About Rachel Griffin: Hometown: Cleveland, OH Occupation: Founder/Owner/CEO of Pen & Camera My writing journey began at age thirteen when I wrote my first poem. Finally deciding to start story writing in high school, I took writing as a whole seriously enough to make it a career. There were plenty of moments where I doubted myself. Mostly during the early stages of my first book release. After seeing what I could do after regaining some determination and motivation, I’m glad I made the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Rachel Griffin
Beyond the Blue: A Survival Guide for the Male Labeled, and a Healthier Society for All by Chris Warren-Dickins LLB MA LPC
Since the pandemic, mental healthcare has become inaccessible to many, and this has hurt certain people more than others (whether that is due to gender bias, racism, transphobia, biphobia, or homophobia). Untreated depression, anxiety, relationship conflict and anger, and trauma pose a risk for all of us in society, so this Survival Guide is essential reading for anyone who needs to tackle these threats to emotional and physical well-being. Does any of this sound familiar? • Depression snarls … [Read more...] about Beyond the Blue: A Survival Guide for the Male Labeled, and a Healthier Society for All by Chris Warren-Dickins LLB MA LPC
The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept & Embrace It All by Kimberly Anne Bell
The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept and Embrace it All, is an inspirational testimony of finding resilience, embracing your destiny and overcoming adversity. It is an eye-opening memoir that takes you beneath the surface into some of the harshest realities of life from the perspective of an abandoned little child in kinship care growing up into adulthood. It is the authentic true story with no filters. This memoir confronts the societal issues that many people struggle with today such as pedophilia, … [Read more...] about The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept & Embrace It All by Kimberly Anne Bell
Randouka by Akin Isa
If someone were to dig you out of the ground, claim to be your guardian angel and explain you've probably been cursed most of your life... what would you do? Saffron Schneider is legally dead. It says so right there, on the newly printed death certificate. So if that's the case, how is it that she's still roaming the streets of Edmonton, dressed as a ghost, trying to scare the hell out of her peers? And what is it about this girl that makes her such a target to angels, devils and humans … [Read more...] about Randouka by Akin Isa
Beautiful Heartbreak by Perry Kay
"Beautiful Heartbreak" is a seamlessly weaved story of Depression, PTSD, and Anorexia, depicted through a collection of poems. Perry Kay opens a little crack in the world of those who battle their minds every day. From the depths of pain and despair beautiful art was born, hence the title "Beautiful Heartbreak". Through every step in her recovery and personal journey, Perry writes poetry. Her goal with this book is to spread more Mental Health awareness and to normalize and expose the dark and … [Read more...] about Beautiful Heartbreak by Perry Kay
Swallowing the Stem of Adam’s Apple by Laura Kiesel
Laura Kiesel plumbs the depths of familial dysfunction, and the wretched inheritance of addiction, thoroughly and with impressive nuance in Swallowing the Stem of Adam’s Apple, combining integrity and personal grit that’s interwoven throughout her lyrical style. She writes beautifully about her fractured relationship with her mother, and the ripple effect it has had throughout the rest of her life. Her work is an unflinching examination of the erotic implications of romantic relationships and … [Read more...] about Swallowing the Stem of Adam’s Apple by Laura Kiesel
Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz
Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz Carousel Music is a “She said, he said” mystery, set two decades before the “Me, too” era during a time when controversy raged over the validity of memories recovered during psychotherapy. As knotty as the dilemma of when to believe women who claim that they were violated as adults, what if the victim was a child and the perpetrator was her father? And what if she had no recollection of the trauma before undergoing psychotherapy as an adult and her father was … [Read more...] about Carousel Music by Rick Moskovitz
Bargain Book: Asylum by Carly Rheilan
The child’s hand groping out of the earth is undoubtedly real. As real as Cabdi’s own hand, when it lay on the earth after the machete fell, long ago. But this hand is alive. And it isn’t in a war-zone. It’s in the playground of a school, just outside the grounds of the English psychiatric hospital where Cabdi is now held. And the man who is stamping on the moving hand is a pigeater. Pigeaters are in charge of everything. As an accidental asylum seeker, Cabdi is friendless in a country he … [Read more...] about Bargain Book: Asylum by Carly Rheilan
Interview with Author – Carly Rheilan
About Carly Rheilan: Carly Rheilan was born in Malta and lives in the UK. She was educated at Oxford (which she hated and left) and then at Brunel (a small-town technological university where she stayed for a PhD). She is a psychiatric nurse. She has done research into criminal justice and taught in universities. She has children of her own and has also fostered two children with mental health problems. She has worked many years in the NHS. Her novels address issues at the edges of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Carly Rheilan
Refugee by Reece Pocock
Reece Pocock has written an authoritative and intimate story of two families brought together by war and peace; in the process, he creates a fine study of how ordinary people are swept along by political and military events over which they have no control but which continue to colour their daily lives. In North Africa in the 1940s, two men - Bill, an Australian and Rolf, a German - confront each other in a one-to-one fight in the vicious battles around Tobruk. Both are forever scared physically … [Read more...] about Refugee by Reece Pocock
The Keeper by R. L. Mosz
This book is bargain priced from 01/18/2014 until 01/20/2014 Caitlin Rosenberry is an unassuming young waitress, who, due to a sudden traumatic shock suffered a stroke in her early twenties. Now almost mended, she returns to her doctor for a follow-up visit. Fortuitously, her physician is out and his replacement is the striking Dr. Chris Seacrest, neurosurgeon par excellence and chief of staff of the medical center. Their first encounter does not go well when, much to the shock of the … [Read more...] about The Keeper by R. L. Mosz
