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![]() Food is the romance of life. Hey, who doesn't love food? Cook up your favorite dish and garnish it with original short stories and poetry. Mental Munching is the Prairie Quills Writers' Group's 4th Anthology. Within the pages of this book you are sure to find something yummy. The PQs are a group of serious writers who started about 11 years ago. We meet every third Tuesday to encourage, inspire and motivate each other to do [...] |
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![]() Winner of The Literary Critic Reviewer's Award, and the Reader's Favorite 5-Star Award. Reviewer Viga Boland for Readers' Favorite says: "With the alarming rise in suicides, especially sadly amongst teens, Nina Bingham's memoir about losing her beloved daughter to suicide is timely, but no doubt writing it was one of the hardest things Bingham has ever done. What courage it takes to bare a heartache like hers to readers [...] |
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![]() Zeta May is a woman in her mid-twenties, trapped within the complexities of her own troubled mind. A traumatic accident dramatically shaped her early childhood, and yet the memory of what happened that day, eludes her. Angie knows, and Angie realizes that it's time to tell the truth. We meet Zeta as she stands at her bedroom window watching a young family move into the cottage next door. She resents the new neighbours, and [...] |
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![]() Poetry can be daunting and hard to understand, but it doesn't have to be. I feel a poet has an obligation to write in a way that everyone can understand. Poems should flow softly through a poet's words, their meanings gently caressing the heart and mind of its reader. If a poem comes from the heart, it will reach other hearts, and this is what I've tried to do with the poetry in "Anatomy of a Poet". ~CJ Heck "Like a rose with [...] |
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![]() Abuse is damaging. It comes from cycles of abusive behaviors learned and repeated through generations. Because of shame and embarrassment, many people do not speak about the cruelty they endured. In my case, most of the abuse I suffered resulted from my mother's mental illness. For my entire life, people told me to excuse my mom's abuse because she was mentally ill. However, mental illness does not give anyone the right to [...] |
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Love Trauma - Separation to Post Divorce by Dr. Paul A. Wagner Dr. Wagner's Love Trauma compassionately explores the mighty divide that opens up when divorce or separation happens. His thorough and patient dissection of that divide allows divorcees to recognize the demons that keep us from getting beyond the divorce, the pitfalls of various post-divorce behaviors, and the procedures we can take to move past the pain. His examination of the divorcee's viewpoint works like magic to make us [...] |
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![]() Rachel Pappas was an in your face mother, but loves her daughter more than life. She rolled up her sleeves when the neighborhood bully's taunting got way out of hand. She stood up to hard-nosed teachers that didn't get it something was wrong and Marina needed help. And she clapped till her palms hurt when her half Greek, half Jewish daughter took the podium at her predominantly African American school glowing in her cap, [...] |
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![]() 2010 Women of Faith Writing Contest Finalist - The nightmares continue. Memories won't heal. Nadia must make a choice. Nadia Minsky fled Israel to escape her past, but she can't outrun her nightmares. The throbbing scars along her hip and stomach are cruel reminders of shattered dreams. Even though surgeons mended her body, her spirit still bleeds. Friends claim only God can heal her. For Nadia, trusting a God who allowed her [...] |
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![]() "What was the likelihood my adopted daughter would have my father's hazel eyes and my mother's mental illness?" In this fiercely candid memoir, Dr. Pruchno, a scientist widely acclaimed for her research on mental illness and families, shows how mental illness threatened to destroy her own family. Not once, but twice. As a child, she didn't understand her mother's episodes of crippling sadness or whirlwind activity. As a [...] |
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Dark Water - Healing From Stress After Trauma by Opal Rose Healing from posttraumatic stress isn't easy. It takes courage, honesty, and determination. This is a journey forward with a poignant awareness of compassion and kindness, and with the healing of biology, mind, and soul. You'll grow, and your spirit will expand. Dark Water: Healing from Stress after Trauma suggests that healing encompasses the whole person that is you. Paths toward healing run deeply through who you are and [...] |
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![]() "Abuse is damaging. It comes from cycles of abusive behaviors learned and repeated through generations. Because of shame and embarrassment, many people do not speak about the cruelty they endured. In my case, most of the abuse I suffered resulted from my mother's mental illness. For my entire life, people told me to excuse my mom's abuse because she was mentally ill. However, mental illness does not give anyone the right to [...] |
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![]() Beyond Infinite Healing is the third volume in the non-fiction series The Diary of Mary Bliss Parsons. In Volume One, The Strong Witch Society, a dire warning is given to the inhabitants of this planet that if two very specific cultural behaviors were not changed, humanity would be destroyed in the not too distant future. Volume Two, The Lost Revelation, provides a hands-on practical guide for the renewal of the mind, as well [...] |
