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Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind by Rachel Richards

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“About Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind:

In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn’t right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness.

As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

With a driving perfectionism, she graduates college with honors. But at sixty-nine pounds, Rachel is a shell of nervous and obsessive behaviors that have controlled her life. Years of self-harm and self-loathing have fueled the inner battles between good and evil, health and sickness, and life and death.

Acting on stage offers her moments of freedom from the skewed perceptions she’s constructed over the years. But her dream of a career in theater is not enough to save her. What is the secret that will finally unleash her will to recover?

Targeted Age Group: 15-65
Written by: Rachel Richards

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SOUVENIRS OF SUFFERING: A Child’s Memoir of Surviving Cancer by Dazhoni Green

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“About SOUVENIRS OF SUFFERING: A Child’s Memoir of Surviving Cancer:

Through the eyes and voice of a child, Dazhoni Green recounts her battle with brain cancer, wrestling with the debilitating effects of its initial symptoms, the diagnosis and ensuing treatment. These experiences, doubts and fears, were a prelude to a lengthy and arduous recovery. SOUVENIRS OF SUFFERING is a candid account that will find the reader cheering Dazhoni on, sometimes with tears, at every obstacle on her way to become the compassionate, energetic young woman she is today. The champions in the story are friends, family members, teachers, hospital staff and camp counselors who patiently and lovingly supported her and other children struggling with debilitating diseases. These children are the real heroes, each and every one. Having cancer as a child changed Dazhoni’s view of life, something the reader will sense as she portrays each milestone along the way.

Targeted Age Group: 12+
Written by: Dazhoni Green

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A Little Like Scarlett: A Partial Autobiography by Stephanie Van Orman

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“About A Little Like Scarlett: A Partial Autobiography:

Have you ever been curious about what an author’s life is like? If an author writes romantic novels, what has her dating life been like in order for her to write the way shes does? I want to know, but it’s hard to find the information. The author wrote romance novels, but she didn’t write an autobiography. Sometimes I open a book and I wonder if the author has ever seen or talked to a real man by what she has written. Sometimes, I’m the novelist, and I get comments amounting to the same question about me. Well, more than anything, I love answering questions. However, a question like that takes an entire book to answer. With that, I’d like to take you to the world of my teenage dating life, where I was a Southern Albertan belle of the ball. I was at a dance every weekend like a debutant among trackers and churches. I’ll introduce you to the heartless version of myself, who said exactly what needed to be said, no matter what mess it made. It will all work out in the end… Probably.

Targeted Age Group: 13-80
Written by: Stephanie Van Orman
Illustrated by: Shutterstock

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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

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“About Twelve Years a Slave:

Original version Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

Targeted Age Group: 16-99
Written by: Solomon Northup

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Only in India: Adventures of an International Educator by Jill Dobbe by Jill Dobbe

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“About Only in India: Adventures of an International Educator by Jill Dobbe:

Travel along with two international educators who take the leap and move to Gurgaon, India, to become principals at an Indian/International school. Excited by the opulent marble hallways and the grandness of the school, they quickly learn it lacks even the most basic supplies, like chalkboard erasers. The couple, however, makes a go of it and ultimately adjust to the dizzying day-to-day life of Indian society where sacred cows stop for red lights, women wear glittery saris while planting rice, and dreadlocked sadhus go about renouncing all their worldly pleasures.

Part memoir, part travelogue, part tragic comedy, readers will marvel at all the couple has to endure only to end up leaving the school and India abruptly, without even so much as a Namaste. Despite a catastrophe or two, their go-with-the-flow attitudes and kindred senses of humor help them to endure the overwhelming bustle of India while recognizing and appreciating its distinctive allure.

A humorous and engaging read for travelers and non-travelers alike.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Jill Dobbe

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