Summon the Tiger by Wendy Sura Thomson is a memoir that shows just how brave one person can be. Wendy Sura Thomson was born in the year of the tiger and the events that have taken place during the course of her life perfectly embody...

Survivor: The Benny Turner Story by Benny Turner (with Bill Dahl) is the autobiography of blues musician Benny Turner, the younger half-brother to blues legend Freddie King. Benny’s journey begins in Texas in the sunset of 1939 with an overview of his family history, delving...

There have been many stories about the horrors of the Holocaust before and during the Second World War, but Surviving Remnant by Hanna Perlstein Marcus is one of the few that tells us what happened to those who survived. I learned so much from this...

Sister Superior’s Thumb, the Pope’s Ring and the End of Childhood by Robert McNally begins in 1946 when Robert is 14 years old. This is the second book of a trilogy by McNally that he calls The Memoir of a Boy on His Dangerous Journey....

Shift of Heart: Paths to Healing and Love by Cheryl Melody Baskin is an uplifting and insightful book that guides readers towards inner peace, balance, mindfulness, and self-love. The book is for all the perfectly imperfect readers trying to find a positive way through this...

I confess! I chose to read Singing In My Own Key: A Vocalist's Triumph Over Stroke by Valerie L. Giglio for purely selfish reasons: my daughter is a professional singer. The thought of my daughter's career, or anyone's career for that matter, being abruptly and...

Sound From the Silence: The Spy Who Was A Lover is a fictionalized autobiography written by Aslam Ansari. Ansari is an independent filmmaker who is currently based in Paris. Saying that Ansari is a filmmaker is sharing only a part of what he is. The...

“Once a Peace Corps volunteer, always a world volunteer,” is the mantra by which Peace Corps volunteer Paula Enyeart lives. Freshly graduated from North Dakota University, and even uncertain as to the validity of her nursing certification, author Enyeart sets in motion her application to...

Stand For Something or Stand For Nothing is a nonfiction autobiographical work written by Ebony Jones-Kuye. The author’s earliest memories of her family were of a cozy and connected threesome. There was her mother, a successful hairstylist with her own business, her half-brother, Chucky, and...

Secrets, Spies & Spotted Dogs by Jane Eales tells the story of the author's adoption and her subsequent search many years later to discover her birth mother's life and trace other family members. The book is divided into four sections. The first part chronicles Jane's...