When Sarah Hanson realized that she had to leave her abusive marriage, she didn’t have a plan. She had instinct, fear, a body that had learned to brace against danger, and a small, stubborn voice insisting she deserved more. This is the story of what it takes to leave a life that is killing you, and who you can become on the other side.
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A psychiatrist who spent 37 years and more than 30,000 conversations inside the mental health system reaches a verdict: the system has been solving the wrong problem. This is the account of how he found that out, and what he found instead. On March 6, 2026, psychiatry fired Dr. Fred Moss by video call. What he felt, underneath the anxiety, was relief. Welcome to Humanity is his reckoning – part memoir, part manifesto, part love letter to every person who has ever wondered if something was permanently broken inside them. There may be nothing wrong with you. There may never have been. $0.99 on Kindle.

From afar, Julie’s formative years looked perfect.

A father with a good, steady job. A stay-at-home mother who loved to read. A spacious yard filled with toys and games for her and her two siblings. Yet for those who looked just a little closer, Julie’s house was the one the neighbors whispered about, the place on the block that parents didn’t want their kids to visit.

The front door of Julie’s home hid dysfunction, abuse, alcoholism, neglect, and fear. Her father’s blind selfishness, Jekyll-and-Hyde moods, and fists that left bruises on his wife dominated the home, inflicting daily trauma on the family. Her mother tried her best, but ultimately her husband’s abuse led to lethargy and parental neglect, burdening her children with even more hardship as her autonomy was whittled away.

Abuse doesn’t just affect us in the moment. We carry trauma, and particularly sustained trauma, throughout our lives, sometimes even passing it to the next generation. In Life with Less of Me, Julianna Burmesch reflects upon how her upbringing influenced her life, its trajectory, and even her health as an adult, through a well documented phenomenon where adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can change a body on the cellular level. Breast cancer and a flesh-eating infection claimed parts of Julie’s body, mirroring her mother’s ever-shrinking life. Determined not to pass her scars to her own children, Julie fought to educate herself, heal from her past, embrace resilience, and become the successful, fulfilled woman she is today.

A candid and deeply reflective account of growing up in a home where the front door hid dysfunction, Life with Less of Me resonates with readers long past the final page. $5.99 on Kindle.

A father with a good, steady job. A stay-at-home mother who loved to read. A spacious yard filled with toys and games for her and her two siblings. Yet for those who looked just a little closer, Julie’s house was the one the neighbors whispered about, the place on the block that parents didn’t want their kids to visit.

A candid and deeply reflective account of growing up in a home where the front door hid dysfunction, Life with Less of Me resonates with readers long past the final page. $5.99 on Kindle.

In the summer of 2013, Marise C. Tourigny reached a breaking point. After decades of silencing her voice inside a marriage that left her feeling invisible, she found herself untethered—unsure of who she was, or if she mattered at all.

So she did something radical: she walked away.

Not just from a life that no longer fit, but onto the ancient path of the Camino de Santiago.

Sacred Miles on the Camino is a deeply personal, soul-level reckoning. Across 800 kilometers of rugged terrain—from the mist-covered Pyrenees to the wild Atlantic coast—Marise confronts the patterns that kept her small and begins the courageous work of reclaiming her worth. $0.99 on Kindle.

Weaving together her present reflections with personal dialogue between her current and former selves, “Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning” by Megan Margherio invites readers into the intimate, nonlinear landscape of healing.
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Weaving together her present reflections with personal dialogue between her current and former selves, “Everwoven: A Memoir. A Reckoning” by Megan Margherio invites readers into the intimate, nonlinear landscape of healing.
$9.99 on Kindle.

FRACTURED

In the pages of *FRACTURED*, the author shares her journey from childhood through her teenage years and into early adulthood. She recounts her experiences within a destructive family dynamic, enduring trauma, abuse, and interpersonal misconduct, along with deep, painful secrets. $2.99 on Kindle.

Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.

