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Featured Post: You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol Anderson

“About You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties:

How do you live an authentic life while keeping a secret?

This award-winning memoir chronicles one woman’s struggle to be true to herself as she grapples with the ramifications of accepting that she’s gay amid the religious, social and legal norms of the Sixties.

Raised in a fundamentalist Christian home Carol fears the rejection of her parents, with whom she shares a loving relationship, she hides the truth and pursues false romances with men while struggling to harness her powerful attractions to women. The watershed point in Carol’s journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses.

But this sense of self-possession comes too late for honesty with her father. His unexpected death before she can tell him the truth brings the full cost of Carol’s secret crashing in compelling her to come out to her mother before it is too late. Candid and poignant, You Can’t Buy Love Like That reveals the complex invisible dynamics that arise for gay people who are forced to hide their true selves in order to survive and celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one’s courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance and self-love.

Targeted Age Group: 18 and up
Written by: Carol Anderson

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Featured Post: Being Authentic: A Memoir by Morhaf Achkar

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“About Being Authentic: A Memoir:

A Syrian immigrant in the US tells his story from growing up in Syria to moving to the US. He is a family physician and university professor. He is also a stage IV lung cancer patient. The author of Roads to Meaning And Resilience with Cancer tells his stories of Being Authentic.

Targeted Age Group: 18-100
Written by: Morhaf Achkar

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Featured Post: Our Teenage Years: Growing Up in a Small Town in the ’80s by T. J. Wray

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About Featured Book: Our Teenage Years: Growing Up in a Small Town in the ’80s by T. J. Wray

This is an inspiring story about overcoming whatever life may throw at you. This book is about two best friends growing up in their teenage years in a small town. All the wild adventures and stories from my childhood, after my parents divorced and we went on the run for 11 years. This book includes my first job, girlfriend, prom, driver’s license, my first car and many other first we all did in our teenage years. It’s a fun-filled adventure about being a teenager, epic road trips and best friends. But really this book is just about LIFE. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry. This is a bunch of short stories from my teenage years that everyone will relate to in one way or another.

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Featured Post: Why Didn’t I Notice Her Before? by Beth Cramer

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“About Why Didn’t I Notice Her Before?:

A page turning debut that should not go unnoticed. “Why Didn’t I Notice Her Before?” reveals the universal truth that appreciating life is complicated.

In August 2017, Cramer was told that she had stage 4 ovarian cancer. During a routine medical appointment, a nurse practitioner examined a bump on the author’s pelvis and quickly handed her a slip to get an urgent CT scan, as though it were a baton in a “relay race.” She was later told that she had a “fourteen-centimeter tumor” and that she must undergo surgery to remove “the big mass…the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, all of it,” and then receive chemotherapy. The memoir describes how Cramer, a New York film editor; her husband, Todd; and their young son, Noah, came to terms with the news. She describes all aspects of her treatment, from awaiting surgery to having a port inserted in her chest for infusions. She also poses penetrating questions–one chapter, for example, is titled “Should I Fight?”–and approaches the act of wig shopping with wickedly mordant wit: “I sit down in the wig barber’s chair looking like my two-year-old-self refusing to wear underwear because it is itchy.” The book goes on to explore how the author’s cancer diagnosis has changed her outlook on life, asking “will an illness as serious as this teach me that I no longer need to fix things, and can I finally release my grip and get on with living?” Cramer’s writing is characterized by an eagle-eyed search for positivity: “Fuck it. I want to live my life not spend time making legacy boxes of my unfinished one.” For the author, this statement is an act of personal catharsis, but her message has an inspirational universality. Some readers may flinch at her bluntness, but for most, her writing will offer revitalizing guidance: “I’m told death is close, it is imperative that I take initiative to go any direction away from stuck.” Overall, this keenly observed memoir delicately balances humor and heartache while signaling the importance of each passing moment.

A profoundly moving remembrance that’s alternately sad and uplifting.

Targeted Age Group: 45-55
Written by: Beth Cramer

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Featured Post: You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol Anderson

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“About You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties:

How do you live an authentic life while keeping a secret?

This award-winning memoir chronicles Carol’s struggle to be true to herself as she grapples with the ramifications of accepting that she’s gay at a time when it was illegal and in opposition to all social and religious mores.

