Looking for some nonfiction for your Kindle or Kindle reading application? This morning’s update is a list of free limited time offers in the genres of biographies, memoirs and true accounts. There are a wide range of people in this grouping. Enjoy. Note: The limited time offers in this post of today’s free titles in these genres as found on Amazon.com listed at $0.00. Don’t miss out on these offers as they haven’t been lasting long! Enjoy.
Sister of Silence
Daleen Berry (Author), Kenneth V. Lanning (Foreword), Megan Hagebush (Illustrator)
An amazing true-crime story that unfolds faster than you can keep up, and leaves you longing for more, when you turn the final page. Raped at thirteen, she was forced into a shotgun wedding after her high school was featured on national television for having the highest number of pregnant teens in the U.S. But then Daleen Berry found herself married to a coal miner who kept her barefoot and pregnant. By age twenty-one she had four children. Sister of Silence is the amazing story of her personal journey: how she went from being a teen mom to an award-winning journalist determined to break the silence that shatters women and children’s lives. Kenneth V. Lanning, a retired FBI special supervisory agent who spent more than twenty years teaching about family violence at Quantico, Va., wrote the foreword for Sister of Silence. He says it’s “ultimately a story of survival and hope.” Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, a Johns Hopkins University nursing professor and one of the country’s leading family violence researchers, calls Sister of Silence “wonderful!” Campbell was the first professor to place the book on her syllabus. SOS is being taught at the University of Louisville; Dr. Jean Shimosaki, LCSW, MSW, a Bay Area therapist, is using it with her patients, as it provides “a step-by-step guide for healing.” In 2006, an excerpt of SOS took first-place in the Appalachian Theme category at the West Virginia Writers’ Competition, and was banned at Livermore High School in California and removed from library shelves as “Banned Book Week 2011” began. It has been featured at “Hope For the Future: Ending Domestic Violence In Families,” hosted by the AIA (UC Berkeley), on The Bob Edwards Show (Sirius XM Radio), and on In A Word, a literary show produced by TV30. The author is a California native who grew up in Preston and Berkeley counties in West Virginia, and went to work at The Preston County Journal. Among her many awards was one in 1990, when she won a first-place award for investigative journalism. In 1997, she worked for The Dominion Post, covering welfare reform. Among her awards are two second-place honors for her 2007 weekly columns in the Cumberland Times-News, one of which was born from SOS. Berry’s articles about Lashanda Armstrong, the mother who drove her van into the Hudson River in 2011, killing herself and three of her four children, appeared online at The Daily Beast. Length: 343 pages
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My Summer of Magnified English: A Serio-tragic Odyssey Into the Heart of Celebrations Commemorating the Centennial of Mark Twain’s Death: Volume One – June
Michael Matewauk (Author)
All the great ones came West. Mark Twain. Jack Kerouac. Hunter S. Thompson. J.D. Salinger would’ve if it wasn’t for all those phonies in Hollywood. They all made a beeline to California to seek their fortunes and returned with Classics – literary trophies set down at the foot of Big Publishing, set down in New York. But what literary ghosts are disturbed when a budding writer takes a journey to visit Mark Twain’s old haunts amidst celebrations commemorating the centennial of the revered author’s death? What happens when a writer who’s only almost great leaves the most breathtakingly perfect California beach house and heads East to seek his literary fortune? Two words. Mass chaos. It begins with disaster – the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – and the shocking discovery that the famed humorist, Mark Twain, started the whole thing. How else to explain the million-barrel gusher exploding onto the literary scene exactly one hundred years (and one day) after Twain’s death? The very date that Twain wanted his complete autobiography finally published released to the public! Only one writer, operating on an unholy amount of caffeine and unemployment checks, has put the pieces of the puzzle together and against all odds (including bewildering looks from loved ones and strangers) breaks this groundbreaking story. You’ll follow the trail along cultural touchstones – from pondering the oil-soaked provenance of Gulf Coast shrimp in the dining room of famed Berkeley eaterie Chez Panisse to breaking bread with scholars over a newly rediscovered Twain manuscript on the auction block at Sotheby’s to landing in New Orleans the very day that apocalypse-scented tar balls roll onto the beach. All this plus a squirrel caught performing circus acts on the grounds of Twain’s old mansion in Hartford, Connecticut. No literary sacred cow is left untipped in this uproarious and heartfelt tribute to the man William Faulkner called “the first truly American writer.” Gonzo-journalism just got an adrenaline shot in the heart and with this audacious debut, “My Summer of Magnified English” leaves little doubt that the state of Mark Twain Studies will never be the same again. Length: 278 pages
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Florida Serial Killers
Patricia Lieb (Author)
Mike Kaprat aka The Granny Killer raped and killed older women then burned their bodies and homes; Oscar Ray Bolin, got “Pumped up” after killing pretty young women; Billy Mansfield killed teenage girls and buried their bodies in the family yard. These stories appear with other murder cases in the book titled Murders In The Swampland, available in hard back from Xlibris Press.
