Category: Memoir

Donald L. Miller announces the release of ‘Oh No! Not Another Brat!’

Donald L. Miller announces his entry into the publishing scene with the release of “Oh No! Not Another Brat!” (published by Archway Publishing) as he looks back at the obstacles he has overcome and the lessons he has learned along the way.

In 1956, at age 14, Miller ran away from home with his younger brother after a one-way argument with his father. After years of abuse, neglect and a family with no love, this incident broke the camel’s back. The next day, he stole $35 from his father’s drawer before telling his mom of his runaway plans. The plan was to ride their bikes from Illinois to Florida, unbeknownst to them, a pedophile killer lurked the streets of Chicago.

At 18, Miller found an escape – he dropped out of school to join the Navy, where he met many other challenges. He was first stationed in Hawaii, right after it had become a state, and was attacked by a huge, crazed Samoan man. Several years later, he got into a major argument with his wife and took off with the family car. He went to Hollywood, California to find his sister, even though he did not know her last name or where she lived. A miracle occurred when he got there. Now at age 80, Miller is going through his toughest challenge: caring for his wife of 61 years, who is struggling with the last stages of dementia and under hospice care.

“I believe my life story is unique. I survived a crazy life and lived to tell about it. There are scenes which are unbelievable. There is adventure in it,” Miller says. When asked what he wants readers to take away from the book, he answers, “I think they will be happy they read it. If it were not my story, I would love it. Near death experiences and miracles to boot.” Part of the proceeds from this book will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association. For more details about the book, please visit https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/841499-oh-no-not-another-brat

“Oh No! Not Another Brat!”
By Donald L. Miller
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 508 pages | ISBN 9781665729567
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 508 pages | ISBN 9781665729581
E-Book | 508 pages | ISBN 9781665729574
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

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Donald L. Miller was born in 1942 during World War II. He was the eldest of eight children and mostly raised himself. He had a passive mother who was always too busy taking care of babies and an abusive father who had no interest in his children. He served in the Navy and is a devoted fan of the Chicago Cubs.

Simon & Schuster, a company with nearly ninety years of publishing experience, has teamed up with Author Solutions, LLC, the worldwide leader in self-publishing, to create Archway Publishing. With unique resources to support books of all kind, Archway Publishing offers a specialized approach to help every author reach his or her desired audience. For more information, visit archwaypublishing.com or call 844-669-3957.

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Recent release “The Maid Will Be in Thursday” from Page Publishing author Cynthia Pringle is a fascinating autobiographical account of the author’s past experiences, guilt, and lessons learned in the face of adversity. Through the encouragement of God, Pringle discusses her failures and mistakes in the hopes of connecting with readers who face similar situations and are seeking guidance.

Cynthia Pringle has completed her new book “The Maid Will Be in Thursday”: a captivating and deeply personal memoir that explores the author’s past mistakes, and the lessons she learned from them through God’s wisdom.

“For those of us who don’t know how to smell the roses, ‘The Maid Will Be In Thursday’,” writes Pringle. “This is a twenty-year journey of which I had no idea I would be making. That is how long it has taken to finish this book. I lived with the shame and guilt of the unthinkable and had no plans to share this story, but God didn’t share my stance about secrecy. I prefer to keep silent about some details of my life, but God has his plans. After being disobedient for so long, I realized about a year ago, it was time to finish this project. Along the way, I’ve had many lessons, and the one that stands out the most is that I could not run from what God wanted to be done. So here is my book, and I hope it will be a blessing to others. There are some events I’m proud of, and some I would rather forget. What a not so perfect person I am. Thankfully, perfection never was expected of me, and for that, I am grateful.”

Published by Page Publishing, Cynthia Pringle’s enlightening tale is a raw and honest look at the author’s life and how it was transformed by the healing light of God, encouraging her at each step to continue on the path of sharing her tale. Powerful and enthralling, Pringle weaves an intricate narrative that will leave readers spellbound and remain with them long after its conclusion.

Readers who wish to experience this engaging work can purchase “The Maid Will Be in Thursday” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.

About Page Publishing

Page Publishing is a traditional, full-service publishing house that handles all the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not mired in logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and so on. Page’s accomplished writers and publishing professionals allow authors to leave behind these complex and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at http://www.pagepublishing.com.

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Join the author as he looks back at his childhood, adult life, and his rise to the top of the entertainment industry

Thomas Douglas Adelman looks back at an eventful life that includes working with celebrities such as Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, and Julie Andrews in his engaging new book “Once Upon a Time in Yorkville: From New York City to Hollywood – A Memoir” (published by iUniverse).

