Nonfiction

New Book Teaches Decision Making and Inner Workings of the Human Mind

Decisions, decisions, decisions…our lives are filled with them. Some are small like what to make for dinner or which TV show to watch tonight. Even small decisions like these can be difficult to make, but they aren’t likely to impact your life over the long term. Others, however, can actually…

Barbara WilkovMarch 18, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Wellness Coach’s Unique Perspective on Health and Obesity

Are you kidding? Is it just me, or are you also amused by a book on better understanding obesity written by a guy named “fast”? Actually, for anyone who has fallen for the myth implied above, that the easiest way to combat obesity is to stop eating, then it is…

Jim AlkonMarch 4, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction

A Guide to Finding Community and Support with “My Trans Parent”

There are 1.4 million people in the U.S. who identify as transgender, and then millions more family and friends who are coping/embracing/struggling (check one) with how this defines themselves and their families, and what it means to them. Yet while there are millions affected, how often would you think every…

Jim AlkonOctober 12, 2020

Nonfiction

Battling Fears With Jekyll and Hyde Husband

In psychotherapist Diane Pomerantz’s heartfelt memoir, Lost in the Reflecting Pool (She Writes Press), the insidiousness of emotional abuse intertwines with her story of love, betrayal and her search for identity. Diane begins her tale of revelation from the start of her relationship: 1981 Baltimore. Diane takes readers inside the…

K.L. RomoMay 13, 2019

Better Self Book Club Network Nonfiction

“Lost in Ghost Town:” The Scared-Straight Tale of a Rich Boy Hitting Crack-Rock Bottom

Addiction trumps privilege in Carder Stout’s vivid memoir Lost in Ghost Town: A Memoir of Addiction, Redemption, and Hope in Unlikely Places (HCI). Written with excruciating truth and visceral fear, desperation and despair, Stout takes us into the incapacitating stranglehold of addiction and the battle to overcome it. Son of…

K.L. RomoJune 7, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

A Therapist’s Guide to Tackling Addiction and Compulsions

What are you addicted to? Most people would instinctively answer “Nothing!” But if you really think about it, is that the truth? According to psychologist Dr. Carder Stout, we’re all addicts, even if we don’t realize it. Beyond alcohol, drugs and sex — which are most commonly thought of as…

BookTribFebruary 17, 2023

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Nonfiction

Mike Murphy’s Memoir Showcases a Too-Short but Exceedingly Well-Lived Life

This is the extraordinary true story of the last six months of the life of Margot Murphy after a nine-year battle with cancer, written by her husband. Unflinching in its honesty and transparency, Living in Color: A Love Story, in Sickness and in Health by Mike Murphy is a riveting inside…

Judy MorenoOctober 18, 2021

Nonfiction

With Usual Wit, Dave Barry Shares Life Lessons from a Dog

Humorist Dave Barry tells the story of being backstage at a local TV morning show, watching a self-help author say in a confident and soothing manner how viewers needed to change their lives to become happier people. Shortly after, in the green room, this same calm, authoritative author, perhaps a…

Jim AlkonApril 1, 2019

Book Club Network Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Meet the 19th-Century Heroine Who Transformed the Role of the American Woman

Back when men ran everything and women couldn’t vote, Sarah Josepha Hale was a formidable influence in U.S. history, responsible for a remarkable list of contributions that ranged from persuading President Lincoln to proclaim Thanksgiving a national holiday (in the middle of the Civil War, no less) to the introduction…

Sherri DaleyMarch 2, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

Inspiring Memoir “Killer Graces” Navigates Journey Out of Illness and Addiction

For Steve Melen and his wife, Jen, their relationship “was all covered in a blanket of positivity, of striving for the future.” They had successful careers, a nice house and a newborn daughter they both adored. But Steve’s persistent stomach pain and subsequent Stage IIIB stomach cancer diagnosis ripped that…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 8, 2021

Nonfiction

Hasbro’s “Kid Number One:” Toy Story With an Abundance of Heart and Soul

Who can’t like a person who says his favorite toy growing up was Mr. Potato Head? And his most formidable adversary was Barbie? Add to that he’s committed to tikkun olam, a concept in Judaism which holds its believers responsible not only for their own moral, spiritual and material welfare,…

Sherri DaleyDecember 6, 2019

Nonfiction Recommended

Haunting Holocaust Memoir of Survival and Desperation

It was difficult to imagine a time without Nazis patrolling the streets. Their presence was a constant reminder that the Germans had control over everything in our lives, right down to how much sugar we could have in our porridge. Actually, it was much worse than that, as described in…

Jim AlkonMay 26, 2023

Nonfiction

Memoir Recounts Decades of Change Within NYC’s Gay Bohemian Community

The story of novelist, playwright and activist Joseph Caldwell in many ways mirrors the story of New York City’s artist scene in the Fifties and straight through to the Eighties. His new memoir, In the Shadow of the Bridge (Delphinium Books), tracks both the bohemian and gay lifestyle as well…

BookTribNovember 15, 2019

Nonfiction

“I Was There All Along:” Portrait of an Artist Through Her NYC Travails

Margo T Krasne, a young actress wannabe, had been invited by a friend to see the new Elaine May and Mike Nichols Broadway show. They had great seats. Nichols seemed to notice their raucous laughs during the performance and at the curtain motioned them to come backstage. Next thing they…

Jim AlkonOctober 4, 2019

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

An Intimate Memoir of the Bipolar Experience Penned to Pay it Forward

She needed to escape, so she ran. She found her way to the door of her house, slipped out and ran as fast as she could. “As I ran, I proceeded to strip every piece of clothing from my black body. I wanted nothing on me, nothing holding me back.”…

Jim AlkonFebruary 25, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

“I Am Not Your Slave” Exposes the Harrowing Reality of Human Trafficking

There are unspeakable acts of depravity and cruelty in the memoir I Am Not Your Slave (Lawrence Hill Books) by Tupa Tjipombo and Chris Lockhart. It is hard to read, harder yet to believe that there are men in this world who can be so sadistic, so bestial, women who aid…

Sherri DaleyDecember 10, 2019

New Book Teaches Decision Making and Inner Workings of the Human Mind

Wellness Coach’s Unique Perspective on Health and Obesity

A Guide to Finding Community and Support with “My Trans Parent”

Battling Fears With Jekyll and Hyde Husband

“Lost in Ghost Town:” The Scared-Straight Tale of a Rich Boy Hitting Crack-Rock Bottom

A Therapist’s Guide to Tackling Addiction and Compulsions

Mike Murphy’s Memoir Showcases a Too-Short but Exceedingly Well-Lived Life

With Usual Wit, Dave Barry Shares Life Lessons from a Dog

Meet the 19th-Century Heroine Who Transformed the Role of the American Woman

Inspiring Memoir “Killer Graces” Navigates Journey Out of Illness and Addiction

Hasbro’s “Kid Number One:” Toy Story With an Abundance of Heart and Soul

Haunting Holocaust Memoir of Survival and Desperation

Memoir Recounts Decades of Change Within NYC’s Gay Bohemian Community

“I Was There All Along:” Portrait of an Artist Through Her NYC Travails

An Intimate Memoir of the Bipolar Experience Penned to Pay it Forward

“I Am Not Your Slave” Exposes the Harrowing Reality of Human Trafficking

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