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The Five Sons of Charlie Gisby: A Family Saga
Phil Gisby (Author), Brendan Gisby (Author)
In the third week of June 1859, Charles George Gisby was coaxed, squalling, into this world in the prosperous Victorian seaside resort of Margate. But young Charlie was not born into that prosperity. His birthplace was a house up a narrow lane called Alkali Row, which was then (and still is today) no more than an insignificant gap between the grand facades of the buildings on King Street sweeping down to the harbour. In a lifetime spanning nearly eighty years, Charlie would rise above his humble origins. He would become a fisherman, a shopkeeper and a businessman. He would serve in the defence of his country during the Great War. He would meet and marry two striking women, and suffer the dramatic loss of one of them. And he would father four fine sons, one not so fine and a daughter. His story and the story of his five sons are narrated in this family saga. It is a saga rich in colour and drama. Wars are fought in the course of it. There’s a memorable patriarch. There are untimely, mysterious and tragic deaths. There’s a plane crash and an accidental suicide. And there’s a larger-than-life cad and bounder. Charlie and his sons may have been “ordinary people”. But this is no ordinary saga. Length: 112 pages
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I Pornographer (The Island)
Michael J Freeman (Author)
Read bout life on the notorious prison island the Isle of Wight Parkhurst Prison that houses professional criminals, drug smugglers, gangsters, bank robbers, tie up merchants, the violent, the criminally insane and the murderers. Read about the riots, the protests and the drug taking on the Island. In contrast read about Maidstone prison in Kent that ran a special education unit for the most intelligent criminals in British History, prisoners like the Train Robbers and those criminals that robbed the Bank of America in Mayfair in a military style raid and many other top criminals. Read about the top secret MK-Ultra experiment where illegal experiments were carried out on criminal masterminds using LSD And most of all read about the erotic, highly explicit sexual reminiscences of The Pornographer and the highly sexed models some who did it for the pleasure, the threesomes, and the sex slaves… Length: 326 pages
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I Pornographer (Making Movies)
Michael J Freeman (Author)
Read about the Trailblazing exploits of The Pornographer when he emerges unbowed after 10 years in brutal British Prisons after being falsely convicted for murder and refusing to pay corrupt police officers in Scotland Yard’s Porn Squad known as the Dirty Dozen and how he becomes the first pornographer in history, using the new medium video to supply the public with uncensored hardcore videos, how he sets up a company Videx Ltd and finds a loophole in the Obscene Publications Act where video as a domestic medium is not covered by the law.How he makes the first hardcore porno film with an all professional cast Truth or Dare starring Paula Meadows & Lindsay Honey later to become famous as Ben Dover. The Pornographers campaign fight to legalise porn for adults, the marijuana, the cocaine, the models and actresses who loved sex, the spanking and The Pornographers kinky sex sessions Length: 376 pages
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Memories and Reflections of A Country Girl
Patricia Curley (Author), Grandma Chisholm (Narrator)
My life growing up in the south from 1933 and what has made me who I am today. My Mother died when I was five and I was raised by a strict grandmother and unmarried aunt. I entered the real world at eighteen not knowing anything about coping with life and had to learn the hard way.
