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![They Call Me “Sweet Lou” : The Life and Times of a Football Official](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/front-550x830.jpg)
![Let Yourself Be Loved: Big Lessons From a Little Life](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/61KTZXnrnSL-1-550x830.jpg)
![Wildfire: Mission and Madness](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9781646634965-550x830.jpg)
![Fairly Smooth Operator: My Life Occasionally at the Tip of the Spear](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/71R9B0BtoL-1-550x830.jpg)
![The Iceman Experience: Memoir of a Harlem Playground Star](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/81oMmmBKfgL-550x830.jpg)
![Mother Knows Best: A Memoir](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/61Nt8HASfZS-550x830.jpg)
![Journey Between Two Worlds](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/71KV6ImYneS-550x830.jpg)
![100 Days in Vietnam: A Memoir of Love, War, and Survival](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/9781646632565-550x830.jpeg)
![Growing Your Family](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/61QA7xDw3qL-550x830.jpg)
![20-Year Letter: An Afghanistan Chronicle](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/61gNZntECjL-550x830.jpg)
![Secret Warrior: A Coach & Fighter, On and Off the Court](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/71awC1miBqL-550x830.jpg)
![Reflections of My Life](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/61EEJrZfDCL-550x830.jpg)
![Fear Less, Love More: What to Do When the Unexpected Happens, 5 Daily Choices](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/61k3Q11JyL-550x830.jpg)
![Wake Up, You’re Having Another Nightmare](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/71LoVEhpWFL-550x830.jpg)
![Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/71LS3MyfT9L-550x830.jpg)
![Silencing the Enemy Within: A Memoir of Addiction and Healing](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/71WmmAerX9L-550x830.jpg)
![From the Grit Comes A Pearl](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/61mMOVjny6L-550x830.jpg)
![Again: Surviving Cancer Twice with Love and Lists](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/81GcpMBjvvL-550x830.jpg)
![There and Back Again: Stories from a Combat Navy Corpsman](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/71gafKesVDL-550x830.jpg)
![This Civilian Sh*t is Hard: From the Cockpit, Cubicle, and Beyond](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/61U9Fht5XxL-550x830.jpg)
![Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot’s Combat Journal](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/71z0KZObJTL-550x830.jpg)
![Zone of Action: A JAG’s Journey Inside Operations Cobra II and Iraqi Freedom](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/71Ap0FMxbL-550x830.jpg)
![PowerPoint Ranger: My Iraq War Logs](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/715HhInugzL-550x830.jpg)
![Solo in Salento](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/71W2LL2F21L-550x830.jpg)
![Roster Number Five-Zero: Not for the Weak or Fainthearted](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/71cLwmeJROL-550x830.jpg)
![Twenty-Percent Soldiers: Our Secret Life in the National Guard](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/71NKHsLJKNL-550x830.jpg)
![Momoir: A New Mom’s Journey to Embracing Her Not-So-Perfect Motherhood](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MOMOIRcvr_FINAL-550x830.jpg)
![Show & Tell: Memoirs of an Older Parent](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/show-and-tell-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Cuban Son Rising](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/61E0RcQ0gL-550x830.jpg)
![Tales from a Twilight House](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tales-from-a-twilight-house-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Unexpected Prescriptions: A Pharmacist’s Journey to Health](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cover14-550x830.jpg)
![Conversations with Grace](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/81sGhfxh6qL-550x830.jpg)
![Dad and I](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/71xrmgKIJiL-550x830.jpg)
![Transforming Tears](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/front-550x830.jpg)
![Division: Life on Ardennes Street](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/71XZl3noHjL-550x830.jpg)
![Lone Operator: How to Survive & Thrive in the Modern Age](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/lone-operator-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Country Boy, City Boy: A Journey that Ain’t Over Yet](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/country-boy-city-boy-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Chasing the Invisible: A Doctor’s Quest to Abolish the Last Unseen Cancer Cell](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/61PdsZttQHL-550x830.jpg)
![Fire Mission! Fire Mission! A Forward Observer’s Experiences in Vietnam](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/71Pc7ZX4FiL-550x830.jpg)
![NEXT MISSION: U.S. Defense Attaché to France. A memoir from the days of “Punish France, Ignore Germany, Forgive Russia”](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/next-mission-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Beads: A Memoir about Falling Apart and Putting Yourself Back Together Again](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Beads-Cover-550x830.jpg)
![The Good Way: A Himalayan Journey](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/81wL-9VxtoL-550x830.jpg)
![Through a Daughter’s Eyes](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Through-A-Daughters-Eyes-550x830.jpg)
![DEPOT TO DEPOT: A Transformational Leadership Journey from the Military to Corporate America](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/depot-to-depot-cover-1-550x830.jpg)
![How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/71RZIeLDjtL-550x830.jpg)
![Letters to Pat: A Year in the Life of a Vietnam Marine](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/71g1awVOCQL-550x830.jpg)
