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Behind Closed Doors

In 2005, Jean Macbeth typed out her story as a form of therapy. Reliving the events during writing was deeply traumatic, and the prospect of revisiting them in detail kept the manuscript untouched for...

The Long Nightmare: My Family's Journey With Dementia

The Long Nightmare: My Family’s Journey with Dementia is a deeply moving and faith-filled account of one family’sbattle with a disease that keeps coming, touching generations. The author invites r...

FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR

From the Cyclops Cave: A Braided Memoir intertwines past and present, weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California with an adult life shaped by solitude on a Cycladic island in Greece. Aband...

Teenage Runaway

  One boy. One backpack. One shot at freedom.In 1967, fifteen-year-old Ronald Schulz packed HIS bag, left a note on his dresser, and walked away from everything he knew-Family, friends, home...

Stagehand:A Backstage Pass to my Life Stories

Mick Jagger, Tony Bennett, Michael Jackson and Prince, I have worked with them all. Along with actors such as Michelle Rodriguez, Will Smith, and Roddy McDowall. And many more. I traveled around the w...

In A Gadda Da Vida

17 minutes... so much can happen to a person in 17 minutes... ones life can dramatically change during those one thousand and twenty seconds of inexorable time... In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Iron Butter...

Memories Of Monsters

This isn’t a memoir about monsters hiding under the bed.It’s about the ones who smile…who charm…who promise forever…and sometimes say, “I love you.”Through a series of monster archetypes...

A Bilagáana Boy among the Navajo

How did a white kid like me come to live on the Navajo Reservation in the 1960s?In 1965, six-year-old Jay is witness to his mother’s affair and mental breakdown after his father’s lengthy military...

Bruce Lee: The Shaolin Mystic

This isn't a memoir. At least, not in the conventional sense. This book is a journey through experience, transformation, and Mysticism intentionally immortalized in words.It's a vivid exploration of l...

The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege

        Some people are irreparably damaged. Michael Anderson is not one of them.       The Lifer and the Lawyer raises questions about childhood trauma, r...

BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE LIMOUSINE INDUSTRY

The Pros and Cons of becoming and working in the Public and Corporate sector Livery ( AKA: LIMO INDUSTRY) Industry. This is a true Biography Chicagoan by the name of Raul Perales. He has been a Corpor...

Home at the Edge

In the tumultuous backdrop of the 1969 Chicago Haymarket riot, Ron, a spirited seventeen-year-old, finds himself ensnared in the complexities of Cook County jail. As he navigates this new world, he fo...