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Peggy Kurkowski

Peggy Kurkowski

Peggy is a professional copywriter for a higher education IT nonprofit association by day and a major history geek at night. She hosts her own YouTube channel, The History Shelf, where she features and reviews history books (new and old), as well as a variety of fiction. In addition to BookTrib, she also reviews for Library Journal, Publishers Weekl, BookBrowse Review, Historical Novels Review, Shelf Awareness, and the Washington Independent Review of Books. She is also the Art Director and Editorial Board Member of the Saber & Scroll Journal, as well as a freelance member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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A Lyrical Portrait of War and Survival in WWII Libya

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
Peggy Kurkowski
April 7, 2026