Beatriz Valdés' Yukio Mishima: Silk and Steel gives a very detailed account of the life of Kimitake Hiraoka, the literary prodigy who adopted the famous pen name Yukio Mishima. The book charts Mishima’s life alongside a long timeline of Japanese cultural history divided into seven...

AmeriCANS Who Made America! by Richard V. Battle describes how 43 remarkable individuals throughout the 1900s contributed to shaping the United States as it became a world power. Battle breaks his work down into three sections where he examines individuals and how their service to...

In Getting Old Ain’t Fun, Lisa Creech Saleh shares a deeply personal account of her 87-year-old mother, Marsha Gail Coley. The book chronicles the realities of managing progressive dementia, while exploring the difficult transitions from independent living in North Carolina to specialized memory care units....

In Run: The Wilmot Collins Story, Daniel Blake Smith documents the real-life journey of a man who survived the outbreak of the First Liberian Civil War in December 1989 and eventually built a new life in Helena, Montana. In Monrovia, Wilmot Collins and his fiancée,...

There are probably hundreds of books about the fate of Eastern European Jews during the Holocaust, but relatively few about the fate of German Jews during the same period. Even fewer focus on German families who escaped not to America or British-ruled Palestine, but to...

Short Stories I Hope You Will Enjoy is the second book in Peter Joseph Hickson's Amusing, Tragic, Educational series. It is a collection of stories about the author's experiences working in nursing and healthcare environments, primarily in Australia. Hickson delves into stories about dead body...

Shelter Stories by Mark Eaton is a collection of 14 stories from his time in the United States, where he lived for 30 years after losing his passport and becoming homeless. To survive, he lived on the streets and entered the world of homeless shelters...

Jeanne Basone was meant for show business, whether it be her personality or her desire to perform and entertain. Hooray For Hollywood details how Jeanne seized the opportunity when it came calling, and she became “Hollywood”, a grappler for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (G.L.O.W.)....

Queen of Magic: The Wondrous, Unstoppable Adelaide Herrmann by Margaret B. Steele is a compelling hybrid of biography and rediscovered memoir that finally gives one of magic's forgotten superstars her due. The book centers on Adelaide Herrmann's own 1932 manuscript, "Sixty-Five Years of Magic," written...

Cut to the Essence by Sneha Villalva is a self-help book that pulls apart the modern lie that doing more equates to being more. Villalva shares her life as a high achiever who looked successful on the outside but felt broken on the inside. She...