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A new book by Pearl Goodman highlights that impact as she describes growing up in Toronto in the '60s with the influence of pop culture and the trauma of her parents' experiences in the Holocaust. Something to consider for Holocaust Education Week.

Farrelly calls James Capuano's BEAST "harrowing, hilarious, heartbreaking, and, most of all, human."

“Knowing Alma: A Story of Family, Love, and Understanding” Author Susan Pastorius offers readers a return to the classical American memoir filled with stylish prose, captivating settings, and deep-rooted characters.

A Young Boy Learns Pride of Cultural Heritage in This Stunning Memoir

Learn About Schizophrenia by Someone Who’s Been There in New Book, "Whispers: Behind the Eyes and Mind of a Schizophrenic"

What do you do when cancer sneaks up and sucker-punches you from behind? If you are Jimmy Capuano, born and raised on New York's lower east side, you come back at it with a whole lot of attitude, and with both fists flying. Then you tell your story.

This compilation of lessons learned by the 50-year-old lawyer, wife, mother and world traveler contains 50 chapters that describe her fascinating travel, work and life adventures around the globe and at home.

Author, Suzy Milhoan is pleased to announce the release of her new memoir, The Healing Game: A Story Of Loss And Renewal.

A young man's search for the exotic dancer who can prove his innocence leads him on a lurid journey through seedy strip clubs and top shelf gentleman's clubs in HELL IS FULL OF STRIPPERS, the new novella from the twisted imagination of Isaac Ho.

A Whale of a Tale Memoir, "Windjamming to China" Sails on the Fringes of History

When The Loss Of His Father, Mother, Older Brother and a Friend All Die Violently, The Same Day His Grandmother Had a Heart-Attack, His Faith is Strengthened and True Love Revealed in a Surprising Way.

Terzian's book, The Immigrants' Daughter, is now featured on BooksDaily.com. It is a memoir on growing up in Egypt and growing out of it, aspiring to a more sophisticated role in life than living as a shadow in a restrictive community.

A new book will chronicle the hopelessness, tragedy, and a lifesaving epiphany that marked the path singer/songwriter Dan Coyle took to success as an indie musician.

Award-winning author and poet Judy Goldman explores the relationship she shared with her older sister, Brenda, in this heartbreaking and uplifting memoir. Goldman’s voice speaks to any woman who has ever loved a sister or lost a loved one.

"Leaving the Hall Light On" by Madeline Sharples is now available in a trade paperback edition from Dream of Things. Previously available only in hard cover, this moving memoir focuses on surviving every family's worst nightmare.

Released at the end of July and now available on Kindle, "My 'Secret Love' With Doris Day" by Michael J DeVita is now quickly available on www.amazon.com, as well as at other online retailers. This story details a "relationship" over 60 years strong.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects millions each year yet remains tragically misunderstood. Because of the stigma on PTSD, many people who suffer this disorder live a concealed existence of pain, torment and constant terror. Is there hope?

Andrina D. Abrahamse's Touching Memoir on Apartheid Is a Healing Story

New York Writer/Performer Talks to Strangers (And Icons) in New Memoir, Podcast

Please visit www.mattcavallo.com. This site is dedicated to the fight against Multiple Sclerosis. This is intended to be an interactive resource for patients and caregivers. This site also provides excerpts from The Dog Story and other MS links.

Authors, Diana Goodwin and Victoria Graydale, are pleased to announce the promotion of their book, Dividend of Deception. This book is a true crime piece about embezzlement and friendships gone wrong.

Mike Roman worked all over the Iran, setting up distance measuring devices at Iranian military airports, first for the USAF, then for the IIAF, as a mercenary to the Shah. Quite a few people wanted him dead. This is the story of how he survived.

Author Allen Roth's Intense Memoir Reveals Insights Into the Soul

From the prattle on the cobblestone streets of Dorchester, a working class neighborhood of Boston, to the harrowing jungles of Vietnam, an era comes alive in the memoir “Just Call Me Moose! Growing Up Italian in America”.

