A graphic, childhood memoir of life under the Hollywood Blacklist and Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. Told in a riveting, cinematic style, it recounts the fifteen years my father, a Hollywood Screenwriter, lost his career and lived under the constant threat of imprisonment for his left-wing political views. Fugitive is a harrowing … Read more
America…was it all a dream? Home of the free. The place where everything is possible. This is how I was raised. Yet as I grew into adulthood and embarked on my journey to earn my piece of the American dream, I slowly realized that something was terribly wrong. But what? I work hard, built a … Read more
As the 20th century careened towards the finish line, author Victress Hitchcock moved with her husband from their familiar urban world to a 160-acre historic ranch in a remote valley of the Colorado Rockies. Within months, their lives unraveled, and out of the wreckage a path emerged to a radically new way to be in … Read more
In her award-winning memoir, Ying Qian gives a first-hand account of Mao’s deadly Cultural Revolution and shares her emotional journey of uncovering the truth of the murder of her father, a renowned nuclear weapons expert, by the Chinese military during that period. On a summer day in 2010, Ying Qian returns to Beijing from America … Read more
A Miracle a Day, One Day at a Time: Hope After Traumatic Brain Injury is a gripping memoir about a family’s recovery after a near fatal car accident in Colorado Springs. Dawn Corbelli and her 15-year-old daughter Veronica sustained traumatic brain injuries. This book contains an emotional reminiscence of the past 12 years as they … Read more
The year is 1970. The horror soap opera Dark Shadows is all the rage, the Vietnam War is raging and nine-year-old Katie, an imaginative and independent latch-key kid, comes home from school to discover her mother’s suicide. Taken in by her older sister who has recently become a Jehovah’s Witness, Katie is shown an illustration … Read more
This New Yorker was forced into a type of isolation when she moved from Italy (a beautiful but still strange place) to Germany on the outskirts of a military base in the middle of nowhere for a four-year period. She found the cultural differences to be challenging, as well as highly entertaining, but she found … Read more