Excerpt from Prologue: “Wake up,” she said, slapping my cheek a little. “Who is here with you?” “No one is here with me right now,” I said.I don’t remember if I asked why they wanted to know, but the nurse said, “We are prepping the O.R. right now for surgery. Your abdomen is full of blood.”“I’m tired and I want to go to sleep.”The nurse looked at me intently. “You’re not tired. You’re dying.”She was right. I died that night. Not once, but three times. However, those deaths are not the end of my story. Little did I know then, death can be just the beginning.

Facing the Elephants: A Woman’s Journey Through Life, Death, and Finding Spiritual Connection with a Family of Elelphants

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Black, Rebecca

Diseases & Physical Ailments

W. Brand Publishing

Comic books TRANSCEND TIME and SpaceRegardless of one’s language or age, comic books transport the reader into the action through exciting four colour graphics. Centered around Canadian war stories within American comic books, the comics featured in this book present a unique spirit and play a colourful role in popular culture and WWII history storytelling.

Four Colour Combat: Canadian Forces in War Comics

Comics & Graphic Novels

Scott, Cord

Graphic Novels

A Daughter To Many: My Journey to Find Family and Forgiveness

Andrea June was given up by her family for adoption before she was two years old. Andrea was introduced to a family that already had two boys, one of them being severely disabled. Despite Andrea’s poor health, this young family adopted her, and changed her name to Kari Ellen.Growing up was very difficult for Kari. She wasn’t exactly the daughter her new mom hoped to have. Her father sexually abused her. By the time she was thirteen, her parents sent her away.Peniel Christian School, a non-profit ministry, accepted troubled children from across the country and from every walk of life, ranging from criminal gang members to others simply with ADHD. This was Kari’s home for the next five years.Living on a seventy-seven acre farm in rural Wisconsin with forty other children promised many adventures. It was at Peniel that Kari accepted Jesus as her Savior, and saw her need to forgive her dad.Years later, Kari met her husband Drew in Nashville, Tennessee. Since they wanted to have children, researching her family history became a priority. The startling information they uncovered changed her life forever.God’s hand was surely at work . . . He had plans for her future.

Parenting & Relationships

Wiseman, Kari E.

Adoption

Andrea June was given up by her family for adoption before she was two years old. Andrea was introduced to a family that already had two boys, one of them being severely disabled. Despite Andrea’s poor health, this young family adopted her, and changed her name to Kari Ellen.
Growing up was very difficult for Kari. She wasn’t exactly the daughter her new mom hoped to have. Her father sexually abused her. By the time she was thirteen, her parents sent her away.
Peniel Christian School, a non-profit ministry, accepted troubled children from across the country and from every walk of life, ranging from criminal gang members to others simply with ADHD. This was Kari’s home for the next five years.
Living on a seventy-seven acre farm in rural Wisconsin with forty other children promised many adventures. It was at Peniel that Kari accepted Jesus as her Savior, and saw her need to forgive her dad.
Years later, Kari met her husband Drew in Nashville, Tennessee. Since they wanted to have children, researching her family history became a priority. The startling information they uncovered changed her life forever.
God’s hand was surely at work . . . He had plans for her future.

By the time Loretto discovered the cache of WWII letters, her father had been dead almost 50 years. She’d accepted she would never know him. That changed when she decided to type his 500+ letters for her siblings. With each letter she heard her father’s voice. With each place she visited, each person she met, the 50 years without him melted away and the enduring gap that had opened between them when she was 4-years-old gradually began to close. An Unexpected Coddiwomple takes you on a journey through a captivating collection of letters abundant with humor, intrigue, and romance, across the U.S., to the U.K., and back again. Learn from the pilot himself, “Big Sundin,” what actually happened when he ditched Heavy Date in the North Sea in 1945, saving the lives of the entire crew. Had Big Sundin not executed a “perfect ditching,” she and her 6 siblings would not have been born. Through her father’s own words, Loretto uncovers truths about her parentage that were buried with him in 1965, revealing decades of mysteries that culminate with an invitation to Buckingham Palace. It’s a story of family, duty, faith, and a life transformed. It’s a story of love.

An Unexpected Coddiwomple: The Story of a Father’s Sudden Death, a Box of World War II Letters, and a Daughter’s Life Transformed

Biographies & Memoirs

Thompson, Loretto

Historical

Coddiwomple (v.): To travel in a purposeful manner toward a vague, as-yet-unknown destination.
By the time Loretto discovered the cache of WWII letters, her father had been dead almost 50 years. She'd accepted she would never know him. That changed when she decided to type his 500+ letters for her siblings. With each letter she heard her father's voice. With each place she visited, each person she met, the 50 years without him melted away and the enduring gap that had opened between them when she was 4-years-old gradually began to close.
An Unexpected Coddiwomple takes you on a journey through a captivating collection of letters abundant with humor, intrigue, and romance, across the U.S., to the U.K., and back again. Learn from the pilot himself, "Big Sundin," what actually happened when he ditched Heavy Date in the North Sea in 1945, saving the lives of the entire crew. Had Big Sundin not executed a "perfect ditching," she and her 6 siblings would not have been born. Through her father's own words, Loretto uncovers truths about her parentage that were buried with him in 1965, revealing decades of mysteries that culminate with an invitation to Buckingham Palace. It's a story of family, duty, faith, and a life transformed. It's a story of love.

