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2019 Wyatt-MacKenzie Releases

 

 

Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair Suzanne Kamata

A Mother-Daughter Travel Memoir

ISBN: 978-1-948018-44-9
182 Pages, 5.5 x 8
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$16.00 Softcover

Pub Date: MARCH 2019

Part comparative cultural study, part mother-and-daughter travel memoir, multi-cultural and multi-lingual (Japanese, English, French, and Sign Language) adventures with her teen — a dual-citizenship artist, who happens to be deaf, with cerebral palsy — through subterranean Tennessee, to the islands of Japan, to the top of the Eiffel Tower, and ultimately to independence.

 

 

 

 

Hippie Woman Wild: Life & Love On An Oregon Commune Carol Schlanger

A Hippie Commune Memoir

ISBN: 978-1-948018-46-3
256 Pages, 6 x 9
, photos
$18.00 Softcover

Pub Date: JULY 2019

FOREWORD FROM HENRY WINKLER

A not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her acting dream to follow the man she loves to an off-the-grid commune.


“Carol Schlanger’s wild ride of a memoir gallops hilariously through the early seventies commune experience that all of us old hippies meant to have. She has the perfect voice of her generation. Honest, rebellious, sensual, politically astute, she’s invited us into history to live and love through her. We dare not pass up the opportunity because being Carol is in itself an adventure.” — BARBARA BOTTNER, New York Times bestselling author

 

 
 

 

 
 
 
 

 

Tuesdays with Ted Russ Woody

ISBN: 978-1-948018-58-6
256 Pages, 6 x 9
, photos
$18.00 Softcover

Pub Date: AUGUST 2019

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedy writer Russ Woody writes about his father's final days fighting ALS, and the pivotal role Ted Danson played every Tuesday night on the set of the CBS sitcom Becker. By his kindness, generosity of heart, his humor, irreverence and grace, Danson infused light into the lives of a father and son preparing for the inevitable.

 

 

 

 

 

OUR FEATURE FICTION

 

 
 
Why We Lie Amy Impellizzeri

POLITICAL THRILLER

ISBN: 978-1-948018-35-7
400 Pages, 5 x 8
$13.95, Trade Paperback
Pub Date: March 2019

 

ATall Poppy Writer and author of LEMONGRASS HOPE, SECRETS OF WORRY DOLLS and THE TRUTH ABOUT THEA Amy Impellizzeri's WHY WE LIE is set in Washington, D.C., in which a rising politician is shot and reality unravels.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

FEATURED NON-FICTION

 

 

 

 

Eyes Are Never Quiet: Listening Beneath the Behaviors of Our Most Troubles Students Lori Desautels and Michael McKnight

ISBN: 978-1-948018-41-8
212 Pages, 6.14 x 9.21

$24.00 Softcover

EDUCATION

Pub Date: January 2019

Authors of UNWRITTEN, Lori Desautels and Michael McKnight's EYES ARE NEVER QUIET, aimed at educators, about the neurobiology of adversity and trauma in youth and the resiliency of hope and mindfulness

 

 

 

 

 
MEMOIRS FOR HEALING & BEREAVEMENT

 

 

The Goodbye Diaries Marisa Bardach Ramel & Sally Bardach

ISBN: 978-1-948018-36-4
212 Pages, 5.25 x 8

$18.00 Softcover

Mother-Daughter BEREAVEMENT MEMOIR

Pub Date: May 2019

Two months to live.

Sally responds with grace and optimism.

Marisa responds by closing herself off. If her mother is going to die before she graduates from high school, why even try. Cancer has already ruined everything.

Honest and heartfelt, THE GOODBYE DIARIES offers a touching glimpse into both sides of a terminal diagnosis—the one who will leave and the one who will be left behind. Sally and Marisa have always shared a rare closeness, but their relationship is unrecognizable when Marisa cannot figure out how to be there for Sally as she struggles through stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 
Letters to Freedom Patti Ashley
 

ISBN: 978-1-948018-45-6
192 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
$18.00 Softcover

Pub Date: LATE SPRING 2019

BEREAVEMENT MEMOIR

Dr. Patti Ashley’s LETTERS TO FREEDOM: From Fear to Love to Grace, A Memoir of Grief and Relationship, about losing the love of her life at age fifty-eight, helping readers alongside her to move on, to transcend, and to live the mystery and trust the process; part memoir, part guidebook written by a psychotherapist with thiry-plus years of helping others.

 

 

 

Tenth Anniversary Edition of NATIONAL SECURITY MOM

Brand new AMERICA NEEDS A TIME-OUT: NATIONAL SECURITY MOM 2

 

The original NATIONAL SECURITY MOM ( ISBN: 9781948018609, Oct. 2008) by 30-year active-CIA officer Gina Bennett compared parenting principles to keeping our nation secure: teaching children to tell the truth, ignore bullies, choose friends wisely, clean up, etc.

AMERICA NEEDS A TIME-OUT ( ISBN: 9781948018593, Oct. 2019) extends Bennett’s analogy to the five steps of a parenting “time-out” to reflect on, and correct, the direction of our democracy. Includes letters from young women at girlsecurity.com, with a foreword by Nobel Prize Winner Jody Williams.

Gina Bennett is a member of the CIA’s Senior Analytic Service, and long-standing member of the Senior Analytic Service currently on assignment as the Senior Counterterorrism Advisor in the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning in the National Counterterrorism Center. She is a seasoned counterterrorism specialist who authored the 1993 report that warned of the growing danger of Osama Bin Laden and the extremist movement he was fomenting.

Gina was featured in the Showtime documentary, Spymasters, the HBO documentary, Manhunt, and in the PBS documentary, Makers: Women Who Make America in their episode on women in war for her role as a trailblazing woman in the counterterrorism field. She has been featured in the cover story of Newsweek’s issue on “Women of the CIA” in 2016 and in a previous Newsweek article for her role as a female pioneer in the targeting; and in a variety of media.

Gina teaches Ethics in Intelligence as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University in the Security Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and at the George Washington University in the International Policy and Practice program at the Elliot School of International Affairs. She is also a founding board member of Girl Security, an educational program to familiarize elementary-to-high school girls in national and international security issues. She is a single mom of five children.

 

 

 

CELEBRITY MEMOIR

 

 

 

Tell It to My Heart: How I Lost My S#*T, Conquered My Fear, and Found My Voice Taylor Dayne with Dave Smitherman

MEMOIR

ISBN: 978-1-948018-30-2
$28.95 Hardcover
272 Pages, with photos
ISBN: 978-1-948018-31-9
$18.95 Softcover Edition, $9.99 eBook

Pub Date: Valentine's Day 2019

30th Anniversary

A little Jewish girl from Long Island, Leslie Joy Wunderman, made it against the odds, sold over 75 million records, worked with Michael Jackson, Elton John, and Whitney Houston, and more, and is now on her 30th-Anniversary Tour — this is a parable of female self-empowerment which captures Taylor Dayne’s life growing up in a blue-collar home, becoming a chart-topping musician circumnavigating the globe, rediscovering faith and traditions, and being a single-mother of twins by choice.

It's also a candid glimpse into the music industry, told with a frank, heartfelt female voice for fans interested in Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston, and others who cross-pollinate between the movie, television, and music industries.