"The Last One" is Marin Yann's memoir of his life in Cambodia. He was about 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge grabbed power in that country. Marin last saw his father when he was invited to work on a far-away project, and his mother...

In "Terry", Terry Wadsworth Warne has written a vivid account of her entrapment in the events of World War II. Born and raised in the Philippines, she had an idyllic life until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As America was unable to evacuate all the...

"The Planet-Girded Suns" by Sylvia Engdahl is about what people have thought about exoplanets, and how the thoughts of exoplanets have influenced our thinking. It starts off with an account of historical thoughts from the Aristotelian era through the middle ages to the present. This...

Author Andrew Haywein, a long-time practicing physician with an abiding interest in human prehistory, has written "The Evolution of Human Sexual Privacy" with the subtitle "An objective Study of a Subjective Realm". He begins by stating in the preface to this learned study that the...

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...

In "The Compassionate Rebel Revolution: Ordinary People Changing the World" you will meet people who are stepping out of their comfort zones to meet the needs of others. The first section of this book shares the stories of ordinary people who became heroes at ground...

"The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver" by Robert Prather is a fascinating look at an old Kentucky legend. Most readers will be familiar with the name Jonathan Swift. However, this is not the Jonathan Swift that wrote "Gulliver’s Travels"...

Since 9/11 the fears of Muslims attacking Americans provoked the creation of the PATRIOT ACT. The very name meant that to disagree with it made you un-American. This has morphed into the most egregious violations of our Constitutional rights since Joseph McCarthy’s efforts to destroy...

I don't read many non-fiction books, but when I do, they have to be REALLY awesome sounding. I am also a big history lover, on top of being from North Carolina, so I jumped on the chance to review Touring The Carolina's Civil War Sites....

Book One introduces the reader to some of the greatest Western epics, such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dante’s The Divine Comedy and many others. Each epic is summarized in a short synopsis, which is followed by the author’s commentary....