Memoir | Biography and Memoir
Dec.09.2009
Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement’s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was...
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Dec.04.2009
A car crashes, and Maggie Kast, at the peak of a modern dance career, loses a three-year-old daughter. Raised without religion and now mired in grief, she senses a persistent connection to the little girl, a love somehow more powerful than the brute fact of death. This awareness leads her, over...
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Dec.04.2009
Part travel guidebook, part anthology, all inspiring! The Voluntary Traveler is a travel anthology penned by writers from all over the world. Focused on inspiring volunteer vacations and/or encouraging adventure-minded people to see volunteer work as a part of ones longer journey, the book will...
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Nov.14.2009
Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. When Danielle Ofri first enters the doors as a medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine. It is here that Dr....
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Nov.08.2009
When I was four, and my sister, six, my parents were severely burned in the basement of our Cape Cod summer rental. This book chronicles the horror of the burns, the separation of my sister and me from our parents--our life with our Aunt, Uncle and Cousins on a farm in upstate New York and the...
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Oct.25.2009
From the Far Side of the Sun is an example of what true friendship can mean if you have the courage to reach out and embrace it. To forge the bonds of friendship and to hold that friendship close to your heart. To share your experiences, each becoming a stronger person for having shared those...
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Oct.25.2009
When friendship spans the oceans… It seemed a fair exchange to share the exotic experiences in the Land of the Rising Sun in exchange for hearing of life in the real world. A rare glimpse into the life of an American woman in a foreign and alien land -- read her journal. Based on a true story.
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Oct.23.2009
An evocative, gritty memoir by the leading woman writer of the Beat Generation.
In this rich and passionate memoir, influential poet Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Only by heroic effort was she able to break away from her intense Brooklyn Italian family...
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Oct.15.2009
From My Mama’s Kitchen – “Food for the Soul, Recipes for the Living” is a wonderful keepsake book about motherly love. It is a tribute to acknowledge and honor moms all over the world for their spiritual and inspirational contribution in making a positive difference in the lives of their children...
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Oct.05.2009
My book, a memoir, is also a road map. It tells about my journey to find my place in the world, a journey that had many twists and turns and its share of roadblocks. The reader is given insight into what life was like in the segregated south on a small farm and how that experience prepared me...
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