From the Dust Jacket: When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in the book, she discovers a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant chillingly depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List—a man known and reviled the world over.

Although raised in an orphanage and eventually adopted, Teege had some contact with her biological mother and grandmother as a child. Yet neither revealed that Teege’s grandfather was the Nazi “butcher of Plaszów,” executed for crimes against humanity in 1946. The more Teege reads about Amon Goeth, the more certain she becomes: If her grandfather had met her—a black woman—he would have killed her.

Teege’s discovery sends her, at age 38, into a severe depression—and on a quest to unearth and fully comprehend her family’s haunted history. Her research takes her to Krakow—to the sites of the Jewish ghetto her grandfather “cleared” in 1943 and the Plaszów concentration camp he then commanded—and back to Israel, where she herself once attended college, learned fluent Hebrew, and formed lasting friendships. Teege struggles to reconnect with her estranged mother Monika, and to accept that her beloved grandmother once lived in luxury as Amon Goeth’s mistress at Plaszów.

Teege’s story is co-written by award-winning journalist Nikola Sellmair, who also contributes a second, interwoven narrative that draws on original interviews with Teege’s family and friends and adds historical context. Ultimately, Teege’s resolute search for the truth leads her, step by step, to the possibility of her own liberation.

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About the Author: Jennifer Teege has worked in advertising since 1999. She lived for four years in Israel, where she became fluent in Hebrew. She holds a degree from Tel Aviv University in Middle Eastern and African studies. Teege lives in Germany with her husband and two sons. This is her first book.

Nikola Sellmair graduated from Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich and has worked in Hong Kong, Washington, D.C., Israel, and Palestine. She has been a reporter in Hamburg at Germany’s Stern magazine since 2000. Her work has received many awards, including the German-Polish Journalist Award, for the first-ever article about Jennifer Teege’s singular story.

Born in Germany, Carolin Sommer studied applied languages at universities in Germany, France, and the UK before settling in the UK in 1997. After working in bilingual roles for multinational companies for several years, she took a career break to look after her three sons. Translations have been her career focus since 2011.

From the Publisher: Sonia Marsh, author of Freeways to Flip-Flops: A Family’s Year of Gutsy Living on a Tropical Island, celebrates the gutsy in each of us with this collection of stories from 64 authors who found the courage to face their fears and live their dreams. What makes these stories unique is the authors’ willingness to openly share the obstacles they surmounted, and the strength they developed to overcome doubt, fear, rejection, and grief. These stories of love, courage and adventure will inspire you to follow their lead and experience your own gutsy adventure. As Sonia says, “My goal is to bring out the gutsy in you.” Some take off for distant places, others dive into the deep. Many quit successful jobs to sail around the world, write a novel, or take on an inner challenge. This book is filled with tales from people who have decided to live their passion, act out their dreams, revisit the challenges of their youth. It’s about conquering fears, taking risks, and learning to love the person you’ve become. Leap into this book. It’ll be the first of some gutsy decisions you’re sure to make.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, Chapter 40, “Becoming a Mother” by Laura Dennis, in which the author, an adoptee, reflects upon the birth of her own daughter and meditates on when one becomes a mother; and Chapter 43, “The Lady Who Had Me” by Paige Strickland, in which the author briefly summarizes her progress from self-closeted adoptee, ashamed to be so, to a successful reunited searcher. See also, Adoption Reality: A Memoir by Laura Dennis; and Akin to Truth: A Memoir of Adoption and Identity by Paige Strickland.

Author Adelphia shares her story of personal growth and healing in this insightful and inspiring book. By taking a closer look at destructive thought patterns which people learn from childhood, Adelphia discusses the preconceptions and expectations that often prevent us from moving forward in various aspects of our lives. Within these pages, the author also discusses blockages—negative forces that stem from abuse, low self-esteem, rejection, and lack of love—and how they are the main reason people fail to create a better, more enriching life for themselves. She shares experiences that helped her shape and understand her approach to life, and perhaps they will help you, too! Adelphia is a clairvoyant and Reiki Master who teaches meditation and energy healing and counsels people through readings. She is in the process of writing another book that focuses on relationships. Adelphia lives with her husband and their four-legged friends—who think they are children—in the Barossa Valley in South Australia.