An Unexpected Coddiwomple: The Story of a Father's Sudden Death, a Box of WWII Letters, and a Daughter's Life Transformed

Loretto M. Thompson

2020 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize ShortList Finalist, Montaigne Medal Finalist, Horizon Award FinalistFinalist LGBTQ Non-Fiction 2020 International Book AwardsMaxy Award Non-Fiction Finalist "Every Grain of Sand is a heartbreaking memoir that I could not put down, a story of pain, of the search for one's place in the world, and of the transformative power of forgiveness. David Wichman has lived a thousand lives-some agonizing, some sublime-and we're lucky he survived them all with his talent and compassion intact."-Dave Holmes, writer, producer, and television personality; editor-at-large, Esquire; author of Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs Sexual healer and entrepreneur David P. Wichman has lived through it all: childhood abuse, foster care, homelessness, survival sex work, and the blackest pits of drug and alcohol addiction. Despite the darkness, he found a profound sense of purpose as a male escort, but not the type of provider often seen in the news. His approach to sex work transcended common shame-based belief systems as he brought compassionate intimacy to marginalized men, including the elderly, disabled, and traumatized, illustrating a universal need for true connection. After white-collar crime landed him in jail, David resolved to finally conquer the sense of brokenness that had been driving him to self-destruction throughout his life. In his moving memoir, he recounts how his recovery and spiritual journey have revealed to him his inherent wholeness and worth, a message of love and belonging that he now carries to others. Every Grain of Sand is a celebration of restoration to a life of joy, gratitude, and wonder.

Every Grain of Sand: a memoir

LGBTQ+ Books

Wichman, David P.

Ebert, Heather

The early sixties in Springdale, Arkansas, were colorful to young Larry Daniel in spite of the all-white upbringing the town had provided him. He'd thought he was rich growing up. He had his own pool table, his dad flew him around in his personal airplane to resort locations, a ski boat, tickets on the fifty yard line at Razorback Stadium, and a membership at the country club were some of the benefits of his childhood.His father, Lemus Daniel, was a successful businessman, and famous musicians were a part of his inner circle. He was fun-loving, popular, and generous, but deeply lacking in impulse control and far too trusting for his own good. For the son, turning eleven brought an introduction to women that weren't his mother, and alcohol, a coming-of-age ritual. The fast lane and his growing ego blinded his father which set him up for a big fall from someone that he'd considered a friend.When everything went down it was without a soft landing. People didn't like to talk about their problems back then, so they didn't. After word had been passed down from the top, Lemus had suddenly drawn the ire of a rogue cop with a grudge. His reputation was smeared and he was eventually run out of town. Set adrift, the boy was doomed to fail.At fifteen, Larry was kicked out of school, roughed up by his dad , and ran away from home. Walking the streets of a neighboring town among other runaways and returning war veterans, he experimented with substances and panhandled for spare change. Months later, he was retrieved by his notorious father and brought home. After father and son had reunited, a life of crime followed. It would be another decade before Larry Daniel took an honest breath and began the road to redemption. Ugly truths reveal a young man who struggles greatly, but survives and contributes to society in a big way. Meanwhile, the father writes a tell-all about his downfall and the Feds get involved. Parts of his manuscript are included in this memoir.

The Ruining of Lemus Daniel

Daniel, Larry

Arts & Literature

Detached: a memoir

"Many times in dysfunctional families, children and their children often take the easy way out and follow the examples set by their parents. I chose the hard path; the painful one; the one that broke the cycle of insanity and abuse. It ended with me." Bridgette Pearce Binder In a world where the nuclear family is considered to be a husband, wife, and two kids in a house with a white picket fence, Bridgette Pearce Binder's childhood was anything but that Norman Rockwellian image. She was the only child of a woman who bore her as a single, unwed, 17-year-old child herself. The boy in the equation was nonexistent in Jeannie Allan's life and in her daughter Bridgette's, and Jeannie coped in the only way she knew how: By falling prey to substance and alcohol abuse while falling for men who took advantage of her kind heart and also abused her because of it. In Detached: A Memoir, Bridgette recounts her childhood as the parent figure in a mother-daughter relationship and how she grew up too quickly for her age and missed out on the experiences that most children enjoy. From her unique perspective of having to fend for herself, resulting in full emancipation from her mother when Bridgette was only 13 years old, Bridgette details her young adulthood and achievements. Not only did she graduate from high school two years earlier than her peers, Bridgette graduated from the University of Maryland and went on to become a successful executive at The United Way of Central Maryland while raising a happy, healthy family of her own. Conceived to help others by assuring them that they're not alone and helping them navigate through difficult relationships, Detached: A Memoir is a mesmerizing book that will attract a wide audience. Chapters that cover subjects from failed parenting to educational success and success in the corporate world, while serious about the subject matter, are also entertaining, with titles that include "The Parallel Universe," and "A Little Song, A Little Dance." Bridgette has written a book offering both personal and professional insights and inspiration.

Pearce, Bridgette

Community & Culture

The memoir of the late Lt. Col. Peter Jack Newton with additional stories by his children.

The Unbelievable Life of a Country Boy: from Country Plowboy to Lt. Colonel by Age 30

Newton, Peter Jack

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Facing the Elephants: A Woman’s Journey Through Life, Death, and Finding Spiritual Connection with a Family of Elelphants

Four Colour Combat: Canadian Forces in War Comics

A Daughter To Many: My Journey to Find Family and Forgiveness

A Daughter To Many: My Journey to Find Family and Forgiveness

An Unexpected Coddiwomple: The Story of a Father’s Sudden Death, a Box of World War II Letters, and a Daughter’s Life Transformed

An Unexpected Coddiwomple: The Story of a Father's Sudden Death, a Box of WWII Letters, and a Daughter's Life Transformed

Every Grain of Sand: a memoir

The Ruining of Lemus Daniel

Detached: a memoir

The Unbelievable Life of a Country Boy: from Country Plowboy to Lt. Colonel by Age 30