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Home Field: Writers Remember Baseball
Larry Colton (Author), Holly Morris (Author), John Douglas Marshall (Author, Editor), Brian DiSalvatore (Author), Lynda Barry (Author), John Owen (Author), Robert Leo Heilman (Author), Sherman Alexie (Author), Timothy Egan (Author)
Baseball remembered by nine great writers – there’s community, there’s family, there’s heart. Sherman Alexie leaping from reservation Little League to women, race, and identity. Timothy Egan tells secrets of coaching girls’ Little League, including use of Doppler radar to scan for rain. Holly Morris describes how her women’s softball team, the Smellies, perfected the fine art of hooha. Lynda Barry shares a tale of a magical baseball glove laced with difficult memories of her father. Larry Colton, once a “can’t miss prospect,” recalls the hope and pain of his professional pitching debut, then watches a next-generation “can’t miss prospect” make the same mistakes. And much more. Here is baseball without stats but full of life, played by local heroes and heroines on their home field. Length: 229 pages
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Colin Firth: The Man Who Would Be King
Sandro Monetti (Author)
Think you know all there is to know about Colin Firth? Well think again! For this detailed, insightful and entertaining biography of the likeable and handsome Oscar-winning star is packed with unforgettable stories to fascinate every fan. From the time Firth’s wig fell off into the sea to the actors who were considered ahead of him for The King’s Speech, it’s all here along with contributions from leading experts about his appeal to women, his fashion choices, acting techniques and even Colin’s psychological make-up. Learn more about Colin’s greatest projects like Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually, A Single Man, The King’s Speech and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as well as his lesser known screen roles and how he really gets along with co-stars such as Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett, Kenneth Branagh, Geoffrey Rush and Gary Oldman, and leading ladies like Scarlett Johansson, Minnie Driver, Jennifer Ehle, Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Julianne Moore and Renee Zellweger. The star’s love life, charity work and turbulent childhood are also covered in a riveting read which is the book Firth’s devoted fans have been waiting for. Length: 304 pages
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The Ultimate Discipline
Dan Fenton (Author), Nikki Spence (Fenton) (Editor)
This true life romance takes you along with Dan as he falls in love with a fifteen year old girl, only to find that events beyond his control tear them apart for over thirteen long years. You’ll feel the drama of living with a killer as a father who tries to convince Dan that he has every right to kill, as well as how to get away with it. You’ll be there with Dan as he hits bottom, just barley escaping the clutches of alcoholism and debauchery, saved by Nancy’s love as she is reunited with him after thirteen years. True love and romance wins out as they are finally reunited. But all is not well; not yet. Murder is on the horizon, but who’s and why? Will Happiness ever be theirs? You’ll also experience the majesty and grandeur of the Grand Canyon, almost as if you were right there, and how it can be your friend one moment and your foe the next. You’ll see the canyon and experience the colors as the sun slowly shifts the shadows and colors into the castles with damsels waiting to be saved. Once the mote surrounded castle’s gate closes, you will never look at the canyon the same way again. Once Dan breaks all ties with his evil father, he becomes the target of The Ultimate Discipline by his father. This book will make you laugh one minute and cry the next. Please enjoy “The Ultimate Discipline”. Length: 118 pages
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A Lady of Letters
Richard Allberry (Author)
This is a true story. The letters contained in it, mostly from Jane Allberry to her immediate family, are real letters written during the ten-year period from 1935 to 1945. Not all of Jane’s letters have survived, but we must be grateful for the greater percentage that has. These letters could have been written as a diary, and had they been they would have been seized upon as soon as they were discovered, and hailed as a literary masterpiece. But they were not written as a diary, they were letters from a loving, at times very homesick, daughter to her mother and to other members of her family; her father, brother and two sisters, half a world away, during a time of great upheaval and tension. They tell of the day-to-day doings of a newly married girl who had travelled to the antipodes of Australia to marry the man who had wooed her in Sydney, New South Wales, and in her home town of Armidale, also in New South Wales and lured her to a new land, and a new life. It is the story of Jane Allberry, née Robinson, her husband Eric, and their children, told against a background of the events leading up to the Second World War, the