My Kotuku of the South Seas weaves a simple tapestry of a family as they follow their dreams and aspirations. At the age of fifteen Helen falls in love with Hugh, who was born on a tropical island in the South Pacific. Their romance blossoms and despite multi racial complications and difficulties they marry in 1961. There is turmoil and drama as the family is caught up in the politics of the day. There is deep despair when Helen loses the “love of her life” There is also excitement when she meets her birth mother and new family. And then a chance encounter escalates into a journey with Johno, which will encompass two lifetimes. Helen finds constant solace in the frequent appearances of “The Kotuku” the beautiful bird she loved as a child and which she now recognizes as a symbol of enduring comfort. Helen’s memoir is rich in her descriptions of friendship, harmony and love.

What happens when a family member dies? What happens when you are adopted? What happens when at a young age your parent re-marries and your “step-family” is who you must now live with? How can you feel lost when you’ve never been found? My Life Adopted is a recollection by Nick of his thoughts and feelings growing up without biological family. From an early age, Nicholas vowed to help kids who face the same challenges he faced. His role model, the adopted father he lost at nine years of age, has inspired him in all of his journeys. He received his master’s degree in psychology in 2004, and has run a youth mentor program in his hometown for the past four years. Between Nicholas’ experiences of loss to his uncommon thoughts on life’s experiences, this book offers a glimpse into adoption, different family structure, love, death, and other life’s trivial issues.

My life has been an interesting succession of unusual events. These events were for the most part unplanned and beyond my control literally since my birth forty something years ago. I wanted to share my experiences both as a legacy for my children, and other readers of all ages who will find some of the chapters to be familiar. Each chapter is self-contained and in chronological order based on my life. I am the common thread that holds the story together. If you have not experienced the things I have, you probably know someone who has. Maybe you are not old enough yet or just do not want to talk about it. Have you been or dealt with a rebellious child, felt unwanted or pressured into things you did not want to do? Did you take a road trip from hell or go “home” for the holidays? Have your siblings had anorexia or accused each other of incest? I have experienced these situations as well as dealing with unplanned pregnancies, moving from the Midwest to New York City, losing both adoptive parents (one was a suicide), being found on the Internet by my birth mother, finding my birth father, and being abused by my own son. There is even a chapter dedicated to my dog. And much more.

From the Back Cover: “My heart is pounding against my chest. I am having a hard time breathing and a hard time thinking. I cross the terrace. One step, one small step. Then another tiny step. Now I am on the lawn. The grass is cold and wet under my bare feet. A gust of wind pastes my green sweatshirt against my body. My long grey skirt sticks to my legs like the skin of a rhinoceros. My heart tells me to run, to run as fast as my legs can carry me, with all my might. But I can’t....”

One morning in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, a lucky 13-year-old girl named Tina from a modest family is preparing to go to France to become part of Linda and Godwin Okpara’s family. Linda is the home maker and Godwin is a footballer at top French club Paris Saint-Germain and for the Super Eagles, Nigeria’s national squad. They have four children and Tina dreams of going with them to school and wallowing in their games and pranks, living the European dream. But soon after her arrival the reality becomes different.

Written in collaboration with acclaimed journalist, Cyril Guinet, Tina recounts how imprisonment, torture and abuse in a suburban house in the middle of gentrified Europe in the twenty-first century could not break her. Her gripping story of survival and escape is a moving testament to a remarkable woman, a true survivor.

My life Miracle is about a child that has grown up without a mother living in society searching for hope, love and a family. This child has endured living in the world alone at the age of seven trying to fight for life and survival until one day someone was sent to her and it was an angel. The book is about adoption, wanting to have a mother and daughter relationship, having to fight for survival on her own without the help of family and friends at the age of seven.

