Take a step back in time with some of the best writers with disabilities as they recount their first adventure, their first heartbreak, and the first time the unexpected treaded into their life. From body transformations to societal setbacks, to love affairs and family trauma, Firsts collects the most thought-provoking and exciting stories of our time by people with disabilities. Contributors include Nigel David Kelly, Kimberly Gerry-Tucker, Caitlin Hernandez, Andrew Gurza, and David-Elijah Nahmod.
Firsts is a 2019 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction - Anthology genre.

Adoptees: We Are Now Who They Think We Are offers a rare perspective on the field of adoption. For a limited time only, this version includes a FREE BONUS BOOK INSIDE called Three Wise Men and One Progressive Woman compiled by the cofounder of the Adoption Truth & Transparency Worldwide Network, one of the largest adoptee-led adoption groups on Facebook. Did you know several adoptees had been told they were orphaned as children and therefore processed for intercountry adoption as-if orphaned, but truthfully came from destitute families? As a consequence, the labels of "orphan" and then "adoptee" have sabotaged these individuals from obtaining the information necessary to find back their families if they so wish. Adoptees have also learned that numerous families did return to the child-care centers (sometimes called "nurseries" or "nursing homes" in Africa and Asia) to retrieve back their children, but were turned away because of they are stigmatized as "birthparents" by industry profiteers. Due to the blind love affair with adoption, professionals from the lucrative in-demand system have yet to be scrutinized by the public. Thus far, only a small percentage of curious adoptees have dared to request for data that should be available to each individual in the first place, making good reason for the title, "Adoptees": We Are Not Who They Think We Are. Some adoptees have discovered that because facilitators routinely labeled children as "orphans" or "needy,", we are still deprived permanently of our original birth certificates, complete adoption documents, or even citizenship, today. Moreover, on the other side of the world, parents of adoption-loss and families left-behind are still waiting for the return of long-lost family members. The problem with this system is that, "once an adoptee, always an adoptee." We've learned from Adoption History 101: An Orphan's Research that the adoption industry is about 400 years young. Many adoptees are now seniors and even elders, but are treated as perpetual children by adoptive parents and lobby groups working the industry and processing children. Adoptees: We Are Not Who They Think We Are points out the losses for all involved. More and more of us are discovering that adoption is not a win-win-win for all. In fact, adoption isn't even a win-win. *Three Wise Men and One Progressive Woman, the FREE BONUS BOOK INSIDE, shares a rare perspective on the rights of marginalized communities and individuals to consider the philosophy of our ancestors. If you are an adoptee, visit adoptionhistory101.com to take the "Only In Adoption" Survey. Adoptees are also redefining what adoption means at adoptiontruth.org.

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What Does It Mean to Have a Job?

In book two of the series My Job: Real People at Work Around the World, author Suzanne Skees profiles fifteen professionals from all corners of the globe, seeking to understand how our work shapes our lives. The fascinating people that Skees meets work in all kinds of industries: health and recovery, education and finance, agribusiness and processing, tourism and culture, and diplomacy and peace.

MY JOB explores the dignity, identity, economic viability, and inherent challenges of each occupation, asking such provoking questions as: How has the definition and notion of a job shifted in recent years? How does one land in a particular job, and what causes one to flourish or flounder in it? How does our job shape our sense of identity?

As Skees explores how our experiences, interests, and views help determine the career we pursue and how the career, in turn, continues to shape our identity, readers just may discover that while the fields, countries, and cultures we work in are different, the intricate ways in which our work effects our lives are universal.

AVIATION STORIES BY PILOTS WHO SHOULD BE DEAD

This collection of near-death stories by private pilots, fighter pilots, airline pilots, bush pilots, air traffic controllers, and combat crews shines a spotlight on the bravery and ingenuity of men and women in aviation who stood up to the Grim Reaper when he came a'knocking at death's door. You'll be transported right into the middle of these forthright accounts, some deadly serious, some amusing, but always true.

How the Camp Fire Girls Won World War II ... and other memories For information about the book, please contact [email protected]

These stories pack a punch!

In her collection of personal, stand-alone essays, you will not only be entertained by her colloquial, quirky style, but surprised by the truths revealed. Putting her “quirk to work,” she blends humor and depth. This easy, transparent read will appeal to anyone looking for a little downtime. You will end up not only with that, but so much more.

Key themes are seizing the day, humanity, grace, faith and messages from a higher power. Some of the true-life stories are downright hilarious, and a few are piercingly poignant, revealing old truths with fresh insight. Mostly they are about receiving understanding in the nonsense, epiphanies in unexpected places, redemption in everyday life. She shows that revelation from above can come many ways—a gardener’s humble truck, an overlapper on a plane, a subway musician, a little boy who needs his button buttoned, a self-inflicted black eye. The more you believe it’s possible, the more it is.

If you dig a little in an average day, you too can find the golden nugget—and don’t we all need that?

Live life! Break away from the mundane habits and predictable schedules of everyday living! Interactions with new cultures will transcend the limitations of your world. Should you be immune to the lessons life is waiting to teach? Let me introduce you to dozens of people to meet along the way, as you gain personal insights cultures, customs, and hints about the incredible changes taking place inside yourself from this type of exposure. The icing on the cake is the compelling photographs that take you through the daily life of an unfamiliar culture. A travel experience starts with the place and the sights to see. What you bring back in your treasure chest of memories will be experiences with people you meet along the way. I will hold your hand while you see, taste, smell and breathe the life of the people. This is not a show and tell guidebook to suggest where to go and what to do. It will open your eyes and tempt your tongue, as you taste traditional Moroccan bisteeya (a delectable three-layer sweet pie wrapped in the thinnest of pastries and eaten with three fingers). Your exposure to more traditional customs may cause you to change your lifestyle. After this safe, vicarious trip at my side, you will be packing for your second. Whether you need inspiration, without venturing away from your known comforts to fill those gaps of discontentment, or you dare to let your imagination run free in exploring the world around you, you will want to keep “100 People” at your bedside or in your reading bag for your next flight. Jackie Chase has more than four decades of travel experience in and out of over one hundred countries. She has lived temporarily with remote tribal people in the populated continents of the earth and has written several books in this photo-journalism series about cultures, plus a Traveler’s Handbook that won a Royal Palm Literary Award.

As the chergui (desert wind) whips reality into fantasy and the perpetually full tea glass caresses its minty bouquet, from Casablanca to Tangier, from the crush of Marrakech to the ethereal solitude of the Sahara, from a rose festival in the countryside to a betrothal fair high in the Atlas Mountains, in alleyways and on rooftops, in the souks and on plains scattered with ruins, we invite readers to join us as we rotate in a dervish-dance with Morocco. 

Thirty-three stories and poems--edited by Erin Byrne and written by Suzanna Clarke (A House in Fez), Jeff Greenwald, Michael Chabon, Phil Cousineau, Paul Bowles and others--vibrate inside this book, tales of quests and  mysteries, of traditions and memory and wisdom that seek the ancient and celebrate the exotic in Morocco.