CLIENT LIBRARY
Memoirs
Running Around Naked
by Jelaine Lombardi
“Beautifully and compassionately written, with raw honesty and a wicked sense of humor…” – Sylvia Clare, author of No Visible Injuries
When Jelaine’s parents purchased and moved the family into their own nudist camp, life slid off the rails of normalcy. Her childhood became divided between the casual, free-thinking camp and the uptight, judgmental world outside.
As hard as Jelaine worked to keep her two worlds separate, her parents worked equally hard to bring them together, to convert the world to nudism.
When theatrical plays, pageants and a movie production were thrown into the mix, the family secret became impossible to keep.
Join Jelaine for the struggles and capers of growing up naked. There’s no need to peek through the fence. Just throw off your inhibitions and come on in.
A real “coming-of-age” story like no other!
My Heartfelt Journey
by Eleanor F.J. Gamarsh
Eleanor F.J. Gamarsh has lived a life full of love for gardening, family, cooking and writing.
In My Heartfelt Journey, she shares life stories, poems and recipes that have contributed to the woman she is today, a vibrant, successful great-grandmother who continues to follow her passions.
Filled with favorite recipes and personal anecdotes, poetry and illustrations, this book is thought-provoking with moments of contemplation, sporadic humor, and keen observations of the beauty around us.
Not a book to read in a hurry, My Heartfelt Journey is a perfect companion for a rainy day and/or a gift to someone you love.
Up & Down with JoJo Brown
by Tom McKenna
A Laugh Out Loud Slice of American Life
Up & Down with JoJo Brown (and other humorous catastrophes) is a humorous fiction novel packed with sharp wit, everyday chaos, and characters who stumble through life with equal parts stubborn pride and accidental heart. This comedy novel delivers laugh out loud fiction rooted in slice of life comedy, where ordinary days spiral into unforgettable misadventures.
At the center of of this character driven comedy is a lifelong friendship defined by sarcasm, loyalty, and poor decision making. What begins as a string of comic disasters evolves into a deeply relatable comedy fiction about dysfunctional friendship and the quiet weight of growing older without growing wiser. The humor is observational and often irreverent, blending everyday absurdity fiction with moments of genuine warmth and reflection.
Told through episodic storytelling and fast paced dialogue, this contemporary literary comedy captures the humor of ordinary life gone wrong. From workplace mishaps and blue collar frustrations to unexpected emotional reckonings, the novel thrives on small disasters with big consequences. Beneath the jokes and sarcasm lies humor with heart, driven by flawed but lovable characters navigating friendship, responsibility, and the unpredictable turns of modern life.
Perfect for readers who enjoy comic novels, buddy comedy fiction and humorous contemporary fiction, this book is a witty, grounded, and deeply human portrait of friendship and survival. If you love slice of American life novels filled with sharp dialogue, realistic struggles and laugh out loud moments, this story will feel uncomfortably familiar in the best possible way.
The Horses Who Made Me - ME!
by Dee Jordan
In the rolling fields of the Deep South, where the bonds between humans and animals run deeper than the soil, Horses Who Made Me–Me! takes you on an emotional journey of love, loss, and self-discovery.
Dee Jordan built her life around horses—magnificent creatures that offered her joy, purpose, and a connection to something greater than herself. From the spirited Lipizzans she raised to the beloved Freyja, who taught her about strength and resilience, Dee’s equine companions shaped her world as she navigated the triumphs and tragedies of marriage, motherhood, and mental health.
But life was far from idyllic. Faced with the betrayal of her soulmate, the crumbling of her marriage, and her struggles with bipolar disorder, Dee found herself at the edge of despair. Through it all, the horses–and her daughter Joy—offered her a lifeline, reminding her of the strength she thought she’d lost.
This unflinching memoir weaves heartwarming tales of Pony Club triumphs and trail rides with searing accounts of betrayal, guilt, and redemption. A love letter to the horses who shaped her and a testament to the power of perseverance, Horses Who Made Me–Me! is a moving portrait of a Southern woman’s determination to find herself in the chaos.
Dee's story will resonate long after the last page is turned, perfect for readers who cherish tales of grit, grace, and the healing power of animals.
Will Dee’s love for horses and her daughter be enough to lead her to a life of freedom and self-acceptance? Find out in this powerful and unforgettable memoir.
Roads & Redemption,
by Georgina Nunez
In Amsterdam in the 70s, Gina has turned eighteen and is ready for a big adventure. She has left the group home where her mother had placed her, found a room, worked hard and saved money to realize her dream of travel on the Hippie Trail to India. With her boyfriend, Ide, she boards the Magic Bus to Goa, where she hopes to find warmer weather, enlightenment and great weed.
