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Mending the Shattered Mirror

A Journey of Recovery from Abusive Therapy
Analie Shepherd

2019 Finalist
296 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2019 Finalist
Honorable Mention: Paris Book Festival /Honorable Mention: San Francisco Book Festival

"I couldn't stop thinking about it. The book was hauntingly beautiful." K. E. Fleming

"Kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning, I was that engrossed in the story ..." Chris Fischer for Readers' Favorite

"Consistently compelling, insightful, informative, and thought provoking." Midwestern Book Review

The phenomenal true story of one women's struggle to regain her heart, soul, and sanity after being psychologically abused by a beloved therapist. A shocking account of a hidden world of abuse that leaves victims shattered and silent amid a society that has no frame of reference to understand the depth of their pain. A ground-breaking and important book.

In 1960, Analie's mother escaped a violent, alcoholic husband, fleeing in the middle of the night with her five daughters, to her mother's house. This house proves to be a sad and lonely place for the children, who are forbidden any more contact with their mother. Overwhelming grief causes Analie's psyche to split into seven personalities ... "The Others".

Years pass. Determined to build a better life, Analie graduates college, marries and has four beautiful children. Life is wonderful, until her daughter reveals a dark family secret. Analie's world crumbles. Desperate for help, Analie starts seeing a well-respected psychologist. Within this relationship, Analie suffers five years of unimaginable cruelty and abuse.

Finally able to leave the abusive therapist, Analie soon realizes that finding a therapist who will believe her story of abuse, and treat her with dignity and kindness, is next to impossible. In her struggle to find the help she needs, Analie endures alarming mistreatment from a number of therapist. Through it all, she never gives up her struggle to find truth, for herself and within herself.

A story of hope, courage, and redemption. From the very first page, this inspirational story will enthrall you. The conclusion of the book is amazingly beautiful and deeply satisfying.

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Surrender

A Love Letter To My Daughter
Lou Alpert

2019 Honorable Mention
228 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2019 Honorable Mention
Surrender: A Love Letter to My Daughter chronicles Crystal and her five-year journey with heroin told through the eyes of her mother, Lou Alpert. Two stints in detox, two trips to rehab, two babies, and homelessness are just broken fragments of this engaging story. As Crystal’s disease progressed, so did her mother’s. Stalking her daughter’s addiction and isolating herself to cope with the chaos of loving and trying to fix an addict, she lost herself in darkness until a CNN story exploded and forced her to look at her life and walk back into the light to face her own demons of co-dependency.

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Shackled

A Journey From Political Imprisonment To Freedom
Adam Siddiq

2019 Bronze Medal
308 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2019 Bronze Medal
Award Winning Finalist in the Biography category of the 2018 International Book Awards

Khaled Siddiq "Charkhi" is only six years old when he and his entire extended family are imprisoned. Following a grand betrayal, Khaled's father and uncles, the respected right-hand men to the King of Afghanistan, become targets of the new regime. Khaled's father is exiled, his uncles are executed, and their families are locked away in a forgotten corner of Kabul.

So begins a decades-long struggle in captivity where Khaled faces the hardship of prison life while enduring tragedies as more of his loved ones are executed and succumb to diseases. Despite the tribulations he experiences, Khaled never gives up hope, choosing to make the most of his time by studying five different languages, advanced literature, and philosophy. Eventually, Khaled and his family are released from prison, but are they truly free? Forbidden from leaving the country, one thing continues to haunt Khaled: a longing to reunite with his father.

SHACKLED is a raw, heart-opening story about resilience. It follows the Charkhi family from the 1932 coup to the 1979 Soviet invasion. Amidst national and personal upheaval, Khaled finds his freedom by choosing to lead a life of optimism, kindness, joy, and love.

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You Are Not Alone

A Heartfelt Guide for Grief, Healing, and Hope
Debbie Augenthaler, LMHC, NCC

2019 Silver Medal
268 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2019 Silver Medal
"You Are Not Alone" is the 2018 Winner of the Foreword INDIES 2018 Book Awards, Grief/Grieving, and an Award Finalist in Health: Psychology/Mental Health 2019 International Book Awards.

Are you grieving? Do you know someone who is grieving and you don't know how to help them?
You Are Not Alone takes readers into Debbie's personal journey of grief, from the first gripping chapter, when her husband dies unexpectedly in her arms. Throughout the book, Debbie takes readers by the hand and offers them gentle insights and suggestions for healing and hope, while sharing her powerful story of loss and the spiritual journey that led her to know love never dies.

This book is a life raft in a grief storm.
Just as she has helped many as a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief, Debbie and her wisdom can help you too.

She wants you to know:

  • It's okay to be a griever. Don't feel like you have to hold it together for others.
  • Grief is not linear. There is no timetable. Your experience of grief is as unique as you are.
  • Beginning to heal and adjust to your new life doesn't mean having to let go of the person you love.
You Are Not Alone will gently guide you from grief, to healing, to hope and transformation.

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Riding Standing Up

A Memoir
Sparrow Spaulding

2019 Gold Medal
267 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2019 Gold Medal
Sparrow Spaulding was born into the perfect family. Two loving parents, a beautiful home, and grandparents that doted on her. Life was a dream until the day that changed everything. Sparrow's perfect life was ripped away at age three in one tragic moment that would forever change her. Follow her on her journey as she tells the story of her traumatic childhood and how she fought hard to stay strong despite her circumstances.

In Riding Standing Up, Spaulding’s compelling storytelling will have you on the edge of your seat. Get ready to laugh out loud and cry more tears than you’d like as you follow her on her journey to empowerment, never knowing what’s around the corner.

Brutally honest, truth-teller Sparrow Spaulding has been an unsung antiheroine…until now. She shows us we don’t have to be perfect to be worthy and that there’s power in being real.