With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want? Based on Richter’s years together with musician and visionary composer Lynda Roth, past and present weave together in this intimate journey of awakened eroticism, exhilarating joy, nearly unbearable grief, and moments of spiritual renewal. And through it all, there is music. Art must always come first, Lisa is reminded. The connection to the beautiful which transcends. It is how we survive.

Spare, impressionistic, and deeply personal, Fly, My Darling is a soulful journey of self-discovery and of what awaits when a woman striving to be free, finally is. $0.99 on Kindle.

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir. $4.99 on Kindle.

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir. $4.99 on Kindle.

Debbie is a mom trying to save her daughter. When the unimaginable happens, it is her daughter’s Golden Retriever, Brody, who shows her a new beginning. My Grief Jar is more than a memoir about loss. It’s a story about family, resilience, and the enduring power of love.

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Inner Ember is the story of one man’s journey to find something larger than himself and his ongoing efforts to remain connected to the self he discovered ten years ago in the desert—even while living in the grip of our chaotic and disconnected modern age. $0.99 on Kindle.

Love was waiting at the shelter, not on Match.com. What does a single woman do when she longs to be a mother and hears her biological clock tick, tick, ticking away, but she keeps dating Mr. Wrong? She adopts a baby, of course. In the author’s case, it was a fur baby named Benny. For fans of Marley & Me, Birdie & Harlow, and Must Love Dogs, Mommy’s Boy is the tale of two lost souls finding the unconditional love, companionship, and emotional support they need, in the process forging a deep and profound bond as close as a mother and child. In his own special way, Benny helps Jennifer overcome her shyness, love without limits, and learn to love herself in preparation for her human soulmate. But when Benny faces a life-threatening illness, Jennifer must face the reality that no matter what we do, our time with our pets is limited.

Mommy’s Boy takes the reader on a transformative journey of love, loss, healing, redemption, and learning to love again. A tender and heartfelt tribute, Mommy’s Boy will resonate with anyone who’s loved a fur baby who was more than “just a dog,” he was family. $0.99 on Kindle.

“One of the best books by a rock musician I’ve ever read . . .” -Danny Goldberg, author of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

A gritty and melodic memoir of a guitarist’s coming of age amid the electric pulse of the Greenwich Village and Los Angeles 1960s music revolutions, when he encountered legends like James Taylor, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Kesey.

A Jewish kid born in Queens in 1947, Peter Gallway grew up with caring but emotionally aloof parents, and when the Leave It To Beaver 1950s gave way to counterculture, free love, and the chaotic rock ‘n’ roll of the next two decades, he took the ride of his life.

From shooting rubber bands in Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe’s Sutton Place apartment to shooting heroin in the backrooms of New York, Gallway plunges into the intoxicating world of New York’s Night Owl Cafe? alongside the Lovin’ Spoonful and James Taylor, through the Troubadour, Mama Cass, the Manson family, and the record companies of LA’s Sunset Strip.

Written in the raw, lyrical rhythm of a songwriter, through poetry, music, and prose, Hardtail Strat is an unputdownable story of music and madness, abuse and opportunity, loss and redemption-and the enduring power of song to set us free.
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This book is for any adult pet parent who has ever loved and lost a once-in-a-lifetime dog. Through each letter, it honors the joy of loving deeply, the pain of saying goodbye, and the comfort found in remembering. Its inspirational message recounts how one woman rebuilt her life after multiple losses.

Inside these pages, you’ll find:

A dog grief book for adults
Personal letters written in the raw days of grief
Heartwarming stories celebrating Hobie’s life
Reflections about healing, memory, and unconditional love
Comfort for those grieving a beloved pet
A reminder that some bonds never truly end
An inspirational story of moving on after multiple losses

This book is for:
Adults who have had a “heart dog” or soulmate animal
Dog parents grieving a loyal companion
Readers who find comfort in reflective, emotional stories
Adults looking for inspiration on how one woman moved forward after dog loss grief
Fans of Marley & Me, A Dog’s Purpose, Goodbye, Friend, and The Art of Racing in the Rain $0.99 on Kindle.