Autobiography of Betty Cole Leazenby detailing her career in the W.A.C. (Women’s Army Corps) of the United States Army. Also, includes the story of her adoption by Thomas W. and Laura Fuhrman McAdoo of Wellington, Ohio; her search for her birth parents, and a letter she wrote to Vera Mae Moudy in April 1985.

My favorite childhood cousin was my birth mother, an adoption secret revealed. One adoptee’s personal journey of longing and belonging—feelings captured in a childhood drawing discovered years later. Decades later, her father’s deathbed confession cracked open the door to the surprising truth that finally led her home.

At least once in life, you will ask your parents about how you came into this world, what happened the day you were born, how the day looked like, how your parents went to the hospital, how you looked like at that moment... There are so many things you may wonder about the time you came into the world. I wanted to ask these precious questions, but no one knew. The only thing I knew was that I was abandoned at a police station in Seoul, Korea and put into adoption. For my eighteenth birthday my mother presented me with a diary she kept since the life-long decision was made to adopt a child. This helped answer many questions in my life but there was still something missing in my life. That was until 26 years later, I finally had a chance to find my story, my history, what happened the day I came into this world... and what I missed in my life.

From the Dust Jacket: Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” Hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and handed over to families with military ties or who were collaborators of the regime. Victoria Donda was one of those children.

It wasn’t until the age of twenty-seven that Donda learned that the people she called Mama and Papa weren’t her birth parents and that the father she loved belonged to the enemy. In My Name Is Victoria, Donda tells her remarkable story of resilience and courage: growing up as the daughter of an ex-military man, how she discovered the truth about her origins, and the shocking revelation of her uncle’s involvement in her parents’ murder and in her own kidnapping and adoption.

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About the Author: Victoria Donda is a human-rights activist and legislator. She is the first daughter of a disappeared person, born in captivity, to become a member of the Argentine National Congress. She is also the youngest woman to hold that office.

Magda Bogin is a novelist, translator, and journalist. She is the author of Natalya, God’s Messenger and The Women Troubadours, and has translated numerous books, including Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. She is the founder and director of Under the Volcano, a program of master writing classes in Mexico and New York.

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires and settled in France. He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada, PEN, and a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been named an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Liége in Belgium and the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Prix Médicis essay prize (France) for A History of Reading, the McKitterick Prize (United Kingdom) for his novel News from a Foreign Country Came, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize (Italy) for A Reading Diary. He also won the German Sanchez Ruipérez Prize (Spain) and the Prix Roger Caillois (France) for the ensemble of his work, which has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Pablo A. Pozzi is a professor in the history department of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he specializes in contemporary social history of Argentina and the United States and heads the Oral History Program. He is also on the advisory board to the National Memory Archive in Argentina and is the president of the Argentine Oral History Association (AHORA). He has published a number of books and articles on Argentina and the United States, including Huellas imperiales. Estados Unidos de la crisis de acumulacién a la globalizacién capitalista (The United States between crisis and globalization) and Los setentistas, lequierda y clase obrera, 1969-1976 (People of the seventies: Culture and life histories of the Argentine left, 1969-1976).

From the Back Cover: By age three, Karen Agnes Fleming had already been neglected by her mother and made a ward of the court; had been in eighteen foster homes where she was given a series of new names; had experienced physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; and had been labeled disobedient, uneducable, and a social misfit.

At three and a half, Karen was adopted, her name was changed to Sharon Jean Hamilton, and she started on a long, hard road toward dispelling those early labels. On that road, literacy was the key to transforming her life. She discovered possible worlds—alternatives to her own experiences—by reading about them. She discovered insights into her own world by writing about it.

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About the Author: Now in her fifties with a Ph.D. in language and literature from London University, Sharon Jean Hamilton is an English professor at Indiana0Purdue University. The catalyst for writing My Name’s Not Susie was her own classroom. As she observed her nontraditional university students struggling to improve their lives through a literacy-based liberal art education, she was inspired to share her own story.

This is a memoir about a girl who was adopted because her birth mom was too young to care for her. She describes what her birth mom went through, what her adoptive parents went through, and all of the other struggles she encountered. All of these events lead up to her one life-changing event, when she and her birth mom meet.