How can one person make a difference? "Irrepressible: From a Dropout to a Professor Emeritus" is the uplifting memoir of an educator who traveled the world for 30 years to help in developing countries.

Love. Salsa Music. Iphone. One daughter's powerful recipe for Caregiving to Alzheimer's is now available in paperback.

Marilyn’s Memoir is offering all who enter a chance to win the Prize of a Lifetime, their own Novoir (novel-memoir). Our Marilyn’s Memoir $10K Novoir Giveaway Sweepstakes begins June 29th and runs until August 31st

Author and traveler Mariann Margulis is pleased to announce the release of her new India travel memoir entitled, Bats, Rats and Holy Cows or Seventeen Days in India.

Memoir Recalls Life in the South Before the Civil Rights Era

This memoir is the life journey of a normal working class girl, trapped in a roller coaster world of disorder and excitement, love and joy, depression and anger. And her fight against mental illness.

These Women on the Rise are ready to inspire you to leap into your greatness....

'Losing Marmee' offers eye-popping "lessons learned" in the world of eldercare, as told by the daughter of an aging mother who spent nearly seven years in assisted living.

Author, Teresa O’Kane is pleased to announce her new book, Safari Jema won the Indie Book Award for Best Memoir!

Former journalist Alan Felyk, who has more than 68,000 Twitter followers, has published a sometimes hilarious, sometimes wistful memoir that spans more than 60 years.

Winners Were Announced at the Eighteenth Annual San Diego Book & Writing Awards, June 9, 2012

When writer Laura Dennis descended into madness, believing she was a spy for the Illuminati who had inadvertently engineered 9/11, she had her family scrambling to support her, and to find answers.

That is the story told in this just released true memoir by Erin L Hawkes entitled When Quietness Came: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey With Schizophrenia. The latest in a series of books on schizophrenia from Bridgeross Communications.

“What I Did On My Midlife Crisis Vacation” by Debbianne DeRose is a sassy, humorous and oh-so-honest account of one woman’s foray into metaphysics and spirituality. A free eBook download is available for a limited time to memoir lovers.

Jan Mendoza was 18 years old, 5’2” and 95 pounds when she answered the call to be a wildland firefighter for CDF in 1978. She was one of 26 women in the entire state of California to be hired as a seasonal firefighter.

This is a true story which took place in Austin, Texas during the eighties and early nineties. He considered himself as an average man that ended up living the life that every male has had dreams about.

Writers with Michigan ties will describe different paths to coping with illness and other life hurdles on May 18.

Norma Jean's Sun Memoir ( Based on a True Story ) "A Wonderful commentary on the very things that make us all human" The story is not only convincingly true, but will rivet the reader with its genuine and unassuming pathos.

Author, Thomas DePaoli is pleased to announce that his book, Growing Up Italian in the 50's: or How Most of Us Became Good Wise Guys.

Based on astonishing true events, The Cuckoo’s Egg (Finalist 2011 International Book Awards, New Age Non-Fiction) is the story of a gifted psychic and medium, and how her abilities came to light.

Everyone has a story. Transform that story into a memoir to create your legacy.

The memoir is so intimate DeGrate has taken nearly a year to make it available nationally. The book “I Lost My Mind and Found God on the Way There”, was published in spring 2011 and just reaching bookstore shelves in May 2012.

Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find fortune in Hong Kong, but a year later was in psychosis from crystal meth addiction and working for a major triad gang. "Eating Smoke", a humorous yet moving first book, is his account of what happened ...

Tom Edwards’ words shine with humour and wit. He recalls Edward the Eighth’s abdication speech verbatim, but recent memories don’t have quite as much clarity. But one thing is for certain: His life has been an exciting journey.

Author Albert Flynn DeSilver, who served as Marin County California’s Poet Laureate, donates a percentage of proceeds from new memoir to recovery, literacy, and mindfulness education programs.

With great courage, compassion and candor, three Paws & Claws volunteers share their stories of life as an animal rescuer in the South. 'A Few Happy Endings' chronicles the horrific and heartwarming moments in rescue with some miracles in between.