Wow. That's the one word I can think of right now, right this minute, to describe this book. It's not a light book at all. It's not a beautiful book. It's heart wrenching. It WILL bring tears to your eyes. It WILL make you stop...

Pioneer Spirit-Catherine Spalding, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth by Mary Ellen Doyle, SCN is the biography of Catherine Spalding who at the age of 19 became Mother Superior to a group of women. Born in Maryland in the year of 1793, her parents moved the...

Lady Bray by L. S. Kind is the fascinating story of an early twentieth century Southern woman. Rosalie Reader is trained early on as a young and independent woman who has substantial social presence to compliment her various innate talents. She helps to raise her...

"Down Memory Lane with Marguerite and Family" is a well-written tale of the Caribbean islands of Montserrat and Martinique and their long and varied history always threatened by active volcanoes on both. It should be shelved with travel books featuring the Caribbean. Why? This easy...

This is a fictional book based on actual facts; the names and locations are changed. This is a story of child abuse and how Suzy learned to forgive. Suzy (Carol Denise Brown) was the 6th child out of 16 children. Her father seldom lived at...

Did Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield? follows her life from birth to death. The author has included plenty of photos which compliment the text. We all look at Hollywood stars through rose colored glasses. Few of us know their true existence. Producers expect a star to...

The setting is 1938, Austria. Fear swelled throughout Europe as the darkness of Nazism spread. Fredl and Lizzi were a successful young Catholic couple. He was a jeweler and she was a dressmaker. They did not welcome Hitler’s rule and knew they must...

Dear Bob, Dear Betty is the biography of two individuals. Robert(Bob) Llewellen Wright, son of Frank Llewellen Wright and Catherine Wright and Elizabeth(Betty) Bryan Kehler. They met during the Depression years of 1932-33. The couple faced plenty of hardships. Bob lived in Chicago and Betty...

Donnie Foster is born into an abusive and unstructured home, in which his mother works and is unavailable; his stepfather neglects and brutalizes the children in his care. Much of the first part of the book details the abusive family episodes; this may be difficult...

Are we a product of our early childhood experiences? Priscilla’s (Guinea) childhood was brutal. Her mother abused all of her children but seemed to receive great satisfaction from beating Priscilla. She even tried to drown her on one occasion. Priscilla was only eleven years old when...