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When Emma, a 40-something divorcee, sober alcoholic, desperate to transcend her abusive childhood and snag a man, attends a meditation meeting, she finds herself talking to a curiously wonderful stranger, wearing a sign saying, ‘More Love,’ and is set on a serendipitous, magical and sometimes terrifying, metaphysical trajectory of healing possibility and the opportunity for love and new life. One woman’s story of transcendence from victim to victory, this 2nd Edition of The More Love Club, includes a tell-all preface. Ms. Alexander identifies herself as an incest survivor, declaring that the characters and situations presented in the book are based on real life events. Although her te ...

A remarkable story of two farm families in Maine's Penobscot County, this book provides insightful and personal descriptions of the struggles, heartache, and good times of farm life in rural Maine during the '30s and '40s. Through extensive research, memories and letters of one family of six on on a small dairy farm, and the other family of seventeen on a subsistence farm with no electricity or plumbing, the author writes with sensitivity and detail of the difficulties of surviving the Great Depression and how life changed during and after World War II. Gail Rowe initially her path of discovery of her roots for family members but the book is now resonating with a larger audience. Ther ...

A charming history written by three lifelong residents of West Brunswick, a village located in Midcoast Maine. A mixture of historical documentation of the past 400 years of Indian and American settlements, shipbuilding, and other economic endeavors along Maquoit Bay, genealogies of the houses in the neighborhood, and oral histories--often with Maine humor--by the authors and other family members. Packed with family photographs on nearly every page, this unique and heartfelt memoir is a must for any history buff.

If I had to describe the book in a few words, they would simply be “love and commitment.” It may, at times, make you cry. This is an unavoidable ingredient of any tale involving Parkinson’s disease. However, more often than not, it will make you laugh…as it is about Marie - a person who was unforgettable after you met her, as she will be when you read about her.