Born just after the Great Depression, Jack Hawn found that life ‘just happened’ for him in a series of serendipitous events, leading him into a writing career spanning 43 years. Although he never studied journalism, journalism found him after 4 years in the Army Public...

Author Bryna Kranzler writes of her remarkable grandfather's life as a young man in "The Accidental Anarchist: From the Diaries of Jacob Marateck". In the early years of the last century, a young Jew, Jacob Marateck, goes from his yeshiva onto enlisting in the Russian...

Sherman P. Bastarache has an inordinate interest in language. His interest began when he was in the eighth grade. His teacher was discussing evolution and a student commented that words cannot evolve. Suddenly, it occurred to Bastarache that if you add a 't' to 'here'...

"One Year in Wonderland" by Christopher Combe is the story of his family’s year as expats in Dubai from 2006 to 2007. The author seizes the chance to work abroad in the construction industry when it comes his way so that he can experience another...

Erin Mitchell has created a masterpiece in her book "Born Colored: Life Before Bloody Sunday", for it clearly tells of segregation in the American South in those years just before the Civil Rights Movement. What Mitchell conveys quite clearly is that African-Americans, faced with segregation,...

'Making a Meal of It' by Jui-shan Chang is centered on Dr. Jui-Shan Chang's cross cultural studies of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China versus the Western cultures in their ideology in relation to the study of sex. Dr. Chang's twenty years of comparative research of...

Hoa Minh Truong was a lieutenant in the South Vietnam Army when the Vietnam War ended in 1975. At that time the President of South Vietnam ordered his troops to withdraw from major battle areas and turned South Vietnam over to the Communists of North...

Kashif Parvaiz has written a brilliant book on the history of Russian architecture since medieval times that reflects upon how buildings were created when Russian was its own world. It also reflects the influence of other cultures in Russian architecture's evolution over the centuries as...

We've Never Had A King is a fascinating look at the lives of Mary and Brad Bradbury and a bit of the history of Iraq. The setting is the 1950s, Iraq. Brad was a guest of the state, and advisor to the Government Oil Refineries...

Command Influence is the memoirs of Robert A. Shaines, mostly covering the years he was a JAG officer in the Air Force. He shares his experiences in the Air Force and Korea; however, his main focus is on the trial of George C. Schreiber. Shaines...