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Julie Scolnik Paris Blue PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik arrives in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer in...
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Claudia Marseille But You Look so Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World By age four, I had hardly uttered a word. Finally, my parents had my hearing tested and learned I had a severe hearing loss. They chose to mainstream me, hoping this would offer me the most...
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As a Black-Market baby, sold for cash along a curb in 1970, I knew one day I’d tell my story. Of the 170,000 infants placed for adoption that year, 9000 were illegally brokered on the black market. I was one of them. The day an unscrupulous attorney handed me to the...
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Janice Airhart MOTHER OF MY INVENTION: A MOTHERLESS DAUGHTER MEMOIR My mother was institutionalized for schizophrenia shortly after my birth in 1953 until her death in 1966, leaving strangers and acquaintances to provide examples in becoming a woman and mother. MOTHER...
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Beth Bonness Transition Thunderstorms Transition Thunderstorms is a memoir poetry collection. Written from inside the mind of someone experiencing a series of strokes and other major life events. All her life Beth tingled at the sight of approaching thunderstorms....
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Robert W. Finertie Grace in Time: A Memoir of Hope, Healing and Being Spared I suffered some serious medical setbacks that were hard to face a year after my melanoma diagnosis and I learned that chemotherapy would likely help me to live many more years. Grace and my...