The Magic Bus takes them through Afghanistan, where they overnight in budget hostels and with an Afghani family of artists and thieves. From there they travel through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan.
When Ide announces all his money has been stolen, Gina accepts a job in Peshawar as an “international business hostess” for a handsome, charismatic businessman, Charles Sobhraj.
Sobhraj promises to take her Goa, but what follows is more frightening than Gina has ever imagined. The result is murder, entrapment, seduction, betrayal and imprisonment in Pakistan as Gina makes desperate attempts to escape from Sobhraj— the man she discovers is the notorious South Asia serial “Bikini Killer.”
Roads & Redemption is a harrowing story of a young woman searching for love and adventure…in all the wrong places.
Author and psychotherapist Gina Nunez is the author of Bearer of Family SECRETS & SUSPICIONS, her first memoir about growing up in a highly dysfunctional family in Amsterdam during the vibrant sixties and seventies.
Race Consciousness
by Carol Leutner
One woman's journey from a working-class White upbringing to becoming a relentless advocate for justice in America.
Coming of age during the tumultuous 60s, Carol knew that race and gender impacted daily life in the United States.
In 1968 a planned relocation to Europe was cut short when she witnessed first-hand the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and then watched the televised upheaval of the Democratic National Convention. Carol returned home to fight for her country's promised freedoms.
First, at the highest level of Navajo tribal government to reset federal-tribal contractual relations and to promote economic development. Institutional racism was real.
Then, while raising two daughters in New Mexico with her African American husband, and after becoming a member of the N.M. bar, she won a high-profile race discrimination case against a large corporate employer.
Her political activism culminates when she and her husband direct the 1984 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign statewide. That experience taught her how entrenched race politics works.
The suspense and intensity of Carol's political struggles are matched only by her personal ones: coping with a divorce and one daughter's fatal disease, parenting in the nation's capital, launching an international career at age 50, and finding the mental fortitude to win against the odds.
Race Consciousness: A Personal and Political Journey won the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Memoir: History/Legacy category.
A Yankee Airman and his Southern Belle
by Rita Brewer
In the pre-dawn darkness of an Anchorage winter, a ringing phone shatters the silence and changes everything. When Meritta “Rita” Morrin hears the words no military wife ever wants to hear—her Yankee Airman husband, SSgt Kenneth Morrin, has been in a life-threatening accident—she is thrust into a battle for his life, their marriage, and the future of their “little family of five.”
A Yankee Airman and His Southern Belle is a deeply personal memoir of a whirlwind courtship that began under a full moon in upstate New York, a joyful Southern wedding against the odds, and the cross-country moves, separations, and sacrifices that define military life. From Vietnam-era deployments to the stark beauty of Alaska, Rita and Ken build a life grounded in faith, laughter, and an unshakable promise: to love each other “for the rest of our lives.”
Then black ice, a head-on collision, and catastrophic brain trauma force Rita to navigate trauma wards, military bureaucracy, and impossible decisions no young wife should ever face. As she keeps vigil outside CCU doors that will not open and shields three young children from the full weight of tragedy, Rita must choose, again and again, between despair and hope.
Told with raw honesty, Southern warmth, and a storyteller’s eye for detail, A Yankee Airman and His Southern Belle is a tribute to a remarkable man, a resilient woman, and the enduring power of love that survives happiness, heartache, and everything in between. This is one woman’s witness to the miracles, the losses, and the quiet courage that turn personal history into lasting legacy.
Butterfly of Hope
by JoAnn Santore Dickson
"A moving narrative as much a love story as it is a testament to family, faith, and perseverance."
- The International Review of Books
Through the lens of time, this memoir unfolds as a tender reflection on love, resilience, and faith.
It follows a young American sailor who married his high school sweetheart in 1951 and together built a life—navigating the joys of parenthood, the heartbreak of their children’s divorces, and the trials of major illness. Anchored by unwavering devotion to each other and their community, they weather life’s storms with faith as their guide, never losing sight of the vows they exchanged so many years before.
This story will resonate deeply with readers who cherish narratives of enduring love, those nostalgic for mid-century Americana, and anyone who finds inspiration in commitment, family, and the quiet heroism of ordinary lives.
Buy today and enjoy the read, or click on the book cover to open AMAZON'S "Read Sample" FEATURE to learn more!
Escapegoat Daughter
by Misty Compton
Misty Compton feels like she's never good enough. It always seems to be her fault. She's blamed for the wrongdoings in her family. She apologizes way more than she should. She feels guilty and has no idea why.
