Most people know Roger Perron because of one extraordinary chapter of his life. This is the story of everything else.Long before the events that inspired The Conjuring introduced the Perron family to audiences around the world, Roger Albert Perron had already lived a remarkable life filled with adventure, service, entrepreneurship, family, and unforgettable experiences.In Being Perronormal, Roger shares the stories that shaped the man behi...

Regina Brett, author of the New York Times bestselling God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours offers inspiring stories about the decisions we make and how our choices can make the impossible possible.Want to live your dreams--or even surpass them? Want the world to change for the better? Want to see a miracle? What are we waiting for? Why not be the miracle?That's the challenge Regina Brett sets forth in Be the Miracle.To be...

In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was ...

Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his ol...

Those of us who are over sixty are not amused at being compared to aging wine, and certainly not cheese.In this book thirty of us - writers, educators, businesswomen, motivational speakers, mothers, grandmothers, retirees, an artist, a hairdresser, a psychic, a farmer, a psychologist, and a burlesque dancer - each share a story about something that changed everything. We think that you - especially if you're a woman over sixty - will laugh and cry and maybe gasp at...

Jan Fowler has created a sparkling diamond!--Paul Ryan, Celebrity TV Talk Show Host for CBS, NBC, ABC; author of The Art of Comedy: Getting Serious about Being FunnyEntertaining, energetic, heartwarming! True-life accounts of real people fromall walks of life.--Jackie Goldberg (The Pink Lady), Producer of Senior Star Power Productions Rockin With the Ages, The Musical, HollywoodThe perfect gift book for any ...

A heartwarming, wry, and often surprising collection of essays about the next rite of passage for Baby Boomers: what happens when the kids leave homeAs the baby boom generation ages -- the oldest are now turning sixty -- many of them are learning to deal with a whole new way of life, after the last child has finally moved out and they are, once again, alone. It's the same milestone their own parents faced, but as with so many other markers, this generation approach...

Advance praise for Tears in a BottleHere we hear the real stories of people who are grieving. And these individual narratives have power. Kenneth J .Doka, Ph.D.Losing a loved one is a difficult experience, and every griever has a unique and personal story. In Tears in a Bottle, author and grief counselor Clair Hudson Jantzen has gathered these one-of-a-kind stories of loss to bring grievers together, helping them to find a connection in the stories...

Valery the Great is a crackling, electric collection of dark humour that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of its protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply sarcastic, the unique narrative voices in this collection are always powerfully touching.Praise for Valery the Great:"15 Finest Book Covers in Spring Fiction This Year" selection (Something Daily blog)“By turns comic, pathetic, and tenderly tragic, Valery the...

This is not a book about dying but a lovely written memoir of living, loving, and learning, and finally accepting that which cannot be changed. It's purpose is to inform and inspire as well as assure those in similar circumstances that their strength is immeasurable and that they are not alone. The author has known great love, great joy, heartbreak and more than her share of life's sorrows. She learned that one cannot control or conquer the will of the wind, but can climb aboard and from t...

It started with a simple question: how has the coronavirus pandemic changed your life?We asked, sixteen writers answered – and this essay collection was born.We Have it Totally Under Control is a literary time capsule of sorts. Authored by people from many walks of life, this anthology covers topics from cancer to unemployment to grocery shopping. Some essays are joyful; others are so heartbreaking they're difficult to read. But these essays all have one common thread: they...

Best-selling author Iris Krasnow presents a powerful, exhilarating book about living from truth, about uncovering who you are, beyond marriage, children, and career. With passionate narrative and insightful interviews, Krasnow helps readers muster up the courage to discard old selves that are false, and to live their dreams. She pushes people to sever unhealthy relationships, to resurrect childhood hobbies, to consider a new career, and to face their own mortality. Krasnow stresses that Su...