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This is the kind of book you read a chapter, put it down, take a walk and think about it, then pick it up later in front of the fire with a warm dog on your feet and a glass of Pimms in your fist. Mitch is a frustrating character in that he's breathtakingly unaware for an older, educated man, but he stands in for all of us--more concerned about success in the material world than the spiritual until one day the spiritual world comes knocking. Interestingly, spirit takes the form of women: a Greek Sibyl and a love interest that he bungles. He reminds me of Marcello in "La Dolce Vita", women swirl him around like hummingbirds, but he is only capable of admiring their beauty not capable of entering the dance. The most meaningful relationships he has are with men: his Uncle Gio and his bestie, Prince, and those are where the author is at her most profound and shows us a side of male friendships--men bonding over intellectual concerns rather than physical feats--that is reminiscent of D.H. Lawrence.

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Nate the Mime inspires kids and adults alike in this charming alphabet book of inspiring quotes. Illustrations are luminous. Each one could make a poster.

She is Charlotte

The Unspoken Truth and Untold

The Unspoken Truth and Untold

What happens when your world collapses in a minute? Emily K. Whiting takes us on her physical, spiritual and emotional journey to advocate for her child with medical anomalies.

The Unspoken Truth and Untold

The Unspoken Truth and Untold

The Unspoken Truth and Untold

Tried as an adult at the age of 15 for his part in an armed robbery, Keenan Hudson shares his transformation through 13 years in prison to his successful reentry to where he is now: a successful productive member of society.

Salads of Turnips and Beans

The Unspoken Truth and Untold

Salads of Turnips and Beans

It's a dog eat dog, er, frog eat trog world out there! Charmingly written and illustrated by Bathsheba Monk.

Fuad Hamdi

Open Heart Chicago

Open Heart Chicago

Fuad Hamdi is an Iraqi born artist who was caught up in the diaspora of 2006 to Syria, then fleeing that country for Turkey in 2011 when the Syrian civil war broke out, finally finding asylum in Canada. His art is an explosive mix of West and East, landing finally in an imaginary country where sensuality and peace are brought out from behind the veil. What we are seeing in Fuad Hamdi’s work is an artistic sensibility formed in a specific culture, thrown headlong and mid-career into a world where every color is available to him. Every thought is celebrated. An artist who was jailed for daring to paint what he saw behind the veil is suddenly able to explode onto the canvas all his concealed ideas, longings, fears and ideas of beauty. It’s a rich feast that we are fortunate to be invited to. Foreword by Hala Kusiak

Open Heart Chicago

Open Heart Chicago

Open Heart Chicago

Chicago—like every city—is forever evolving. Looking at the writers in this anthology, one will notice that the city doesn’t seem the same to each of them. (Most of us in this town can’t agree which is the correct spelling: “the El” or “The el” or “the L”—the variances represented in different stories here.) My grandfather would not recognize the neighborhood where his first children were born, once a haven for Italian immigrants, now a hipster stronghold. My dad and my brother both get sentimental about Wrigley Field, even though—despite the tenacious ivy—it has changed as well. I’m sure Gen Z can’t imagine a time before the Bean (as we call Cloud Gate, that is when we have to refer to the damn thing), but it still seems weird to me that this alien sculpture landed alongside Michigan Avenue. It’s become iconic, I suppose, but it seems out of place. Not my Chicago.

The secret is, everyone’s Chicago is different. That’s what makes a city like Chicago such a fabulous place to live. Every person contributes their tale to the story in the making. All different, all full of rich associations and flavors. Yeah, that’s my Chicago.

The Blueprint

Open Heart Chicago

The Blueprint

"This is the most informative step-by-step guide on how to achieve success in the music industry. What makes this book unique is the covering of the total process by starting in the studio, no other book is showing you that." Michael Cameron, Grammy/Emmy Nominated Music Publisher

The Prettiest House on the Block

The Prettiest House on the Block

The Prettiest House on the Block

Patricia A. Schoch tells the story of Donna, a survivor of domestic partner abuse. Full of kind compassionate insights and resources for those in the throes of an abusive relationship.

The Mime Speaks

The Prettiest House on the Block

The Prettiest House on the Block

Nate has been up--military, ace salesman, gold medal dancer--and Nate has been down--alcoholic, homeless on the streets of New York city. But Nate has never given up. This is his inspiring true story.

I Wanna Live Forever

The Prettiest House on the Block

I Wanna Live Forever

Legendary stylist, milliner and vintage clothier tells the stories behind her creations.

I Wish I Knew

The Soft Lunacy

I Wish I Knew

Fanny Barry's warm and wise "notes from a breast cancer survivor." Written and illustrated by Fanny Barry in full color.

