Many of us lost family members and friends during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mourning the loss of a friend is never easy, and it became all the more difficult during the recent pandemic with the unique circumstances people found themselves in. In What...

Walking with Anne Brontë: Insights and Reflections: An Anthology by Tim Whittome is a thoughtful, insightful, and thoroughly academic review of the work of the lesser-known and celebrated of the three Brontë sisters, Anne. Editor Tim Whittome is a confessed adherent of “Team Anne”...

Watch Out Fer Them Skeeter Bushes or They'll Git Che: The Adventures, Misadventures, and Occasional Philosophy of an Old Teacher is a work of non-fiction in the autobiography, slice-of-life, and education subgenres. It is suitable for all readers and was penned by author Del Hansen....

After the death of her estranged father, Tara Fox Hall went to his house to search for her diary that he took when she was fifteen. Because her father was a hoarder, she finds lots of junk, rotten food, porn, mail from decades ago, and...

Where Have I Been All My Life? How I Finally Grew Up After a Life of Putting Up, Giving Up and Shutting Up by Lisa Benson is an irresistible can't-put-down self-help book wrapped in a memoir. This "Little Miss Perfect" had brains and a plan....

Walking While Black is a heart-wrenching first-hand account by Polly J. Runyon-Sanders and Anthonii Sanders of a horrible night in 2009 in which Anthonii, aka Nii, was violently and viciously attacked by the Downers Grove Police in the suburbs of Chicago. Without warning, police used...

When the Muse Speaks is a collection of thought-provoking poems by Kiana Donae. The book is divided into four parts. The first is Voices of Pride, poems about the oppression of black people and their fight for justice and what they deserve. The second section...

John Nieman’s thought-provoking collection of essays What is Missing? examines important values and traditions that were once the core of American society. In the 1970s, milk cartons were used to spread the word about missing children. Their images were included on the cartons but this...

In We Are All Made of Scars, Christopher Morris recalls his tumultuous childhood and the questionable choices he made as a young adult who experienced an unhealthy level of exposure to addiction all his life. The company he kept escalated Chris's natural attraction to chaos,...

Witness to a Prosecution: The Myth of Michael Milken by Richard V. Sandler is a work of nonfiction in the subgenres of business and finance, autobiography, and legal issues. It is best suited for the general adult reading audience. In his first tell-all book...