When author Kasey Rogers’ husband begins to exhibit alarming behaviors, she starts to suspect he’s having an affair and intends to divorce her. Fearing she may lose her children should they end up in court, Kasey searches for clues of his infidelity and the reasons their 25-year marriage unraveled. Examining the impact of a secret … Read more
The Lifer and the Lawyer was a finalist and ultimate Non-Fiction Runner-Up in the 2021 Maxy Awards book competition. It is true that some people are very damaged. It is not true that they are all unsalvageable. The Lifer and the Lawyer raises questions about childhood trauma, religion, race, the purpose of punishment, and … Read more
While in her twenties, Shanna was full of hopes and aspiration for her future, until a physician coldly delivered a grim prognosis: “Be prepared to be disabled and in a wheelchair by the time you reach your forties.” Shanna defied that doomsday sentence and fought hard to discover her full capabilities, crushing every daunting circumstance … Read more
We all worked together. Ate together. Sang together. Learned together. We had a good life. After living close to the natural cycles of the earth year after year, good and not good, we grew stronger and more resilient, learned to manage our occasional conflicts with tolerance and love.” When Marlene Bumgarner and her husband moved … Read more
A Himalayan adventure travel memoir with a humanitarian twist. About to turn sixty-eight, Patti’s life was disintegrating. Leaving behind her injured husband she packs her bags and heads to Nepal. Solo travel forces her to surmount daunting hurdles-both physical and emotional. While trekking in the forbidden kingdom of Upper Mustang she realizes her strength and … Read more
Proceeds go to children’s charities: This true, first-person memoir of a boy’s perseverance in the face of family dysfunction and adversity in the Montreal area of the 1960s and early ’70s offers a harrowing look inside a child’s soul-crushing loss of innocence between the ages of 4 and 16. Wawa, one of seven children born … Read more
Dear Woman of My Dreams is Kathryns 1923 diary, covering her nineteenth year. This coming-of-age story is told in her own words as she goes about her daily life at college with her friends and with her mother and grandmother at home. She writes to the woman that she sees as herself in later years, … Read more