In Buried, Not Broken: A Memoir of Survival, Sisterhood, and Starting Over, Mia shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, widowhood, and the rediscovery of hope. What begins as a story of heartbreak becomes a testament to faith, resilience, and the quiet strength that rises from the ashes of loss.

More than a story of pain, this memoir is a testament to resilience—the kind that grows stronger in life’s darkest seasons.

For anyone who has felt unseen, unloved, or unworthy, Mia offers hope and companionship through every page. With raw honesty and grace, she reveals how loss can become the soil from which new life blooms and how even broken hearts can rediscover purpose, belonging, and joy. $0.99 on Kindle.

More than the story of sailing 25,000 nautical miles across the Pacific, this memoir follows a woman who steps into the unknown and is changed by what she’s asked to face along the way. What begins as a bold adventure becomes a test of endurance, adaptability, and love—a lived story of courage, partnership, and hard-won confidence. It’s for anyone standing at the edge of a new direction, whether on the water or within. $0.99 on Kindle.

In today’s medical world, burnout is rising and rural clinics are left understaffed, and many clinicians feel trapped in a system that has forgotten its purpose. Professionals try cutting hours, switching jobs, even turning to corporate locum tenens agencies—only to find the same disillusionment waiting for them. The frustration is real: exhaustion, moral injury, and the sense that the heart of medicine is slipping away.

But there is another path—one discovered in the most unlikely place: the remote villages of bush Alaska, where temperatures plunge to 50 below and a single clinician may stand between a community and catastrophe.

Medicine at 50 Below offers a different path. By sharing her years as a nurse practitioner in bush Alaska where she was often the only provider for hundreds of miles, Mary Ellen Doty reveals how reconnecting with purpose and autonomy can revive both the clinician and the communities they serve. Her experience led to the creation of Wilderness Medical Staffing, now staffing more than 150 rural and remote clinics with physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants seeking meaningful work.

Mary Ellen writes with clarity, humility, and a deep respect for Alaska’s people and land. Her purpose is simple: Show readers that there are solutions for rural healthcare and that there is a way for clinicians to reclaim the meaning they thought was gone.

In this book, you’ll discover:

The realities of practicing medicine in extreme environments—and the resilience it builds.

How rural and remote medicine can restore professional purpose and reduce burnout.
Why rotational staffing solves problems permanent placement never could.

How community-centered care leads to better outcomes for Native Alaskans.

A founder’s blueprint for creating a mission-driven healthcare company without losing your values.

If you’re ready to see what meaningful medicine can look like again, Medicine at 50 Below will show you the way. $0.99 on Kindle.

After 40 years of sharing quiet companionship with Jack, meeting twice a week, living separately and loving each other in their own way, Marsh Rose is left with more questions than answers after a sudden crisis ends their time together. In her new memoir, Marsh reflects on the mysteries that even deep intimacy can never fully solve.
Free on Kindle.

Mollie Engelhart was a celebrated vegan chef living in Los Angeles, running successful restaurants and championing progressive ideals. But when she left the city behind to raise her family on a regenerative farm, her carefully constructed worldview began to unravel.

In Debunked by Nature, Mollie invites you on a deeply personal and radically honest journey—from the grief of losing her best friend to the unexpected spiritual awakening sparked by motherhood. Through the soil, the seasons, and the sacred rhythms of nature, she began to question everything she once believed about food, freedom, identity, health, and even life itself.

Part memoir, part manifesto, this book challenges today’s cultural narratives through the lenses of biology, experience, and divine design. Mollie doesn’t shy away from complexity. She writes with the rawness of a mother, the conviction of a farmer, and the tenderness of someone who’s had her heart broken—and rebuilt—by the truth.If you’ve ever felt that something is off in the world and wondered if nature might be whispering a better way, this book is for you. Free on Kindle.

Mountains Within is an unflinching account of chasing success at any cost—and finally learning what matters most. From developing and validating the training of world-class athletes and sharing the stage with Christopher Reeve and Mikhail Gorbachev to a life-shifting climb up Kilimanjaro with his son, Jack shares how achievement addiction nearly destroyed him—and how fatherhood, faith, and a mountain helped him find redemption.

