Broken Open, Martha Gies’ collection of essays, might invite one to think of an unfurling iris, like the textured petals on the book’s cover, or the iris as an aperture […]
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Author: Martha Gies
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Memoir and Autobiography
Coloring Outside the Lines
Author: Elizabeth A. Patterson, MD
Elizabeth Patterson creatively closes her life story using the voice of a jewelry armoire, escorting the reader drawer by drawer to examine some of the pieces tucked inside: awards, ribbons, […]
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London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement
Author: Rebecca Knuth
Rebecca Knuth, author of London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement, lived a childhood in Anchorage, Alaska, immersed in books. The stories that most captured her imagination were set in London, […]
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Dancing on My Own Two Feet
Author: Jenn Todling
Dancing on My Own Two Feet opens with a marriage proposal. It is a crisp, spring day. As waves roll onto a California beach, Jenn Todling is presented with three […]
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The Land of Everlasting Sky: A Memoir of Loss and Legacy on Lake of the Woods
Author: Jill D. Swenson
What happens when you lose everything you thought you had, and have to start over? When what you thought you understood about your family and history turns out to be […]
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Piece by Piece
Author: Kim Danielson
“Our artifacts might be evidence we existed. But the stories behind those artifacts are evidence we lived” (p. 228). Kim Danielson, the author of Piece by Piece, has created a […]
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