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Molding My Destiny

A Story of Hope That Takes One Child from Surviving to Thriving
Patrice M Foster

2018 Finalist
225 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2018 Finalist
"Molding My Destiny" is a powerful story of determination and survival. One child persistent hardship and her determination to move forward. unmindful of several major setbacks.. Foster forges ahead to a better life.
You will discover that success is possible even when everything points to failure. Raw, the Emotional, moving true story of perseverance in the face of intolerable hardships, change starts when we learn forgiveness.

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I Know It in My Heart

Walking Through Grief with a Child
Mary E. Plouffe Ph.D.

2018 Honorable Mention
256 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2018 Honorable Mention
A three-week adventure becomes a tragic dilemma for a loving sister, a motherless child, and a terrified father facing unimaginable loss together and using their relationships with one another to survive. I Know It In My Heart: Walking through Grief with a Child explores the impact of early parental loss, the evolution of grief from toddler to teenager, and the devastation of adult sibling loss. Told by Mary E. Plouffe―a grieving sister who is also a psychologist―the story is more than a memoir; it is an exploration of childhood and adult grief, and how family relationships can weave them into healing. Parents, therapists, and anyone else who wants to see loss though the eyes of a child will find useful information here for guiding children through loss, and understanding how those losses impact them as they grow. Narrated with professional wisdom steeped in personal pain, I Know It In My Heart brings us all a step closer to understanding, resilience, and healing.

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Frock Off

Living Undisguised
Jo Dibblee

2018 Bronze Medal
320 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2018 Bronze Medal
With parents tormented by secrets, guilt, and shame, Jo Dibblee quickly learned to protect herself. Faced with her parents' alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression, along with the sexual assault and stalking of an "upstanding" foster parent, Jo began, early in life, to use a coping strategy she now calls frocking. With humor and hope, Jo shares the harrowing rollercoaster of her life story and gives the low-down on frocking-how she learned it and used it to survive, how she found it holding her back and what she had to do to, once and for all, Frock Off. Despite harsh truths, brushes with death and agonizing betrayals, Jo's heart shines through these pages, offering promise, wisdom and inspiration to any reader who has learned to hide and longs to be free.

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The Amazing Afterlife of Animals

Messages and Signs From Our Pets On The Other Side
Karen A Anderson

2018 Silver Medal
178 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2018 Silver Medal
Bestseller & Winner of over 16 National and International Literary Awards

Are you struggling with the loss of a beloved pet?  Have painful feelings of grief or guilt overwhelmed you? 

The loss of a pet is not only heart wrenching it is often more difficult than anything else we have ever experienced. Your pet has been there for you through good times and bad. They are your best friend, your confidant, your buddy. When that final moment arrives and you must say goodbye, the world as you know it comes to an end. Everything changes and life going forward is now empty and so very lonely without them.

They are gone forever it seems. Or are they? 
Questions burn in your mind as you wonder what happens to your pets after they die.
  • Did I make the right choices? 
  • Is there another realm where they coexist with my other departed pets or human loved ones? 
  • Do the pets I've had to euthanize forgive me? 
  • Did they struggle or were they in pain? 
  • Was it their time to die? 
  • Did I let them go too soon?
Read actual messages from departed animals revealing detailed insights about what they experience at the end of their lives. Discover how pets feel about death, euthanasia, cremation, reincarnation and so much more.

You are and always have been the most important person in the world to your pets
If you are grieving the loss of your beloved pet the uplifting and insightful messages within these chapters will help you break through your grief, being healing, and start living a full and purposeful life again knowing you are and always will be connected with your departed pets. 

Award-winning Animal Communicator and Afterlife Expert, Karen Anderson, unveils tantalizing evidence that our pets communicate with us throughout their lives as well as after their physical death.

Will this evidence prove that our pets continue to send us messages and signs from the Other Side?
You be the judge.

The purity and detailed accuracy of the animals' messages may surprise you and they may even present new perspectives about life after death. 

Discover how deeply your pets love you and how the bonds of love never die as you journey into the amazing afterlife of animals.

What messages await you?

Winner of these prestigious NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL literary awards:
  • #1 Bestseller on Amazon
  • Winner 2019 Indie Reader Discovery Award
  • Winner 2018 International Book Awards 
  • Winner 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
  • Winner 2018 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award 
  • Winner 2018 Indie Book Awards
  • Winner 2018 New Apple Book Award
  • Winner - 2018 Beverly Hills Book Awards 
  • Silver Medal Winner 2018 Readers Favorite Book Awards
  • Silver Medal Winner - 2017 Nautilus Book Awards
  • Finalist 2018 Beverly Hills Book Awards 
  • Finalist 2018 International Book Awards - New Age/Non-Fiction
  • Finalist 2018 International Book Awards - Spirituality/Inspirational
  • Finalist 2018 International Book Awards - Best Cover Design Non-Fiction
  • Finalist 2018 "Best Book Awards" Non-fiction - Pets
  • Finalist 2018 "Best Book Awards" Non-fiction - New Age
  • Finalist 2018 "Best Book Awards" Non-fiction Best Cover Design
  • Two 5-Star Reviews from Readers Favorite Book Reviews 

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The Gifted Storyteller

The Power is in the Story You Tell
Gregg Korrol

2018 Gold Medal
128 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Grief/Hardship

2018 Gold Medal
What if a Genie popped out of a bottle and gave you the power to create your life as it happened? Michael followed "the plan" and did everything he was supposed to for life to be successful; great job, money, dates, yet despite it all, everything wasn’t the dream he expected. One night after work, he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman named Jeannie, who introduces him to the Gifted Storyteller, and changes his life forever.