Go behind the scenes and discover: The dawn of sport science and some of the breakthroughs that shaped modern athletics. How childhood wounds can fuel achievement addiction—and how to break free. The impact of adoption, parenting, and faith to transform a life. How to redefine personal success so it strengthens rather than destroys your relationships. Inspiration to climb your own “mountains within” and focus on a purposeful journey of meaning, balance, and love.

Raw, candid, and unexpectedly hopeful, Mountains Within is more than a memoir of sports, success, and sacrifice. It’s a story of fatherhood, redemption, and learning that true greatness is measured not in trophies but in love and legacy. $1.99 on Kindle.

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir (2nd edition) Free on Kindle.

December 1945. The bombs have stopped falling, but Tokyo is still smoldering.

My grandfather always dreamed of publishing the story of his unforgettable week there—just months after Japan’s surrender—when two twenty-something GIs from Guam, armed with nothing but a seven-day pass and cases of black-market cigarettes, landed in the enemy capital they’d helped burn.

What follows is an extraordinary week of the Pacific War: treasure hunts on the ashes of the Ginza, back-alley deals, dinner with the enemy, and friendships no one back home would ever believe.

I’ve published his memoir in his honor, so the world can walk those streets with Mel and Bob one more time. $2.99 on Kindle.

Faced with these hurdles, Julie questions everything—who she is, how she fits in, her adoption circumstances, her faith, and her idea of family. But the life her parents have constructed is not one she wants for herself—and as she matures, she recognizes how the experiences that formed her have provided her a road map for the person and mother she wants to be. $0.99 on Kindle.

“A poetry memoir forged in the aftermath of stroke and aphasia—an unflinching testament to the will to never give up”

Thunderstroke: A Poetry Memoir Inspired by a True Story (drawn from A Cry in the Dark) is a deeply moving and profoundly inspiring collection that offers readers a wellspring of meaning and reflection. More than a compilation of poems, it is a poetic memoir—an intimate chronicle of resilience born from a true and daunting journey.

From the opening pages, thunderstroke is defined as “the moment when life shifts irrevocably, altering its course in a single, cataclysmic instant.” That instant upended Terence Ang’s world—health compromised, daily life transformed—and ushered in the daily challenge of aphasia. Through poetry, he traces a path from devastation to acceptance, from darkness to light, capturing the transformation with exquisite clarity.

The book unfolds across three sections—A Cry in the Dark, Thunderstroke, and The Light—each marking a distinct phase: descent, reckoning, and renewal. Evocative and unflinchingly honest, these poems draw readers into the experience while reflecting their own struggles back to them. Ang’s verse becomes both mirror and guide, leading us through shadow toward the quiet strength beyond suffering.

Ultimately, Thunderstroke speaks to the human capacity for endurance. With lucid simplicity and deep heart, it offers companionship in doubt, clarity in confusion, and a steady hand along life’s unpredictable path. Free on Kindle.

An honest, brave, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant book. You will love Janie, a little girl born on the wrong side of the tracks with the right set of gifts that carry her up and away from it all, and into your heart. Fans of Educated, by Tara Westover, or The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, will enjoy this memoir. Free on Kindle.

In the walk of life, nobody’s perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. SHIT HAPPENS! WE LEARN BY LIVING. Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Surviving Life’s Challenges is about the author’s “Kafkaesque journey” (Kirkus Reviews), which highlights personal growth and lessons learned that are testaments to the resilience of the human spirit.

Every generation treasures inspirational stories and wayward adventures about courage, hard times, and unique lifestyles. Individuals are often motivated by the erratic, unconventional paths others take. Hearts will beat faster as the author experiences menacing and arduous challenges about poverty, child abuse, divorce, prison, war trauma, homelessness, sexual orientation conflict, and our fractured criminal probation system.

$2.99 on Kindle.

