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It took most of her life, but Elizabeth Donovan has finally had enough. Years of a difficult marriage, she has finally fought back. She had no choice but to leave the life behind and face the secret from her youth. The old life doesn’t want to let go, as she stumbles into the mystery that involves her deeper than she ever could imagine. Old Baggage is the overdue coming-of-age story for a woman learning to stand on her own.

HOME AT THE EDGE takes you from jail to the madhouse, an on-the-road and in-the-streets memoir of free-loving, acid-dropping radical youth in 1969. We last saw 17-year-old Ron lying handcuffed over the hood of a car in “Chicago Rage.” We pick up with him entering Chicago’s Cook County Jail, where he and his radical companions are kept segregated from the other prisoners to prevent them from--god forbid--being a bad influence on murders and rapists. He is bailed out only to be admitted to a mental hospital where he bonds with other disaffected youth, fellow ‘freaks’ grappling with their identity and struggling against the status quo. The attempted and successful suicides of his comp...

Free Love, Drugs, and RiotsA time in US history. A time of turmoil. And a time of unrest. A five-part memoir as seen through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Ron trying to earn enough money to continue his exploration of the emerging Counterculture, just after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.From the exploration of the underground culture of Chicago to the streets of New York, this recollection of the riots and first inter-racial romance tells of the trials we all face, even today. And then Karen entered his life - a young run-a-way with wild thoughts of tearing down Pig City.From freedom to jail, Ron must re-evaluate his life’s direction and to look at the world in a wider scope....

One boy. One backpack. One shot at freedom.In 1967, fifteen-year-old Ronald Schulz packed HIS bag, left a note on his dresser, and walked away from everything he knew–Family, friends, home, and life as he knew it.Teenage Runaway–a gripping true story of rebellion, survival, and the desperate search for identity during one of America’s most explosive decades. Faced with bullies, broken family dynamics, and a school system that crushes individuality, Schulz chose the open road over obedience–and found a world far more dangerous and transformative than imaginable.Raw, honest, and unforgettable, this memoir captures the spirit of a lost generation–and the high cost of finding your own ...

What does it mean to feel everything and survive it?What does it look like to hold grief in one hand and joy in the other, without dropping either?Because I Felt Everything is an unflinching journey through the vast landscape of human emotion. In fifty powerful, deeply personal poems, Makitia Thompson invites readers into a world where heartbreak, healing, desire, silence, rage, softness, and hope exist side by side. Never asking for permission, never pretending to be neat.Told in four parts: The Ache of Becoming, The Weight of Love, The Quiet Resistance, and The Fire That Heals. This collection explores what it means to carry the past while learning how to live insi...

She was one of New York’s most powerful attorneys, until the truth started to bleed through the cracks.Following her harrowing 2019 interview with Cole King, Michelle Hartmann finally tells her story. But this isn’t a tale of redemption. It’s a confession without remorse.For over two decades, Hartmann manipulated the justice system to serve her ambition. She blackmailed, extorted, harassed, and bribed her way to courtroom victories. Keeping murderers, predators, and criminals on the streets. Among them was Emily Cannister, a child killer Michelle helped walk free, giving her the opportunity to take even more innocent lives.In Criminal Plague, Hartmann sets out to dismantle the rum...

Step into Burrington, a town where time twists, shadows linger, and Halloween never truly ends. In The Hollowed Hours: Five Mind-Bending Tales of Horror and Suspense from Burrington, five chilling short stories plunge you into a night unlike any other. October 31, 1826, when children vanish, restless spirits roam, and the dead reclaim the streets they once called home.From the cursed Blackwood House to haunted forests, from the wrath of an ancient Pagan goddess to a mother’s desperate bargain with forces beyond this world, each tale exposes a fragment of Burrington’s dark heart. Follow Meredith, Lavinia, and the children of the Hollowed Hours as th...

Travis dreamed of partnering with a police dog—but Fate handed him a faery and something unexpected instead…Corporal Travis McLean is a man on a mission and doesn’t have time to waste on trivialities like love or relationships lasting longer than a night or two. He has always been laser-focused on his dream of becoming a K9 officer like his parents — but that driving ambition takes a backseat when he catches a beautiful, runaway faery rummaging through his fridge…In faraway sixth-century Ireland, the evil druid Ansgar has been enslaving the fae for a dark purpose, and the one that got away could be his ultimate downfall. Now, Ansgar will move through time itself to b...

Some nights, the stars cry.Not with tears you can touch, but with light that pierces the darkness, tracing grief, love, hope, and everything in between. When The Stars Weep is a collection of poems for those who have felt themselves break and who dare to rise again.Within these pages, you will wander through the quiet ache of loss, the fire of passion, the tangled corridors of self-doubt, and the luminous moments of joy that make life worth every scar. Each poem is a constellation, a fragment of the human heart, a pulse of truth reaching into the deepest, most tender places of the soul.Split into four immersive sections; It Wasn’t What I Wanted, I Only Fear Myself, What Is to Exist?, and I...

In the quiet town of Burrington, the orchards are alive with secrets, and the air carries a hum that few can hear. Anabeth thought she knew her home, her family, and herself. Until the orchard began to remember what she had long forgotten.A single apple, a fragment of self stolen, and journals buried beneath gnarled roots set in motion a chain of mysteries that twist through time and memory. As the trees watch and the wind whispers, Anabeth must navigate a town that does not forgive, a family that forgets, and a presence at the edge of the orchard that feels human and yet something far older, far stranger.The Withering Orchard is a haunting short story that invites readers into the eerie, cu...

What does it mean to feel everything and survive it?In All the Things I’ve Felt, poet Makitia Thompson explores the full spectrum of human emotion with raw honesty and lyrical beauty. These poems move through love and wonder, heartbreak and grief, resilience and hope. Capturing the quiet truths we often carry in silence.This collection is for anyone who has loved deeply, lost fiercely, broken apart, and found the strength to rise again. Each page is a reflection of the heart’s hidden language: tender, unflinching, and deeply human.With over one hundred original poems, All the Things I’ve Felt is not just a book of poetry, it’s an intimate map of the soul. A reminder that even in our ...

32 Stories. One Truth. We remember by telling.What if every headline carried more than facts? What if it carried the weight of someone’s soul?It Ended By Beginning is not just a short story collection, it’s a confrontation. Across 32 haunting, visceral tales, this book peels back the skin of ordinary lives to reveal the grief, betrayal, envy, pride, justice, and silence lurking underneath.Through the eyes of a lone journalist, one who prints not only the news but the hidden truths people bury. The collection unfolds like a newspaper written in blood and memory. Every story is a headline. Every voice is a testimony. And every truth is one we’d rather look away from.But here, there is no...