trials and tribulations of living in a country at war, and its aftermath. The story starts in Sydney in 1935, prior to Jane and Eric’s marriage and continues until they emigrated from the United Kingdom to Perth in Western Australia in 1947. It is the story of a love affair of a young couple, and a family held together by an immense love and sense of family unity during an extremely difficult period, the Second World War in Great Britain. It is told through the medium of over 200 letters which Jane wrote to her family in Australia during those years. These letters give a magic insight into the way ordinary lives were lived in those times; times before television, refrigerators, and supermarkets. You will be amazed at the amount of solid, hard work that the ordinary housewife had to cope with on a daily basis; that it was accepted as normal. Not only is it a marvel that these letters survived at all, but all but a handful of the letters were dated, making it an easy task to sort them into sequence and thereby map the family’s progress through those terrible war years with all the highs and lows, the trials and successes, the births and deaths, and the eventual emergence of a family held together by a mortar of love and strength of character that was the hallmark of the way in which Jane and Eric brought up their family. Jane often spoke of ‘writing her memoirs’, but never got around to it. This book will go some way toward realising her dream. Length: 115 pages
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True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse
Tobin T. Buhk (Author)
Examines criminal cases during the conflict. Cases include currency counterfeiting, tyrannical actions of Gen. Benjamin Butler, the murder of Gen. Earl van Dorn, raids by William Quantrill’s Bushwhackers, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the horrific prison conditions at Andersonville, the fate of Lincoln the assassination conspirators, and more Length: 320 pages
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Around the Bases: 30 Stadiums and Four Acquaintances That Built a Friendship That Will Last a Lifetime
Steven Grosso (Author)
This is a compelling story of friendship, travel, and baseball. A narrative tale taking the reader into United States cities and Major League Baseball Stadiums through the eyes of four friends. This journey is filled with insightful, humorous, and uplifting stories. Come join us in the journey. Length: 165 pages
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The Long Escape
Jeff Noonan (Author)
This is a true story; a story of survival. It tells of how a boy and his family lived a life of hellish abuse, fought back, and learned to live with the memories. It is also an adventure tale, following the boy through the military buildup to the Viet Nam War, Pacific Island love affairs, and his personal battles in the Montana mountains. As a boy, Jeff was raised in the mountains of Montana where he idolized his father, a former professional boxer. But in the early 1950s, his idol became an alcoholic and an abuser, repeatedly beating Jeff, his mother, and his younger siblings. In desperation, Jeff resorted to digging hidden bunkers where the family could hide when they were attacked. Life became a daily struggle, both physically and financially. He left school and worked wherever he could find a job, using the money to help feed his family. He labored in lumber mills, railroads, and ranches until he joined the military at age seventeen. This story follows the boy from the hell of his childhood through Pacific Island love affairs, killer typhoons, and Hong Kong bar battles as he fights his way to acceptance in the rough and tumble world of a destroyer sailor. In his first Navy assignment, he finds that his poor education has resulted in a job he despises; working as a permanent head cleaner on an old destroyer. But through perseverance, hard work, and an iron will, he becomes a leader, supervising teams working on experimental shipboard missile guidance systems. But you can’t run from yourself. Jeff’s family problems haunt him, frequently bringing him back to Montana; to increasingly violent confrontations with his father. Tensions build until the inevitable happens and Jeff is drawn into a final, epic, battle with the abuser. A sobering, visceral, and shockingly real portrait of domestic violence, the boy’s relentless drive for survival is nothing short of extraordinary. An uplifting journey to redemption and self-acceptance, The Long Escape sends an unforgettable message to the abused that there really can be hope and love in their future. It also brilliantly captures the sometimes hollow feeling of victory and the scars of abuse that are carried for a lifetime. This is a true story. Some names have been changed to accomodate participants, but the story is absolutely true. The author sincerely hopes that, by publishing this memoir, he can provide a bit of a roadmap for others struggling to escape a life of abuse. Length: 327 pages
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The 27 Club: Why Age 27 Is Important
Michael Owen (Author)
