If you've ever wondered where your life was going, who you really are, and if that soul mate you've been waiting for is ever going to show up, chances are you've experienced your own Saturn Return. Don't believe in that "stuff"? Either did Adam Winter until fate intervenes in his rut of a life (stuck in a career he hates; waking up with all the wrong women) in the form of an email from his first love, Zoë, anxious to rekindle their teenage romance. Even though he hasn't seen her in 15 years, he knows this is the one. Adam's life starts to fall apart when he discovers that Zoë may not have sent the email. To make matters worse, Adam's life really begins unraveling on the same day he learns that Zoe will not be returning to his life.or so he thinks. That night, an 80 year old organ player at a 50's style lounge changes his life forever. Like Adam, Jen Savin's life, while professionally brilliant, is personally a disaster. Jen's consumed by her career in academia, has never experienced real love and wonders whether she'll end up being the weird old lady with a yard full of cats. Adam and Jen embark on similar yet separate journeys of self-discovery. Whether or not their paths cross or are meant to cross is left to fate. Is life just a series of random moments that somehow seem connected or do certain people come into our lives and things happen to us for a reason?

Saturn Return

Literature & Fiction

LeVine, Mark

Literary

Bascom Hill Pub Group Ltd

Dante Wilson, Miracles and Monsters

Wilson, Dante

Too early, Marion Kahn's childhood was marred by the harsh realities of life. Her book sets us firmly in the stark reality of her childhood: embracing rare and fleeting moments of affection while watching the members of her family one by one succumb to the erratic behavior of their mental illnesses; struggling to endure the torments of her teachers, family, and peers while worrying about where her next meal would come from; and finding solace in her strong affinity for the wildlife roaming around her childhood home – while daring to dream of a future beyond it all.With colorful description and honest language, the author takes us through her impressive and eventful life; her readers experience along with her what it was to be a child of a family torn apart by mental illness, a Jewish person during World War II, and a woman tentatively but defiantly coming into her own, struggling to realize and accept her own self-worth despite continual repression and negativity from those around her.Kahn's book is no mere memoir, it is a veritable history of the tumultuous social and political climates of the United States between the years of 1930 and 1952. The author brushes elbows with some of the intellectual elite, including W.E.B. DuBois, expands her political sphere of influence, even dabbling in Communism in a categorically “anti-red” era, and comes into her own as a woman of the world in a burgeoning America."Child of Madness" is not just a memoir of a broken young girl; it is the triumphant adventure of a woman strengthened by her survival in the face of the challenges of her life. Marion Kahn's story is one of triumph that will inspire any reader.

Child of Madness

Biographies & Memoirs

Kahn, Marion Jacobs

Community & Culture

The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, now in its fifth edition, has been lauded by industry professionals as the go-to book for authors considering self-publishing. The Fine Print has helped thousands of authors understand self-publishing companies' services, contract terms, printing markups, and royalty calculations. This latest edition includes new chapters on e-book publishing and book marketing, as well as updated head-to-head comparisons of major self-publishing service providers, including free book-publishing companies to consider and self-publishing companies to avoid.

The Fine Print of Self-Publishing: A Primer on Contracts, Printing Costs, Royalties, Distribution, E-Books, and Marketing

Reference

Consumer Guides

Filled with insights from the author Sally Fryer Dietz's years of physical and sensory integration therapy that you can take from the school to your home, When Kids Fly is written in a conversational tone that makes it perfect for parents, friends, teachers, and medical professionals, alike. 
Starting from the moment that Dietz realized that something ''wasn't quite right'' with her son, and allowing us to follow them (and others) through to his adulthood, this one-of-a-kind book ties the practical to both the professional and the personal. 
When Kids Fly can help you figure out when to worry about your child's development, when not to worry, and what options are available--no matter where your child falls on the spectrum of sensory motor integration. It is a wonderful resource for those who really want to help children discover their wings as they grow towards maturity and learn to fly on their own.

When Kids Fly: Solutions for Children With Sensory Integration Challenges

Parenting & Relationships

Dietz, Sally Fryer

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

The Best Team Ever captures the essence of a century-old Windy City, and weaves baseball, love, murder and intrigue through every page. This baseball book, crime drama, and love story follows the 1907 Chicago Cubs from the Practice Season to the World's Championship Series. The team of Tinker to Evans to Chance. And ''Three Finger'' Brown, owner of the game's best curveball. Rookie ''Kid'' Durbin rides the bench and writes a journal as the Cubs play a near-perfect brand of baseball against the backdrop of a wild, corrupt Chicago and a transforming America. Madmen, saints and sinners on the diamond and off parade through the pages of this historical novel.

