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  Coming soon! Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken  - war, memoir, more. Approximate release date: August 15 -- watch for it! 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 crisis, he would turn to their stories for strength. This powerful and moving memoir explores the enduring impact of trauma, the quiet power of resilien...

  Coming Soon! Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken  - war, memoir, more. Today we provide a precerpt (an excerpt from a book not yet published) -  -in vietnam-   My father said there were farms with pigs, noisy and smelly, and then he snorted, making my brother and me laugh. He could always make us laugh. Then there was the time he was resting on the ground at night and something fast and heavy ran up to him and leapt off his chest, disappearing into the jungle. Too big to be a squirrel or cat, he said. He asked the other soldiers what it could’ve been, but nobody knew. They were strangers in a strange land. Then there were the rats, or mice the size of rats, rummaging the barracks for food. If he ate crackers in bed, the next morning he’d awake to a rodent sitting on his stomach, sniffing for crumbs. So, my mother mailed him some traps. Fifteen dead rats in one night. Twelve the next. My brother and I squirmed. The soldiers gave the rats to the local...

  Coming soon! Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken  - war, memoir, more. Approximate release date: August 15 -- watch for it! 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 crisis, he would turn to their stories for strength. This powerful and moving memoir explores the enduring impact of trauma, the quiet power of resilien...

  Coming soon! Available now on pre-order!  Nothing So Broken  - war, memoir, more. Approximate release date: August 15 -- watch for it! 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 crisis, he would turn to their stories for strength. This powerful and moving memoir explores the enduring impact of trauma, the quiet power of resilien...