The Troy Book Makers: 17 books
Dirty Dishes
Memoirs of a Bawdy Chef
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Dirty Dishes is a memoir of unprecedented content. This retold autobiographical journey of a prominent and successful rising star in the Atlanta culinary scene of the 80's is imbued with raw and erotic sexual vignettes, each one more fantastic and outlandish than the other. A true story in every detail,...
College and Eighth
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Innocence and wonderment become mischief and delinquency in this boisterous romp through childhood. As the youngest of four boys in a family of ten kids, Herb Hyde’s unique perspective about growing up poor in a depression weary world shines through. His tale begins in the mid-1940s and carries...
It Went Without Saying
A Family's Journey from Addiction to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
It Went Without Saying invites the reader into a riveting story told by a mother, father and daughter—a story of their struggle with the roots of addiction. The reader discovers, along with the authors, how the addiction begins to take hold of each of them and grows into a threat so ominous that it...
The Smart Shopper's Top Ten Lists
For Exceptional Perennials, Annuals and More (Zones 3-7)
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This e-book provides colorful images for the outstanding plants featured in the top-selling book, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Top Ten Lists - Money Saving Shortcuts, Design Tips & Smart Plant Picks for Zones 3 through 7. The lists have been updated since the printed book’s 2010 publication, plus...
Light
A Book of Solace
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A beloved cat who teaches a life lesson. A crystal necklace with magical powers. The gateway to eternal life through ones’ breath. The power of nature, and the beauty of art. These are just a few peeks into the world of Light: A Book of Solace, a collection of joyous literature celebrating the joys...
by Gary McLouth
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Do No Harm creates an in-depth, thoughtful, and artistically arranged conversation between the voices of the father and son who serve as alternate narrators throughout the book. These nine stories compose a complex duet in which two voices mingle and separate, both delving into their shared pasts, both...
How I Came to Dowagiac
Memories of an Orphan Train Rider
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In 1854 ten year old Elsie Dowdel finds herself living on the streets of New York City. She is befriended by a young orphan girl with whom she had shared food. The girls are taken in by the Children’s Aid Society and started on an adventure that will take them to another state, another way of life and, perhaps, a new family.
A Must Read
Funny Stories from the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
All the Stories in my book are true and I didn’t have to embellish them to make them humorous. I guarantee you will laugh out loud at some of the stories. They come from my full time jobs with New York State where I worked for the State Architect, the Capitol Police, and the Bureau of Weights and Measures....
After the Trauma the Battle Begins
Post Trauma Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book is written for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) sufferers and for their loved ones. PTSD is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death, yours or others. It includes but is not limited to such...
Wings of Fortune
Personal Tales From the "Golden Age" of Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
From the basic fabric covered Cub, to the sleek corporate jet, the author takes you page by page through what some have called “The Golden Age” of general aviation. Meet pilots and share in their camaraderie and humor; experience their tragedy and personal triumph. This is a fascinating real life...
by Elizabeth Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The French have a saying that goes something like this: "The most exciting part of a sexual liaison is walking up the stairs" Elizabeth Cooke, a New Yorker born and bred, graduated Vassar, and the Sorbonne in Paris where she developed a lifelong devotion to art. She is the author of LIFE SAVORS, a memoir,...
The Bijou Dream Theatre
How Dreams Helped Me Make It Through
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
My Memoir The Bijou Dream Theatre is about how I survived my childhood losses: the mental illness and alcoholism of my parents and our placement in a foster home. Along the way, a Quaker family takes us in and nurtures us for a while. I meet the love of my life and win a scholarship in voice to JUILLIARD....
by Ethan H. Minsker
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Barstool Prophets is not just the coming-of-age story of a young writer working in a bar in New York’s East Village, but also the chronicle of an iconic neighborhood and its wild spectrum of characters. From a love-addled bartender to a suicidal doorman to the junkies in Tompkins Square Park, they...
The Territory Around Us
Collected Literary and Political Journalism, 1982-2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
In his literary journalism, critic, novelist, and memoirist Robert J. Begiebing offers readers a rare view of American authors at transformative moments in their careers. Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, poets Sydney Lea and Wesley McNair, and novelists Merle Drown and Norman Mailer are among the authors...
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