Once upon a time (in 1954) the Future King of Rock walked into Howard Simpson's Recording Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina with his cousin Gene Smith by his side. Little did he know that he would meet Barbara Jean, the secret love of his life. However, this story isn't about the King of Rock... Two years later in March 1956, Deborah Delaine was born as the King's star was on the rise. She had her own suspicions, but her mama refused to confirm that Elvis was her biological father until August, 16, 1977, the very day that Elvis died. As the title implies, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando and Christian Brando are all featured in this memoir, but it's primarily an inter-generational woman's story and follows Deborah Presley Brando's life before and after that fateful day. Although there are many iconic figures, this is a story told in an intimate space with strong themes of family and belonging. It's a tale of triumph and survival in the face of adversity and abuse.

2023 Southern Book Prize Nonfiction Finalist • A 2022 Katie Couric Media Must-Read New Book • A personal meditation on love in the shadow of white privilege and racism Child is the story of Judy Goldman's relationship with Mattie Culp, the Black woman who worked for her family as a live-in maid and helped raise her—the unconscionable scaffolding on which the relationship was built and the deep love. It is also the story of Mattie's child, who was left behind to be raised by someone else. Judy, now eighty, cross-examines what it was to be a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South, how a bond can evolve in and out of step with a changing world, and whether we can ever tell the whole truth, even to ourselves. It is an incandescent book of small moments, heart-warming, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, inspiring.

In her first book The Spiritual Diary of a Nine-Year-Old Child, in all simplicity, Kasara offers us her own true experience. This inspired work helps us better understand the new generation of children, called Indigo children, or children of Aquarius, or Star children. They are arriving on Earth and shaking up the way we perceive human existence. In the words of a child, this young author leads us to Universal Knowledge and introduces us to a multidimensional view of life. This book, written by a child, is a gift of beautiful messages and teachings addressed to all children on Earth, young and old.

Everything seen and unseen that exists in our universe consists of pure energy, light which resonates as vibratory frequency. We are light beings; our energy is something we put out into the world. When we notice and become one with this sacred interconnectedness of all things, we begin to take more responsibility for the energy we radiate. The sheer bliss of discovering your oneness with Source is inherent and magical, and the rise of kundalini which enables it is a most precious blessing. As you begin to remember who you are on a soul level, there also exists a radical and sometimes debilitating process of letting go and embracing and embodying a profound paradigm shift. In this book, the author explores a series of events which introduced him to this unseen energetic world and led him down a path of no return, to the true nature of existence. Story by story, he begins to see himself not only as a being of light, one whose existence is full of supernatural splendor and miraculous healing ability, but as an example and a reminder of the joys and responsibilities that accompany spiritual awakening. This story leaves out none of the high highs and the low lows.