IS THE 27 CLUB JUST A MYTH? (No). Is it a “curse?” (No). But The 27 Club is not what you think. It’s more than the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and others. Using the teachings of Moon Cycles and C. G. Jung’s notion of the eternal youth (the creative person who is always young beyond his years and often dies an early death, physical or emotional) this book explains what happens to all of us in our mid- to late-twenties. And read about the other “Clubs” from 24 to 30. Not a book on astrology, THE 27 CLUB: WHY AGE 27 IS IMPORTANT gives new insights into the timing of crises and opportunities during our twenties and how events and decisions around age 27 can set the trajectory of our lives for the next 27 years. It explains the natural rhythm by which the psyche grows and matures, and looks at what happens when we under- or over-reach ourselves. The book sheds light on other questions: Why does life often take a turn for better or worse around age 27? Why were so many of The 27 Club from the sixties? What does science say about The 27 Club? Is The 27 Club just dead rock stars? What is the psychology of The 27 Club? What do our teens and early 20s have to do with age 27? Michael Owen also explores the wider meanings of the Moon Cycles, a measure of time based on the length of human pregnancy, and the importance of the 9 month, 3 year (Little Moon) and 27 year (Big Moon) cycles. This “calendar” is applicable to all important events (the beginning and ending of anything—a life, a business, a relationship) and the ripples in time that it sends out. And read about the 27 year cycle and 9/11. Michael Owen is a clinical psychologist in private practice. He is the author of Jung and the Native American Moon Cycles (Nicolas-Hays, 2002) and The Maya Book of Life: Understanding the Xultun Tarot (Kahurangi Press, 2010). He lives in Aotearoa / New Zealand. www.kahurangi-press.com Length: 136 pages
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Tracing the Golden Thread (True Stories)
Mary Millard (Author), Mary Weeks (Author)
An inspiring story from the frontline of practical faith in action. Mary Weeks Millard, a quiet and unassuming girl overcomes social shyness and childhood illness and a poor educational start to aspire to her heart’s call to become a nurse on the mission field. She tells her own unique and inspiring life story by painting a colourful and often graphic picture of training as a nurse and midwife in the UK in the 1950s. Pressing ahead against all the odds Mary finds doors opening as she exercises her faith in a God of possibilities These doors lead her to adventures and challenges of working in East and Central Africa in the years following independence and civil war before returning to equally challenging situations in UK.’ Who knows what God has in store for each one of us? If there is a burning desire within our hearts to reach out and touch the lives of others in practical and spiritual ways this story is an encouragement for us all. As life has a way of weaving and turning so Mary found that each step of her journey was already planned and prepared, offering the opportunity to touch the lives of many people abroad and back in the UK.
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Damages
B. K. Bazhe (Author)
DAMAGES is a memoir about one man’s fight to overcome the psychological wounds created by his peculiar upbringing as he struggled to find his true identity and freedom. The story begins with the death of his abusive father, a Communist official. His mother is diagnosed with cancer, and he immediately returns to Macedonia to take care of her. Meanwhile, his more than thirty-year search for his biological mother ends, and he tells her his life story, starting with his lonely childhood and adolescence. After finding his “new mother” to be very understanding, he reveals his first gay experience in the army, his desire for self-realization that caused scandals in the College of National Security, his escape to Turkey where he transformed into a stunning “girl” after meeting a handsome wealthy man, and his return to Yugoslavia where he wandered in the underground world of a country that was falling apart. War is coming. And as Christian nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism rose, he experienced them directly, almost losing his life. But he eventually succeeded in immigrating to America. Although he finds his biological mother, he ultimately discovers that it is his adoptive mother’s devotion that is irreplaceable. Length: 344 pages
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The Ramblings and Rants of a Middle-Aged Mum
Molly May (Author), Philip Kearney (Illustrator)
I love my family, but blooming heck they don’t half drive me crazy at times, and as for some other people…don’t even get me started on them. This humorous diary will take you through some moments in time of my rather scatty life, including rants about my family and ramblings of everyday life. I make no apologies for my opinions, and am pretty sure that most people will know where I’m coming from, so make a cuppa, grab a biscuit or two and kick back with a book that I hope will make you laugh.
