by merrydissonancepress | Aug 23, 2023 | Awards, Books, Memoir, Sherrie Lancaster
Tweet Each time Mom cried, the Lancaster family knewwhat would happen next: a move to somewhere new. By the time Sherrie was ten, roaming with Mom had led to seventeen moves—until the day Mom cried as she walked away and abandoned her children. Sherrie’s wandering... 
by merrydissonancepress | Sep 10, 2022 | Awards, Books, Lisa A. Pruitt PhD, Memoir, Spirituality
Tweet How is it that I simultaneously reached the pinnacle of my academic career and hit rock bottom in my personal life? In the world of academia, Professor Lisa Pruitt seemed to have it all; she was recognized with numerous awards for research, teaching, and... 
by merrydissonancepress | Aug 22, 2022 | Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi, Awards, Books, Memoir, Personal Growth, Spirituality
Tweet In The Water Calls, Ariana masterfully crafts a mythical journey for any woman to embark on to find her wings, her voice, her “yes,” and her “no.” What began as Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi’s desire to understand her traumatic divorce became the revelation of a... 
by merrydissonancepress | Feb 14, 2022 | Awards, Books, Donna Mazzitelli, Memoir, Spirituality
Tweet “…I knew this was no foe to be feared. This was no evil sorcerer to be battled. I looked into the eyes of Cancer. What was there was pure Divine Love. What emanated was compassion for all I’d experienced and for the many ways I’d hurt the most important... 
by merrydissonancepress | Mar 24, 2021 | Awards, Books, Memoir, Susan Gemmill
Tweet In spring 1942, eighteen-year-old Bill Gemmill was eager to serve his country. After a recruiter stamped his paperwork “Deferred,” Bill reluctantly agreed to pursue a college football scholarship. It was the crash of a ferried bomber behind his frat house that... 
by merrydissonancepress | Feb 12, 2016 | Awards, Books, Memoir, Nancy Sprowell Geise
Tweet Seventy years ago, Joe Rubinstein walked out of a Nazi concentration camp. Until now, his story has been hidden from the world. Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers forced twenty-one year-old Icek “Joe” Rubinsztejn onto a...