From the Back Cover: Imagine this. You’re 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead. Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they’ve found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away. From Ground Zero, you begin a journey of rediscovery to reclaim your identity. But the truths you gather are relative, subjective. Like speculating on the nature of the universe from the perspective of one planet and then again from another. Making each world view your own.

My Planets is in fact a suite of works—a physical book; an enhanced eBook incorporating images, music, sound and video with spoken word and text, a film. Like most of David P. Reiter’s work, it challenges the boundaries, changing shape with the message, inviting the reader to time-travel on a Tardis of the mind. Making his planets your own.

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About the Author: Dr. David Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer of fiction, and Director of IP, an innovative print and digital publisher in Brisbane. His fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards. His previous books include The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin, 1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier’s Poetry Award. His book of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award.

IP released his novel Liars and Lovers in 2003, and The Greenhouse Effect, a junior novel in the Project Earth-mend Series is now, in its 2nd edition, being developed into a film.

He’s completed a full-length DVD film of Hemingway in Spain. Real Guns is a children’s picture book illustrated by Irish artist Patrick Murphy. Global Cooling, a sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, was released in 2008. His most recent works are Primary Instinct, a satire on primary school education, Tiger Tames the Min Min, the third Project Earth-mend novel and the short film Nullarbor Song Cycle.

My Porcelain Doll is Sherry Coombe’s, poignant tribute to her late daughter and a moving memoir about walking side by side through Heather’s struggles and triumphs during cancer. Sherry traces the journey she and Heather shared through some of the toughest challenges and sweetest moments of fighting cancer. Genuine, intimate and unconditional love, My Porcelain Doll is a story of hope, joy and sadness that only a mother could write.

I was hiding in the closet from the other mother and could see her walking a round screaming my name with a knife in her hand. I changed hiding places several times, good thing too she checked the closet twice. Would she have actually killed me if she found me I don’t know, but at the time I knew she would. The ironclad unequivocal certainly that every child of that age possesses. She did not find me that time and fortunately that was the only time I remember her pursuing me with a knife. I do remember many other times seeing her hunt me down with a rage engorged face. Many of those times she did catch me. I was beaten with whatever was handy and if no stick, toy or other hard object it was her hand.

My Russian Side follows the story of Alex Gilbert when he travels to Russia to meet his Birth Parents for the first time. Alex was followed on a New Zealand TV Documentary in 2013 while he was doing the search for his birth parents. He was adopted out of Russia at two years of age and brought to New Zealand. Without any knowledge on who his birth parents are, Alex decides to do a search on them 20 years later. He manages to find them using social media with the only information on them were their names on paper. He travels to Russia late 2013 to meet them for the first time in his entire life. Also available in a Russian translation (Моя Русская семья, or “My Russian Family”) from the publisher.

The search for who we are takes on a different dimension for the adopted person. Often shrouded in mystery and secrets, the quest to discover our roots tests our commitment, relationships, and self-worth. Mr. Bannon explores his own innermost thoughts and assumptions, while expressing his gratitude for life itself, to the mother he has never met. This is a letter of love and curiosity, thanks and confusion, wishing and hoping and in the end, a sensitive message to birth mothers and adoptees everywhere.

From the Dust Jacket: Richard de Mille was raised amid the glamour and luxury of early Hollywood, an adopted son of Cecil B. de Mille and his wife, Constance. From age eight he wondered about his birth parents, his curiosity piqued by odd hints dropped by friends and family members, and by his own remarkable resemblance to Cecil’s father. After sixty years of pursuing his secret mother, de Mille writes the true story of her life and of the perfect conspiracy that made him a full but far from ordinary member of the de Mille family.

That lost mother turned out to be Lorna Moon, a newspaperwoman, screenwriter, and best-selling novelist, a woman who had been born in a small village in Scotland and who later became an exotic figure of silent-film-era Hollywood. She lived about a mile from the house in which Richard grew up, and had a love affair that produced the infant boy who was adopted by Cecil and Constance in 1922.

