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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

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

Miscellany

New York Times Children’s Books Editors Know “How to Raise a Reader”

Maria Russo says she wasn’t allowed to watch much TV as a child. Perhaps parental decisions like that led to a career like this: children’s books editor of The New York Times Book Review. Now she’s taken her career a step further as co-author, along with fellow NYT Book Review…

Jim AlkonOctober 18, 2019

Nonfiction

Meet the Fashion Designer Responsible for “Dressing Barbie”

Dressing Barbie (Harper), subtitled A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them written by Carol Spencer is a vibrant must-read book now available in paperback. The author has written a brief but fascinating memoir of her life and four-decade career of doll and…

Linda HitchcockJuly 17, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Critical Analysis on How to Reshape the Broken US Education System

“We need to regain that relentless focus on getting an education in the face of obstacles, that’s what we need to reclaim, as a community and as a nation … We need to start feeling that hunger again … to fight to educate ourselves and our children like our lives…

Jim AlkonOctober 10, 2023

Nonfiction

Tech Founder Unveils the Future of the Metaverse in Thought-Provoking New Book

If the vision set forth by Shurick Agapitov in his mind-bending Once Upon Tomorrow is accurate, then here is a book too important to toss aside or only consider with mere passing interest. Agapitov introduces readers to the Metaverse, what he describes as the next significant technological phase that will…

Jim AlkonMarch 5, 2024

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

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Doctors Commit to Patient-Centered Care, Empathy and Treating Those “Gut Feelings”

If you struggle with chronic health issues and you’re looking for answers, finding a doctor who will listen to you and truly try to help you can be extremely challenging. Doctors often dismiss those cases that are too difficult and frustrating to solve and may even suggest that it’s “all…

Barbara WilkovOctober 5, 2023

Nonfiction

“Guardian:” An Insider’s Gripping Account of CIA Security’s War on Terror

The words were spoken by Colonel James Nicholas Rowe in 1989 over his desk phone in Manila to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Taft in Washington. The way it is written, by Thomas Pecora in his riveting Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA’s War on Terror (Post Hill…

Garrett SweitzerAugust 30, 2019

Nonfiction

“Flamethrower” Takes New Look at Iwo Jima and Its Heroes

A Marine Medal of Honor winner has been battling to block the distribution of Bryan Mark Rigg’s Flamethrower (Fidelis Press), the incredible, all-encompassing, controversial and meticulously researched account of the crucial battle of Iwo Jima during World War II and two of its intriguing soldiers, each from an opposite side…

Jim AlkonApril 10, 2020

Nonfiction

And It Suddenly Struck Him: ‘I Think I Can Write a Novel’

In an autobiographical memoir of sorts entitled Novelist as a Vocation (Knopf), the wonderous author Haruki Murakami, as his fans might anticipate, shares his love for baseball and describes his experience as a young man sitting beyond the outfield fence smelling the grass, admiring the sparkling blue sky and sipping…

Darryl OliverDecember 6, 2022

Nonfiction

Reflecting on the Power of Spirituality in “Dream Like Jesus”

Mainstream congregations are in trouble. Attendance is in decline and many churches are struggling to survive. Formal religious practice is no longer the centerpiece of American life. Too many people think the church is there to judge them, rather than free them. To limit them, rather than empower them. And…

Carole ClapsJanuary 30, 2020

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Cautionary Historical Tale Asks if War with Japan During WWII Could Have Been Avoided

Could America have avoided war with Japan in 1941? That is the intriguing question that powers this compelling re-interpretation of diplomacy and military decisions in Diplomats & Admirals by former American naval officer and historian Dale A. Jenkins. Focusing solely on events between July 1941 to June 1942, Jenkins zeroes…

Peggy KurkowskiNovember 30, 2023

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A Guide to Dietary Habits That Will Improve Your Sex Life

If someone had asked the Bard at the time whether he was trying to suggest a “diet” for great lovemaking and sex, who’s to say how he would answer. Fortunately, 420 years later, Christine DeLozier, L.Ac. has her own ideas about the food of love, and she has written the…

Jim AlkonJune 9, 2022

Nonfiction

The Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped Nazi Death Marches

Editor's note: This story was originally published on January 24, 2019. BookTrib is running it again for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "Dragging himself weakly, he made it to the side of the road. To go to the side of the road meant death. It was a firm rule of the…

Meagan FoyJanuary 27, 2020

Nonfiction

In the Cockpit: Technology, Human Complacency and Exploring “The Dangers of Automation in Airliners”

If you are in search of riveting, edge-of-your-seat, real-life stories about people in grave distress looking for a way out, consider the work of Jack Hersch. In his debut Death March Escape, Hersch told the remarkable story of how his father twice escaped the Nazi Holocaust — through every harrowing…

Jim AlkonNovember 11, 2020

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

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

New York Times Children’s Books Editors Know “How to Raise a Reader”

Critical Analysis on How to Reshape the Broken US Education System

Doctors Commit to Patient-Centered Care, Empathy and Treating Those “Gut Feelings”

“Guardian:” An Insider’s Gripping Account of CIA Security’s War on Terror

“Flamethrower” Takes New Look at Iwo Jima and Its Heroes

Reflecting on the Power of Spirituality in “Dream Like Jesus”

Cautionary Historical Tale Asks if War with Japan During WWII Could Have Been Avoided

A Guide to Dietary Habits That Will Improve Your Sex Life

The Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped Nazi Death Marches

In the Cockpit: Technology, Human Complacency and Exploring “The Dangers of Automation in Airliners”

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