Candid and poignant, You Can’t Buy Love Like That reveals the complex invisible dynamics that arise for gay people who are forced to hide their true selves in order to survive and celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one’s courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance and self-love.

You Can’t Buy Love Like That offers hope to those seeking to live truthfully as well as those who value the triumph of love over fear.

Targeted Age Group: Adult 26+
Written by: Carol Anderson

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Featured Post: I Was Just a Radioman by Pamela Ackerson

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About I Was Just a Radioman by Pamela Ackerson

Their hearts were strong, and their courage endless.
Pearl Harbor survivor, Black Cat radioman, and decorated WW 2 veteran. ARM H. P. Lawrence, tells the true story of the fight against the Japanese in this compilation of his memoirs.

One of only a handful of non-Native American code-talkers, H. P. Lawrence became a member of an elite fighting force, the Black Cats. Flying in their nocturnal missions, the Cats claws were sharp and their aim deadly.

From devastation to victory, the story of these brave men−the deadly, mysterious, and illusive Black Cats is a journey into the past where nightmares came true and hatred reigned. A time in history we should never, ever forget.

The day which will live in infamy…was just the beginning.

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Featured Post: I am a Runner: the Memoirs of a Sepsis Survivor by Pamela Ackerson

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About I am a Runner: the Memoirs of a Sepsis Survivor by Pamela Ackerson

“You’ll never be able to run again.”

From running half marathons to being the sickest person in the hospital, Maria Papalia-Meier fought the river of death, and won.

Life changing moments, amputations, and negative thoughts refused to keep her down. With her rock-hard stubbornness, positive self-empowerment and persistence, she grabbed hope and unflinching faith to face the life handed to her. Her story offers an honest, tough-love approach to defeating pre-determined opinions, and self-imposed limitations. She refused to give up or give in.

Maria Papalia-Meier is a runner. She has awoken stronger…better.

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Featured Post: Flying Alone: A Memoir by Beth Ruggiero York

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About Flying Alone: A Memoir by Beth Ruggiero York

At thirteen years old, Beth’s heart was broken when her father died suddenly. But there was a bigger challenge ahead when doctors told her she probably had multiple sclerosis at 22 years old. Beth vowed that this new challenge would not put restrictions on her life and embarked on a lifelong dream to fly for the airlines. Starting at the small local airport, the aviation world swallowed her whole, and the next five years of her life were as turbulent as an airplane in a thunderstorm, never knowing when, how or if she would emerge. An agonizing love affair with her flight instructor, dangerous risks in the sky and flying broken airplanes for shady companies all intertwined to define her road to the airlines. She made it to her goal and was hired by Trans World Airlines in 1989. Flying Alone is told with soul-baring candor, taking readers on a suspenseful journey through the terror, romance and ultimate victory of those years.

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Featured Post: True Course – Lessons From a Life Aloft by Brigid Johnson

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About True Course – Lessons From a Life Aloft by Brigid Johnson

From award-winning, best-selling author Brigid Johnson comes the tale of how one woman’s life in the sky forged an unforgettable destiny. Raised in a small factory town in the 1960s, when aviation was predominantly a male profession, with parents who didn’t support her ambitions, Brigid nevertheless learned to fly. Hers was a busy life of setting limits and learning philosophies of growth and risk well beyond her years, even as she juggled two jobs, college, and a rescue Siberian husky whose wandering spirit put her own to shame. From first solo to an airline career, and finally a decision to hang up her wings for another profession when her elderly father needed her care, Brigid captures with understanding, humor, and grace the moments that change the path of our lives. With lyrical expression of her love for flight, she writes old and new stories of family, adventure, and the thrill of taking to the sky. True Course is more than a memoir or a story of the lure of aviation—it’s a story of learning to let the spirit soar and unfurling the wings of personal freedom, an inspiration to adventurers everywhere. .99 for Kindle through Oct. 15

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THE BABY FLIGHT

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“About THE BABY FLIGHT:

An American teacher in Korea delivers three orphans on Christmas Eve to their new parents in USA. But there is a major problem – one of the babies. Heart-warming, illustrated and wonderful ending.
Over 400,000 copies of The Baby Flight story have been published. The Baby Flight is entirely non-fiction. Diane Ravitch Former Assistance Secretary of Education writes, “A beautiful and moving story.”

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