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Holding Heaven – A Collection of Poems is about all the splendored manifestations of light on Earth.
This book rejects the notion that this country is beyond repair, that the problems we face are impossible to overcome.
Weave of Destiny is a memoir relating the tortuous journey over a jagged road that the author and his wife traveled to have a family of their own.
Honest, humorous, poignant, and raw with emotion…

Judy Kowalsky’s life is filled with alcoholism, suicide, and tragic loss.
Blending medical mystery with wit, sensitivity, and a sharp understanding of the human experience, One Tick Stopped the Clock offers hope and inspiration for anyone who can’t go back, but instead must move forward at a new pace.
The Tree You Come Home To tells the story of Jane’s family’s struggle with mental illness, addiction, and the crises that followed the murder of her youngest son.
For years, readers have delighted in Maxine Rose Schur's award-winning travel essays. Now, all the tales of her unusual honeymoon are gathered in one illustrated volume in a new, revised edition.
In November 2018, Kandi, already struggling with anxiety and chronic fatigue, faces her family’s unthinkable losses after the Paradise Camp Fire.
Breakfast at the Good Hope Home by Mike Bayles is about a young man's experience with his father who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
My Family: A Window into the Secrets, Successes, and Sins of Early New Orleans and Beyond by Michelle Freret Prather is a collection of complex life stories that interweave and meander through the ever-changing world of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Louisiana.
Sharing their hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, triumphs and tragedies in a vivid and unsparing correspondence, Mildred and Janet continue to navigate a journey to find meaning and hope in an indifferent world.
Swimming, Not Drowning, winner of Lone Star College's Writing Excellence Award, is a memoir in verse that takes the reader on the poet’s journey through her struggles with an anxiety disorder that often led to depression.
These poems gathered to discuss rhythms as urgent and Earthly as rain, as heartbeat, as ripening fruit. Rhymes of waves within tides within lifetimes.
In Encounters with Inscriptions, Czarnecki writes about the books inscribed and given to her by her parents over the years—an array of novels, short stories, poetry, nature writing, cultural criticism, and a cookbook.
CANDACE LOST HER SON. TWICE.
This book hopes to foster a dialog with those trying to understand the experience of exiles, political refugees, emigrants; and with the children of immigrants living with the consequences of the history that gave birth to this story.
The Record Keeper is a true story about three generations of DNA, genealogy, and memory.
Through writing White Flag, bestselling author Judy L. Mandel finds that it didn’t start with Cheryl, but that the tentacles of trauma explored in her first book Replacement Child have grabbed hold of her niece too.
Through the New-Old Quaker Women's Club, Beth and her friends, Sylvia, Lois, and Nancy, learn about Quaker women who followed the leading of the spirit to make the world a better place, gleaning ideas for ways they can do the same in the modern world.
When Linda Barbour Vanderbilt reluctantly returns to WVU for her husband’s 30-year fraternity reunion with him and her teenaged daughter, she doesn’t know if she’ll be met with welcome, indifference, or rejection.
While I Was Waiting For You is the expanded and revised edition of Joel Weishaus’ Collected Poems, Feels Like Home Again, published in 2014.
The Tracks of My Years is a book for anyone who grew up in post-World War II America, and for their children and grandchildren trying to look beyond the haze of myths surrounding Baby Boomers. It opens windows into the echoes of the heart. Cue up Alexa, Siri, or Spotify and curl up for a journey through The Tracks of My Years.
A woman who works in the beauty field stumbles on an astounding secret: anyone who wrongs her gets a terrible punishment in return.
Come along on Yvonne's journey of perseverance through intense psychotherapy as she learns it is possible to not only survive the after-effects of deep childhood trauma but break the generational cycle for her own family.
Come along with Stuart Miller as he takes you on his 40-year personal wonderful journey in the game of golf.
Chronicling the challenges of life, love, and loss, Kelsey Villeret's Efflorescence is a magnifying glass into the life of a modern teenage girl who has faced some unfortunate circumstances.
