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  • The Light Through the Branches

    by Anne Matlack Evans

    “I want a tribunal. A three-judge truth and reconciliation thing. I want her to answer for everything.” In late middle age, Kate Laidlaw begins to examine her troubled relationship with her mother, now ninety-three and confined to memory care. Her tribunal ranges widely, from the Omaha of her mother’s childhood to the small coastal town of Santa Maria, California, where Kate grew up in a household dominated by her stepfather. It leads through the triumphs and heartbreaks of Kate’s school life and to the bedroom where her stepfather undressed her. It forces her to look at her mother’s early trauma and at the darkest hours of Kate’s own long marriage. As Kate cares and advocates for her mother and the anger and bitterness subside, other feelings emerge: the tenderness that comes with caring for a loved one and the undeniable bonds of kinship. With this brilliant debut novel, written in exquisite and evocative prose, Anne Matlack Evans offers a fresh perspective on childhood trauma, on the lessons taught by family, and on the universal longing for grace and wisdom.

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  • Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization

    by Tracy Berg, MD

    Getting to know Ralph Berg, the pioneering open-heart surgeon, was not easy. Only after Tracy’s gentle but persistent campaign did Berg finally reveal to his niece the hidden story motivating so much of his later work: the story of Jason, his youngest son. But Ralph Berg’s own story began many decades before Jason's birth. The Berg family’s early years in America instilled in Ralph an immense respect for the sanctity of life and hard work. He became a doctor in just six years while World War II raged on and quickly became fascinated with the human heart. After his chest residency, Ralph assembled a remarkable heart and research team that helped bring open-heart surgery and associated advanced surgical procedures on blue babies to Spokane, Washington, in 1959. Then, in 1969, with the medical community on the cusp of discovering the cause and treatment of heart attacks, Jason was born to Ralph and Mary Berg—a doomed blue baby. Learn how Ralph Berg sought to save his son and how he and Dr. Everhart developed the lauded Spokane Experience protocol that put the city years ahead of its time in terms of medical response and treatment of heart attacks. Witness the joy he shared with Jason and his family. Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization is a powerful story about hope, innovation, and the love of family.

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  • Ipseity

    by Charles Pither

    ARE YOU WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE? Briggens House, Essex 1940. An unassuming country house, home of the Polish Army in exile, houses in its basement a secret Special Operations Executive (SOE) unit where all the forged documents needed by the Allies are made. Here identities are created for agents dropped into enemy territory. Their lives depend on these documents looking authentic. Peter and Elizabeth start an affair while working at Briggens House but lose touch soon after the war ends. Why then, forty years later, does she leave him something in her will? Peter resolves to find out, discovering the successful life she led after the war and the passionate affair that informed the choices she made and forged her identity. But Peter, too, is changed by the journey, discovering new ways of seeing his past. Using detailed research into the workings of this crucial but little-known SOE unit, Ipseity weaves a tender, passionate love story with the deception and intrigue of the fascinating world of wartime forgery as Peter unravels the mystery of Elisabeth and her true identity.

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  • Culinary Leverage

    by Douglas Keane

    Culinary Leverage: A Journey Through the Heat is about exposing the dysfunction of an industry through the eyes of a highly decorated chef and, through thoughtfulness and reckoning, finding a healthier way forward. Travel with Chef Keane as his passion for hard work and cooking is ignited as a young kid growing up in Dearborn, Michigan. Cheer for him as he follows his dream to the gritty but seductive streets and kitchens of New York City and realizes his vocation. Empathize with him as he encounters and confronts bullies and egos hell-bent on destroying the dream. And root for him as he charges forth with a new, revolutionary way and strives to create an unparalleled magical journey at Cyrus for his guests and team—based on style and substance with a conscience and connection.

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  • Without Words : Mastering the Art of Being

    by Harvey Martin

    Who am I? This question leaves us without words. We’ve reached our threshold in the modern era. As we search for our soul, we must peel into the characters we play and the roles we’ve established to experience physical reality. From the narratives of our ancestors to the boom of technology, we are left with confusion, navigating the modern world at a speed the human species have yet encountered.      

