I'm That Guy: Collected Columns of a Southern Journalist is the work of author Rick Outzen. His columns are organized into four sections: Storms, Service, Heroes and Mentors and Family, and are concerned primarily with life in Pensacola, Florida. The Storms section covers the four...

Rizi Savier Timane, PH.D ASW shares the story of his life with readers in An UnSpoken Compromise. Rizi was born in Nigeria as a female. Nasele was a mere eight years old when she told her father that she was a boy. Her father’s reaction...

Legend and fact intertwine tantalizingly throughout the history of what we now know as the British Isles. The story of the Kingdom of Alt Clut, what fragments survive, is populated by the likes of King Arthur, Saint Patrick, Macbeth and Old King Cole, and it...

Montreal from A to Z: An Alphabetical Guide by Laura Roberts is a collection of blogs by the author describing interesting places in Montreal, and her thought and feelings about these places. The chapters are arranged in alphabetical order and each describes a different place...

French Phrasebook for Tourism, Friendship & Fun by Mathieu Herman and Robert F. Powers is a fresh, new look at providing basic French vocabulary and phrases for anyone interested in the language. Beginning with an explanation about how to use the book, this French Phrasebook...

I selected John H. Kampmann, Master Builder: San Antonio's German Influence in the 19th Century, by Maggie Valentine, because I was intrigued by the book's description. I had simply assumed that the architecture of San Antonio, up until the last hundred years or so of...

Amr Magdi Moneib’s Requiem Cloud is a great book which gives us illuminating insights to a society which is consumed with hypocrisy and contradiction. The book contains many interesting stories within stories, each one constructed in way that makes reading the most enjoyable activity in...

Author Thomas Hagedorn begins his narrative in 1783. Just after the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States had so many debts that it was unable to give back pay to Army officers and enlisted men who had fought during the war, let alone...

Comfort Food Without Borders: From Appetizers to Pastas by Sia Ayrom is the first in a three-part series of cook books. Much like how a restaurant presents its meal courses, this first book is filled with appetizers, brunch, sandwiches and burgers, soups, salads, and dumplings,...

From the Kitchens of Pancho Villa, written by Karina Ann Betlem, is so much more than a cookbook; it is a collection of recipes, stories, and pictures that share and celebrate a community and authentic Mexican cuisine. From the Kitchens of Pancho Villa begins with...