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5 Essay Collections That Explore the Profound and the Mundane

The past few years have provided people with lots of chances for self-reflection. From isolation during COVID to major shifts globally, to personal changes like new jobs, friends or houses, we’ve all got a lot to think about. For many people, this time to think has been a welcome source…

Megan BeauregardApril 23, 2024

Author Spotlight Nonfiction

Spokeswoman and Innovator Dr. Christina Rahm Talks Passion, Wellness & Adapting to Change

Dr. Christina Rahm’s third book in her Cure the Causes series, Be Your Own Inspiration, stands out as a unique and comprehensive guide to self-discovery, self-empowerment and self-evolution. It’s not just another self-help book, but a transformative journey that starts with the self. Rahm’s approach is not just theoretical, but highly practical. She…

BookTribApril 25, 2024

Nonfiction

Famed NYPD Detective Frank Serpico Immortalized for Younger Generations

“Police, more often than not, have their own moral code, an “us against them” attitude enforced by a blue wall of silence, which can be even stronger than the omertà, the code of silence in the Mafia.” —Frank Serpico John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro have written a vitally important young…

Linda HitchcockApril 24, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

An Accessible 21st Century Translation of the New Testament

Translation is tricky. Sure, we can input something into Google Translate or some other such tool and decipher what a passage in a foreign language is about. That’s the literal level of translation. But there’s so much that goes missing — the subtleties of words and cultural concepts with no…

Cynthia ConradApril 24, 2024

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Celebrity Memoirs and the New Age of Capitalizing on Trauma

At the risk of sounding glib, it seems you can’t turn your head these days without alighting on a celebrity memoir — and that in all likelihood, its pages will be stuffed to the margins with trauma. In the last two years, there’s been a veritable explosion of celebrity memoirs…

Savannah CordovaApril 15, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Break Out of Your Comfort Zone & Find True Success With the Help of This Master Life Coach

Don’t get caught up in the benchmarks and dreams of others. If The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize and Amplify You by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino teaches us anything, it’s that success is a personal thing. Hamilton-Guarino, a master life coach and founder of The Best Ever You Network with millions…

Jim AlkonApril 23, 2024

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

“Suffer Less in Death” is Highly Informative, Raw and Occasionally Humorous

As a Registered Nurse, Vincent Dodd has sat with many, many patients on their deathbeds, and comforted families dealing with a range of emotions and hard decisions. Over the course of his experiences, he's developed a unique perspective on death and dying. And he is committed to making the process…

Jim AlkonSeptember 8, 2021

Nonfiction Recommended

Blind, Deaf Athlete’s Inspiring Story of Hope and Excellence in Sports and Life

As Kevin Frost describes his many incredible athletic accomplishments in his memoir Deaf Blind Champion, he notes what his speed skating mentor, Coach Mike, did to make some of these feats even possible. “He never trained me as a person with disabilities,” writes Frost. “He trained me as a high-performance…

Jim AlkonApril 19, 2024

Salman Rushdie Knife Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Attempted Murder in Revealing Memoir, “Knife”

On August 12, 2022, while speaking at a literary festival at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, Salman Rushdie was stabbed 15 times. Now, blind in his right eye and still suffering the aftereffects of the attempted assassination, Rushdie has opened up about the experience in his new memoir,…

BookTribApril 16, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Recounts Sister’s Rescue Mission and the Ongoing Fight For Disability Justice

“Forced care is happening to people with disabilities around the world. Most people don’t escape. And the world shrugs.” Should everyone have the right to choose where they live? The answer seems obvious — of course, choosing where you live is a basic human right. But for Teresa Heartchild, an…

Megan BeauregardApril 16, 2024

The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

Better Self Nonfiction

“Cultish” Author Examines Relationships, Celebrity Worship and “Magical Overthinking”

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author…

BookTribApril 9, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Sweeping Essay Collection Muses on the Tumultuous Times of 2022

Some musings to consider: “Humanity is in crisis.” “The rise and supremacy of cell phone culture has helped diminish the importance of content.” “A shortage of fabric up top … a shirtless young male actor. The Oscars looked like a parade of people who had lost bets.” “Once everyone had…

Jim AlkonApril 11, 2024

Children's Books Nonfiction Recommended

Teenager Brings Ancient Egypt to Life in Timeless Translated Story of Family and Career

Let’s be clear from the outset: Be a Scribe! by young 16-year-old Michael Hoffen and co-authors, is not a thriller. It’s not contemporary fiction, or a romance, biography, sci-fi, action-adventure, fantasy, horror, or anything motivational. No, it likely won’t be your book club’s next read. Yet it might be the…

Jim AlkonApril 9, 2024

The Inner Light And World Religions Philip T Nicholson

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Drawn Down an Inner Rabbit Hole of Mystical Colors and Light

Philip T. Nicholson wasn't at a stage of his life where he paid much attention to spiritual matters. He was busy being a dad, a husband and a medical writer. Sure, he had done some seeking as a younger man, but those days were now behind him. But one night,…

Cynthia ConradApril 8, 2024

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann

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Patterson Celebrates Book World with True Stories in “The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians”

If you are reading these words, you are in a minority — you are in the only 20 percent of people in America who can read a book and habitually do so. Yet despite the plethora of distractions and obsessions, reading, says iconic author James Patterson, is not on the…

BookTribApril 8, 2024

Nonfiction

Knopf to Publish President Bill Clinton’s Memoir Detailing Life After the White House

Alfred A. Knopf has announced the upcoming publication of President Bill Clinton’s memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, set to release on November 19, 2024. Remarkably candid, and richly detailed, Citizen offers fascinating insight into Clinton’s life – both personal and political – after his two terms as…

BookTribApril 5, 2024

5 Essay Collections That Explore the Profound and the Mundane

Spokeswoman and Innovator Dr. Christina Rahm Talks Passion, Wellness & Adapting to Change

An Accessible 21st Century Translation of the New Testament

Celebrity Memoirs and the New Age of Capitalizing on Trauma

Break Out of Your Comfort Zone & Find True Success With the Help of This Master Life Coach

“Suffer Less in Death” is Highly Informative, Raw and Occasionally Humorous

Blind, Deaf Athlete’s Inspiring Story of Hope and Excellence in Sports and Life

Sweeping Essay Collection Muses on the Tumultuous Times of 2022

Teenager Brings Ancient Egypt to Life in Timeless Translated Story of Family and Career

Drawn Down an Inner Rabbit Hole of Mystical Colors and Light

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