Born in 1954, and having grown up on New York City’s Upper East Side in an upper-middle-class dysfunctional yet loving Jewish family, that oddly celebrated Christmas, Adelman was inspired by his mother, an actress in the forties, and despite being a troubled child who got kicked out of private schools, ended up rising to the top in the entertainment industry. In his memoir, which includes a Foreword by Academy Award and Grammy award-winning director Taylor Hackford, Adelman, a screenwriter, producer, and director, colorfully describes his adventures from childhood, through traveling the world in his youth and for work, to being named the Vice President of Beatle George Harrison’s production company Handmade Films, to ultimately launching his own successful company. Join the author on his fun and exciting life journey in “Once Upon a Time in Yorkville: From New York City to Hollywood – A Memoir.”

What readers are saying:
“Great insights and truth from Hollywood. Fantastic read and insights into the genuine inner workings, personalities, and challenges of producing high quality entertainment in “the business”. Tom Adelman invites the reader into a world so personal and detailed that his authenticity is what shines most clearly through the journey. A must read!” — K & K

“A touching and fun ride through the exceptional life of an important and lovable Hollywood producer. Thomas Douglas Adelman guides us through his personal life journey via a warm, humorous, and intimate lens, where his memories become ours as we take his wonderful and colorful journey down memory lane with him. Along the way, we fall in love with the scenery in Thomas’ world and those who are so very special to him. Well done and highly enjoyable.” — C.M.

Visit https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/827982-once-upon-a-time-in-yorkville get a copy.

“Once Upon A Time in Yorkville: From New York City To Hollywood – A Memoir”
By Thomas Douglas Adelman
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 396 pages | ISBN 9781663236371
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 396 pages | ISBN 9781663236364
E-Book | 396 pages | ISBN 9781663236388
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
Thomas Douglas Adelman was formerly a senior producer and director for New York’s Group W Cable. During his tenure at GWC, he won ten ACE Awards and numerous medals at international film festivals. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for directing a classical music performance series in collaboration with the Juilliard School. He has also written and just published his original screenplay “Georgia & Nathan a Love Story” about a Southern belle and a Jewish boy who become unlikely friends at university through their shared love of singing. As their friendship deepens, problems arise when it is discovered Georgia’s family may have collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

iUniverse, an Author Solutions, LLC, self-publishing imprint, is the leading book marketing, editorial services, and supported self-publishing provider. iUniverse recognizes excellence in book publishing through the Star, Rising Star and Editor’s Choice designations—self-publishing’s only such awards program. iUniverse is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana. For more information or to publish a book, please visit iuniverse.com or call 1-800-AUTHORS.

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Recent release “Unlike No Other: A Memoir of the Unlikely, Yet Successful Career of a United States Marine Corps Aviator” from Page Publishing author Robert Wemheuer is an incredible autobiographical account of the author’s twenty-five year long career in the U.S. Marine Corps. From intense battles to leadership challenges, Wemheuer shares his and others’ stories to preserve their memories.

Robert Wemheuer, a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps who also worked as an environmental remediation project manager, has completed his new book “Unlike No Other: A Memoir of the Unlikely, Yet Successful Career of a United States Marine Corps Aviator”: a thrilling and stirring memoir detailing the combat experienced overseas by the author during the Vietnam War, his successes in battle and leadership, and his brothers in arms that changed his life forever.

“This memoir is built on newspaper articles, notes, maps, log-books, pictures, and journals, but it is based mostly on my personal recollections of the people I served alongside as well as the significant events in my career,” writes Wemheuer. “The people are my primary motivation for telling their and my stories.

“The structure of each book containing this memoir is based on a series of stories which follow a normal sequence in chronological order. My stories are laid out based on this order rather than on their perceived importance to me when I was putting the books together.

“These memoir stories range from intense combat conditions during my three tours in the Vietnam War to unique escape-and-evasion-training experiences and to my various leadership challenges and achievements, both in command positions as well as in the Marine Corps Headquarters assignments during my twenty-five-year career in the United States Marine Corps.”

Published by Page Publishing, Robert Wemheuer’s personal tale displays the bravery and courage he and each of his fellow members of the U.S. Marine Corps showed in all that they did despite the dangers they faced around every corner. Expertly paced and full of wisdom, Wemheuer shares an impactful story that will remain with readers long after its conclusion.