With fairness and understanding, de Mille recalls his childhood. His recounting of his investigation into his mother’s life and death is suspenseful and poignant. This story is both memoir and mystery, with a serious sense of history and a winning sense of humor.

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About the Author: Richard de Mille has been a science fiction and popular writer, television director, think-tank researcher, and university professor. His books include The Don Juan Papers. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

I was adopted as a baby in 1941 two months after I was born. In 1995 The State of Tennessee passed a new adoption law. As part of the new law, people adopted before 1951 were allowed to see their records. In October, 1995 I saw my adoption records. Based on the information in the records I was able to find my birth family and piece together my early life. In this booklet, My Story, I have compiled memories of my childhood and my life for my daughters.

My Third Parents: Orphanage to an American Dream is the compelling story of one man’s journey full circle to find what matters in life. Fernando Kuehnel went from a deprived boyhood in an orphanage to a life on the streets of Manila searching the trash for food and scrap metal before being adopted along with his two brothers by an American couple. Culture shock, heartbreak, isolation and grief await the boys in their new home. It was not a dream come true—and the three boys found themselves abandoned again before being adopted a second time. Mercifully, their third set of parents is sensitive and prepared. Fernando Kuehnel shares his struggle to build a life of meaning and find real love after losing everything repeatedly. The road is rocky, and further heartbreak awaits before he discovers his true passion in life. This is a gripping read of an unforgettable story of searing loss and hard won happiness. This quest to find love and discover the meaning of family takes the reader through twists and turns where soaring optimism is met with grim disappointment and despair. False steps and wrong turns plague Fernando Kuehnel as he struggle to come to terms with his lifelong grief and understand how to love without fear. He and his brothers take an epic journey through life, living through hope and despair on a massive scale.

From the Dust Jacket: Religious fanaticism, race and a newly emergent nationalism from a potent backdrop to this gripping, real-life drama about the two women who fought for the custody of a thirteen-year-old girl in the post-war colony of Singapore.

As a proxy battle between East and West, the grim tale recounted in this book has its fair share of prejudice and mob violence. The tumultuous events which accompanied the legal battle shook the British Colonial Government to its very foundations.

Much could be said about the innocent people who lost their lives in the violence that followed the controversial court decision. But Maria Hertogh, or Nadra as the Muslims called her, was probably the saddest victim. Caught between two worlds she did not completely understand, the effect of the uproar on the child at her most impressionable age was something few of us will have to endure.

The author recounts the tragic affair with grace and simplicity, drawing upon exhaustive research in both Singapore and Holland. Today, more than forty-five years after it faded into history, the story provides us with a timely reminder of how easily the very fabric of a society can be ripped apart by the unwise handling of sensitive issues.

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About the Author: Haja Maideen’s passion for writing started from his schooldays. His articles appeared in student magazines such as Young Malayans and Malayan Student. On completion of his studies, he entered the corporate world and went on to publish business-related articles in leading local and international trade journals. His business background did not deter him from researching and writing controversial socio-historical subjects, including The Nadra Tragedy.

From the Back Cover: The Names of My Mothers is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and traveled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mothers in upstate New York. Shortly after surrendering her daughter for adoption, she returned to her life in Johnston County, North Carolina. She never married and never had another child of her own.

This powerful and moving memoir speaks of the profound need for connection. It is a story about identity, the hunger we feel for a sense of belonging and the ineffable significance of blood.

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About the Author: Dianne Sanders Riordan and her husband Frank reside in Buffalo, New York where they resettled after twenty years serving as a Navy family. They have seven children and twelve grandchildren.

Diane received a B.A. in English from Rosary Hill College (now Damen College). She is a family advocate with the Mental Health Association of Erie County. Her poems have been published in “Women of the Vineyard,” Volumes 1 and 2.

Nathan and his family tell the story of his life: adopted in Indonesia; childhood experiences; learning to live with disabilities; living a normal life. The amazing story of man who was born in Java and adopted by North American mission workers, who achieved some remarkable accomplishments while living with an unusual disability. About the Author: Nathan Kaufman has lived in North Newton, KS, with his wife, Jill, for 33 years.

