A Cry in the Night: The City of Lights' Dark Side by Mary S. Brown Durr is a murder story set in the Jim Crow era. It is based on the murder of a young civil rights participant. It is also the personal experience of...

Author Thomas M. Cirignano grew up in the area around Dorchester and South Boston in the '50s. In his book, The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic, he describes living in the urban area. The author shares his life experiences, making this reviewer...

Spookiest Lighthouses by Terrance Zepke is an intriguing informational book which introduces the reader to historical landmarks, some architectural buildings and information, as well as a paranormal concept. Most readers love tales full of exciting facts, history, and a good background story. The author provides...

Growing up in America means there are a few things we all undoubtedly know, the first of which is that America is the greatest country on earth. Then, we are the richest with the greatest military might the world has ever seen. The things we...

Family Legends: From a Lawrence County, Indiana Family by Sophia Frazier is a very inspiring book about passing on the family details, history, and moments shared to the next generation of family members, friends, and all those who are associated with that particular family. Many...

M. William Phelps has created a true crime read with Bad Girls. This is the true story of Bobbi Jo Smith and her lover, Jennifer Jones. The two women were accused and convicted of the murder of a man in Texas. His bed-ridden mother was...

Battling to make women’s basketball what it has become today was not an easy journey and Pat McKinzie’s story, Home Sweet Hardwood: A Title IX Trailblazer Breaks Barriers Through Basketball, shows exactly how difficult it was. From early in life, Pat was more comfortable running,...

Dean King, author of The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story, digs deep into the history of the feud and both families to find the truth behind the legend. The legend begins much like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Rosanna McCoy and Johnse Hatfield...

Our Experience, Ourselves by Lyn Paul Relph is a history of how we experience events. Starting with the earliest cultures, the author uses historical examples of how people interpret events and how they then gain experience (both positive and negative) from those events. At first,...

In Discovering Pompeii, author Natasha Sheldon takes you on a tour of the must-see sights in the Italian region of Campania. She takes you to explore the houses, temples, bathhouses, and brothels of the ancient city that is famous for its tragic demise. This guidebook...