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Journey Home, a coming of age memoir set in post-World War II in Las Vegas, New Mexico tells the story of Charlotte Bible, a precocious young girl growing up in a vibrant, small town surrounded by rich history at the edge of the Great Plains..........

Captured and imprisoned by the Germans three months after landing in the second wave at Normandy during World War II, William (Bill) Bonsall later escaped to Poland and ultimately competed on the 1948 U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Olympic Team. Forty years later, he recorded his life experiences in a series of audio tapes that cover the decade between 1940 and 1950, a period he called “violent” because of the tumultuous upheavals of the times.

All Saints Day, 1985: Carmela Donitella, youngest in a large Sicilian-American family, learns her father’s dream of opening a orphanage is threatened by a local tough. Relying on the power of the family's magical tale about a cannoli, she tries to go it alone. Finally, she enlists the help of her older sisters, aka the Sister Mob.

Set in St. Paul, Minnesota during Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II and the postwar era, this book traces one woman's journey through challenges experienced by women of her time. By divorcing an intolerable husband in the 1920s, she was forced to give up her son to his father along with her security and the protection of a family. She re-married and took on the secrets and challenges of a man involved in bootlegging and other suspicious activity and became a mother to his children. She had four more children of her own, experiencing love and loss during a time of deprivation.

"Resilience Across Borders: From Iran to America" encapsulates the riveting memoir, "SplendidVenus, A Dream," weaving a tapestry of courage, perseverance, and the pursuit of freedom. Across its expansive 89,000-word narrative, the author unveils a rich mosaic of life experiences set against the tumultuous backdrop of post-revolutionary Iran. Within this landscape of societal constraints and pervasive misogyny, the author embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery and resilience, ultimately charting a course towards the shores of America.