Readers who wish to experience this mesmerizing work can purchase “Unlike No Other: A Memoir of the Unlikely, Yet Successful Career of a United States Marine Corps Aviator” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.

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Page Publishing is a traditional, full-service publishing house that handles all the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not mired in logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and so on. Page’s accomplished writers and publishing professionals allow authors to leave behind these complex and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at http://www.pagepublishing.com.

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Author Anne Angelo’s personal manuscript shares a firsthand account of life in Europe leading up to World War II

In 1949, Anne Angelo started documenting the events of her life while they were fresh in her memory. She wanted to share her story with the world, and how she survived the harsh environment of her upbringing. Unfortunately, Angelo never published her book before her death. However, her son came across her manuscript and completed his mothers dream of publishing her memoir, “A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass.”

Angelo faced many hardships in her childhood, from both the environment in the Scotland Highlands, and from her father. She quickly learned from an early age to fend for herself. Eager to escape her overbearing father, and his attempts to marry her off, Angelo applied for a job as a governess for a family in Northern France and started a life on her own.

Just three years after the start of her employment, the depression caused her to lose her job, and two years later Europe was facing World War II.

Angelo’s personal stories share a firsthand account of life in Scotland and France leading up to the events of World War II. This book offers more than just a historical account of life, it also shares the message of Angelo’s struggles and successes. With this memoir, she hopes to inspire others who are struggling, and show that, with perseverance, finding a better life is possible.

“A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass”
By Anne Angelo
ISBN: 9781669888376 (softcover); 9781669888369 (electronic)
Available at Xlibris, Amazon and Barnes & Noble

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Anne Angelo was brought up in harsh conditions in Scotland, and lived through World War I and through the 1920s. Fleeing the difficult conditions of her homeland, Angelo made her way to Northern France, where she lived for a number of years. After joining the French Resistance in World War II, she escaped back to Britain. She passed away in 1999. The continuation on Angelo’s story has been published as well, in the book “The Forbidden Zone: 1940.” For more information, please visit https://www.xlibris.com/en-au/bookstore/bookdetails/838782-a-sprig-of-white-heather-and-a-scottish-lass.

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Author contends that his encounter with Sam Bankman-Fried’s academic superstar parents can shed light on the cultural roots of the former crypto mogul’s story.

New York attorney and philosophy PhD Rony Guldmann has released an academic memoir chronicling his ancient feud with Stanford Law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of controversial FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (aka SBF). The memoir is titled The Star Chamber of Stanford and recounts Guldmann’s tumultuous time working among the elites of Stanford Law, where he was Bankman and Fried’s mentee, first as a student and then as an academic fellow. The association began when Guldmann’s term paper, Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, captured Bankman’s and Fried’s interest, prompting them to offer him a fellowship to stay on at the law school after graduation.

Guldmann details how his resistance to his oppression by academia eventually frayed the relationship, precipitating tribulations that he believes revealed the cultural pathologies of his elite academic milieu. In this way, the memoir offers up “a philosophical argument through the tale of my convoluted association with the Bankman-Fried power couple.” Naturally, the story is narrated from the author’s own perspective, which is expressed through the memoir’s many rhetorical flourishes (including the title itself), but Guldmann clarifies at the outset that he does “not advance a one-dimensional victim-villain narrative” with him “occupying the moral high ground.” He assures readers, “I have done my utmost to give the other side its due within the bounds of my worldview, to which end I scrutinize myself as vigorously as I do any other party.”

Guldmann had been penning The Star Chamber of Stanford for over a decade before it finally appeared on Amazon in April 2022, half a year before SBF’s spectacular fall from grace. He remarks that “it’s pure serendipity that my former advisers should be thrust into the national spotlight just six months after the memoir’s belated release—utterly uncanny, just like my story itself.”

This surprisingly timely book about the author’s encounter with SBF’s parents can help shed light on the deeper cultural roots of SBF’s problematic rise and fall. Guldmann surmises that Bankman and Fried “were as blindsided as anyone” by SBF’s downfall and had been “seriously committed to cultivating their offspring’s moral capacities.” Even so, Guldmann posits that SBF’s contradictions are a product of the elite dysfunctions in which SBF’s Stanford upbringing marinated him, dysfunctions that were also crystalized by the author’s own experience at Stanford.

More information at ronyguldmann.com

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Recent release “Maria’s Life in Guatemala and USA” from Page Publishing author Maria M. Torres is a compelling memoir that describes the hardships, mischievousness, and happiness of the author’s childhood, along with her memories with her parents, five brothers, and four sisters.