An argument erupts between her and her mother, leading Misty to learn about conditional love, toxic parents, narcissistic mothers, and gaslighting. After careful observation, she puts two and two together and discovers her mother and older sister might have narcissistic personality disorders. With the lack of boundaries in place, Misty decides the only way she can truly heal from past traumas and grow into her authentic self is by going “no contact” with her dysfunctional family. This means excluding them from her forthcoming happy event. But doubt consumes her and makes her question, "Have I made the right decision?"
Escapegoat Daughter is a story of self-love and forgiveness. Through mental illness, codependency, and familial emotional abuse, Misty displays courage through her life-altering decision of family estrangement.
Anatomy of a Sixty-Six Year Marriage
by Don Hughes
"A moving narrative as much a love story as it is a testament to family, faith, and perseverance."
- The International Review of Books
Through the lens of time, this memoir unfolds as a tender reflection on love, resilience, and faith.
It follows a young American sailor who married his high school sweetheart in 1951 and together built a life—navigating the joys of parenthood, the heartbreak of their children’s divorces, and the trials of major illness. Anchored by unwavering devotion to each other and their community, they weather life’s storms with faith as their guide, never losing sight of the vows they exchanged so many years before.
This story will resonate deeply with readers who cherish narratives of enduring love, those nostalgic for mid-century Americana, and anyone who finds inspiration in commitment, family, and the quiet heroism of ordinary lives.
Buy today and enjoy the read, or click on the book cover to open AMAZON'S "Read Sample" FEATURE to learn more!
Hello,Vietnam!
by Lawrence Hamilton
On August 2, 1969, young Lawrence Hamilton arrives in Vietnam, eager to
follow in the footsteps of his father, who had served with Patton in World
War II.
Having participated in ROTC at upstate New York’s St. Lawrence
University and completed the U.S. Army’s Jungle Operations Training in
Panama, otherwise known as “Jungle Warfare School,” he’s ready to serve his
country.
But first, he has to overcome a boring assignment, due to a hearing
impairment, in Graves Registration. He manages to obtain a transfer to the
45 th Support Group at Fort Schmidt, on the high plateau of the Central
Highlands.
He soon finds himself dealing with personality conflicts among his fellow
soldiers, violent issues over puppies and kitchen garbage, and the minute-
to-minute threat of deadly VC rocket attacks against the camp.
With the aid of Mr. Son, a former Hanoi college professor, he crafts a
volunteer project to provide 500 flip flops for a bare-footed leper colony.
Hamilton also discovers that, with the help of an older mentor, he can study
contracts law and actually take the New York Law School Admission Test
while he serves at Camp Schmidt.
But, can he balance the challenges of his dangerous patrol responsibilities
against the VC, complications with his leper colony project, his desire to
study for the LSAT, and his budding romance with a charming young Red
Cross nurse?
And all the while, stay alive?
Hello, Vietnam! is a poignant testament to coming-of-age in the culturally
and politically turbulent decade that was the 1960s.
Laughter, Tears and Grace, Vol. 1
by Eleanor Gamarsh
Laughter, Tears and Grace is a collection of spiritual, humorous, and life lived finding joy in daily activities poems.
Eleanor F.J. Gamarsh has lived a life full of love for gardening, family, cooking and writing.
Laughter, Tears and Grace, Vol. 2
by Eleanor Gamarsh
Laughter, Tears and Grace is a collection of spiritual, humorous, and life lived finding joy in daily activities poems.
Eleanor F.J. Gamarsh has lived a life full of love for gardening, family, cooking and writing.
Secrets & Suspicions
by Georgina Nunez
This is tragi-comic, coming-of-age story of unintuitive and outspoken child who grows up in a highly dysfuctional family in Amsterdam during the vibrant sixties and seventies.
Her overbearing, mentally unstable grandmother, her submissive but sexually adventurous mother, and Dirk, her mother's pedophilic live-in boyfriend, each make Gina their secret confidant.
Each one influeces her gowth - with conflicting instuction - from innocent child to sexually-confused teen to rebelious young woman.Because of the distorted "facts of life" with which they condition her, the empathic Gina struggles to discover what it means to be female in a man's world and what expectations accompany that role.
At eighteen, her exprience culminates in an atagoizing and life-changing decision.Bearer of Family SECRETS & SUSPICIONS was originally published as The Bearer of Family Secrets, under the pen name, Yovinda Larraz. This revised edition is the result of the author's decision to come forth openly and own her difficult memories.
Dyer Straits
by Mary A. Dyer
Growing up in Dorchester, MA during the 1960s and ’70s meant living through some of Boston’s most turbulent years—racial tension, shifting neighborhoods, and families stretched thin by hardship. In this memoir, the author traces her and her siblings’ childhoods inside a triple-decker world marked by addiction, mental illness, poverty, and domestic violence—and by the sibling bonds that helped them survive.
