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Tales of a Rollercoaster Operator: Stories from My Missouri Youth

by Mark Johnson

Childhood and adolescence were a virtual rollercoaster ride for Mark Johnson. In his second book—Tales of a Rollercoaster Operator: Stories from My Missouri Youth—he navigates the highs and lows of coming of age in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1960s and 1970s.Experience Mark’s favorite growing-up twists and turns in this collection of twenty-six funny and poignant essays, including learning to drive a rollercoaster, discovering the joys of a first pet, embarking on a quest with his father to wrangle World Series tickets, and witnessing the wonder in a brand new year after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger. This book of stories will inspire you to revisit your youth, dust-off your favorite memories, and find new meaning in the indelible moments that stay with you for a life...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult, Biography
Size: 126 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Growing Up Twice: Shaping a Future by Reliving My Past

by Aaron Kirk Douglas

In this first-of-its kind memoir, a gay man explores the emotional risks and rewards of mentoring a troubled young Latino boy. In the process, he learns more about himself than he ever imagined.

As an award-winning social activist and mentor in the Big Brother/Big Sister program, former journalist and documentary filmmaker, Aaron Kirk Douglas illuminates the emotional turmoil inherent in mentoring an at-risk youth. He relates how it pushed him to become more than just a weekend-toss-the-ball-around kind of mentor. In his relationship with Rico, a fatherless foster child he meets through Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Douglas must face the memories─and pain─of growing up gay in rural Oregon without the love and acceptance he so desperately craved from his own father. His journey...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Gay & Lesbian, Self-Help, Happiness, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Sexuality, Children's Nonfiction, Coming of Age
Size: 286 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Life as a Spectrum Mom: The Ups, Downs, and Upside Downs of Parenting Autistic Kids (The Spectrum Mom Book 1)

by Karen Pellett

From candy explosions and safety spaces to patience pills and mattress slides, Autism turns normal on its head and stomps on it for good measure. For this family and their three autistic children, life is chaotic but glorious. Experience everyday life from the perspective of a spectrum mom and defy the label as only an exceptional family can....

Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Special Needs, Sexuality
Size: 174 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Family Book Night: For Families Who Make Reading Fun...and Those Who Try

by Holly South

Holly South provides a step by step guide to starting your own family book club. Whether your children are in preschool or high school, Holly provides a list of books that you and your family will enjoy reading. Read a book, ask a few questions to get the conversation started, enhance the experience with related activities, and enjoy a story based theme meal....

Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Activities, Parenting, Sexuality
Size: 111 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Self-Esteem: The Teen Girl's Journey to Self-Worth, Body Image, Mr. Right, and Being Your Whole You (Your Whole You Series Book 1)

by Meagan Trayler

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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult, Personal Health, Social Issues
Size: 120 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Missing Becks: A True Story of Child Abuse and Disappearance

by Jesamine James

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Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult
Size: 131 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Something Changed: Stumbling through Divorce, Dating and Depression: (How to Move On)

by Matthew Williams

Life can change forever in a moment...In the aftermath of marriage breakdown how do we pick ourselves up and start again?In August 2014 Matthew Williams was forced to do just that. In Something Changed he navigates us through his journey with wit and wisdom, taking in divorce, dating and self-discovery while facing the dark spectre of depression.Hopes and fears, laughter and tears - all are encountered along the way to learning some important lessons about love, loss and life.'Have you ever noticed how life's biggest lessons are also the most painful? Maybe that's just life's way of making sure we don't forget them...'...

Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Mental Health, Psychology & Counseling, Self-Help, Motivational, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 262 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 28 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

The Crossroads of Faith: From Hell to Glory

by Jason Dillion

In life everyone begins to question ‘why’ or ‘why not’. But have you ever stopped to think, ‘why them’? Life can blind us from our faith walk. We often walk with our own blinders on and we become callous to the suffering and loss of others. Sometimes in life, we are left with seeing the worst of the worst. Sometimes our walk becomes tarnished by our very own journey. Where is God in this journey? Is He there and why can we not see Him, or is it that we refuse to see Him? Life can be difficult. Many of us are left to face challenges. But few of us are faced with a lifetime of adversities. In the book, The Crossroads of Faith From Hell to Glory Author Jason Q. Dillion takes you through his life’s journey. He walks you through the adversities he was left to endure. He shows...

Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult
Size: 178 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 27 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

37 Lessons on How to Gain from Loss: A Believer’s Journey from Trial to Triumph

by Huma Zuellah Ahmed

God created trials, so He could test you with your truth. You are born free, but you must learn to be pain-free. 37 Lessons on How to Gain from Loss: A Believer’s Journey from Trial to Triumph is my own story of remembering, realizing and reaffirming this basic human truth. Drenched in pain, I had limped so far on the Road of Loss that I had lost my way back home. With bleak hope left on my trail, I finally approached the point of no return, awaiting to be consumed by my lingering darkness. However, upon setting my last step on the fall’s edge, I was thundered by yet another torment—my biggest trial to date, of losing my mother, the center of my universe. Finding myself trapped in the most turbulent flight for the next twenty-four hours, I was taxed by a tremendous choice, not betwee...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, Specific Groups, Health, Fitness & Dieting, Death & Grief, Psychology & Counseling, Self-Help, Personal Transformation, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Aging Parents, Family Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Islam, Spirituality, Sexuality
Size: 237 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Hands Down: A Story of Incarceration

by Logan Crannell

Adapted from the journal of a falsely imprisoned man, 'Hands Down: A Story of Incarceration', is a testament against a society quick to point fingers and cry wolf.It implores us to question the motives of those claiming victimhood, for it may reveal their own lack of integrity.With each public accuser advertising their oppression, and clamoring for sympathy, it's clear we must develop a rational dialogue.In these times when one tweet, one blog post or soundbite, regardless of context or humor, could be enough to ruin a life well-lived, we have to find a way to ground ourselves.This non-fiction account, both infuriating and inspiring, relates the struggle of a man trying to regain his dignity,and reframe his situation in a positive light.'Hands Down: A Story of Incarceration', is a book wri...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 209 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

How to Raise Children for Christ (Updated and Annotated): A Guide for Excellent Christian Parenting

by Andrew Murray

I will put my trust in Him ... Behold I and the children which God has given me – Hebrews 2:13This book is different from most books on raising children. It is a plea for the parents to truly know and walk with God – for them to love God and His Word. In the correct order, focusing first on the parents, Andrew Murray then urges parents to sincerely and consistently love their children and in all tenderness and gentleness teach them as God also teaches us.Children are a most precious gift that we receive from God, and they deserve our very best. Our faithful training will not be lost on our children; this is a promise found over and over again in the Scriptures. If our hearts are right towards God and our children, the world's influence will not impact our children. We can and must exer...

Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Sexuality
Size: 239 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

If Only

by D Henry

If Only is the true story of how a life of abuse started for a fifteen year old girl, until she finally finds freedom twenty-five years later. Writing her story, she sees how her life was controlled by fear and the desire to make someone else happy. During this realization through a diary style writing, she constantly is saying, "If Only" I had known. Regretting her choices, this book hopefully can show young women the signs of sexual, mental and physical abuse before it is too late....

Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Mental Health, Psychology & Counseling, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult
Size: 102 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

New Vision 2050: A Platinum Society (Science for Sustainable Societies)

by Hiroshi Komiyama

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Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Personal Health, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Math, Environment, Parenting & Relationships, Aging Parents, Earth Sciences, Sexuality
Size: 179 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Anger Management Workbook For Parents

by Control Anger

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Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Reference, Sexuality
Size: 154 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

In No Particular Order

by Kevin Brennan

It’s true that life is linear, but the living of it is all over the map. In this memoir-in-vignettes, novelist Kevin Brennan (Parts Unknown, Yesterday Road) examines his life the way memories occur in the wild: in no particular order. Whether it’s recalling high school humiliations, ups and downs in love and romance, or unique interactions with the human race at home and abroad, Brennan both entertains and moves the reader with moments of unexpected poignancy and full-tilt humor. In No Particular Order is a deconstructed memoir, like no other because it looks at life as it really is -- a kaleidoscope of individual moments....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Sexuality
Size: 178 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Emotional and Narcissistic Abuse: The Complete Survival Guide to Understanding Narcissism, Escaping the Narcissist in a Toxic Relationship Forever, and Your Road to Recovery

by J. Vandeweghe

Do you feel like you’re no longer the person you used to be? Do you feel like all your beautiful traits have been stripped away? Are you struggling to distinguish what is real and what is not…? Chances are you’ve been strategically trauma bonded to a Narcissist for quite some time, living in a false reality.The casual tossing-around of the word “narcissist” has led many people to falsely believe that a narcissist is simply someone who has an inflated sense of confidence and perhaps a slightly inflated ego, too. Unfortunately, the dictionary reinforces this belief with its description of a narcissist, stating that they are “a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.” This is more likely to be the definition of someone who is arrogant and not someone...

Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Mental Health, Psychology & Counseling, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 104 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Hardscrabble Way

by Tina Gordon

All Delia Williams wants is to be named scholar athlete when she graduates from eighth grade at the end of the year. Her life is crowded with cheerleading, keeping up her A average, shopping, and parties. To the outside world, she is the girl who appears to have it all. Yet Delia is missing the one thing she longs for; her family’s approval.
When her father dies, Delia’s life shatters. Her pampered mother Emily spirals into a debilitating depression as the family plummets into poverty. Before his death, her father’s business collapsed leaving them with no credit or money. The bank forecloses on their home, forcing Delia and Emily to move into a room in a welfare hotel. When a social worker threatens to send Delia to foster care and hospitalize her mother, they flee to Hardscra...

Genre: Children's eBooks, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Sexuality, Coming of Age, Family Life
Size: 235 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

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Becoming a parent is a scary thing. Even more scary when we see how some of the kids around us act. We are determined that our babies will not grow up and display those same ugly behaviors! But the first time we're fending off a nasty tantrum in the bookstore, we begin to doubt our resolve. Oops! takes you through the top nine reasons that kids act rotten. It all begins with the parents! From spoiling to hovering, not allowing kids to gain independence and learn how to work through problems makes them whiny, dependent, and disrespectful. As young adults, this leads to an inability to navigate school, build healthy relationships, and become responsible wage earners. (Live at home until you're 35 - no big deal!) Oops teaches you what parental behaviors to avoid and how to raise a ha...

Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult
Size: 116 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

THE DAVID BOWIE PROJECT: AN ANALYSIS OF DAVID BOWIE'S SONG:'TIS A PITY SHE WAS A WHORE

by Karen A. Fields

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Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 153 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 26 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Strangely, Incredibly Good (Strangely, Incredibly Good Series Book 1)

by Heather Grace Stewart

"Outstandingly funny!" "You won't want to put it down!" "Unforgettable."
On the day Cat Glamour decides to start an exercise routine, the last thing she expects is a modern-day Genie to pop out of her Wii machine. Unfortunately for Cat, her Genie is somewhat unreliable in his wish-granting capabilities. In a series of hilarious misadventures, he sends Cat to a castle in France and back in time 20 years in an attempt to solve both Cat's weight issues and emotional stresses. Cat's journey is one filled with quirky adventures, realistic love, and above all, self-discovery....

Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Health, Fitness & Dieting, Relationships, Sex, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Sexuality, Time Travel, Humor, Romantic Comedy, General Humor, Satire
Size: 153 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Codename Cupcake

by Jillian Green DiGiacomo

CODENAME CUPCAKE is an old fashioned stay-at-home-mom turned super-hero spy novel. It is the story of Molly Peterson, a frazzled mother of two, who is recruited by a super spy agency to infiltrate the PTA at her own son's elementary school. A staunch PTA avoider, Molly is disappointed to learn that her assignment will require her to not only join the PTA but “become” the PTA. Midwood Elementary School is cooling at an alarming rate and Molly must spend as much time as possible in the building to determine the cause and help prevent a potential calamity. With a back drop of ordinary school functions including back to school night and a fall concert, CODENAME CUPCAKE offers a new twist on the superhero genre. It is a send up of motherhood, the PTA, comic books and spy novels. It is ...

Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality, Women's Fiction, Crime Fiction, Humor, General Humor, Satire
Size: 276 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

A Beginner's Guide to Defy Divorce and Take a Stand for Your Marriage

by Beth Durkee

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Genre: Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Sexuality
Size: 135 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Minor: Volume One (The Journals of Meghan McDonnell Book 1)

by Meghan McDonnell

Minor is the first installment of the personal journals in which, for over 20 years, writer Meghan McDonnell has chronicled her life beginning at age eight through present day. With searing candor and tenderness, her musings on daily life and observations of family, social and romantic relationships coalesce in a commentary on growing up, facing down passion and fear, and American life in the 21st century. Wide in scope and vivid in detail, her journals are her confessional love letter to the world. Join her on a fearless, vulnerable, sometimes painful and quixotic, but always honest journey, also known as the human experience. Readers who love Cheryl Strayed or Karl Ove Knausgaard will enjoy this author.

Volume one spans her eighth year through age 17; reflections on family,...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Sexuality, Essays & Correspondence, Letters & Correspondence
Size: 178 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

Cult Child

by Vennie Kocsis

It is 1973 Sila Caprin's mother is recruited into a religious cult, "Sam Fife's Move of God". Within the year, Sila and her older siblings, Leis and Jeremy, along with all of the family’s belongings, are packed into the back of a U-Haul leaving California for their new home in Massachusetts.

