Several reasons cause students to drop out of college. When Ezella McPherson was going through issues, including grief, even her counselor encouraged her to drop out. This shows not only the importance of having mentors but also advisors who are competent and resilient in helping...

Suzanne Lezotte’s first child, Owen, was born with Down Syndrome. Lezotte did not know about his diagnosis until a week after his birth. The identification of Owen as a Down Syndrome child brought with it the expected feelings of grief, fear, and doubts. The experience...

Rise of the Reader: Strategies For Mastering Your Reading Habits and Applying What You Learn by Nick Hutchison is an informative self-help book. He gives you lots of ideas on how to become a better reader and why you need to. He uses his personal...

Ride On! Dame Sarah Storey’s Extraordinary Journey of Triumph by S. A. Sterling is a biography of Dame Sarah Storey, a Paralympic champion who has the use of only one hand and overcame adversity and challenges, including bullying, an eating disorder, and chronic fatigue syndrome....

Resilience: A Different Kind of Strong by Jenn Henry truly is an inspirational book aimed at helping readers create the lives they dream of. As a teenager, Jenn was diagnosed with bipolar-manic depression. Jenn was arrested for drug possession and stolen property, and after being...

Ring the Bell by EC Stilson is a memoir of the author’s cancer journey. People often take the luxury of living for granted, being too caught up with things in life that don’t end up mattering that much in the bigger picture. But that’s life;...

We often live our lives as secondary characters, not as the main characters and directors that we are. This is largely because we often fail to look inward, into ourselves. We blame our family, friends, and even ourselves for everything. So we just go through...

After serving over 40 years in the ministry, I must say that Ted Rogers has written the best devotional I have read in a long time. His book, Reminders of God, Spring/Summer, is the best modern devotional I have read. I would rank the devotions...

Retirement Wreckers by John J Sastry is a financial guide to having a stress-free retired life. Sastry discusses the crucial financial plans you must make before retiring. First, he explains how pension plans work, their risks, and why they are becoming less popular. He then...

Reveal Yourself is a book of poetry by Matthew Lawrence Scigousky. The author expresses his desire to inspire and motivate others and relates poems with themes of mindfulness, positivity, growth, patience, and energy. Scigousky’s poems are free-flowing and use enjambment. The author’s words are inclusive...