From the Back Cover: Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation. The participants of the study represent a range of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption. Regardless of their personal experiences, however, all twenty respondents indicate that they are supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act and that they believe that Native children should be raised in Native households whenever possible. However, eighteen of the twenty respondents concede that non-Native families can raise Native children to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults. Through the interviews, Rita J. Simon and Sarah Hernandez allow readers to better understand the different experiences of Native American adoptees.

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About the Author: Rita J. Simon is University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University. She is author or editor of numerous books, including Women’s Roles and Statuses the World Over (with Stephanie Hepburn, Lexington Books, 2006), and Adoption across Borders (with Howard Altstein, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Sarah Hernandez is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and currently works at the American Indian College Fund in Denver, Colorado. She earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2005.

Translated from Malay, this is a biography of Natrah aka Nadra aka Bertha Hertogh (1937-2009). The author, who had a personal friendship with Nadra and sees her life through caring Muslim eyes, tells how the 1950 decision of the Singapore High Court took Natrah from her Malay husband and devoted foster-mother, and returned her to her Dutch natural parents in Holland, thus precipitating major riots in Singapore. Natrah’s subsequent life in Holland, her years as a wife and mother, her troubled marriages, her visits to Malay foster-siblings in Kemaman, her return to Singapore, her years living in the US where she was interviewed by the author, and then her return to Holland where she died in 2009 are all discussed. Family photographs and archival material help to shed new light on the tragedies, with some happiness, which made up Natrah’s life-experience. With appended documents, a verbatim interview with Natrah, black-and-white photographs, bibliography and index.

From the Back Cover: Malia Johnson is adopted and, at six months of age, diagnosed as deaf. Her horrified mother desperately tries to raise her as hearing, which confuses young Malia. Her silent world is wrought with teasing from her peers and harsh discipline from her mother as she forces her to learn lip reading and speech six hours a day, seven days a week. Feeling isolated and unable to express herself, Malia plunges into a life of sex, drugs, alcohol, and anorexia. She represses her sexuality at risk of further alienation—and looks for love in the wrong places.

Never Broken: How a Deaf Woman Improvised, Adapted, and Overcame discusses Malia’s challenges while growing up deaf and struggling with her sexuality. In her adult years, she relentlessly works to overcome the barriers that separate her from her hearing family and friends and finally find inner peace. No matter the struggle, Malia shows us that nothing is impossible with perseverance.

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About the Author: Malia K. Johnson was born deaf in Los Angeles, CA. She was mainstreamed in hearing schools and learned to survive in a hearing world. Malia owns a sign language interpreting agency and has a passion advocating for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, traveling all over the world to promote awareness of the Deaf and need for interpreters. Malia currently resides in Orlando, Florida with her hearing dog, Ayla, and life partner, Peggy Wells.

This book is about my growing up as a foster child. I suffered many heartaches and struggles along the way. God never forsake me over the years.

From the Back Cover: Most people worry about getting older. But four-time cancer survivor Steve Webster worries about not getting older.

Cancer has been a supporting character in Webster’s life since 1987. Since then, he has overcome addiction, undergone open heart surgery, slept months of his life away in multiple medically induced comas, and fathered two children when doctors said he’d have none.

Neither a woe-is-me story nor a flowery feel-good tale, Nine Lives Plus One is Steve’s gritty account of the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.

It is the story of hope, love, perseverance and redemption. A story of survival.

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About the Author: Steve Webster, MBA, is a frequent lecturer and consultant on leadership, marketing, and survival. He has worked as an executive for some of the largest companies in Canada and has sat on national boards involved with cancer survivors. A four-time cancer survivor, Steve is the author of Nine Lives Plus One and has authored dissertations on leadership, social media, and cause marketing. Steve lives in a house by the ocean in Prince Edward Island with his wife Sandra and their youngest child Sam. He enjoys chasing foxes out of his backyard and watching the tides come in and out because that means the world is still in order on the outside.