There are some first-time writers who can write like veterans; one example is Elena Gorokhova. Her first book, A Mountain of Crumbs, a Memoir, is like the product of a writer who has written many books. The book gives us a view of how it was to grow up inside the Iron Curtain, deprived of the right to be a part of the world, deprived of the right to live with freedom. But there is more to Gorokhova's memoir than just the description of the kind of life she had inside the Soviet Union four decades ago, it is an...

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One month after her wedding day, thirty-three-year-old Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She and her husband were planning on coming back from their wedding, having children, and living their lives as the typical married couple would do, but  this diagnosis changed her life forever. Read More »