Eventually they will be taken deep into the Alaska tundra to a compound surrounded by miles of woods and monitored by armed men. Under the guise of Sam Fife's violent teachings Sila endures physical, mental and sexual abuse as she fights to maintain just a glimmer of her own humanity. Sila is creative, intuitive and smart as she vies for individuality in a culture where she is insignificant and unprotected; until the day her sister becomes a victim of an act that in its sadness bec...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Occult, Sexuality
Size: 318 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 25 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

How to Understand and Accept Your Gay Son: (Even If You're Not Sure You Can)

by Grant Andrews

This book will give you all the tools you need to understand and accept your gay son

How can you accept your gay son?

If you have just found out that your son is gay, or if you think he might be, you might find it overwhelming and have lots of questions and confusion. You might wonder what made him this way, or wonder what it means for his life. You could be feeling afraid, heartbroken or disappointed. Maybe you’re hoping that this is just a phase that he will grow out of. You might even feel like you don’t know who he is anymore and wonder if there is any way to truly accept him.

Our parents have been there too

We struggled immensely with coming out to our parents, and they struggled to understand and accept us. That is why we decid...

Genre: Gay & Lesbian, Nonfiction, Health, Fitness & Dieting, Psychology & Counseling, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Parenting & Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 115 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

How to Divorce a Lunatic: and Not Become One Yourself

by Casey Midori

How to Divorce a Lunatic is a lay person’s guide to obtaining a divorce, particularly from a difficult spouse. The book is presented in two major sections. The first section describes the various legal processes that are used to prepare, file and obtain a divorce. The second section of the book describes the author’s own divorce, in which her husband was committed to crushing her at all costs. Her story clearly shows how bad it can get, and presents numerous tactics for legal preparation and emotional coping. The author has included a healthy dose of humor to keep it an interesting read....

Genre: Professional & Technical, Law, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 202 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

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Lindsay Fischer was once a high school English teacher with dreams stretching far outside the classroom. When her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half cheated on her, Lindsay found herself alone, looking online for a replacement. His name was Mike. That’s where the nightmare started. The House on Sunset is a memoir, a collection of reminiscences, scattering the ashes of two broken homes and putting them to rest. Each chapter offers a different glimpse inside the cycle of intimate partner violence, where honeymoon phases and traumas coexist. Everyone could fall victim to abusers. This book bravely displays the reasons a quirky, twenty-something teacher would, and did....

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 196 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

6 Steps Forward: Every Man Matters

by Alan Hoffler

Mark Trever is a typical man driven by contrasts—joy and pain, freedom and obligation, death and life. His world is filled with challenges: A tattooed giant. An overbearing set of in-laws. An overlooked family. A life-threatening disease. A hobby that restores one relationship and births another.

Mark presses on, but nearly misses life’s essential reward. He discovers, almost too late, the critical secret. Let his story give you courage to take your own steps forward and dare others to realize their legacy....

Genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Parenting, Sexuality, Teen & Young Adult, Family Life
Size: 272 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

The Best of Aloha Kugs: Volume I: Kugs says Aloha to Life, the Universe, and Other Stuff and Things

by Robert Kugler

Come along on a journey through over a decade of work as "Aloha Kugs." Robert Kugler, author of the new novel THE LAST GOOD DAY revisits some of his favorite topics including, being a stay-at-home-dad, learning new things in adulthood, embracing the awesome power of toys, childhood and moving on, life, love, and loss. Along the way you'll meet dinosaurs, barely avoid a fistfight in the Honolulu Library, fend off a bully, destroy several layers of comfort zones, say farewell to a few magical people and one amazing dog, and, discover the sheer joy and promise inherent in a 1970 Plymouth Duster.Fifteen of Kug's best columns await you here in Volume I!...

Genre: Humor & Entertainment, Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality, Humor
Size: 114 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2021 onward PDT/PST 

The Broken Road Home: A True Story

by Evie Gallagher

This is Evie’s sad, and heart-wrenching tale about walking a broken road until she finally found her home and peace in her heart. At five years old Evie was a pretty young child, with blonde curls, and blue eyes. Uncle Melvin couldn’t take his eyes off her. There was no warning in her innocent, young heart. He showed her kindness in a home where there was none and used her loneliness to carve a path for himself, to steal her innocence many times, over. Evie had no one to turn to. Her mother, an alcoholic, and her step-father Derek a violent man who only sought to punish her at every turn. Shunned by her mother Evie was forced into numerous foster care and children's homes. All she had to cling to was her biological father Peter, her Nan and her love of horses. Evie would later marry An...

Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Relationships, Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships, Sexuality
Size: 304 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2021 onward PDT/PST