Maria M. Torres has completed her new book “Maria’s Life in Guatemala and USA”: a gripping and potent memoir that shares the author’s journey through her humble beginnings, her adaptation to a new society, and her successful achievements.

Author Maria M. Torres was born in Mataquescuintla, a small town in Guatemala surrounded by high mountains. She was raised on her grandparents’ farm. Maria’s family was poor, which was one of the reasons she could only attend school for two years. However, she was smart and dreamed that someday she would be somebody. The best thing that happened to Maria was to immigrate to the United States of America, where she met some genuine people who helped her to become the person she is now. In the beginning, she worked as a nanny for a famous family in Malibu, California. Later, she attended night school to learn English and also enrolled in a beauty school to become a beautician, an occupation she has been practicing for the last forty-five years. Maria is a hard worker and a humble, honest, and caring person. She currently lives in Westchester, California.

Maria begins her story, sharing, “I had a wonderful life growing up in Guatemala, with my parents, five brothers, four sisters, and my niece Lily. We were very poor, but in our house, there was love and understanding. My mother’s name was Catalina. She was a beautiful and special lady. She was petite and slender, with fair skin and a pointed nose and long wavy black hair. She was a saint. She was always concerned about others. She was born in a small picturesque town named Palencia. It sits in a small green valley surrounded by beautiful mountains and wildflowers. She once told me after all those years that Palencia never changed that much. It kept its natural beauty. From there, her family moved 150 miles away to Mataquescuintla, where she met my father, Romulo, and they fell in love. They were both very young. She was only fifteen, and my dad, twenty. My father was slender and tall with a dark complexion; he was a wonderful, very honest, and hardworking man.”

Published by Page Publishing, Maria M. Torres’s impactful work shares her brave and inspirational journey.

Readers who wish to experience this remarkable work can purchase “Maria’s Life in Guatemala and USA” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.

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Page Publishing is a traditional, full-service publishing house that handles all the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not mired in logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and so on. Page’s accomplished writers and publishing professionals allow authors to leave behind these complex and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at http://www.pagepublishing.com.

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“The Gift of Time: A Birth Mother’s Memoir” from Christian Faith Publishing author Julie McLaughlin tells the story of a private adoption following an unexpected pregnancy and how forty years later a son reached out seeking connection.

“The Gift of Time: A Birth Mother’s Memoir”: an emotionally charged memoir that explores the complexities of motherhood. “The Gift of Time: A Birth Mother’s Memoir” is the creation of published author Julie McLaughlin, a dedicated wife and mother who retired from the legal field as a legal secretary and paralegal.

McLaughlin shares, “‘do we have any skeletons in our closet?’

“That was the question posed to the author’s mother-in-law by a niece after receiving a private message through Facebook from a stranger who said, ‘I think you are my cousin.’ This led to a shocking phone call on a normal June day, which altered the life of the author.

“For forty years, Julie had kept a secret from most of the people in her life. A Catholic girl from a good family in the late 1970s, she had become pregnant in her late teens but was not ready to be a mom. With guidance from her parish priest, Julie went away to live in a home for other unwed, pregnant girls and made the difficult decision to give her baby up for adoption. Not for forty years did she know a thing about him—what his name was, what he looked like, where he lived, or what he did for a living. Until that June day in 2018, when he was revealed to be that baby, now a forty-year-old man. Yet she always had faith that her decision was the right one as she placed her son in God’s hands.

“Over the course of two years, this birth mother and biological son get to know each other and enter into each other’s lives. There are interesting twists and turns. Had their paths ever crossed?

“This very personal and honest memoir dives into the heartache, loss, and guilt suffered by the author. You will laugh, and you might cry. Some who have experienced the real story compare it to a beautiful Hallmark movie. In the end, the hole in the author’s heart is filled.

“It is the author’s hope that this adoption story can bring peace to others who have endured a similar fate.”

Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Julie McLaughlin’s new book will tug at the heartstrings as readers explore a journey of faith, love, and family connection.

McLaughlin offers an intimate look into key moments that have shaped her life and the lives of those around her.

Consumers can purchase “The Gift of Time: A Birth Mother’s Memoir” at traditional brick & mortar bookstores, or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, or Barnes and Noble.

For additional information or inquiries about “The Gift of Time: A Birth Mother’s Memoir,” contact the Christian Faith Publishing media department at 866-554-0919.

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