A raw, darkly funny, and inspiring memoir of living with terminal brain cancer.Suzanne Samples faces a glioblastoma with honesty, humor, and a whole lot of cuss words. This isn't just a cancer story; it's a story about identity, friendship, and finding meaning in the face of mortality.For readers who appreciate vulnerable storytelling and unflinching honesty, Frontal Matter offers:A unique per...

A poignant memoir of resilience, acceptance, and finding light in the darkest tunnels.In Thirteen Tunnels, Suzanne Samples chronicles her journey through brain cancer, offering a brutally honest and unflinching view of her life. From the small towns of West Virginia to abandoned train tunnels, Suzanne navigates relationships, mortality, and the search for meaning in the face of adversity.This memoir is for readers who appreciate:Stori...

The follow up to Suzanne's Best of Year debut memoir, Frontal Matter: Glue Gone Wild, Stargazing is a humorous look at piecing a life back together after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

Shift negativity into positivity in seconds.Happiness comes from getting what we want, be it love, recognition, money, and support, among others. But most people, in their search for happiness, find themselves pleasing everyone else over themselves until they end up with feelings of resentment, frustration, and anger. Whether they’re looking for love, work, solutions to a problematic marriage, or are facing an empty nest, health problems, or enormous levels of stre...

The USA Today–bestselling biography of a man who lost his sight as an adult and regained it twenty years later without any medical intervention.Unblinded is the true story of New Yorker Kevin Coughlin, who became blind at age thirty-six due to a rare genetic disorder known as Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Twenty years later, without medical intervention, Kevin's sight miraculously started to return. He is the only known person in the world ...

Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and hasidic motherhood as, all the while, creative, sexual, and spiritual longings tremble beneath the surface.

“We were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive recruiters, doctors. We owned your child’s private school and sold you your brownstone. But you’d never guess our secret lives, how we lived in a kind of silent terror and fervor. There were hundreds of us.”Right under the noses of neighbors,...

Learn the 12 principles of self-leadership, the most important factor in driving results and achieving success.Adam Kreek has consistently defied the odds to find greater achievement in all facets of his life. After 73 days alone at sea, Kreek and his expedition team survived a capsize in the Bermuda Triangle, the subject of the Dateline NBC documentary "Capsized". Four years earlier, Kreek won Olympic Gold with his eight-man rowing team. A two-time Olympian, he holds 60 international meda...

In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again.The next four months are filled with agony, despair, and anger as Jeanne seeks legal s...

Everyone wants to accomplish their goals and live the life of which they dream. But in today's busy age, how do we make that happen?This interactive book helps readers live an intentional life by determining their priorities and tapping into their creativity to create beautiful and functional vision boards and manageable action plans to achieve their goals.Through guided worksheets, vision board templates and samples, and planning pages, author Carrie Lindsey inspires reade...

For the last decade, decorated Navy SEAL, accomplished athlete, and bestselling author Don Mann has been traveling across the country giving motivational talks and in the process inspiring hundreds with the secrets behind his awe-inspiring achievements. In Reaching beyond Boundaries, Mann brings his much sought-after wisdom to the page.As an elite Navy SEAL, Mann performed seemingly impossible tasks on a regular basis. Here he details the lessons he learned from his traini...

With stories from south central LA to the jungles of Peru, A Fierce Heart offers deep and honest reflections on compassion and suffering by one of the country's most powerful mindfulness teachers.Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, the most diverse and accessible meditation center in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, she shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha's 2,500-year-old teachings that get t...