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The Masterpiece Within: Five Key Life Skills To Becoming A Living Work Of Art

“Creating an adventurous and meaningful life story is oftentimes difficult due to the layers of self-defeating personal beliefs we accumulate through our life experiences. The Masterpiece Within: Five Key Life Skills To Becoming A Living Work Of Art, is a comprehensive, yet reader-friendly life skills manual filled with motivational stories, pop culture references from the film, music, and sports worlds, alongside ageless wisdom from ancient masters that help us chip away layers of fear, anger, discouragement, childishness, shame, low self-esteem, guilt, and numerous other learned traits that blind us to our own innate beauty.”

–From the publisher

An Insignificant Balcony

April 20, 2015 The steps to our little balcony seem narrower each time, my hands tracing the delicate staircase. I forget the feeling of cool metal under my fingertips and dust that covers every millimeter of space until I have made it to the top, realizing what I’ve missed all along. There stand my grandparents in the doorframe with stolen time in their skin and longing in their veins.

Growing Home

April 20, 2015 My parents entered into marriage under the duress of an unplanned pregnancy, and spent the next nine brutal years locked up together, punishing each other for the mistake. By the time I graduated high school I had decided that I would never have children.

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

James Agee

Melville House
240 pages
$12.00

“The intimate letters, collected by Father Flye after Agee’s death, form the most intimate portrait of Agee available, a starkly revealing account of the internal and external life of a tortured twentieth-century genius. Agee candidly shares his struggles with depression, professional failure, and a tumultuous personal life that included three wives and four children.”

–From the publisher

A Southern Gentleman's Kitchen: Adventures in Cooking, Eating, and Living in the New South

A Southern Gentleman's Kitchen: Adventures in Cooking, Eating, and Living in the New South

A Southern Gentleman's Kitchen: Adventures in Cooking, Eating, and Living in the New South

Matt Moore

Oxmoor House
288 pages
$32.00

“Today, in addition to being chivalrous, honest, and generous, a Southern gentleman is socially connected, well-traveled, and has an appetite for life. In this part-cookbook and part-guidebook, Matt Moore embraces a fresh perspective on what it means to cook, eat, and live as a true Southern Gentleman in the 21st century.”

–From the publisher

Let Them Eat Moonpie

Let Them Eat Moonpie

Let Them Eat Moonpie

Bill Abbott

Chatter House Press
192 pages
$19.99

“Part history, part memoir, part Southern study, part yearbook, this book collects the stories of the teams and poets who were involved in the most coherent regional scene in America.”

–From the publisher

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