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The First Father Abraham
Henry Hanoch Abramovitch (Author)
Lucid and insightful, this interdisciplinary retelling of Abraham’s adulthood provides a new perspective on Abraham, founder of religious traditions, and an extraordinary study of family dynamics, faith, and leadership. Length: 205 pages
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Red Star Airacobra: Memoirs of a Soviet Fighter Ace 1941-45: v. 2
Evgeniy Mariinskiy (Author)
Evgeniy Mariinskiy, a Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, shot down 20 enemy planes in aerial combat over the Eastern Front between 1943 and 1945. He frequently engaged enemy fighters and bombers, shot down many but was himself shot down several times. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid inside view of the ruthless war in the air on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of fighting and tactics of the Red Army Air Force. In his own words, and with a remarkable clarity of recall, Evgeniy Mariinskiy describes what combat was like in the air, face to face with a skilled, deadly and increasingly desperate enemy. The reader can follow his career from an unskilled novice who has just arrived at his regiment through to him becoming an ace, and Hero of the Soviet Union, under the leadership of experienced commanders. The terrifying moments of action, engagements with enemy fighters, forced landings, nervous strain before attacks, loss of comrades and everyday life of pilots – all these aspects of a Soviet fighter pilot’s experience during the Great Patriotic War are brought dramatically to life in his memoirs. In his memoirs Mariinskiy describes tactics which enabled him to have an upper hand in dogfights against experienced German pilots. The grand strategy of the campaigns across the Eastern Front is less important here than the sequence of engagements that were the firsthand experience of the author. It is this close-up view of combat that makes Evgeniy Mariinskiy’s reminiscences of such value. Length: 176 pages
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Purple Heart
Andrew Fiu (Author)
You’re 14 years old and you’re told you need an urgent heart operation. The doctors wait patiently as you try to translate their words to your non-english speaking parents. About the intricacies of the life and death situation and the detailed options of artificial metallic valves versus the porcine version that could be used. Well, it could be a nightmare made for the stage but it isn’t. Either way, it will amuse you, inspire you and bring you to tears. This is the insightful, inspirational and at times, very funny ‘first person’ memoir of a Samoan born immigrant battling to stay alive against the odds. Ta’afuli Andrew Fiu has now survived a record six open heart surgeries (including one unscheduled re-opening). He has died twice, spent over four and a half years in hospital and his life is a testimony to love, deep friendship and the miracles performed by his heart surgeons and on two occasions, he believes, by God. If you need inspiration, this book is it. Purple Heart is now studied in New Zealand colleges and universities. His surgeons’ notes are also included in the book. Length: 319 pages
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We Are The Road Crew
Ken Barr (Author)
Starting in 1978 and ending in 2000, I worked in the music indusrty as a technician. My journey started in the bars and rock clubs on Long Island, New york, and eventually took me to arenas and stadiums around the world working for KISS, Alice Cooper, Stone Temple Pilots, and many other groups. This is my story. From club gigs after school as a teenager, to concerts on every continent on the planet. I’ve been there and back, and survived to tell the story. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed living it. Length: 215 pages
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Sailing with Senta – Small Boat Voyaging
Pierre Van Rooyen (Author), Faith Van Rooyen (Author)
In the past sixteen years Faith and Pierre Van Rooyen have crossed the Indian Ocean three times under sail, and visited exotic locations such as Madagascar, Zanzibar, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Chagos, Thailand and Malaysia. These two intrepid sailors have also sailed Senta around Singapore into the South China Sea to Borneo and the Philippines. They blame their two children for these exploits, for when Brett and Ingrid grew up, married and left home, Faith and Pierre decided to leave home too. Sailing with Senta – Small Boat Voyaging is the seventh in a series of books describing true-life adventures most people can only dream about.
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Newport: A Writer’s Beginnings
Michael Hogan (Author)
This colorful memoir of growing up in the Fifties and early Sixties in Newport, RI by award-winning poet and historian, Michael Hogan, provides a rich and multi-layered description of the city in the days before the building of the Newport Bridge. Then the island was still isolated from the mainland and only accessible from Jamestown by ferry. Downtown Thames Street had its seamy side with sailors and marines fighting in honky-tonk bars as Destroyer Fleet Atlantic brought troops back from Korea. Still, it was the summer home of the Vanderbilts, the Astors and Goelets, and the aspiring young author greeted both Eisenhower and Kennedy at the Summer White House and made a car trip to Amherst to meet Robert Frost.