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Not Our Brother's Keeper - The True Adventures of an Extraordinary Man by Melker Stec From the day Melker Stec had his head smashed against his brother's by an abusive father, he suffered from visual and auditory hallucinations. But somehow, he managed to achieve a successful career as a Georgia state employee, including as a correctional counselor and governmental analyst. Along the way, he witnessed rampant corruption. In this memoir, Stec reveals how he overcame so many obstacles only to engage in a crime [...] |
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![]() Compiled from the results of several research studies conducted over the last 10 to 15 years. The information is presented in a straightforward manner that is easy to understand. This book sheds some light on the inner workings of the male brain and why male to male interactions are different from male to female interactions. Have you ever wondered what makes men think and act a certain way? This book will give you insight [...] |
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![]() There are at least 16 personalities inside James Darrell Williams. But who is he really? And why? "Which One Am I?" is a singular story about universal truths, horrors and grace. Setting their work apart from other memoirs, the authors explore the nature of family and how Darrell - and all of us -- are shaped by culture, history and geography. After two years of research, Darrell and his partner Thomas Smith dug deeply into [...] |
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![]() "I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool." - Joan Collins - It's true! You are what you think you are. Your body is what you think it to be. Your health is as good as you say it is. Your habitual thoughts, beliefs, and statements about your body have [...] |
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![]() TOP 100 KINDLE BESTSELLER LIST (2014, 2015) When Tuesday Storm is eight years old she does something so horrible her mother can't even bring herself to say what it is. Tuesday's punishment for the mysterious "bad thing" is to be isolated from her father and siblings and to stand with her face turned to a wall. Food is withheld, as well as sleep, she's forced to wear a mask so the rest of the family won't have to see her ugly [...] |
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![]() After a normal day turns disastrous, Madison Craig tries to put her life back together. She's jumping at shadows and finds even familiar places terrifying. Can she forgive the men who hurt her? Her friend Evan Mansfield sees no need to do anything but hate their assailants. He struggles with bitterness, but Maddy wants to move on. What will she do when one of the men asks for forgiveness? |
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![]() The Reverent Surrender is an insightful memoir that tells the story of a father's dynamic and beautiful relationship with his son cut short when he took his own life. How does one retain the life lessons past on without becoming resentful of their father's decision? As an only son, James Finster, retells the memories of the life and times he experienced with his father and looks for the messages and teachings within them [...] |
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![]() Follow Rebecca Lombardo as she details two years of her twenty-five year battle with mental illness and what brought her to attempt to take her life in 2013. As she recovered from that attempt, she continued to write in the hopes that she would help purge some of the pain in her life. What she never expected was that she could help others as well. This book quite simply began as a blog and became a book; where she opens up [...] |
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![]() Life is a journey. There are times that the path is smooth and well traveled and others it seems steep and difficult...but if we do not give up, there is so much more that awaits us. I love to paint paths that lead to ?... I hope they will lead to where we need to go in life. I hope there is love, hope, happiness, and wonderful new things that await us at the end. I want to look for and find the beauty in life and find love [...] |
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![]() Jacqueline Maduneme's life should have been paved with the types of stories little girls dream of, but the landscape of her life was torn apart by a commanding and overbearing father and a series of horrors that would tear most anyone apart and ruin them for life. Ada's Daughter recounts the life of Nigerian-born Jacqueline Maduneme who endured and overcame physical and emotional pain and suffering most anyone would find [...] |
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![]() A leader in the fields of animal ethics and neurology, Dr. Aysha Akhtar examines the rich human-animal connection and how interspecies empathy enriches our well-being. Deftly combining medicine, social history and personal experience, Our Symphony with Animals is the first book by a physician to show how deeply the well-being of humans and animals are entwined. Interwoven throughout is Dr. Akhtar's own story of being a young [...] |
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![]() Winner Gold eLit Book Awards - Stress relief is the mantra for our fast-paced 21st Century lifestyle. Especially when it comes to women's health. From PMS to post menopause, stress plays a key role in intensifying hormonal symptoms and changes in the body. Ten Powerful Stress Busters for the BAM VP Woman in You is the all-natural antidote for those mood swings, nervous tension, anxiety, sadness and out of control feelings. [...] |
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![]() ADVANCE READER REVIEWS - "...the author's courage and faith are inspiring. Just amazing!" "Now, tell me God doesn't work in mysterious ways!" Diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder and other mental illnesses, Lisa created personalities as a child to help her survive trauma and abuse. As an adult, she finally meets her alters and finds that they are Christian alters whom God will use to help her understand His great love [...] |
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