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  Recently released: audiobook edition of  Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place  by Schnuelle, Adams, and Henderson. Book description: Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place: A Lifeline for Victims Trapped at Home When home is not a safe place, where can you turn—especially during a crisis like a pandemic lockdown? In this vital and accessible guide, licensed mental health professionals Melissa Adams, LCSW, LIMHP, and Shari Schnuelle, LIMHP, LPC, offer real-life insights into what it’s like to be quarantined with an abuser. With compassion and clarity, they share practical, actionable strategies to protect yourself and your children from further harm—even when escape isn’t an option. Originally created to support survivors during COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, this book remains urgently relevant for anyone currently living in an abusive or high-conflict household. With a powerful introduction by trauma survivor Geri Henderson, Ph.D.,  Surviving Domestic Abuse Wh...

  Recently released: audiobook edition of  Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place  by Schnuelle, Adams, and Henderson. Book description: Staying Safe While Sheltering in Place: A Lifeline for Victims Trapped at Home When home is not a safe place, where can you turn—especially during a crisis like a pandemic lockdown? In this vital and accessible guide, licensed mental health professionals Melissa Adams, LCSW, LIMHP, and Shari Schnuelle, LIMHP, LPC, offer real-life insights into what it’s like to be quarantined with an abuser. With compassion and clarity, they share practical, actionable strategies to protect yourself and your children from further harm—even when escape isn’t an option. Originally created to support survivors during COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, this book remains urgently relevant for anyone currently living in an abusive or high-conflict household. With a powerful introduction by trauma survivor Geri Henderson, Ph.D.,  Surviving Domestic Abuse Wh...

  Recently released: the audiobook edition of It Only Hurts When I Can't Run by Gewanda Parker. Book description: It Only Hurts When I Can’t Run is a raw, inspiring memoir of survival, faith, and unbreakable resilience. Abused, abandoned, and passed between foster homes, friends, and relatives, a young girl faces unthinkable trauma—including sexual assault at the hands of those deemed trustworthy. Yet, through every betrayal and heartbreak, she finds strength in motion—physically running, and spiritually running toward hope. Told with courageous honesty, this powerful story traces her transformation from a wounded child into an educator, minister, and entrepreneur. With unwavering trust in God, she not only survives but forgives—and ultimately shares a life-changing message of healing for others walking through pain. For readers of inspirational true stories, abuse survival memoirs, and faith-based journeys of redemption , this book offers both heartbreak and healing in equal m...

  The e-book edition of  Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters   by Ken Mogren is on Kindle countdown discount, beginning at 99 cents, from April 4 through April 11. Description Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters  is a collection of over 100 entertaining, fictional mini stories about comical human behavior. Written in sonnet form, each of 22 chapters starts with a cartoonish illustration by Joella Goyette that introduces the theme of the stories that follow. Humorist, Ken Mogren, features grandmothers who are anything but stereotypical, as well as other folks whose behavior is best described as unconventional. Keywords Funny short stories,  Humorous character sketches,  Comic poetry book,  Mini stories in sonnet form,  Illustrated humor book,  Books about quirky characters,  Funny grandma stories,  Ken Mogren humor writing,  Funny grandma book,  Non-stereotypical grandmothers,  Feisty seniors in ficti...