by Sarah Purdy | Oct 9, 2009 | Nonfiction, Our Books
by Sheryl Ellinwood Sheryl Ellinwood, a breast cancer survivor, shares her thorough research of the subject and reveals what changed her course of treatment in this information-packed resource. This year, 192,300 women in the United States will develop breast cancer....
by Sarah Purdy | Sep 15, 2009 | Memoirs, Our Books
by James Norris Fight On, My Soul is a biography of one of the first African-American doctors in the South, and it reveals his battles against discrimination, disease, and illiteracy. Set largely in rural Lancaster County, Virginia, Fight On, My Soul tells the story...
by Sarah Purdy | Apr 25, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction, Our Books
by Mary Addink Treasury of Gems offers words to live and laugh by. Its “one-liners” cover a variety of subjects—from attitude to success, belief to money, daffynitions to love, and more. The wit and wisdom found in its short quotations were collected by...
by Sarah Purdy | Mar 2, 2009 | Memoirs, Our Books
by Alan Van Bodegraven This memoir details the author’s adventures living with the Maya people. Alan Van Bodegraven’s has detailed their plight and daily lives, which is the essence of his story, as well as why he has chosen to live in the Yucatan. “It has been...
by Sarah Purdy | Feb 20, 2009 | Memoirs, Our Books
by E. J. G. Bloemendaal My America is a rich record of Midwestern pioneer life from 1867 to 1910. Everett Bloemendaal originally wrote it in Dutch for Netherlands citizens considering emigration. When first published in the Netherlands in 1911, his assessment of...
