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“He Came in With It:” A Quest for Stability Amid Chaos

“Heartbreaking, cathartic and startlingly funny, it thoroughly redefines our conception of unconditional love." ― Actor Tony Shaloub “Shows us the way through an unimaginable terror to the light of hope.” ― Actors LaTanya and Samuel L. Jackson When a book, in this case a memoir, is heaped in praise before…

BookTribJuly 21, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

After a Mother’s Shocking and Devastating Loss, “The World Looks Different Now”

“A beautifully written and harrowing tale of a mother coming to terms with her son's devastating suicide.” — Sarah Neustadter, PhD and author of Love You Like the Sky —∞— In The World Looks Different Now (She Writes Press), Margaret Thomson introduces readers to a challenging topic from a first-hand perspective,…

BookTribJuly 14, 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

Miscellany Pop Culture Pop Culture - Featured

Sisterhood of Storytelling: Oprah Magazine’s 28 Books for a Transportive Summer

“While our movements these days may be restricted, that doesn’t mean we can’t explore the world,” says Oprah Winfrey in the essay she penned to introduce Oprah Magazine’s annual summer reading list. This year, that list boasts 28 women writers from around the world, and its diverse range of titles…

BookTribJune 30, 2020

Nonfiction

“The Room Where It Happened:” A Comprehensive Account of the Trump Administration

It wouldn’t be a stretch to expect any Broadway aficionado to be able to whistle the tune, “The Room Where It Happens,” from the ever-so-popular, long-running show Hamilton. The song describes the Compromise of 1790 between Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. “Compromise” is not a word readers likely…

Jim AlkonJune 18, 2020

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

Book Club Network

“Wild Blueberries:” Nostalgic and Funny Essays That Tip Their Hats to Rural Michigan

A little bit Huckleberry Finn, a little bit Spanky and Our Gang, Wild Blueberries (O'Brien & Whitaker) is a delightful and beautifully written collection of essays by Peter Damm about growing up in rural Michigan. We meet the whole Damm family: young Peter, his four older brothers, one formidable sister Susan,…

Sherri DaleyJune 7, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

Airborne Toxic Event Frontman Chronicles Dysfunctional Childhood in “Hollywood Park”

“A Gen-X This Boy’s Life. ... visceral urge to leave his background behind propels him to excel. ... In the end, Jollett shakes off the past to become the captain of his own soul. Hollywood Park is a triumph." ―O, The Oprah Magazine —∞— "A painstaking emotional accounting of a tortured youth…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 27, 2020

Fiction

Fiction Imitates Fact in Unique Chronicle of U.S. Marine Family During WWI

Somewhere beyond the halfway point of the fascinating World War I chronicle The Remains of the Corps: Volume I (EG&A Publishing), protagonist and Marine Second Lieutenant Kenneth Remain, grandfather of author Will Remain, has his first brush with the enemy, a German U-boat spotted from his ship’s crow’s nest: “His…

Jim AlkonMay 15, 2020

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

Nonfiction

The Bella Twins Prove “Incomparable” in Their New Memoir

Nikki and Brie Bella have always competed, but because the rest of the world treated them as identical and interchangeable, they decided to do something about it. Their new memoir, Incomparable (Gallery Books), shares the whole story of these WWE Hall of Famers and E! Total Bellas stars, starting with their early years,…

BookTribMay 5, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

“My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me:” A Memoir of Love, Loss and Healing

Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her — through a column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Rosenthal, a bestselling children’s author and filmmaker, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern…

BookTribApril 21, 2020

Nonfiction

A Woman’s Quest to Learn About What Her Family “Abandoned in Berlin”

When Hilda Stein stood in front of her mother’s childhood home in Berlin, she felt a tug of nostalgia and longing. The building was graceful and elegant, dominating the neighborhood of ordinary post-war structures. “If buildings could speak,” she mused, “what stories this one could tell.” Abandoned in Berlin by…

Sherri DaleyApril 15, 2020

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Professional Music Fan Shares His Stories From the Road in “Sonic Warrior”

Stories from the road are always fascinating, and Lou Brutus has his fair share of them in his new memoir, Sonic Warrior: My Life as a Rock N Roll Reprobate (Rare Bird Books). Lou tells incredible stories from his time as a radio personality and music interviewer. One of these is about…

BookTribApril 13, 2020

Nonfiction

“When the Tempest Gathers:” U.S. Marine Leader Dissects His Experiences in War

So writes Andrew Milburn in the introduction to When the Tempest Gathers (Pen and Sword Books), his detailed memoir as a Marine Corps leader in Mogadishu, Baghdad, Fallujah, Mosul and in the fight against ISIS. Marines, with their ritual, tradition, obedience and hierarchy, thrive in a profession that most Americans…

Jim AlkonMarch 31, 2020

Nonfiction

A Mother-Daughter Bond of Lies and Secrets in “Wild Game”

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Adrienne Brodeur is a story of a mother’s love, what not to do and the long journey to recover from the damage done. Rennie’s mom, Malabar, and her second husband, Charles, spend a lot of time with friends…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 13, 2020

“He Came in With It:” A Quest for Stability Amid Chaos

After a Mother’s Shocking and Devastating Loss, “The World Looks Different Now”

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

Sisterhood of Storytelling: Oprah Magazine’s 28 Books for a Transportive Summer

“The Room Where It Happened:” A Comprehensive Account of the Trump Administration

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

“Wild Blueberries:” Nostalgic and Funny Essays That Tip Their Hats to Rural Michigan

Airborne Toxic Event Frontman Chronicles Dysfunctional Childhood in “Hollywood Park”

Fiction Imitates Fact in Unique Chronicle of U.S. Marine Family During WWI

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

The Bella Twins Prove “Incomparable” in Their New Memoir

“My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me:” A Memoir of Love, Loss and Healing

A Woman’s Quest to Learn About What Her Family “Abandoned in Berlin”

Professional Music Fan Shares His Stories From the Road in “Sonic Warrior”

“When the Tempest Gathers:” U.S. Marine Leader Dissects His Experiences in War

A Mother-Daughter Bond of Lies and Secrets in “Wild Game”

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