from Japanese Jungle Prison Camps by Hulda Bachman-Neeb Category: Adult Non-Fiction, 190 pages Genre: Memoir / Japanese History Publisher: BristleCone Press Release date: September, 2019 “The story of our Dutch family being ripped […]
Postcards from Lonnie How I Rediscovered My Brother on the Street Corner He Called Home by Lisa Johnson Biography / Photo Journal / Poverty Publisher: Rand-Smith LLC Date of Publication: January 14, 2020 Number of Pages: 200 Scroll down for the giveaway! It all […]