"When I was about two and one-half years old ... I decided to take a walk by myself." Thus a precocious (and peculiarly mishap-prone) little boy, known to his loved ones as Freckles, raises an a...więcej »
The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover. "A harrowing memoir. . . . R...więcej »
She cracked safes and robbed banks. She was a drunk, a fugitive, and an adulteress. But did she murder Diamond Joe Morino?At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a time when women could no...więcej »
Triumph over hardship. Pay it forward. The power of community. These were the moral codes of Dave Morse (1937-2015), a beloved Vermont Sports Hall of Fame journalist who spent 2...więcej »
Final Touchstones tells the story of four brothers leaving Sicily for America in the early 1900s. The author's maternal grandfather is the seminal figure from age three through his...więcej »
Through research and stories told by friends, Worley learns more about what went before, during, and after his time growing up in Co-operative, Kentucky, awięcej »
"How did you survive?" is a question often asked of me when I tell the stories of my transitional teenage years. The Little Black Boy answers that question with a story of a young man's survival...więcej »
Theresa Bonpane’s memoir Sister Rebel charting her journey from a young Irish American woman, to a Maryknoll sister working in Chile, to a dedicated peace activist and dir...więcej »
Racoons are not the only bandits wearing masks in the wilderness. Growing up, author Kennie Prince spent most of his time in the woods and creeks near his home in Rankin County, Mississippi. A high...więcej »
'p''b'An inspirational and challenging true story of one woman's faith, so strong it could not be broken even in the face of imprisonment and torture. '/b''/p''p'Song of the Nightingale is the t...więcej »
Treat yourself to Second Helpings and more choice cuts in the style of Simon Brown's much lauded first volume of memoirs, Playing off the Roof ' Other Stories. więcej »
Every person has a calling from deep within, if they listen. Every person must live their own hero's journey if they are to fulfill it. Anne Merriman's life shines a beacon of light on how every...więcej »
She survived the deadly MGM casino fire in Las Vegas... a train wreck... a car crash with a truck on an icy mountain... sexual assault... and man...więcej »
Cancer can take your breath away. Mindfulness can bring it back.After battling cancer on numerous occasions, Marian Vallotton has an intimate and deep-rooted connection to...więcej »
"Beauty was a deep river that flowed not only through Sunday services and prayer and scripture--all those things I had deemed 'spiritual'--but coursed evermore through spaces I least expected: p...więcej »
How a family court judge, wounded and nearly broken by childhood trauma, brought compassion and love, wholeness and healing, to those in her courtroom-and to herself. "Rarely ...więcej »
The OU Radio broadcast team was in the Cotton Bowl press box in 2011, waiting for the obligatory 11 AM kick off between OU and Texas. Coach Merv Johnson was talking of the rain soaked 15-15 game...więcej »
Growing up in a small village in Kenya, Lillian faced many challenges, from severe hunger to having no shoes or clothes in her earlier years. She grew up in a polygamous family. She slept in one...więcej »