A writer confronts her mide-life crisis with the recognition of having Type 2 Diabetes. She finds strength in recognitizing and affirming her talents and love of family.

Second Story Woman: A Memoir of Second Chances

Calladine, Carole

Parenting & Relationships

Bird Dog Publishing

These are poems by a doctor who cares for his patient's lives and struggles, and in the process explores the larger questions of living.... In HEART MURMURS, John Vanek visits life's essential counties-Longing, Love, Lament- and there locates both faith and wonder. These are poems that search the heartland, and those who reside therein, for sense and constancy through language that both surprises and emboldens, poems that do not expect miracles but wish them for us all the same. -Lou Suarez, author of Ask

Heart Murmurs: Poems

Self-Help

John A. Vanek

Relationships

Private investigator Sidney Reed hasn't been the same since the tragic death of his wife, Molly. Sharing a rundown apartment above an Anchorage, Alaska coffee shop with a cat named Priscilla, he dulls his bitter memories with cheap beer and sarcasm. When he's offered a bundle of cash for a simple surveillance job, Sidney sees a chance to finally put the broken pieces of his life back together. But once the job turns deadly, he'll have to sort through a mountain of clues to solve this case - and confront his own demons in the process. In the hard-boiled tradition of Raymond Chandler, Trophy Kill is the first in a bold new series of Alaskan mysteries by R.J. Norgard, a former private investigator andU.S. Army counterintelligence officer, featuring Anchorage private investigator Sidney Reed. Using Alaska's beautiful and unforgiving landscape as his palette, Norgard paints a tough yet sympathetic protagonist with a razor-sharp wit, along with a rich cast of supporting characters, to create a striking portrait of crime and passion in the 49th state.

Trophy Kill (Sidney Reed Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Norgard, R. J.

Mystery

Author Jim Daniels on Smith's memoir writing: "Larry Smith writes of a life full of personal challenges, a life full of consistent engagement with the larger world, and a life full of commitment to making it a better place--as a husband, father, writer, and editor. Smith has worn a lot of hats, and he's worn them well. His story here of his home town has the emotional resonance of all of his writing making the point that working-class lives like his in communities like his are important to our culture and history. They matter."

Mingo Town & Memories

Smith, Larry R.

Joel Rudinger takes us to Alaska when statehood was brand new, its frontier breathtaking--and dangerous. His is a physical and cultural journey where life, without exaggeration, is lived on the edge. Growing up middle class in Ohio, Rudinger wills himself towards the extraordinary. First, with going to Alaska--of all places--for graduate school. Then taking on jobs for which he had no training or visible aptitude. Later he's hitchhiking the Alcan Highway with a lover, pushing himself repeatedly to physical and spiritual limits. Rudinger tells his story in striking first-person detail. Events six decades old are told as though they happened just last summer, raw, not romanticized. Having left Ohio in 1960 a man-child, he returns four years later deeply experienced in all the ways of the world. "Lost and Found in Alaska" is a must-read. For its history. For its exquisite capturing of frontier life. For the sheer courage of its author. ~Kurt Landefeld, author of Jack's Memoirs: Off the Road

Lost and Found in Alaska

History

Rudinger, Joel D.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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