Genres : Life Stories

In August 1995, 21-year-old Grateful Dead fan Matt travels to the place where the counterculture was born: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. There, Matt finds friends who follow the hippie culture of the 1960s and teach him the art of living homeless in Golden Gate Park. At first it’s blissful; just friends enjoying music, marijuana, and free love. But Matt also encounters shady drug dealers, con artists, and young teens with no place else to go. And living on...

The incredible journey of a German immigrant who came from the corporate world of business lunches and suit-and-tie dress code to experiencing 9/11 shortly after arriving in his new home country. Then destiny flung him to the far southwestern corner of the United States, where he became a Deputy Sheriff at the age of 41. In this autobiography, Peine takes the reader on a virtual ride-along, chronicling his life on the beat, later as a detective, and finally as the...

In "The Light Beyond the Veil," experience an emotional and a soul transformative journey as the pages unfold the heart-wrenching tale of loss, grief, and the power of human resilience. This grief story narrative transcends the boundaries of sorrow, offering a guiding light to those who find themselves grappling with the complexities of grief. ✓Features of this Loss and Grief Book: A Journey of Emotion: The book traverses the turbulent landscape of diverse human emotions experienced after a profound loss...

Gaining empathy through trauma is the gateway to a better life in this emotional and haunting true story, which features a young man who learns how to stay resilient despite the most horrific abusive family dynamics. Growing up in an abusive home, this real life and death struggle shares how he endured evil antics at the hands of a tyrant family member. Still, his will to survive and to protect his siblings remains strong through the spiritual guidance in hard...

James Marchbank resumes his fly on the wall view of the workings of a Northern English Police Force. He takes us through the back door of his Force Headquarters and reveals the intrigue, self-interest and back stabbing that prevails there. We are provided with a warts and all portrait of the five Chief Constables he worked for or with. During his time as a senior officer, he worked on two major reorganisations of his Force, organised the policing of the...

In this moving and painful memoir of growing up from age five to adulthood, the author paints a sad and all too familiar story of early sexual abuse from men whom she should have been able to trust that evolves into a shattered sense of self-worth and ultimately her own dysfunctional and abusive marriage. The story relates how little Barbara came to be vulnerable to such trauma after the break-up of her family and being shuttled among various, not always-willing...

PerceptiveAnd resourcefulA really goodFizzle withIntelligenceA good masterpiece….A excellent, located story that makes a person think of the nature of existence anda true meaningstructure of a human beingPAUL MATTHEWSGoing back as far as a toddlerA copy of ‘My Adult Life Living With Autism’tells of his brography when he meets a worderful woman. She gets to know the author, an out cast visiting past hopes to accomplish the unexpected in individual’sWith Alberta Matthews under his arm,Paul finds. himself thrusting for helpan adventure...

I didn’t create this piece of work. It just happened to me, and others, and all I did was write it down. It is a third biographical, a further third auto-biographical, and a third Instruction Manual on how to fall asleep before anyone else in the room starts snoring. All the characters and incidents in the biographical elements of the narrative are real people, and the experiences related are 100% true, and 80% accurate, memory permitting. I feel that autobiographies...

What should an old man who can't remember his life have in common with a young man who wants to forget his past?When the old man walks through the night village, he meets a young man sitting on the benches of the train station. He notices the boy's gray hair. The thoughtful young man suffers, not finding the difference between his history and the history of mankind. But for him, it's an idea. An idea that kills from the inside...

“Epicurus and The Pleasant Life " by Haris Dimitriadis is one of those books that can literally change your life. I thought Mr. Dimitriadis did a remarkable job in bringing Epicurus's ideas to a modern audience.”—Reader's review on amazon, 28 October 2017