![A Table for Two: How the sport of Table Tennis provides physical fitness and can add years to your life](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/9781633937987_p0_v1_s600x595.jpg)
![Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/71BOC4J94DL-550x830.jpg)
![The Last Train From Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America Is My Home](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/the-last-train-from-djibouti-cover-550x830.jpg)
![I Am Human: Sketchbook of an Addict](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/i-am-human-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Midpoint: Manhood, Midlife and Prostate Cancer](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/61muOeeLL-550x830.jpg)
![A Pearl in the Brain: The Cancer Journey of a Scientist in His Search for the Seat of the Soul](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Pearl-in-the-brain-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Taking Baghdad: Victory in Iraq with the US Marines](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/71piMIw08QL-550x830.jpg)
![The 50-Year Secret](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/61DgEG9f4rL-550x830.jpg)
![Regression](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/71cJtgFGedL-550x830.jpg)
![Not Your Average Joe’s Journey to Faith](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/61n8JHaSFfL-550x830.jpg)
![Sweeping Off the Plate](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SeepingPlateCover-550x830.png)
![My Father’s Gift: How One Man’s Purpose Became a Journey of Hope and Healing](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/71Efes0OvbL-550x830.jpg)
![The Best Girl](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/BestGirlCover-550x830.jpg)
![Bound by My Choices: How a death nearly broke me but the Navy saved me](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/81FUCOQ9iML-550x830.jpg)
![True Grit On Wheels: The Courage and Perseverance of Albert Bettencourt](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/TrueGritCover-550x830.jpg)
![What I’ve Learned From: Passing on Experiences from a Life Well-Lived](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/what-ive-learned-from-ebook-550x830.jpg)
![Controller: The United Nations Inside and Out](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/71UBQ9OFETL-550x830.jpg)
![Carl’s Story](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/71wKM51KHbL-550x830.jpg)
![Felito: A Balanced Life](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/felitofinale-550x830.jpg)
![Loving Life](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/loving-life-cover-550x830.jpg)
![My Father Wakes Up Laughing](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/My-Father-Wakes-Up-Laughing-Cover-550x830.jpg)
![Papa](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/papa-jpg-2-550x830.jpg)
![Looking for Lydia: Looking for God](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Looking-for-Lydia-cover-678x1024-550x830.jpg)
![Yasargil: Father of Modern Neurosurgery](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/front-cover-with-quote-550x830.jpg)
![Dragon Hearts: Love in China Book One](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781633931428-678x1024-550x830.jpeg)
![Boston’s Bloody Marathon](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2015-04-30-at-9.16.11-PM-550x830.png)
![Centerfolds](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/centerfold-cover-678x1024-550x830.jpg)
![Messy Blessings: A Story of Hope](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781940192918_FC-550x830.jpg)
![The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Mark Rodriguez](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/9781633930988_FC-682x1024-550x830.jpg)
![The Artist’s New Clothes](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Charles-Kello-Art-Book-cover1-550x830.jpg)
![American Sky](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781938467912_FC-550x830.jpg)
![Dragon Hearts: Eagle in China](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/small-d2-550x830.jpg)
![Perfect: Sacred Stories from the Heart of a Dad](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/small-perfect-550x830.jpg)
![Guerras de Lechuga](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lettuce-wars-cover-550x830.png)
![Culture Leads, Leaders Follow](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/culture-leads-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Where’s Frank?](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wheres-frank-cover-1-550x830.jpg)
![From the Ground Up](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Hoffler-From-the-Ground-up-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Normal to Noble](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781938467196_FC-550x830.jpg)
![Dying to Live](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dying-to-live-cover-550x830.jpg)
![The Bucket List Chronicles](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/bucketlist-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Peckerwood in the Hood](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/peckerwood-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Three Stars and a Crow](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MCPON-cover--550x830.jpg)
![Mom and Me—My Journey with Mom’s Schizophrenia](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/mom-and-me-cover-1-550x830.jpg)
![Tree](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781938467042_FC-550x830.jpg)
![Black Flag Journals](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/black-flag-journals-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Fearful Odds: A Memoir of Vietnam and Its Aftermath](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/fearful-odds-cover-550x830.jpg)
![Bipolar by Koehler](https://www.koehlerbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9781938467011_FC-550x830.jpg)
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We work collaboratively to help writers develop with high-level professional editing, writing and great creative development of layout and cover design. All of our memoirs and legacy books are distributed by Ingram and each book is available in hardback, soft cover and as an eBook.
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