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  • When You Shake the Family Tree: Untangling the Roots of True Identity Through DNA

    by Margo Reilly

    What if your parents weren’t really your parents? What if somebody you loved kept a deep, dark secret from you for your entire life? What if your real family was right next door all along? In the summer of 2021, when author Margo Reilly published her tell-all memoir, When the Apple Falls from the Tree, she hadn’t a single clue that an at-home DNA test kit would send her midlife identity crisis further into uncharted waters. When You Shake the Family Tree is a vulnerable sharing of Margo’s search for self. An emotional quest of connecting the dots that suddenly made her whole life make sense. Rejection and family secrets were themes she knew all too well. Her jaw-dropping DNA discovery journey will force you to grab your tissues and question whether you’ve been told the truth by your family. Dive into these pages to learn how Margo followed her intuition to uncover who she truly is.

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  • The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus

    by Bill Burkland

    On a warm Galilean night, Mary and Joseph get to know each other (in the biblical sense) in a secluded garden in Nazareth—with the usual consequences. Mary’s pious mother, seeing that her young, unwed daughter is pregnant, enlists the help of a pompous high priest to characterize the pregnancy as divine, of God’s seed. When Mary refuses to go along with her mother’s scheme, she and Joseph enter a battle with her parents over every aspect of the birth and the fate of their baby. As word of a miraculous virgin birth spreads through Bethlehem, factions form, and allegiances shift among unscrupulous shepherds, dubious wisemen, misguided messengers, an elderly innkeeper, and an earnest but malodorous peasant—all trying to answer the crucial question: Is the baby named Jesus truly the Son of God or merely a mortal born of earthly parents?

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  • The Mass Psychology of Addiction

    by Brian Johnson, MD

    The Mass Psychology of Addiction is written by a psychoanalyst who is a master of neurobiology. He offers solutions that will dramatically lower deaths from addiction. Buying alcohol should require a license that one can lose. You lose your driver’s license if you are a bad driver. You lose your alcohol purchase license if you are a bad drunk. All other drugs should be sold at state addictive drug (SAD) centers with ads like “Citizens of New York, please buy our superheroin! We will use the money for schools and garbage collection until you die.” The Mass Psychology of Addiction is for those affected by addition who want to grow and escape addiction’s hold.

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  • Dream, Girl

    by Holly Mayes

    In a raw and honest memoir, Holly Mayes returns to the painful days of her youth and relives the struggles, desperate decisions and resilience that paved her road to a self-respecting and productive adulthood. You’ll follow Holly from an impoverished and abusive childhood to her escape into the seedy world of strip clubs and the mostly nameless men she came to rely on for survival and approval. Dream, Girl ultimately is for anyone who enjoys a redemption story against obstacles and finding the inner strength to overcome a smothering religion, crippling sense of self-doubt and, eventually, drug abuse.

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  • Forging Ahead: How Five Generations of Small-Town Values Collided with Big Ambitions to Spark One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies

    by Angie Klink

    Matthew Nix, age twenty, yearns to grow Nix Welding, even though his grandfather, father, and aunt are content with the way things are. Small. Status quo. Good enough.  In 1902 in tiny Poseyville, Indiana, Matthew’s great, great, grandfather opened the blacksmith shop that became Nix Welding. He thwacked a cross peen hammer onto white-hot iron to shape it into submission on an anvil. Nearly 100 years later, despite family pushback, Matthew looks beyond the cornfields that his family thinks confine Nix Welding. He works his own kind of forge, to bend, mold, and expand the business, often finding himself in his own self-stoked fire as a trial-by-error entrepreneur. Forging Ahead reveals how Matthew, now CEO, and the team he methodically curated leaned on small-town values and faith to transform humble Nix Welding into Nix Industrial, a revered custom manufacturing and industrial repair powerhouse. Today Nix Industrial is one of the fastest growing companies in America.  Author Angie Klink paints a vivid portrait of a business saga from America’s heartland. Forging Ahead is a family tale, a coming-of-age story, a business handbook, and a letter to future generations. 

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