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Soft Snap
Donald Murray (Author), Alyson Murray (Editor), Renee Heideman (Editor)
At the time of his enlistment in 1942, Donald Murray resembled few other Army recruits to the war effort. He was a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard, fluent in multiple languages, and had six years of teaching experience under his belt. While completing basic training he sent out a line to a distant relation and the daughter of a Navy commander to ask her for help in expediting a late paycheck, thus initiating an intimate correspondence that spans his career as an Army cryptographer and counter intelligence agent. Don’s letters contain a rare perspective among WWII accounts — a wry satire of military life and a bewildered account of a college professor forced to confront the ‘colossal enormity of coincidence’ that directed his unusual journey from Harvard and Dartmouth to small town Wisconsin, only to land him in far-flung Pacific outposts. Between the lines of his acerbic commentary, Don’s letters express the hopes and fears shared by so many in his generation. His correspondence with Arlene grows into a relationship of mutual respect and admiration that holds the promise of his life after the war. Soft Snap is perhaps most satisfying for contemporary readers as Don never lost his keen perspective despite the immediacy of his situation. Readers and critics alike will find this to be a peerless work in the WWII letter genre and a hidden gem of American satire. Length: 214 pages
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A Sea Story: The Untold Story of the U.S. Navy Response to 9/11
Joseph Pignataro (Author)
The U.S. Navy was among the first responders on 9/11. Entrusted with the iconic Ground Zero flag, the Roosevelt battlegroup took to the seas searching out those responsible, and to bring justice to a nation in mourning. On 1145 September 2001, the U.S.S. Leyte Gulf deployed within hours of the attack on the W.T.C. with orders to shoot down and destroy any “birds not squawking” over New York City. We were entrusted with the Ground Zero flag raised by the NYFD. We flew that flag with pride and determination from our mast on our important mission. After two days we were then redirected to the gulf and given orders to destroy the Taliban with the Tomahawk missiles onboard. During transit, we were told by our Captain that the Taliban would be waiting for us in the narrow Suez canal. So narrow in fact, only a single ship can go through at any one time. If the first and last ship were to be hit by surface to air missiles, there would be no way out. The aircraft carrier U.S.S Roosevelt, would be trapped in the middle and defenseless. There they were, waiting for us on horseback atop the sandy Suez dunes…following us. Just a bunch of scared kids manning the ships 50 cal guns, wondering what was to happen next. One late night in the gulf, Bush declared war. It was our task to launch the first Tomahawk missiles and kick off the war on terror. We were cut off from the outside world. Email and any other means of communication had been banned for security reasons. Television reports of Anthrax gripping the country with fear and WW3 rumors scuttling through the ships decks. A six man boarding party manned up to routinely search an unresponding suspect Iraqi tanker…what was found would change our lives forever. This is our sea story. Length: 215 pages
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THE AMERICAN STORYBAG
Gerald Hausman (Author)
The stories in THE AMERICAN STORYBAG are a fleeting yet incisive look at American life, primarily on the road, but sometimes on or in the water, and have been collected by Gerald Hausman since 1965. Some of the tales are very brief and may be called “sudden stories”. Many of them deal with human survival – an autistic boy lost in a trackless swamp; a young woman who falls in love with a supernatural creature; a young man who finds himself by finding his horse. Some of the tales are mere messages left on a cell phone. Others, like the story “Bimini Blue” tell about a Navajo healing ceremony given to a famous author who committed suicide. There are stories of ghosts, demons, fearsome predators, and wise old men who take the innocent in hand and lead them on the road to wisdom. These are tales of innocence and anguish, fantasy and fable, humor and heart. In them we hear the voices of a lost America – an America of folk heroes fading fast from view and crying out to be heard. Length: 154 pages
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Passing Thyme (Greek Memoirs)
Gordon Coxhill (Author)
Passing Thyme is an account of the two decades Gordon Coxhill has spent on the Aegean island of Syros, ostensibly teaching but in reality learning more than he ever taught. He has travelled widely within Greece and his mishaps on the road provide a light counterpoint to the untimely deaths of too many of his companions. In the 1960s and 70s, he was a pop music journalist in London, and interviewed many of the biggest stars of the day, but it is the years basking in philoxenia warmer even than a Greek summer that have proved the more formative. In its encounters with fat soup and chewing gum liqueur, language and folklore, people and places, of emergency wards on the roof and spitting at babies, Passing Thyme is a book full of discoveries, yet it is the author’s discovery of himself that remains at its core. Length: 154 pages
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Grandfather (A Memoir)
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe (Author)
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