Don’t Shoot! I’m Just the Avon Lady! by Birdie Jaworski
250 pages, 9 of 10 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
For Birdie Jaworski, life as an Avon Lady was a bittersweet mix of embarking on gossip-worthy adventures, searching for Mr. Right, and making emergency lotion requests in the middle of the night… while managing as a single parent. This collection of short stories including “Mullet Madness,” “Fat Ass Evidence,” and “Wherein I Test a Product on an Animal” captures Jaworski’s complicated relationship with the cosmetics giant (and her customers) and reveals a surprising and touching account of her personal life.
Three Weeks in the Caribbean: A True Story of Divorce, the Jungle and Love at First Sight by Darla Antoine
50 pages, 6 of 6 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
In 2009 Darla found herself 26 and divorced. Not knowing what else to do, she ran away to a hippie commune in Costa Rica– despite having zero experience as a hippie. When a handsome stranger made her promise to return to Costa Rica for a dancing date, she never imagined that, two years later, she’d be returning to stay.
Three Weeks In The Caribbean is her true diary account of how she survived divorce, the jungle, and fell in love with a redheaded Costa Rican.
She currently resides in Costa Rica and writes about adjusting to life there, and blatantly lusting after her redheaded Costa Rican, at www.darlaantoine.com
Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge: A Little Girl in the 1950s South by Gloria Teague
188 pages, 12 of 13 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge is the coming-of-age story in an era of bobby socks, poodle skirts and the freckled-faced girl that wore them. It’s also about the Deep South and sweetly flawed women who taught her what she was meant to be and what she was not meant to be.
Their corner of the world was filled with folklore, superstition, and mystical ideas. Her grandmother believed and practiced most of these, passing them onto the next generation. The little girl’s life was populated with strange relatives, quirky neighbors and mysterious bible verses that could stop the flow of blood. Being a member of this bizarre family made life worth living. These people were so fiercely loyal in their love for her, for each other, she felt they deserved to have their story told.
10 of 10 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Set in the Dust Bowl of the American West, Farm Girl, the true account of a child coming of age on a 1920′s Nebraska farm, recaptures an era. Young Lucille Marker experiences survival during the Depression, one of the worst dust storms in history, and finally the disintegration of the close-knit community in which she grows up.
Readers who like the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder or Willa Cather will enjoy Farm Girl. Set in the locale of Willa Cather’s Nebraska novels, it includes a chapter about the Marker/Cather family connections.
Richly photographed throughout with over sixty authentic photos documenting the people and places of the story, this historical, easy-to-read small book is suitable for use in the classroom.
What’s Next…For You? by Patricia and Robert Gussin
146 pages, 4 of 5 reviews were 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
What’s Next.For You? is the incredible story of Robert and Patricia Gussin, two retirees who watched with glee as long, successful careers in science and medicine gave way to writing, publishing, and winemaking.Much more than a memoir and anything but a how-to-start-a-business manual, What’s Next.For You? is a clear, easy-to-understand guide to reinventing yourself from real experts-two people who did it themselves and lived to tell the glorious tale.Through the engaging, first-person, he said/she said narrative, Robert and Patricia Gussin deliver an inspirational guide filled with advice on why it’s never too late to reinvent yourself, and why doing what you love (and loving what you do) is always within reach.A must-read tale of joyfully switching gears, changing careers, and overcoming paralysis by analysis, What’s Next.For You? takes the mystery out of that all-too-common question of how to get from where you are to where you want to be.
6 of 11 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
“A little bit about motorcycles and a lot about the Great War. Entertaining and a great read when you’re tired of fiction.” The Battle of Mons, The Battle of le Cateau, The Great Retreat, Over the Marne to the Aisne, The Battle of the Aisne, The Move to the North, Round la AssÉe, The Beginning of Winter 1914, St Jans Cappel, Behind the Lines…..etc
The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No: Memoir of a Teenage Mom by Tracy Engelbrecht
224 pages, 29 of 46 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
A sharp, occasionally shocking, memoir that will change how you look at teenage mothers, The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No is told with frank South African humour and refreshingly mature insight. Tracy Engelbrecht tells the story of how she came to find herself pregnant at 15, and how she coped with pregnancy, birth and homework.
An eye-opener for teens and their parents alike, as well as a message of hope, empathy and respect for those who have experienced a teenage pregnancy.
No M-TV teen moms, no sugar-coating, no horror stories – just honesty, humility, humour and love. Real life.
Biography of Dr Ramon Emeterio Betances Alacan: Father of the Puerto Rican Motherland by Armando Pacheco Matos
72 pages, 1 five star review, Lending Enabled
This book is the second one published by Armando Pacheco Matos in English about Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances. It also covers all the talents that Dr. Betances had. It talks about his poetry, politics, and medical practice. Dr. Betances’ accomplishments have being denied to the Puerto Rican people, especially to the youth. He directed the first organized revolution against Spain in favor of the independence of Puerto Rico. He declared Puerto Rico a free country in 1868 and since then Puerto Ricans felt that they were a separate nationality from the Spaniards. He was a famous scientist, diplomat and revolutionary.
My Life Sentences: A True Story by Elisha Chirchir
2 of 2 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
“My Life Sentences” is a true story written by Elisha Chirchir who was born in Kenya – Africa to a family of 14. Despite the large family size, tragedies took away his five siblings and he could not understand why. Elisha takes you through each step of his life as he grew up in the remote corners of Africa to the lighted streets of the United States of America. Challenges did not stop after landing in New York. They seem to never end for him at all. Every time things seemed to lighten up, an even darker shadow came knocking. He has been through thick and thin and yet he is prepared for the worst. While doing his best to draw a fine a line between the two different lifestyles (Africa and America), he clearly draws the real picture of his struggles. You can only relate to his harrowing transitions by reading his story…..
True Warrior: The Autobiography of David John Di Palma
40 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
This is a story of my life’s journey which represents twenty-five years of discrimination in all shapes & forms due to uncontrollable epilepsy.
The story details my life battling the condition and the subsequent challenge of risking my life to save my life by undergoing neurosurgery.
Ness City Chronicles by William Lohnes
no reviews, Lending enabled
Ness City Chronicles, A Young Boy’s Adventures in a 1930′s Western Kansas Town, is a heartwarming, and occasionally heartbreaking collection of childhood memories. Each story is a small treasure; a snapshot of the past that delights the reader, yet still manages to illustrate the struggle people faced just to ‘get by’ in post-Depression America. Although food and jobs are scarce and life is sometimes very hard, the children depicted in this charming memoir still manage to find ways to demonstrate the veracity of the old adage, ‘kids will be kids’. Through the adventures and misadventures described by the author, we have a unique perspective of small-town life as seen through the eyes of an imaginative and very industrious child. Along with Donnie, his close friend and co-conspirator, Bill comes up with inventive and often mischievous schemes to keep himself entertained, earn a little pocket change, contribute to his family’s needs, and scrounge for extra food — all while staying one step ahead of his parents and the local authorities. Contemporaries will find Ness City Chronicles funny and sad; nostalgic, yet not overly sentimental. The stories ring true because they are. The author delivers his childhood memoirs in a voice that is sometimes evocative of the dry wit and pathos of Mark Twain; a voice that can only come from a childhood spent in that small Western Kansas town, Ness City.
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