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  Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken   by Chris Richards. Book to be released August 29, 2025. Use coupon code FF25 for 25% discount. Also available on pre-order on  Amazon , where it is already top 100 in two bestseller categories, and on  Barnes & Noble . Book description:  In the shadow of loss, a path to healing begins. Chris Richards grew up in a small New England mill town, where life was tough and loyalty ran deep. At just 19, his world was shaken when a close friend was left permanently disabled by a devastating accident. At the same time, Chris’s father began to show troubling symptoms linked to his service in the Vietnam War—unseen wounds that would slowly unravel the man he once knew. The weight of watching two people he loved unravel under the strain of trauma and physical decline left deep scars—ones Chris carried silently into adulthood. For years, he buried his grief and fear, never imagining that one day, facing his own crisi...

  Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken  - war, memoir, more. Today we provide a precerpt (an excerpt from a book not yet published) -  -ally-   The largest maple tree along with the secret superhero base was cut down first. It was deemed too big and much too close to the house; the expanding roots had expanded, building up pressure against the foundation. A year or two later, the pair of smaller maples followed, but the landscaper left the stumps and never came back to finish. They sat anchored in the front lawn for years, oozing rainbow-bright rot into the surrounding grass. Mushrooms and other fungi blossomed.   But Kim Anderson was wicked mint, an eighth grader with chestnut curls framing freckled cheeks and soft brown eyes. Her friends, Marie Labreck and Michelle Nadeau, were also suddenly cute, and then there was this tall girl in my math class with blond, spikey hair, and Oh My God! What was happening to me? I’d notice Kim talking with her f...

  Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken   by Chris Richards. Book to be released August 29, 2025. Use coupon code FF25 for 25% discount. Also available on pre-order on  Amazon , where it is already top 100 in two bestseller categories, and on  Barnes & Noble . Book description:  In the shadow of loss, a path to healing begins. Chris Richards grew up in a small New England mill town, where life was tough and loyalty ran deep. At just 19, his world was shaken when a close friend was left permanently disabled by a devastating accident. At the same time, Chris’s father began to show troubling symptoms linked to his service in the Vietnam War—unseen wounds that would slowly unravel the man he once knew. The weight of watching two people he loved unravel under the strain of trauma and physical decline left deep scars—ones Chris carried silently into adulthood. For years, he buried his grief and fear, never imagining that one day, facing his own crisi...

  Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken   by Chris Richards. Book to be released August 29, 2025. Use coupon code FF25 for 25% discount. Also available on pre-order on  Amazon , where it is already top 100 in two bestseller categories, and on  Barnes & Noble . Book description:  In the shadow of loss, a path to healing begins. Chris Richards grew up in a small New England mill town, where life was tough and loyalty ran deep. At just 19, his world was shaken when a close friend was left permanently disabled by a devastating accident. At the same time, Chris’s father began to show troubling symptoms linked to his service in the Vietnam War—unseen wounds that would slowly unravel the man he once knew. The weight of watching two people he loved unravel under the strain of trauma and physical decline left deep scars—ones Chris carried silently into adulthood. For years, he buried his grief and fear, never imagining that one day, facing his own crisi...