The Best Team Ever: A Novel of America, Chicago, and the 1907 Cubs

Alop, Alan

Noel, Doc

Contemporary

In 1993, Jimmy Breslin wrote a front page story for New York Newsday about Melanie Cane, a troubled young psychiatrist who ''let love take her too far.'' Fifteen years later, Melanie tells her side of the story in Poisoned Love, a heartbreaking and staggering account of her spiral into the depths of mental illness and what she did under the guise of love. 
With extraordinary courage, Melanie provides intimate access to the thoughts and feelings leading to her desperate act, as well as an unvarnished account of her subsequent psychiatric treatment and the legal and social consequences of her crime. 
Melanie's steady process toward recovery involves an emerging understanding of the relationship between her various diagnoses and her attachment to an abusive and mentally ill father. 
Her story teaches people about survival and success in the face of severe mental illness.

Poisoned Love: A True Story

Cane, Melanie, M.d.

Driven by the experience of raising three children on his own, Terry Hitchcock wanted to accomplish the impossible: run the 2,000 miles between Saint Paul and Atlanta in 75 straight days to help Americans everywhere see how much single-parent families need their compassion and support. To achieve his goal, Terry had to run the equivalent of one marathon each day for two and a half months, this despite being 57 years old and having a weak heart, bad knees, and shaky ankles. And he did it! Terry crossed his finish line in Atlanta in time for the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Terry’s story shows one man’s love for children and his concern for the plight of those who struggle every day with the often heartbreaking challenges of single-parent families. He wanted his feat to shine a light on the challenges involved and the need for more support for these parents and children. North Troy will tell Terry’s story, a tale that will entertain and inspire everyone who reads it.

A Father's Odyssey: 75 Marathons in 75 Days

Hitchcock, Terry

Jessen, Peter

Religion & Spirituality

It's a subzero Chicago morning on January 23, 1989, and Seamus is at his fighting best. Braving the bitter cold at the 85A bus stop, Seamus rails against his repressive environment in anticipation of his ''the-minute-I-turn-18'' move to London. Liberated by failure when kicked out of school for yet another late appearance, Seamus makes a break for London via an Amtrak to the mean streets of Late Eighties Manhattan. 
85A tracks a watershed day in the life of an adolescent antihero. Foulmouthed with a capital F-word, Seamus embodies Johnny Rotten as a way of fending off the bullies at home, at school and in his whites-only neighborhood. Luckily, his mixed-raced friend Tressa opens him up to experiences that turn his worldview on its head. Through it all, Seamus basks in BBC dramas, dreaming of what life would be if only he could stow away to London. By the time Seamus reaches his last L stop, he will come to see that his 85A ride that morning was just the kickoff to an intrepid urban odyssey.

Smith, Kyle Thomas

Genre Fiction

When award-winning television news anchor Cheryl Wills discovers that her Great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, was a runaway slave who joined the historic fight for freedom in the American Civil War, she embarks on an gut-wrenching search to learn more about the courageous ancestor who demonstrated the same courage that she knew in her beloved father, an intrepid New York City firefighter, who died when Cheryl was thirteen, and who never knew his family s notable legacy. 
Told with deep love and a brow-raising honesty, Die Free stretches from Haywood County, Tennessee, in the 1860s to New York City in the twentieth century. Cheryl shares the unvarnished truth about the Wills' family roots, ever entwined in passion, music, and faith. 
Cheryl also exhumes the spirit of her great-great-great grandmother Emma Wills, an illiterate lionhearted widow, who was discriminated against as she fought to obtain her husband's Civil War pension and unwittingly dictated her historic life, from slavery to freedom, in sworn depositions to a lawyer. The century-old pension papers become the Holy Grail for the newscaster who nails a scoop that has forever changed her life and that of future generations. 
A lesson in the pruning of one's imagination, Die Free takes readers on a haunting yet exhilarating ride through the side door of American history.

Die Free: A Heroic Family History

WILLS, CHERYL

Arts & Literature

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