From the award-winning author of Twice a Daughter comes the much-anticipated prequel. In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago’s western suburbs between the 1960s and ’80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight as the two strive for identity, individuality, and belonging. But as Julie’s […]
Wherever the Road Leads
Wherever the Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van takes you on a stunning two-year adventure. Newlyweds (an artist and an engineer) meet the rigors of international travel and the ups and downs of married life in a Volkswagen microbus that continually needs repair. A delightful memoir about a two-year, 40,000-mile journey […]
Guidance From the Universe: Hopeful Messages for Everyday Challenges
Tarot reader Jill Amy Sager offers thirty messages from a channeled source of wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on universal topics such as money, judgment, and suffering. Sager, who was born with a physical disability, also includes her personal stories, demonstrating how the information transformed her life from one of low self-esteem to spiritual […]
The Pianist’s Only Daughter: A Memoir
The Pianist’s Only Daughter: A Memoir is a frank, humorous, and poignant exploration of aging in an aging expert’s own family. Gerontological social worker and only daughter Kathryn Betts Adams tells the story of her life with colorful, emotionally volatile parents, an English teacher and a music professor, culminating with her increasing involvement as they […]
You Don’t Know What I Have Done
An 85-year-old WWII Irish war bride with a seemingly ordinary life reveals clues to a shocking crime which has haunted her for years. Details of blood, terror, and fleeing her homeland are revealed in frightened, disjointed outbursts. Knowing she has Alzheimer’s, her daughter must determine if these delusional rants are a mixture of movies she […]
Thrown Overboard by Scientology and Other Life Overboards
As a child, Debbie Norwitz learned self-reliance the hard way. Growing up void of parental support or love, as a young teen her self-awareness led to shocking discoveries. She scrapped to embrace her own femininity, yet began parenting her baby sister when only twelve years old. Debbie left home at 18 and entered into a […]