In A Warrior of the People, Joe Starita reveals the extraordinary life of Susan La Flesche. Born in a tipi in 1865 to parents of Indigenous and White ancestry, Susan La Flesche spent her life straddling two worlds. Her family insisted that she and her...

Spirits Speak by Paul Gorman is a compilation of interviews with spirits who happen to be the famous dead, recounting their deaths as a chosen transition that redefines their awareness and the continuity of it, beyond the physical body. In the Harry Houdini interview, the...

The events that brought America into World War II now seem like a distant dream that quickly became a nightmare. The attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 turned the world upside down. What followed is described by Steven Burgauer in The Road to War:...

The principal section of “Meeting” Anne Frank: An Anthology, edited by Tim Whittome, is a collection of essays from twenty-three contributors who outline the impact Anne Frank and her amazing diary have had on their lives. Anne Frank left behind a legacy that has fascinated...

Chance: Beginnings by Roberts Essex follows Chance from birth through adulthood, hitting plenty of highs and lows along the journey. Faith plays a big role in Chance’s life, but it’s messy and real, not sugar-coated or preachy. One such portrayal of this family’s faith is...

Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Smuggler, and Dad by Sean Oliver and Ricardo Morales, Jr., is an expansive biography that follows the extraordinary life of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a figure who moved through some of...

The complexity and the different personalities of human beings show that not everybody takes the same route. Not everyone has the same level of ambition or zeal to change the world. Others are comfortable being the silent heroes. That is the image Kate Benson tries...

The DiNardo family’s life in America didn’t start easily. In 1921, just after World War I, Ubaldo DiNardo, a war veteran, and his wife Marietta left Southern Italy to start over in the United States. Laws kept them apart for seven long years. Ubaldo went...

Better Dead Than Poor by Lisa Story (Stories and Letters from Uncle D.B. Cooper) is a moving true crime memoir. When Walt’s father unexpectedly died in a freak accident when Walt was very young, his life took a tragic turn. Walt felt this tragedy changed...

Three young rebellious artists established the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in London in 1848. Their names were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt. They rejected the rigidity of the Royal Academy's standards, which were rooted in the Italian High Renaissance. Rossetti, Millais, and...