Favorite Son

The Soft Lunacy

I Wish I Knew

Bathsheba Monk gives us an up close and personal look at an American original: artist Clarence H. Carter.

The Soft Lunacy

The Soft Lunacy

The Soft Lunacy

Author Vincent Francone tells the story of his life through his book collection.

Episodes of Literary Obsession Author Vincent Francone tells the story of his life through his book collection.

Sharing Lessons Learned

Sharing Lessons Learned

Sharing Lessons Learned

Lynnie Godfrey. Seeking the Spotlight

Off Track

Sharing Lessons Learned

Sharing Lessons Learned

Jim McGarrah. How I Dropped Out of College and Came to be a Horse Trainer in the 1970s While All My Friends were Still Doing Drugs

Last Call

Sharing Lessons Learned

A Life in Tuscany

Paul Heller. My Mother's Descent into Darkness

A Life in Tuscany

Songs of Ourselves

A Life in Tuscany

Tuscan heiress, Alessandra Benvenuto shares her family's history and original Tuscan recipes.

Songs of Ourselves

Songs of Ourselves

Songs of Ourselves

Twenty-four authors explore America's Interior Landscape.

Born to Fly

Songs of Ourselves

Songs of Ourselves

Fabric Wings to Jumbo Jets. Author Paul R. Misencik's memoir takes him from an illegal 16 year old pilot to an airline captain.

Misdemeanor Outlaw

Man Has Premonition of Own Death

Tales from the Hot Dog Grill

A Confession of Life. A Vietnam veteran spills the beans on America's intervention.

Tales from the Hot Dog Grill

Man Has Premonition of Own Death

Tales from the Hot Dog Grill

Billy Ehrlacher. The Uncensored Memoirs of a Food Service Engineer

Man Has Premonition of Own Death

Man Has Premonition of Own Death

Man Has Premonition of Own Death

Nicholas DiGiovanni. An Ancestor's Strange Demise and Other Mortal Matters

Map of Life and Beauty

Map of Life and Beauty

Man Has Premonition of Own Death

Fanny Barry. A memoir of unexpected love and discovery of life in Tulum, Mexico

Rigger

Map of Life and Beauty

Like a Dog

Larry James Neff. A Memoir from High School to High Steel

Like a Dog

Map of Life and Beauty

Like a Dog

Vincent Francone tells uproariously funny tales of his working life as a slacker.

Swanson Herbinko Mysteries

Dead Wrong

Dead Silence

Dead Silence

The first in the charming and funny Swanson Herbinko Mystery Series created by Bathsheba Monk is in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dead Silence

Dead Silence

Dead Silence

The second in the Swanson Herbinko Mystery Series created by Bathsheba Monk is set in France.

Dead Karma

Dead Karma

Dead Karma

The third Swanson Herbinko Mystery created by Bathsheba Monk is set in Tulum, Mexico.

Dead Stick

Dead Karma

Dead Karma

The fourth Swanson Herbinko Mystery created by Bathsheba Monk, written by Joe Taleroski, is set ini Massachusetts.

Inside Out: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Inside Out: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Inside Out: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

When I was a teenager, my mother gave me my father’s trunk that had his clothes in it. I put them on immediately and they fit. I wore his suits with their vests. The times were different until very recently, and I couldn’t wear them in public, but the times I did were the times I felt the most like myself. I sing, and once I was on stage wearing his clothes, wearing a penciled-in moustache like one he wore, and I gave the most beautiful performance. When I sing, I feel like my mother’s voice is coming through me in my father’s body. I wish I were a man. That’s why I call myself “TJ.” The T is for Tony. There is nothing about being a woman that I like. It’s a cruel joke that I have to navigate life as a woman, and when I am weak and feel sorry for myself, I blame that for what came later, after my father died. For getting in a fight and popping a girl’s eye out. For getting raped in the Army by my First Lieutenant, a man I looked up to at the time. For fucking a Dominatrix and helping raise her triplets while her husband was off running an antique business and didn’t know what the hell was going on, who certainly didn’t value me, just treated me like the help for five years. For beating up an old lady for crack money because I was sick of sucking lollipops at a truck stop, then landing up in jail. For finding myself on the ledge of a building, at the end of a long fucked-up drug journey, trying to decide if jumping would be a good decision or one more disastrous one.

Creating An American Journey

Inside Out: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Inside Out: A Journey Through the Looking Glass

Growing up on a farm in the Dominican Republic, moving to Puerto Rico with his mother and sisters, finally landing in the US where he graduated from college and grad school, had successful careers as a social worker, bank vice president, and compliance officer for Delaware RiverBridge authority, while serving as a community activist and president then vice-president of Allentown, Pennsylvania's city council, Julio Guridy recounts his uniquely American Journey.