The Travels and Travails of Music by Ruth Finnegan is aptly summarized in the sub-title: A tale of music, culture, and radio in the South Seas. I first came across this author when I read her scholarly and insightful work, Communicating: The Multiple Modes of...

In a very interesting, unique and well thought out treatise on many facets of wisdom throughout history, The Pursuit of Wisdom: A Chronological Inquiry of the World's Most Influential Seekers of Wisdom In the Fields of Theology, Philosophy, and Science by author Dean Chavooshian, will,...

In an interesting and well-researched piece of work into the time period of the summer of 1885 in the UK, author David Boyle does a fine job in recounting for his readers what led to the criminalization of homosexuality in Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a...

Flight of Remembrance, A World War II Memoir of Love and Survival by Marina Dutzmann Kirsch is the story of two individuals, Rolf Dutzmann and Lilo Wassull, and their extended families. Kirsch's book tells about their childhood, how the two met, fell in love, and...

The Girl Immigrant by Patricia Ruiz Steele is a wonderful biography of the author's family, specifically Manuela, the author's grandmother. Manuela's family comes from Spain, and they were promised a new life, education for their children, homes and jobs, if they immigrated to Hawaii to...

The Last Days of Adam by Tim Dalgleish takes place during the Holocaust, and not only demonstrates the role of Adam Czerniakow as helping the Jewish population of Poland in his role as Chairman of the Judenrat, but effectively follows the terrible decline of Poland...

Odes on Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest is a collection of sports poetry written by David A. Bates. Bates introduces his work with an autobiographical account of his personal recollections of Ali's bouts as well as what he calls Ali's "pre-fight antics", and he...

Great Americans: The Founders by Michael T. Best is the first in what is going to be a series of books about the men and women who helped found America. This volume introduces us to Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Boone, John Hancock, David Bushnell, Samuel Prescott,...

Cold War Kid, a memoir by Tom Hanley, is an amazing book about life in the Cold War era, which is rib ticklingly funny and a very different read. Hanley, an accomplished writer, has managed to make a rather dry topic funny and interesting with...

The Giggling Boy by Ra Lynn LoneWalker chronicles one of the most horrific times in US history. Native American children were ripped from the bosoms of their families to be “educated” in mission schools. What awaited them was not standard education, but the experience of...