Nonfiction

From Carnage to Triumph: A Brutally Honest Tale of International Adoption

When the Bough Breaks: A Mother's Story of Carnage, Courage and the Triumph of Faith (Woodhall Press) is an inspiring, brutally honest and heart-wrenching memoir by Nancy Ferraro. She shares with us the profound depth of her commitment to her adopted son, George, who was a victim of horrors and abuse…

BookTribOctober 3, 2022

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Build a Fine Vessel to Sail Through Your Financial Life

Author Michael Helgesen provides the most entertaining and engaging opening to a financial book that you might ever find. Fortunately for readers, his father, Lars Helgesen, was a Norwegian Merchant Marine during World War II, and his ship was part of a convoy delivering goods and supplies from the U.S.…

Jim AlkonSeptember 19, 2022

Nonfiction

“We the Women” Traces the Ongoing Fight for the ERA and Defends Its Viability Today

When I was growing up, the ERA was the topic at water coolers, supermarkets, town halls and doctor’s offices. It was a regular source of controversy in my high school classes and at our dinner table. My parents, who had three daughters, were firm proponents — even my more politically…

JeriAnn GellerAugust 11, 2020

Better Self Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured Recommended

With This Helpful Guide, You’ll Never Have to Walk on Eggshells

“When did your stomach tighten into knots? When did your face get hot, your chest start pounding or your palms get sweaty? Was it what was said, who said it, how it was said, or who was there to hear it?” Whatever it was, was it causing you to walk…

Jim AlkonNovember 4, 2022

Nonfiction

A Century of America’s Hidden Gems in “Waking Dreamers”

If you love U.S. history — and could easily imagine yourself whiling away an afternoon in the archives, delving deeper and deeper into the stories of America’s past — you’ll want to add a new title to your collection: Waking Dreamers: Unexpected American Lives, 1880-1980. Researched and written by BookTrib’s…

Nikki ErlickJuly 23, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

“Tripolar:” A Devastating and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness

How many blows can a fighter take before deciding to throw in the towel? Why does he think he is invincible, picking himself up off the canvas only to be pummeled again and again. Poundings to the midsection. Punches to the head. Until he finally sees what everyone else has…

Jim AlkonJuly 1, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Love Bombing, Manipulation, Deception – You May Be in A Toxic Relationship

For those wondering how to detect if they are in a toxic relationship, psychotherapist, mental health educator and TikTok sensation @recollectedself also known as Jaime Mahler role-plays relationship scenarios that show exactly how toxic relationship conversations evolve. These conversations have gone viral over and over again The road to love…

BookTribSeptember 6, 2023

Business Nonfiction Recommended

Former NASA Director of Mission Operations Sends Your Leadership Skills Skyrocketing

The unique leadership and teamwork principles that pushed America’s space program to the moon and back are the focal point of former NASA Director of Mission Operations Eugene F. Kranz’s riveting memoir, Tough and Competent: Leadership and Team Chemistry (Gatekeeper Press). Best known as the leader of the NASA flight…

Peggy KurkowskiAugust 16, 2023

Nonfiction

Jane Pollak: Time to Say “Enough” with This Marriage

Appreciation. Praise. Approval. Validation. That’s what Jane Pollak sought from her 30-plus years of marriage. Trouble was she was married to the wrong person to provide it. In Pollak’s masterfully written memoir, Too Much of Not Enough (She Writes Press), the intrigue begins in the first paragraph in a therapist’s…

Jim AlkonJune 3, 2019

Nonfiction

“The Ruining of Lemus Daniel:” Misadventures of One Fast-Living Father and His Son

It would appear that The Ruining of Lemus Daniel (W. Brand Publishing) comes rather quickly, as Lemus is pretty much destroyed by chapter two. But not to worry, his son Larry, who carries the narrative, makes plenty of his own ruinous choices. The story toggles between Larry Daniel’s life story,…

Sherri DaleyMarch 4, 2020

Nonfiction

Modernism, Madness and the American Dream

During the early 1980s, when Tom Weidlinger, author of The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and the American Dream (SparkPress), set out to plumb his father’s life, he already possessed a sheaf of astonishing stories. First and foremost, he knew that Paul Weidlinger counted among the towering figures in twentieth-century engineering,…

Claudia KeenanApril 16, 2019

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Legendary Entertainment Executive Alan Shayne Chronicles Coming of Age in Memoir

Sometimes it’s easy for people to tell that you are truly in love — you find a way, whether intentional or not, to work your lover’s name into every conversation or practically every sentence. In Alan Shayne’s poignant and immensely readable memoir, The Rain May Pass (Rand-Smith LLC), once he meets…

Sherri DaleySeptember 29, 2020

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

Roger Saillant was particularly guarded about his emotions during his childhood. Throughout most of his memoir, The Power of Being Seen (Saratoga Springs Publishing LLC), about growing up in the foster care system, he holds back his feelings to outsiders by design based on the advice of his older foster…

Jim AlkonSeptember 20, 2022

Nonfiction Recommended

Nearly Destroyed in a Fire, a Box of Old Photos and Letters Reveals Hidden Family Secret

“When I was 27, I accidentally discovered that my father was Jewish. And that much of what I knew about him and his family was a lie.” Most of us are familiar with a few generations of our relatives. We have met some of them. We know their stories; we…

Jim AlkonSeptember 12, 2023

Book Club Network Nonfiction

One Woman’s Brazilian Nightmare and Survival in “The Parrot’s Perch”

In The Parrot’s Perch (She Writes Press), Karen Keilt offers a brave and detailed account of how she and her newly-wed husband Rick Sage were illegally incarcerated on trumped-up drug charges, tortured for forty-five horrific days by the Brazilian police and then forced to rebuild their broken selves without retribution…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 11, 2020

Business Nonfiction Recommended

Essential Guide to Complexities of Modern Economy & Debt

“Debt is a paradox. It creates and destroys. Even short of those extremes, it distorts.” Hence the title of an enlightening and important new book The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis (University of Pennsylvania Press) by economic expert Richard Vague, who has served since 2020…

Jim AlkonJuly 11, 2023

From Carnage to Triumph: A Brutally Honest Tale of International Adoption

Build a Fine Vessel to Sail Through Your Financial Life

“We the Women” Traces the Ongoing Fight for the ERA and Defends Its Viability Today

With This Helpful Guide, You’ll Never Have to Walk on Eggshells

A Century of America’s Hidden Gems in “Waking Dreamers”

“Tripolar:” A Devastating and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness

Love Bombing, Manipulation, Deception – You May Be in A Toxic Relationship

Former NASA Director of Mission Operations Sends Your Leadership Skills Skyrocketing

Jane Pollak: Time to Say “Enough” with This Marriage

“The Ruining of Lemus Daniel:” Misadventures of One Fast-Living Father and His Son

Modernism, Madness and the American Dream

Legendary Entertainment Executive Alan Shayne Chronicles Coming of Age in Memoir

An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

Nearly Destroyed in a Fire, a Box of Old Photos and Letters Reveals Hidden Family Secret

One Woman’s Brazilian Nightmare and Survival in “The Parrot’s Perch”

Essential Guide to Complexities of Modern Economy & Debt

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