Author C D Kreger delivers a memoir as gut-wrenching as it is uplifting with Face the Storm, inviting readers into her world with fearless honesty, recounting a life shaped by childhood neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional turmoil. Yet this book is far more than a recounting of dark experiences. Face…
Monique SnymanJanuary 23, 2025
Mary Frances Barron’s newly released memoir Escape from Appalachia: Who Will Rescue Me? is rich in area history, vivid in setting descriptions and compelling in its recounting of a difficult childhood. The audiobook version provides an immersive reading experience for anyone who would like to revel in the depth of…
Anne Eliot FeldmanJanuary 22, 2025
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…
Blaine DesantisJanuary 15, 2025
Throughout his lifetime, Jimmy Carter held many titles: President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner, philanthropist, humanitarian, artist — and author. Carter wrote mostly non-fiction, touching on subjects from war and peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, faith, personal reflections on his life and aging — and even fishing.…
Andrew MasiJanuary 9, 2025
AudioFile’s 2024 Best Biography & Memoir Audiobooks allow listeners windows onto the lives of others. The performers are perfectly in sync with the text, whether they’re professional narrators or the (rather famous) authors themselves.
AudioFileDecember 4, 2024
A much-anticipated biography, Carson the Magnificent — 20 years in the making — has been released this holiday season about the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture. In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson…
BookTribDecember 3, 2024
Rolling Stones fans rejoice! The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts … Charlie’s Good Tonight written by trusted family and band members’ friend Paul Sexton is now available in paperback and translated into several languages. Charlie Watts was the jazz drummer in the…
Linda HitchcockOctober 29, 2024
Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey’s Cold War delves deeply into the life of the courageous, remarkably resilient man who became America’s longest-held POW, released after spending over 20 years imprisoned in what was then called Red China. Nearly all of this time was spent in solitary confinement under constant surveillance…
Linda HitchcockOctober 18, 2024
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…
Blaine DesantisOctober 9, 2024
In the modern day, when misinformation seems to spread across the globe like wildfire, education and literacy have never been so important. This point is proven in Arch/Dr. Winnie Nnakwe’s gripping memoir, Never Alone: Inspiring Through Literacy and Education. Never Alone follows the true story of Glory (the fictitious name…
Katie BloomerSeptember 11, 2024
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…
Blaine DesantisAugust 28, 2024
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…
Blaine DesantisAugust 14, 2024
Trauma is a word on the tips of our tongues more and more these days. In this time of newfound knowledge of the condition, we’re at a new place of widespread understanding in society. But that doesn’t mean the conversation is over; far from it. Trauma is a tangled knot…
BookTribAugust 7, 2024
Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg assert “80 is the new 60” in their second collaboration Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks and Triumphs. Their first best-seller was Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Living. This non-fiction book, expanded to print from Mo’s popular podcast Mobituaries, provided remembrances of noteworthy people whose lives…
Linda HitchcockJuly 10, 2024
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…
Blaine DesantisJuly 10, 2024