“Hindsight”
Sheryl Recinos

“Hindsight: Coming of age on the streets of Hollywood”The author takes the reader through her difficult childhood and follows her journey as she struggles as a homeless teenager. This book will show you what it’s like to feel ignored, unloved, and unseen. It will also reveal the effects of caring adults on traumatized teens.

Says Kirkus, “The fact that her story has a surprisingly happy ending (as the initials “MD” after her name on the memoir’s cover attest) does little to blunt the sting that this gritty narrative of homelessness and young womanhood leaves in its wake.”Buy at https://amzn.to/30AyboK.

“Naked Truth”
Carrie Hayes

It’s 1868, and Tennessee Claflin, a spiritualist, is smart and sexy. Victoria Woodhull, her sister, will make history by becoming the first woman to run to be President of the United States. It begins with the seduction by the wealthiest man in America. They’ll then take New York City, and the suffragist movement, by storm.

They are boldly ambitious and will stop at nothing while they rub shoulders with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, and others. Their meticulously planned lives begin to unravel when their backstabbing relatives take them to court. Actual news reports are used. “Naked Truth”This insider’s look at the fight for women’s rights following the Civil War offers a fascinating insight. Buy at https://amzn.to/2UsLBQ8.

“The Takeaway Men”
Meryl Ain

The Lubinski Family – Polish refugees in Germany’s Displaced Peoples Camp – arrives in New York after WWII in search of a better life. They find themselves in one of the most notorious court cases during the Red Scare when a neighbor is arrested and charged with being involved in the Rosenberg spy investigation.

A former Nazi infiltrating their community brings back the Holocaust years later. The girls wonder about their pasts. It becomes obvious that these memories will prove more difficult to find than they had anticipated. Buy at https://amzn.to/2Jn77zK.

“Poetic License: A Memoir”
by Gretchen Cherington

Gretchen Cherington is forty-years-old and has two children. She also recently started a consulting firm.

Or, is it time for her to confront those myths and tell her truth – even the unavoidable truth that her kind and generous father sexually abused her? “Poetic License”One woman’s story of speaking truth, in a world that too often allows men to take the lead, is a powerful one. Buy at https://amzn.to/2UBkiSE.

 

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