Category: nonfiction

Audiobook Spotlight – Second Lives

  SECOND LIVES: The Journey of Brain-Injury Survivors and Their Healers By Ralph B. Lilly, MD & Diane F. Kramer with Joyce Stamp Lilly   Audiobook / Biography / Medical Professionals / Neuroscience Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Listening Length: 6 hours and 21 minutes Publication Date: February 28, 2024     Synopsis “Discharged from a […]

Excerpt – This Familiar Heart by Babette Hale

      THIS FAMILIAR HEART:   AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY   by   Babette Fraser Hale   Memoir / Relationships / Aging / Grief Publisher: Winedale Publishing Date of Publication: April 2, 2024 Number of Pages: 312 pages         In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface […]

Excerpt – Bird’s Eye View by Jan Capps

  Synopsis   When Jan moves to Guatemala with her young daughter to run a medical clinic on the heels of her divorce, she knows the experience will be difficult and life-changing. But she doesn’t anticipate all the ways she will change. To make sense of her professional, personal, and parenting turmoil in a country […]

Excerpt – A Yellow House in the Mountains by Glenn Hileman

    Synopsis   Lyle is a struggling teenager with low self-esteem. His poor decisions reinforce his reputation as a troublemaker. Marylin arrives at a new high school and navigates the challenge of fitting in. When Lyle sets his eyes on the new girl at school, he is smitten. He is determined to win Marylin’s […]

Guest Post – The Writing On The Wall by Marilyn Howard #nonfiction #business

    Synopsis   An astounding true story of a young woman driven by her desire to escape chauvinism blazes a whirlwind path full of mystical encounters and unexpected adventures. From love to lawsuits, her business and personal life intertwine, bringing her to untold heights. Uncanny predictions at a chance encounter with a Fulbright Scholar […]

#NewRelease – Dwell Time by Rosa Lowinger #nonfiction #memoir #cuba

    Synopsis   Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen – immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the minutes people wait in an airport, and, in art conservation, the time it takes for a chemical to react with a material. Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger spent a difficult […]

Guest Review – It’s Not All About You by Elisabeth L. Morrissey #LGBTQ

        Synopsis   Your husband tells you he’s transsexual. Do you drop him like a hot rock? Could it possibly work out? Read this book! Includes: the transsexual process, talking to others, assessing your relationship, finding therapists, maintaining your marriage, jealousy, helping your children adjust, and more. Also, for the woman who […]