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Impactful Memoir “Triple Jeopardy” Proves Dr. Rita Ali Is a Fighter

I remember the exact words Dr. Rita Ali said to me on the phone the first time we discussed her book Triple Jeopardy: Three Strikes But Not Out (Words Matter Publishing): “I was incarcerated three times, but I didn’t do it.” The “it” was a 27-count conviction in 2004 on…

Jim AlkonApril 12, 2021

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While “Singing All the Verses,” Peg Guilfoyle Proclaims the Full Spectrum of Life

“I have long been a person who sings all the verses.” So begins the resonant Singing All The Verses: Essays from a Mid-American by Peg Guilfoyle. Her story is fascinating. She was always a free spirit, drifting around the West in her twenties as well as living “the customary wandering…

Judy MorenoFebruary 24, 2021

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Malaka Gharib and the Elusive American Dream

Malaka Gharib, the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant and a Filipino immigrant, spent her formative years carving out an identity for herself between her Filipino-American community at home and her father’s Egyptian family in Cairo. In her graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream (Clarkson Potter), she notes the cultural…

Jeff DaughertyApril 26, 2019

Nonfiction Save the World

Office Worker Turned Travel Junkie in “Ten Years a Nomad”

Matthew Kepnes's parents were taken aback when told their son was going to travel around the world for a year. It didn't match their vision for him: 9-to-5 job, a climb up the corporate ladder, eating with the same friends at the same places. But it was a year -…

Lee PelletierJuly 22, 2019

Nonfiction

“American Oz” Pulls the Curtain on Carnival Life to Show Us Ourselves

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/american-oz-michael-sean-comerford2.jpg “Immersion journalism” describes journalists who go all-in. That means a 24/7 experience with the subject, keeping only the most tenuous ties with your prior life. You can’t get more immersive than the assignment that Michael Sean Comerford gave himself to write American Oz. He left his family in the Chicago…

Dennis HetzelNovember 6, 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

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

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 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

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

Nonfiction

Rob Paulsen’s “Voice Lessons” on Yakko, Pinky and Overcoming Cancer

To describe Rob Paulsen as a guy so nice that he’ll give you the coat off his back is more than a metaphor—it’s an actual fact. In 1990, hot off his success as the voice of smartass Raphael of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television show, he was signing autographs…

JeriAnn GellerJanuary 10, 2020

Nonfiction

“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls:” A Moving Memoir

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, (Bloomsbury) a stunning memoir, is T Kira Madden’s story. A school girl’s coming of age in wealthy Boca Raton, Florida, the author struggles with her identity and shares with us the good the bad and the ugly. T Kira was born to a…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 27, 2020

Nonfiction

“Full House” Star’s Story Comes Full Circle

“I’m incredibly thrilled (and terrified) to announce my memoir,” says Andrea Barber on her Facebook page. Perhaps that’s because the real-life Andrea, not surprisingly, is nothing like her TV persona from the Eighties and Nineties as the confident, quirky pre-teen character Kimmy Gibbler on the hit show Full House. “I’m…

BookTribNovember 12, 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

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

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

Impactful Memoir “Triple Jeopardy” Proves Dr. Rita Ali Is a Fighter

While “Singing All the Verses,” Peg Guilfoyle Proclaims the Full Spectrum of Life

Malaka Gharib and the Elusive American Dream

Office Worker Turned Travel Junkie in “Ten Years a Nomad”

“American Oz” Pulls the Curtain on Carnival Life to Show Us Ourselves

The Bella Twins Prove “Incomparable” in Their New Memoir

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

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

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

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

Rob Paulsen’s “Voice Lessons” on Yakko, Pinky and Overcoming Cancer

“Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls:” A Moving Memoir

“Full House” Star’s Story Comes Full Circle

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

Battling Fears With Jekyll and Hyde Husband

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

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