At home, a mother of eight did what she could under impossible circumstances—resourceful, steady, and determined to keep her family afloat. Her children learned early how to look out for one another, raise one another, and find light where they could. Their father, volatile and mentally ill, cast a long shadow over the household, shaping much of what the family endured.
Threaded throughout is the music that held the siblings together. From transistor radio singalongs to teenage bedrooms pulsing with rock and roll, music became a refuge—a shared language of escape and expression.
Both a family tribute and a raw, unflinching look at growing up in working-class Dorchester, this memoir honors what it took to get through those years—and the courage to look back for lessons worth keeping.
FICTION
Charlotte’s Gaff
by Wade Schalles
Nothing is as exhausting as having to defend yourself.
Charlotte Charles is the wife of World-Class wrestler, Jacob Charles, whose employer has a Langley, Virginia address.
When his best friend’s home explodes, and Jacob’s drugged after appearing on “Real Sports” with Bryant Gumbel, Charlotte senses trouble ahead.
Matters escalate when the media receives documented proof of Jacob’s use of anabolic steroids, followed by Charlotte receiving compromising photos of her husband in bed with an unidentified woman.
When things couldn’t get worse, the Charles’ become victims of a phony domestic violence call, at the same time as Jacob’s Olympic coach is kidnapped.
Charlotte’s Gaff is a fast-paced read, with as many twists and turns as its author had his opponents in during his career. What the reader will soon discover; it’s not always best to keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Wade Schalles is a retired American amateur wrestler, coach, official, executive, and author. He’s a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame whose career is highlighted in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s greatest pinner. Charlotte’s Gaff is his fourth book, second one of fiction, and follows the characters he introduced in his debut novel, Jacob’s Cradle.
Charlotte’s Gaff will transport you into a world of amateur sports, revenge and danger as Charlotte and Jacob struggle to save their friends, their family, and their reputations.
Experience this dangerous and challenging journey with the Charles family by getting Charlotte’s Gaff now.
“Much more intense and detailed than I had expected, in a good way, with a satisfying ending. This is a well-written story about a realistic modern-day Tier One Athlete/Special Operations Warrior.” - Michael Marx, five-time United States Olympic Committee Athlete of the Year.
Dance of the Restless Soul
by Rene Fedyna
One rebellious woman-One forbidden dream-One sacrifice too many
Her dream becomes a nightmare. In pursuit of the cabaret life, Lola La Fontaine finds herself thrust into the gritty Paris underworld of kidnappers and killers.
At sixteen, Lola La Fontaine lives an elegant and sophisticated lifestyle in La Belle Epoque Paris, but will soon be forced to marry one of the richest men in France—a man she doesn’t love.
Knowing he will forbid her to pursue her dream to be an entertainer, she has no choice but to escape, but escape to where?
Her passion is enflamed when she meets Charlie Sloane. Handsome, charismatic and debonair. Lola finds him irresistible, but his deceptive ways plunge her into a life of intrigue and violence.
Is her desire for him worth the price of her life?
Dance With the Devil
by Rene Redyna
Three women of the same blood, each on a separate path to danger.
Lola La Fontaine forfeits riches and status in Paris, determined to fulfill her dream to become a cabaret performer. Overcoming heartbreak and peril, she travels to the United States where she enjoys the success she craves. She believes her life is complete until she learns a shocking secret that drives her to return to Paris and follow a life-threatening path.
Rita O’Reilly, Lola’s daughter, believes she had been abandoned by her parents and at 12 years old she is penniless and alone. Headstrong, she escapes the clutches of an orphanage and sets out on a dangerous cross-country journey where she is forced to live among hostile Indians, taken advantage of by a charlatan and puts her life in grave danger when she naively travels the damp, dark streets of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, a sanctuary for the depraved and where every form of loathsome behavior thrives.
Mimi La Fontaine, Lola’s daughter, born in Paris, lives with her grandfather Émile La Fontaine, who, for selfish reasons tell Mimi that her mother Lola died in childbirth. With a guilty heart, he provides Mimi with a lifestyle befitting the granddaughter of a rich aristocrat and allows her free reign to do anything she pleases. Mimi grows to be narcissistic, deceitful and ambitious. She is a woman who will do anything to satisfy her desires, no matter how serious the consequences.
A determined mother and two headstrong daughters cannot escape their destinies. How far will they go to survive?
Evora’s Wrath
by Wade Schalles
Three women of the same blood, each on a separate path to danger.
