Morocco: A Remembrance of Childhood by James B. Farmer is narrated through the eyes and adventures of a five-year-old boy as he embarks on the first of many journeys. The book opens as his Navy family moves from America's heartland to Morocco in the mid-1950s...

The American and the Bus Driver by Paummi Sarrazin is about the beauty of love, travel, and culture. It all started with a ten-day school trip to France and a meeting that seemed orchestrated by fate. Paummi, who lived near Paris as a child, was...

In the Time of Coronavirus is a helpful book on living through a pandemic and its impact on our daily lives while offering simple self-care tips. Janet Zinn has a background as a mental health first responder following 9/11, a psychotherapist who specializes in trauma,...

Becoming Hungarian: A Memoir is penned by author Erika Reich Giles in the autobiography, culture, and historical genres. In this interesting work, the author recounts her journey of rediscovering her Hungarian roots after a lifetime of shying away from them. Raised in the U.S. after...

The Iraq I Knew: From Saddam Hussein to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) to Al Qaeda in Iraq is a work of non-fiction in the memoir, military writing, and slice-of-life genres. It is best suited to mature readers as it discusses real-life graphic violence. Colonel...

I have read missionary stories (starting with The Life and Diary of David Brainerd) for the past sixty years. Lauralee Lindholm’s Out of Darkness into Light stands with the best of the missionary books I have read. I have personal friends who were missionaries in...

In By Way of Conshohocken: A Fictionalized Family Memoir by Cydney Iris Afriat Menihan, the author includes some interesting facts that are key factors in the fictional history of her family. She goes with her family to a musical that moves her grandfather, Bob, to...

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero, the master magician, intones: “We are of such stuff as dreams are made of.” This could be a summation of The Storm Behind Me: A Book of Poems and Pictures by Rory Piontkowski and Sheri Wiseman. It is a compilation...

Ruan Lingyu: Her Life and Career by Patrick Galvan is far more than a meticulously researched and masterfully written biography. It is a precise and impeccably unbiased portrait of a volatile and pivotal era in Chinese history when Chinese cinema was at its nascent peak...

The Egyptian pyramids are the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World. A symbol of human ingenuity, hard work, and ambition, these pyramids bring thousands of visitors annually from all over. Inspired by a 15-day tour of Egypt, John Delaney encapsulates his experiences with...