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Short Stories Explore Humanity by Looking Into the Minds of Animals

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens? — Job 35:11 Communist authorities in 1984 in a small Poland community create laws chasing longtime families out. The grown son, his wife and child prepare for a difficult goodbye…

Jim AlkonSeptember 27, 2023

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

Nonfiction Recommended

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

A grandmother’s album of photographs and postcards reveals the Belle Époque in Berlin — a time of unrivaled promise, peace, and prosperity — through the eyes of a young Prussian Jewish woman, as told by her grandson Stephan R. Frenkel in Clara’s Secret (LAEV). In 2016, Frenkel discovered an album…

Peggy KurkowskiSeptember 7, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

The Poignant Recounting of a Childhood Marred by the Lebanese Civil War

“My mother came to pick me up from school one day, screaming ‘Eddy! Eddy!’ All the other mothers came running and shouting too. Their screams pierced my ears and vibrated in my ribcage … I was very afraid.” Edward Challita, five years old at the time, was deprived of his…

BookTribSeptember 5, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

A Sāmoan-Scottish Girl’s Brave Navigation of Family, Faith and Irreparable Scars

Steven A. Yagyagan’s latest novel, Heather: Tuu Maia Lou Lima Give Me Your Hand, is an imaginative retelling of the real story of Heather Tauvela, a woman who overcame tremendous hardship and trauma to build a new life for herself and her children. When Heather asked Yagyagan to share her…

BookTribJune 29, 2023

Nonfiction

Comprehensive Biography of a Brave Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz

Jonathan Freedland, longtime journalist for The Guardian, nonfiction writer and novelist, has finally given Holocaust survivor and hero Rudolf Vrba a more balanced portrait than his 1963 memoir I Cannot Forgive and with it well deserved recognition for later generations of readers and scholars. The Escape Artist, subtitled The Man…

Linda HitchcockJune 14, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Teacher’s Bold Courage Facing Ugly Injustices of Civil Rights Era Alabama

The school board has branded me a criminal, a bad guy, unfit to live among decent people … It seems the school board would rather have liars, thieves, murderers, drunkards and gamblers than have a man of my qualification in the county, particularly if the man is Black … I…

Jim AlkonJune 8, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

What We Don’t Know About Stroke Victims: Tales of Unimaginable Strength and Courage

I startle awake in the middle of the night gasping for air, my mind racing with anxiety. My clothes, my sheets are steeped in sweat, and I don’t have any idea why. Statistics indicate that every 40 seconds, someone somewhere has a stroke. About 795,000 in the U.S. alone suffer…

Jim AlkonJune 1, 2023

Nonfiction

Inspiring Tribute to America’s Little-Known Trailblazing Female Journalists

Kim Todd is a multiple award-winning author and college instructor who has written a meticulously researched work of nonfiction, Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” (Harper Perennial). This compelling history of little-known late 19th-century journalists achieves the perfect balance between entertainment and education. Writing under pseudonyms, these…

Linda HitchcockMay 30, 2023

Nonfiction

Timely Exploration of the Crusade for a Black History Curriculum in Segregated Chicago Schools

The daughter of an elevator operator who wended his way from rural West Virginia to Chicago in 1903, Madeline Morgan grew up in a city transformed by an extraordinary influx of Black Americans. In an exodus known as the Great Migration, millions of southern Blacks moved north between 1910 and…

Claudia KeenanMay 23, 2023

I Am the Warrior by Holly Knight

Megan BeauregardMay 12, 2023

Nonfiction

Linda A. Broenniman

Linda grew up in Buffalo, New York. She is the middle child of seven, born to Hungarian physicians who survived World War II and started their new life in the US in 1949. Linda graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in psychology and from the Tepper School of Business…

Megan BeauregardMay 9, 2023

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Celebrate Life of Iconic “Peanuts” Cartoonist in Comic Strip Biography

Charles M. “Sparky” Schulz was arguably the most popular and influential cartoonist of the 20th century, and he poured many of his own emotions and experiences into the world of Peanuts over its iconic 50-year run. Now, internationally acclaimed creators Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi pay tribute to the master…

BookTribMay 2, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Overcoming Hardships of Forced Migration While Remaining True to One’s Heritage

Have you heard of the Mayan belief of cyclical time? (I remember the idea permeated popular culture over a decade ago, in the fated year of 2012.) It’s the belief that the cosmos exists in recurring cycles of destruction and creation. This belief extends to the human body, meaning we…

Katie BloomerApril 27, 2023

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Long Hidden Photos Uncover Striking Time Capsule of Rock and Roll

After 50 years buried at the bottom of a file cabinet, Michael Friedman’s never-before-seen collection of photos from his time in the music industry was discovered by his wife, Donna Vita. This time capsule of the images and behind-the-scenes stories of the most popular industry offers a front-row seat to…

BookTribApril 13, 2023

Nonfiction

Lyrics and Life Stories from Musical Great Lucinda Williams

Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore or place an order online for Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You (Crown), a fearlessly frank and fascinating memoir by the mega-talented and tenacious singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams. The title comes from an admonition made to a former boyfriend after an all-night…

Linda HitchcockApril 12, 2023

Short Stories Explore Humanity by Looking Into the Minds of Animals

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

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

The Poignant Recounting of a Childhood Marred by the Lebanese Civil War

A Sāmoan-Scottish Girl’s Brave Navigation of Family, Faith and Irreparable Scars

Teacher’s Bold Courage Facing Ugly Injustices of Civil Rights Era Alabama

What We Don’t Know About Stroke Victims: Tales of Unimaginable Strength and Courage

I Am the Warrior by Holly Knight

Linda A. Broenniman

Overcoming Hardships of Forced Migration While Remaining True to One’s Heritage

Long Hidden Photos Uncover Striking Time Capsule of Rock and Roll

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