Nonfiction

​PSYCHOLOGY, MEMOIR

When a father develops late-onset paranoid schizophrenia at fifty-three, he descends into psychosis and grandiose delusions which lead him to abandon his family and travel to over thirty countries to collect thirteen wives as a self-proclaimed prophet-of-God. He purportedly was arrested in Israel, advised the Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. When he returned to the United States of America, he allegedly faced down drug dealers and prostitutes while living on the streets, homeless. He was entered into the Database of Missing Persons. 

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PSYCHOLOGY, MEMOIR

(Book 2) FINDING DAD, Paranoid Schizophrenia: An End to the Search by Amanda LaPera

Living on the streets with severe mental illness that hit at the age of fifty-three, Joseph was all but forgotten by the world. Despite searching for ten years, his daughter, Amanda, held out hope. When an officer from the Missing Persons division alerts her that her dad is alive, location unknown, her mission is clear: find him. Her motivation: unconditional love. Along the way, she discovers more than she set out to find. This is the highly-anticipated sequel to LOSING DAD.

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MEMOIR

Sexy Serenity is Miranda K. Simon’s unabashed diary of her life as a young impoverished single mom who, to pay for a college degree, becomes a dance hostess at an infamous underground club in downtown Los Angeles. When she feels her safety has been compromised, she tries to escape hostess clubs and her clients by stripping off her values and her clothes.

After college, she faces brazen discrimination against single mothers at her new corporate job. But when one of her past clients shows up at her office, trying to win her back with diamond earrings and cheap promises, Miranda can no longer deny her past.

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