Autobiographies

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FEATURED: A Pilgrim’s Guide to Walking Wisdom: 11:11 Insights by Renee Baribeau

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About Featured Book: A Pilgrim’s Guide to Walking Wisdom: 11:11 Insights by Renee Baribeau

NEW RELEASE! In spring 2024, I embarked on a life-altering pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, a journey that invited me to release my expectations, trust the path ahead, and embrace the unknown. Alongside fellow pilgrims—each at their own crossroads of life—I uncovered profound truths that had been gestating in my soul for over three decades. Inspired by earlier pilgrimages, vision quests, and solo retreats, this walk became more than a journey through Spain; it became a path to transformation, healing, and spiritual renewal.

In A Pilgrim’s Guide to Walking Wisdom, I share eleven powerful insights drawn from this sacred pilgrimage, insights that speak to those seeking a deeper connection to themselves, nature, and the divine. From letting go of the pressures of everyday life to rediscovering joy, purpose, and inner peace, these reflections invite you to embark on your own spiritual journey, no matter where you are or what you seek.

Step by step, the Camino taught me that healing doesn’t come from knowing all the answers—it comes from walking with the questions and trusting the path. Whether you’re in the midst of grief, seeking a new direction, or simply longing for a deeper spiritual connection, this book is an invitation to walk your own path to wholeness.
Let the journey begin. Solvitur ambulando—It is solved by walking.

This Non-Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print, Audiobook

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

Get ready to be transported to a simpler time and place, where the rolling fields of a farm hold untold possibilities. Sarah never imagined that a question to her grandmother would lead her on a quest. But when her grandma reveals the existence of a long-lost book written by her father about his adventures on the farm as a child, Sarah decides to find it. As she reads through the pages, she experiences his childhood through his own words and discovers the boy who became her father. Feel the joy, laughter, and innocence of youth in this nostalgic read—That’s How It Was.

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Shelter of the Monument: A Provincetown Love Story by Yvonne deSousa

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Shelter of the Monument: A Provincetown Love Story by Yvonne deSousa

Sometimes the wrong person says the right thing, and it makes all the difference.
In this coming-of-age memoir we meet Richard, a handsome, charming, mischievous, great guy with a fondness for the 1980s party drug of choice, cocaine. Yvonne is 11 years younger, awkward, terrified of her own shadow and even more frightened by the idea of disappointing anyone in her life.
Their attraction makes no sense.
Despite obstacles beyond their control, they are exactly what each other is drawn to as they set about doing the best they can, in all four seasons of their beautiful, one season town, Provincetown, MA. Their connection remains the one thing that can save Yvonne from herself, even while Richard struggles under the weight of his own self-imposed demons.
What they develop is a relationship that unbeknownest to both of them, would last a lifetime and change Yvonne in ways she never thought possible.
They were not supposed to be together.
Yet, they refused to stay apart.

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

A slyly funny and heart-warming tribute to childhood before technology. . . .

Childhood adventures on the family farm come alive in That’s How It Was.

On the last day of a family trip to grandma’s house, Sarah discovers a bit of family treasure – her dad’s letter diaries from many years ago. Through his musings on animals, faith, and career choices, readers join ten-year-old Randy Ray on a journey of exploration and discovery as he contemplates whimsical and not-so-whimsical career choices.

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

A slyly funny and heart-warming tribute to childhood before technology. . . The last day of the family’s annual visit to the farm is filled with intrigue. Grandma is questioned, a long-forgotten book of letters is revealed, and Operation Finders-Keeper is set into motion. Still, it takes the trip home to finally uncover the answers Randy Ray’s daughter is seeking.

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Return to Vienna by Peter Dixon

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Return to Vienna by Peter Dixon

‘Captain Charles Kennedy’ parachuted into a moonlit Austrian forest and searched frantically for his lost radio set. His real name was Leo Hillman and he was a Jewish refugee from Vienna. He was going home.
Men and women of Churchill’s secret Special Operations Executive worked to free Austria from Hitler’s grip. Many were themselves Austrians who had fled Nazi persecution. Trained and equipped by SOE, they courageously returned to their homeland. Some died in the attempt.
Their moving stories are part of the history of how Austria recovered her sovereignty.
‘An extraordinary and compelling account of the little-known operations of SOE and Austria in World War Two … shines a light on the bravery of the agents, in a narrative told with colour and vivacity, yet great sensitivity and meticulous research’, Dr Helen Fry, author of Spymaster.
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My Demon, My Jesus by Blue Tapp

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My Demon, My Jesus by Blue Tapp

A near-death experience, a botched suicide that worked… then didn’t.

God had another plan.

“My Demon, My Jesus” is a Christian memoir about the author’s struggle with suicidal depression and how she destroyed her demons.

At 30 years old, Blue attempted suicide by swallowing a handful of sleeping pills. Her spirit left her body before she was brought back to life in the hospital. Blue is alive today because God miraculously saved her life. Four angels appeared and helped her call for help before she died.

However Blue’s battle with depression was far from over. She spent the next three years addicted to prescription medication under the care of a psychiatrist. But pills cannot cure depression.

Today Blue is completely free of depression and medication. She has learned the keys to living an amazing life of joy and victory. ”My Demon, My Jesus” describes her healing process through meditative prayer. Others who suffer from depression can follow these same steps to reach true lasting healing.

Blue’s healing was miraculous. But it was not instantaneous. It was a process of learning how to think in a healthy way, how to shift thought patterns and spirit life from defeat to victory. Blue’s journey will help others climb their way out of the trap of poisonous thought patterns and prescribed drug addictions. There are so many people fighting this battle…

Blue’s story took another extraordinary twist in 2019. She began experiencing astonishing visions where her soul was taken to heaven to pray for the world with millions of other saints. Today the visions continue weekly with messages from heaven. God wants us to know that He loves and cares deeply about each one of us. He wants us to know Him intimately. All believers are being called to join with the saints in praying for our world, for a great awakening that will draw multitudes of people to the heart of God.

One of God’s charges was to write everything down, every vision in detail. As she did this, a connection became apparent between the visions and her own life journey, from her early experiences of demonic oppression and suicidal depression to eventual miraculous healing. The visions about God’s love were a message of hope to everyone battling depression.

So she’s told it all… from a demonically oppressed disturbed child who also fell in love with Jesus and prayed to become a Christian at six years old…to a suicidally depressed young adult who overdosed on sleeping pills and was brought back from death in the hospital…to years addicted to prescription drugs…to miraculous healing, victorious life, and divine visions. Don’t miss this incredible true story!

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

Best described as slyly funny and heart-warming, That’s How It Was: Operation Finders Keepers is uniquely written in letter format. Written from a ten-year-old boy’s perspective, Randy Ray’s letters prove to be captured moments in time just waiting to be discovered by his daughters thirty-seven years later. These treasured memories allow his daughters to get to know the boy who became their father.

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco

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Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

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Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

In 2008, Senior U.S. Army Infantry Sergeant Chad Rickard embedded within the Afghan Army as a Combat Advisor. During a yearlong deployment, he slugged it out with Haqqani Taliban on Afghanistan’s eastern border, along Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier. Follow Rickard as he engages in mountain warfare against numerically superior enemy forces. See urban combat through the eyes of a Soldier that was there. Follow along as his team directs airstrikes and artillery fire. From hostage situations, to IEDs, and air assaults, this memoir leaves nothing to the imagination. Don’t miss this award-winning book and author.