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Memoir Seeks to Destigmatize and Explore Nuance of Mental Illness

It’s a hard subject to talk about, especially for someone suffering from it. “Many of us have been labeled or even seen ourselves as freaks, weirdos, oddballs, eccentrics and outcasts. So it’s no surprise that many of us attempt to keep our illness hidden to the extent we can.” That’s…

Jim AlkonOctober 25, 2024

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A Surprising Eye-Opener on the Fight Against Breast Cancer

The purpose of Juliana Hastings’ book, I’ll Have a Double: What Every Woman Needs to Know About Alcohol and Breast Cancer is to raise awareness and share what she has learned during her own breast cancer journey. While this book is a memoir of Juliana’s experience, it is also a…

Barbara WilkovOctober 16, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Recounts Sister’s Rescue Mission and the Ongoing Fight For Disability Justice

“Forced care is happening to people with disabilities around the world. Most people don’t escape. And the world shrugs.” Should everyone have the right to choose where they live? The answer seems obvious — of course, choosing where you live is a basic human right. But for Teresa Heartchild, an…

Megan BeauregardApril 16, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Far From Home, Child’s Birth is an Unexpected Adventure in Father’s Touching, Humorous Memoir

While reading the dramatic and heartwarming true birth story told in The Destination Birth by Alex Bisset, I was reminded of the John Lennon quote, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” This is so fitting. Alex and Lauren Bisset were married in the middle of…

Barbara WilkovFebruary 19, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Touching Stories of Friendship and Good Times at Town’s Oldest Bar

Many of us have a favorite neighborhood bar we frequent often and where “everybody knows your name.” But do they all get to celebrate 80 years? The Hot Dog Diaries by Al Bonner and Jim Antonini is dedicated specifically to “everyone who has stepped through the front door of Gene’s…

Barbara WilkovJune 28, 2024

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A Mother’s Quest to Find Herself and Her Lost Son

I always find it fascinating to learn about the lives that others live. This is why I love reading memoirs — because you get to experience another person’s life right along with them. Sometimes the journey ends up in a good place and other times not. And just like in…

Barbara WilkovAugust 15, 2024

Hard Bargain by Donald G Denihan with Jon Land

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Near-Death Experiences Provide Author a New Lease on Life

“Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.” That nugget was the last item in a list of 45 life lessons offered by Regina Brett, legendary newspaper writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It’s also the last sentence in Donald G. Denihan’s new book Hard Bargain (Stillwater…

Jim AlkonJune 13, 2024

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Howard Stern: Interviews That Define Pop Culture

We were a radio marketing agency, had just named a hypothetical radio industry “Mount Rushmore” onto which Howard’s face was chiseled, and were invited to his show to give him a plaque. It was marketing heaven – millions of listeners and a free swing at anything we wanted to say…

Jim AlkonMay 22, 2019

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Tender Memoir Chronicles the Addiction Struggles of a Loved One

There’s a beautiful quote from Norman Maclean in his book, A River Runs Through It, that says: “We can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or the part we have to give is not wanted. And so, it is those…

Jim AlkonJuly 19, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

From Israel to Boston, From Soldier to Pageant Contestant to Mother

A first-generation Israeli citizen unpacks the joys and heartbreaks of her experiences as soldier, entrepreneur, wife and mother in the moving memoir Soldier On (Endeavor Literary Press) by Bracha Horovitz. The Sabra Generation The daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, Horovitz grew up in Israel as part of the “Sabra” generation…

Peggy KurkowskiOctober 11, 2023

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Beautifully Written Autobiographic Novel About One Man’s Journey From Despair

It’s not enough that Tony Hill suffers from bipolar disorder, has been homeless and lived in his car with his two kids for three months, has been incarcerated stemming from domestic abuse, has not kept a job for more than a year, was dishonorably discharged from the Navy, and battles…

Jim AlkonFebruary 28, 2022

Nonfiction Recommended

Gripping Memoir About Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Identity and Connection

“I’ve always been grateful that Grandma treated you kids like you were real grandchildren.” Those words, while meant as a compliment, go a long way in understanding the lens through which adopted children must see the world and manage their emotions. They were uttered by the mother of a young…

Jim AlkonMay 7, 2024

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Greg O’Brien: Learning to Live, and Not Die, with Alzheimer’s Disease

Greg O'Brien There’s hardly a family in America that hasn’t been touched by Alzheimer’s disease. More than 5.4 million people live with the disease and 500,000 die from it each year. Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging and without being able to cure or prevent it, in the next…

Carole ClapsNovember 11, 2015

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Heartfelt Memoir Transcends Time and Loss

“Time can’t erase a feeling that is so strong.” Rebekkah Funderburk and Kenneth Wesley Dunnings III knew what true love felt like. From the very first time their eyes met, it was meant to be. Unfortunately, all great stories must come to an end — they just never expected it…

BookTribJuly 10, 2024

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“Trump You”: Student Trumps Trump and Wins $25 Million Settlement!

“The story of Trump University is a gripping tale of ego and deceit, and it exposes the con man who became president. And no one can tell it better than Cohen.” — David Corn —∞— Silicon Valley businessman and entrepreneur Art Cohen wasn’t involved in national politics when he sued Donald…

Carole ClapsOctober 19, 2021

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“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

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Memoir Seeks to Destigmatize and Explore Nuance of Mental Illness

A Surprising Eye-Opener on the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Far From Home, Child’s Birth is an Unexpected Adventure in Father’s Touching, Humorous Memoir

Touching Stories of Friendship and Good Times at Town’s Oldest Bar

A Mother’s Quest to Find Herself and Her Lost Son

Near-Death Experiences Provide Author a New Lease on Life

Howard Stern: Interviews That Define Pop Culture

Tender Memoir Chronicles the Addiction Struggles of a Loved One

From Israel to Boston, From Soldier to Pageant Contestant to Mother

Gripping Memoir About Adoptee’s Lifelong Search for Identity and Connection

Greg O’Brien: Learning to Live, and Not Die, with Alzheimer’s Disease

Heartfelt Memoir Transcends Time and Loss

“Trump You”: Student Trumps Trump and Wins $25 Million Settlement!

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

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