I Was A Foster Carer is an insightful and very informative book in many ways. The stories of Adrian Hawkes’s and his wife’s experiences of child fostering are told in a light-hearted and fascinating way. From the child’s best interests in mind and at heart,...

Tired of just passing through life unnoticed? If you want to make your name worth remembering, grab a copy of Making Your Mark, Leaving A Legacy, And Then... A Grand Exit That'll Have Their Tongues Waggin' by Peter Davidson. The book is divided into three...

The Juror Rejudges the Trial: The Juror and the General 35 Years Later is the new edition of the book that M. Patricia Roth published a few decades ago. She was a jury member in the Westmoreland vs. CBS trial, which lasted 18 weeks and...

Domestic violence is a touchy subject for many and not a topic people will readily discuss. Love, Bruises and Bullsh!t: 20 True Stories of Survival is an anthology of stories concerning domestic violence compiled by Yasmin Walter and Sheree Schonian. There are individual stories from...

OMG! It’s Harvey Korman’s Son! by Chris Korman with Ron Brewer and forewords by Carol Burnett and Peter Marshall (the title representing the constant refrain ringing in Chris’s head) is an eminently readable and fascinating memoir of Chris Korman’s childhood and young adulthood in the...

A Spider's Web: Diary of a Senior Online Love Scam by Bessie Larson is a painful, yet engaging tale based on a true story, a tale that brilliantly documents the author’s experience of a love scam. She set out to find love, investing time, emotions,...

Letter to My Dreams for the Children of the World by Pilar Velez is a beautifully illustrated book that helps children and young people understand the UN’s 2030 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The first section of the book explains the principles behind these goals which...

I have to begin my review of Drunk as Fu*k by congratulating the author, Ryan Kanaley. This couldn’t have been an easy memoir to write, given the copious amount of personal detail about Kanaley’s teen years that even he states “will not paint me in...

Following a shootout during the Federal trial of Chicago’s infamous bank robber, “The Bearded Bandit”, some members of the Chicago Police Department lost their lives. Unfortunately, former Chicago PD Detective Harry Belluomini was among the officers who were killed. While the media houses gave “The...

When I was offered the opportunity to read and review this memoir by Martin Frumkin, I was none too sure that a hippie’s journal about sex, drugs, and rock ‘n' roll as he searched for a higher consciousness was my cup of java. None of...