- Do you have a story to tell? I can give your nonfiction books and essays the professional polish needed to attract readers. Just think how proud you would be to know your book has been written and edited to the highest professional standards.
Relinquished
A mother’s choice and my 30-year journey to find my birth family
Robert Yaffe lived a happy, comfortable life in Omaha, Nebraska, with his loving parents who adopted him as an infant. But the eternal question gnawed deeply at his content life. Who were his birth parents and potential siblings? His obsession for finding answers led himon an amazing decades’ long search to determine why he was placed for adoption.
Yaffe describes his painstaking research, dead ends and unexpected findings that eventually led him to his birth mother and the toxic secrets she kept from the world.
The Percussionist’s Wife
A Memoir of Sex, Crime & Betrayal
In a perverse age when politicians hide children bred by their mistresses and coaches prey upon their charges, “The Percussionist’s Wife” is a modern parable on the nature of betrayal and atonement for those who have endured the shame and mystery of unspeakable secrets. Monica Lee, a writer and former journalist, draws on her skills as a daily newspaper reporter and relies on the police evidence file to recreate her husband’s ongoing philandering with his students throughout their marriage and to illustrate how she coped — or didn’t — with the criminal charges against him.
Extreme Producers
Their Insights and Secrets
In more than 20 years in insurance and financial services sales, Jerry Hraban had the privilege to talk with many of the top producers in the field. These producers, who routinely post huge sales numbers, have shared insightful sales and personal growth ideas that have enriched their personal and professional lives. Hraban now shares these success stories with others, hoping they will achieve greater success through this shared knowledge.
Sold on Building Science
How the High Performance New Home Will Make All Other Homes Obsolete
The trends in homebuilding are clear: New homes of the future will all be built to meet high standards of energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and unsurpassed indoor-air quality that help keep homeowners and their families healthy. Homebuilders who are the first in their communities to build their homes to these standards of quality will undoubtedly enjoy a competitive advantage in their local marketplace.
In “Sold on Building Science,” Tim Lowndes details how fellow homebuilders can achieve this marketplace advantage by building what he calls High Performance New Homes™.
How I Lost 200 Pounds in One Day
(And other fabulous things that happened when I became sick)
Sharon battles the loss of a husband and battles a rare life-threatening disease in this memoir of courage and perservance.
A Priest’s Prison Story
Father Aiden McGrath, of Ireland’s Missionary Society of Saint Columban, went to China in the early 1950s to spread the Gospel. As the Chinese Communist Party swept into power, Father McGrath found himself in one of the era’s notorious prisons. Through faith, prayer and a very helpful bird, he survived his 32 months of incarceration when many others did not.
A Renovation to Warm the Soul
After buying an old Methodist church to renovate into their home, a plucky fifty-something couple who gets excited by reclaimed wood and deals on Craigslist goes to work, undaunted by risks to their marital relationship, creaky bodies and bank account. The 126-year-old structure has been stripped of pews, the altar, even the kitchen sink. The wiring is a Frankenstein mix of early 20th century knobs and tubes, copper wire and modern Romex. And the seller discloses the 40-foot bell tower is “rooted,” which the intrepid homebuyers Tyler and Monica take to mean as “rotted.” Friends wonder if there are bats in their belfry, literally and metaphorically, as the pair spends months juggling contractors of varying dependability, wandering around a thousand home improvement stores and sanding miles of wood floors, laboring to prove the doubters wrong.
Based on the real-time memoir Monica blogged by night, Church Sweet Home chronicles the amusing, exhausting and ultimately satisfying fixer-upper follies of turning a derelict community treasure into a dream home.