Insightful and forthcoming, Edenfield dares a glimpse into the influences of a denominational institution and those with the conviction of a higher power.
The Amazing “Auto” Biography of Peggy Hurst and Her Vintage VW Van.
The streetlights were dark for the first years of Norma's life, hiding her home from would-be bombers.
This narrative follows Sandy’s experiences and those of her two sisters as they deal with an onslaught of tragedy.
Craving Spring: A mother’s quest, a daughter’s depression, and the Greek myth that brought them together is a memoir about Ann’s desperate attempt to rescue her daughter from depression and addiction.
Rudy Lanier is a clever but average student in a Los Angeles High School in 1977. He longs to overcome numerous childhood fears—including death...
In this powerful debut, Antoinette Cooper weaves poetry, memoir, and documentary evidence into an ineffable work of embodied storytelling. UNRULY honors the Black female body as a site of profound resilience and complex histories.
In beautiful prose, Olmsted reveals the subterranean truths of these brave characters, their trauma, abuse, and recovery, and the animals who help them get there.
This is Aggie's story of growing up in a staunch Irish Catholic family, attending 12 years of Catholic school, joining the convent at 17 years of age, as a teacher-nun for 14 years, and eventually an entrepreneur preparing her to fight the battles for women’s equality.
Are You Gregg's Mother? describes the challenges, obstacles, and grace of raising a son who develops paranoid schizophrenia.
A story of generations, Gentle Spirits follows Samuel and Angelique through the splendor of nature as they experience Cumberland Island, Northern Michigan, Spearfish Canyon, a Montana ranch, Canadian Provinces, and Bear Butte while they navigate the challenges of a young adult world in search of meaning, in life and in death.
This is a story about a mother and son, a story about addiction.
As the first anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Cheryl thinks about her love of train travel and decides to buy a cross-country trip and get away from all that is familiar.
Teen author, Faith Foley's, book, reflections, contains a teen’s poems about navigating love and heartbreak in the shadow of trauma, mental illness, and a broken family.
Growing into a woman is challenging for most... ...but imagine losing your mother to drugs and infidelity, getting your innocence ripped away, and being buried with premature responsibility.
Spoken through poems, essays, and personal narrative I, Too, Am Tar Baby offers an archetypal model of the journey of self-discovery for Black youth and young adults.
This book is a journey to the soul of the Colorado Plateau through the eyes of two people who have lived and worked there as stewards of the land. Through Michael’s photographs and Heidi’s poetry, the artists share their bond with the beloved landscape that has shaped their lives and careers.
ONE DAY, YOU’RE A VALUED EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY … THE NEXT DAY, YOU’RE BEING PUSHED OUT THE DOOR
Praying for Restraint takes the reader on a journey into the absurd and surreal that is ultimately uplifting and harrowing, both funny and heartbreaking.
All families are complicated, but the reason is typically not a mystery.
My Walk with Grief is a spiritual memoir about Elaine Olson’s obsessive ten-year search for identity and love after living in the shadows as a pastor’s wife for thirty years, eventually marrying an agnostic who embodies Divine grace.
Between Two Poles reflects on Christine P. Dela Rosa’s experience cycling from reluctant classmate, to roommate, to best friend, to caretaker with Lien Le.
Dreams of Arcadia is a touching portrait of rural America. It explores the enduring ties that hold a family together and bind a family to the land.

Thank you for visiting Legacy Book Press. As a traditional publisher, our vision is to help as many people as possible tell their stories, in whatever form that takes and in a way that meets their author goals.

We are a full traditional publishing company, meaning that you pay nothing upfront or out of pocket for us to publish your book. (Go here to see what is included.) We recoup our investment through the royalties we split with you, which you will find are competitive with typical traditional publishers, and through the amount you pay for author copies, which is based on the cost of printing and not as a percentage off the retail price. This model allows authors to purchase books at deep discounts and allows us to set reasonable retail prices for readers. (Authors are not required to purchase copies.) Please browse around to learn more, and feel free to contact me at [email protected].

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