A poignant story that illustrates it is possible to rediscover yourself and become the person you were always meant to be.Born and raised in Poland, Karina accomplished her goals-traveling and learning languages, moving to the United States, climbing the corporate ladder, marrying, and building a family-but she never truly felt happy.In an effort to please the people around her, Karina denied her needs and squashed her own identity.Twenty years of building the life she thought she longed for in the United States, her body began to rebel: developing irritable bowel syndrome, pneumonia, a pericardial cyst, and Lyme disease.After a decade in the care of physicians and psychotherapists, Karina was ready to go in a new direction. Working with a holistic doctor, she came to a transformational belief: if her thoughts could make her sick, her thoughts could make her well.Karina realized she could be the creator of her life. And that was the catalyst that saved her family, marriage, and her well-being. Free on Kindle.

Philadelphia in the 1980s was no place for the soft-hearted. For Chaz Holesworth, childhood meant dodging gangs, addiction, and silence after slammed doors. His father’s world ran on heroin, his mother’s on holy fear.

Caught between two extremes, sin and salvation, Chaz learned early on how to disappear: keep your head down, don’t ask questions, and pray someone notices you anyway.

But everything changed the day he discovered music. In R.E.M., Tori Amos, and Nirvana, he hears something no sermon ever offered: truth, raw and imperfect. As his home life spiraled and his faith fractured, those lyrics became lifelines, every note pulling him closer to the one thing he never had: his own identity.

What happens when the noise outside becomes louder than the voice inside?

Or when loyalty to broken people starts to break you too?

Unflinching and darkly funny, Life and How to Live It: Volume One is more than a coming-of-age memoir: It’s a portrait of grit, grief, poverty, and the fragile beauty of hope born from chaos. Chaz Holesworth’s story captures the pulse of Philadelphia’s rough-edged streets and the soundtrack that kept him alive as he battled lost faith, family dysfunction, and his father’s addiction.

For anyone who’s ever grown up in the wreckage of someone else’s choices, Chaz’s story is proof that you can still build something beautiful from the debris $2.99 on Kindle.

Fifty jobs, one restless dream. Job Junky is a funny, raw memoir of survival through work, grit, and chaos. As Kirkus Reviews said: “A sharp, funny memoir of work that resonates with anyone who’s ever had a job.” At 99¢, it’s a laugh-out-loud ride for anyone who’s ever wondered how far you’d go to keep chasing what you love. $0.99 on Kindle.

When a British-American woman is accused of kidnapping her own son and imprisoned without sentencing in a notorious Bahamian jail, she must navigate culture shock, corruption, and divine intervention to survive and find meaning in the madness. Raw, funny, and spiritually profound, Angels of Paradise is the second book from UK bestselling author Barbara Murphy. The book explores the lesser-known side of Bahamian culture and arrives at the intersection of global urgencies, including growing cultural intolerance, rising rates of incarceration, and the fight for women’s and children’s rights.

Based on a true story, Angels of Paradise is a story about resilience and survival, perseverance, and a mother’s unwavering love. The narrative also delves into the flaws of the criminal justice system and the quest for moral and spiritual justice. Despite their bleak circumstances, the prisoners discover ways to bond despite their cultural differences, forging solidarity in shared struggles and hope for a better future.
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Polly’s GlobalWalk has been featured in over 2,000 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations around the world including Good Housekeeping, CNN International, The CBS Early Show, NBC’s Your Total Health, and Fine Living Channel’s Radical Sabbatical. A documentary entitled Polly’s GlobalWalk has been released by Newcastle Productions.

In 3mph she richly details her journey with humor and honest reflection, the good times and the hardships. Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, but always inspirational, her story encourages us all to take on our biggest challenges–one step at a time. Free on Kindle.

This memoir was written to honor my youngest brother’s influence over my life, the good, the bad, and the ugly, of living with a Down Syndrome sibling. It tells the story of the children of my family, despite our parents’ frailties, remaining committed to each other through life’s many changes and separations. Who I am today is directly related to who I needed to become. $2.99 on Kindle.