Lola La Fontaine forfeits riches and status in Paris, determined to fulfill her dream to become a cabaret performer. Overcoming heartbreak and peril, she travels to the United States where she enjoys the success she craves. She believes her life is complete until she learns a shocking secret that drives her to return to Paris and follow a life-threatening path.
Rita O’Reilly, Lola’s daughter, believes she had been abandoned by her parents and at 12 years old she is penniless and alone. Headstrong, she escapes the clutches of an orphanage and sets out on a dangerous cross-country journey where she is forced to live among hostile Indians, taken advantage of by a charlatan and puts her life in grave danger when she naively travels the damp, dark streets of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, a sanctuary for the depraved and where every form of loathsome behavior thrives.
Mimi La Fontaine, Lola’s daughter, born in Paris, lives with her grandfather Émile La Fontaine, who, for selfish reasons tell Mimi that her mother Lola died in childbirth. With a guilty heart, he provides Mimi with a lifestyle befitting the granddaughter of a rich aristocrat and allows her free reign to do anything she pleases. Mimi grows to be narcissistic, deceitful and ambitious. She is a woman who will do anything to satisfy her desires, no matter how serious the consequences.
A determined mother and two headstrong daughters cannot escape their destinies. How far will they go to survive?
Galveston ’44
by Bruce Peterson
Three women of the same blood, each on a separate path to danger.
Lola La Fontaine forfeits riches and status in Paris, determined to fulfill her dream to become a cabaret performer. Overcoming heartbreak and peril, she travels to the United States where she enjoys the success she craves. She believes her life is complete until she learns a shocking secret that drives her to return to Paris and follow a life-threatening path.
Rita O’Reilly, Lola’s daughter, believes she had been abandoned by her parents and at 12 years old she is penniless and alone. Headstrong, she escapes the clutches of an orphanage and sets out on a dangerous cross-country journey where she is forced to live among hostile Indians, taken advantage of by a charlatan and puts her life in grave danger when she naively travels the damp, dark streets of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, a sanctuary for the depraved and where every form of loathsome behavior thrives.
Mimi La Fontaine, Lola’s daughter, born in Paris, lives with her grandfather Émile La Fontaine, who, for selfish reasons tell Mimi that her mother Lola died in childbirth. With a guilty heart, he provides Mimi with a lifestyle befitting the granddaughter of a rich aristocrat and allows her free reign to do anything she pleases. Mimi grows to be narcissistic, deceitful and ambitious. She is a woman who will do anything to satisfy her desires, no matter how serious the consequences.
A determined mother and two headstrong daughters cannot escape their destinies. How far will they go to survive?
Jacob’s Cradle
by Wade Schalles
“Schalles takes the reader through as many twists and turns as he did his opponents when he wrestled. I truly enjoyed the read and marveled at how Wade interlaced the intricacies of wrestling with the scrambling storylines of criminals and protagonists.”
Roy Smith, Executive Director,
National Wrestling Hall of Fame
World-class wrestler Jacob Charles has more on his mind than the Olympics.
As a member of the CIA’s Athletes Courier Corps, a covert project that takes advantage of elite athletes’ unique ability to cross borders into hostile territory without scrutiny, Jacob often moves among people even more dangerous than his wrestling opponents—and he has a personal score to settle with one of the deadliest men in the world.
But at the center of his universe is his wife, Charlotte, an independent, freewheeling boat captain who sails the pirate infested-waters of the African coast—and whose life is about to become even more treacherous than Jacob’s.
From the Olympic training centers of the United States to the steamy alleys of Castro’s Cuba, from the exotic islands of the Indian Ocean to the grand stage of the Olympic Games, author and legendary former wrestler Wade Schalles takes readers on an adventure like no other love story ever, with the explosive and touching Jacob’s Cradle.
Wade Schalles has effectively transferred his creative imagination to pen and paper. He has successfully blended world class wrestling with love and intrigue. This book is bound to have readers asking for more from one of our sport’s all-time greats.
Rich Bender, Executive Director USA Wrestling
Murder on Mount Kilimanjaro
by Lawrence Hamilton
Fellow attorney and dubious friend, Chet Burns has been pushing Steve Tucker to join him on a trip to climb the dormant volcano Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.
While Steve is eager to climb the famous mountain, his wife, Abby refuses to accompany him if Chet is going.
Faced with the choice, Steve figures out a scheme to go with his wife and cut out the self-centered and strong-tempered Chet Burns.
But Chet's not the forgiving type of friend, and at the top of the mountain, Steve's dream climbing trip is destroyed by a disaster he could never have imagined.
Readers of legal thrillers and climbing adventures will love “Murder on Mount Kilimanjaro.”
