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  The Pink Dress - A Memoir of a...

  Jane Little Botkin

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  Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn't have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso's Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the "Kings of Beauty"—just as the 1970's counterculture movement began to take off.A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the author's failed relationship with her mother, and her parents' failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs.The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the era's conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that women went to college to get "MRS" degrees—to find a husband and become a stay-at-home wife and mother—often prevailed. How does one swim upstream against this notion among feminist voices that protest "If You Want Meat, Go to a Butcher!" at beauty pageants, two flamboyant showmen, and a developing awareness of self? Torn between women's traditional roles and what women could be, Guyrex Girls evolved, as did the author.

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  Wake the Others - A Biography of...

  Willy Palomo

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  Half-memoir, half-biography, Wake The Others wrestles with the legacy of the Salvadoran Civil War. Blending lyric and narrative, Palomo traces his mother’s childhood, war experiences, family separation, migration, and its aftermath. Political without sacrificing craft, confessional without navel-gazing, this debut collection of poetry guides readers through the quagmire of family secrets to a place where healing is possible. 
  "Willy Palomo’s outstanding debut takes a scalpel to the heart of biography as a genre, cuts through to the arteries of inherited nostalgia for a motherland, and opens the capillaries of a mama, abuela, and bisabuela’s traumas. This book is a gut wrenching family narrative of the history of violence in El Salvador and a family’s journey north in hope of stability and the possibility of joy. Palomo’s poems are an important and unique addition to the growing voice of Central American writers in the United States.”  
  —Natalie Scenters-Zapico, author of The Verging Cities and Lima :: Limón

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  Chemo Sunrise - A Poetic &...

  Kerry Anne Boer

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  🔹 "Sometimes the best man for the job is a WOMAN, and there is no such word as CAN'T." – Beryl Amy Patterson (My Mother) 
  🔹 Raised by a fiercely strong woman who lived and loved boldly before cancer took her too soon, I grew up knowing that obstacles are just challenges waiting to be conquered. As the eldest of four girls, I learned resilience, creativity, and the power of self-expression. 
  🔹 My artistic journey has taken me through pottery, painting, poetry, photography, sculpting, and beyond—because when words aren't enough, art speaks. And when cancer came knocking in 2013, I answered not with fear but with fierce determination. 
  🔹 Diagnosed with stage three breast cancer on Valentine's Day, I refused to let it define me. Instead, I transformed pain into poetry, illness into inspiration, and fear into fierce creativity. 
  What's inside this book? 
  ✅ A visual and poetic journey through cancer, healing, and resilience. 
  ✅ 90 breathtaking photographs capturing nature's beauty and life's fleeting moments. 
  ✅ Over 9,000 words of raw, heartfelt poetry and prose that reflect the rollercoaster of emotion, hope, and humor that carried me through. 
  Think this is just another cancer story? Think again. 
  🚫 Not just about illness—it's about living boldly, beautifully, and creatively. 
  🚫 Not just about struggle—it's about strength and the magic of turning pain into art. 
  🚫 Not just about me—it's about you and the reminder that we are all capable of finding light in the darkest times. 
  🔥 If you believe in resilience, creativity, and the healing power of art, this book is for you. 
  📖 Come walk with me through the sunrise and discover the beauty of finding yourself in the storm.

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  Magazine the Band - The biography

  Helen Chase

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  This book tells the story of the iconic band formed by Howard Devoto when he left the Buzzcocks. This revised and updated edition brings the story bang up-to-date.
  Already tired of the thrash and unrelenting nature of punk rock, Devoto wanted to combine the elements of avant-garde and pop. This he did with 'Shot by Both Sides', 'the best rock & roll record of 1978, punk or otherwise' (Rolling Stone) followed by their first album Real Life. Three more equally acclaimed albums followed before Magazine disbanded. With unique access to the band and interviews with the great and the good of the 1980s and iconic musicians of today, Helen Chase presents a riveting insight into the world of punk and beyond. Placing the band in the context of the Manchester music scene she explains why the band has such a solid fan-base and why Magazine had decided to re-form for live gigs some 30 years since they first took to the stage.
  Magazine was formed by Howard Devoto in 1977 bringing together some of the finest and most innovative musicians of the era. The core line-up with Devoto included John McGeoch, Barry Adamson, Dave Formula and John Doyle. The band had its roots in punk but had a greater emphasis on lyrical content whilst combining elements of avant-garde pop, funk and rock.
  The band has maintained a cult following which was rewarded in 2009 when the band decided to reform. Whilst working on solo material Dave Formula reopened communication lines between the key players and a series of re-union gigs was planned and received to wide acclaim. Buoyed by this, a studio album of new material (No Thyself) followed in 2011 along with another foray onto the live scene. Magazine are a greatly respected and hugely influential band and their music remains fresh and relevant today.

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  Demir-Kaya - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  My Business Is Now North - Of...

  Anthony Sobb

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  A memoir, a love story, a story of loss, grief, and hope. 
   
  When Anthony Sobb’s wife, Kim, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, they chose not to surrender to the diagnosis but to do everything they could to fight it and to live life to the fullest extent possible. 
   
  My Business is Now North tells Anthony’s journey through the challenges of a devastating diagnosis, pushing boundaries, and surviving the abyss after losing the love of his life. 
   
  Left with three sons to nurture and cherish, Anthony's story shows what is possible even in the face of profound adversity and grief.

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