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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

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

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

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From Carnage to Triumph: A Brutally Honest Tale of International Adoption

When the Bough Breaks: A Mother's Story of Carnage, Courage and the Triumph of Faith (Woodhall Press) is an inspiring, brutally honest and heart-wrenching memoir by Nancy Ferraro. She shares with us the profound depth of her commitment to her adopted son, George, who was a victim of horrors and abuse…

BookTribOctober 3, 2022

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

Business Nonfiction Recommended

Former NASA Director of Mission Operations Sends Your Leadership Skills Skyrocketing

The unique leadership and teamwork principles that pushed America’s space program to the moon and back are the focal point of former NASA Director of Mission Operations Eugene F. Kranz’s riveting memoir, Tough and Competent: Leadership and Team Chemistry (Gatekeeper Press). Best known as the leader of the NASA flight…

Peggy KurkowskiAugust 16, 2023

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

Nonfiction

“The Ruining of Lemus Daniel:” Misadventures of One Fast-Living Father and His Son

It would appear that The Ruining of Lemus Daniel (W. Brand Publishing) comes rather quickly, as Lemus is pretty much destroyed by chapter two. But not to worry, his son Larry, who carries the narrative, makes plenty of his own ruinous choices. The story toggles between Larry Daniel’s life story,…

Sherri DaleyMarch 4, 2020

Nonfiction

Modernism, Madness and the American Dream

During the early 1980s, when Tom Weidlinger, author of The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and the American Dream (SparkPress), set out to plumb his father’s life, he already possessed a sheaf of astonishing stories. First and foremost, he knew that Paul Weidlinger counted among the towering figures in twentieth-century engineering,…

Claudia KeenanApril 16, 2019

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Legendary Entertainment Executive Alan Shayne Chronicles Coming of Age in Memoir

Sometimes it’s easy for people to tell that you are truly in love — you find a way, whether intentional or not, to work your lover’s name into every conversation or practically every sentence. In Alan Shayne’s poignant and immensely readable memoir, The Rain May Pass (Rand-Smith LLC), once he meets…

Sherri DaleySeptember 29, 2020

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An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

Roger Saillant was particularly guarded about his emotions during his childhood. Throughout most of his memoir, The Power of Being Seen (Saratoga Springs Publishing LLC), about growing up in the foster care system, he holds back his feelings to outsiders by design based on the advice of his older foster…

Jim AlkonSeptember 20, 2022

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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

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

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Riveting Memoir Reveals Lifetime of Lessons from Teacher’s Time in Remote Alaskan Village

When I finished reading Teaching in the Dark by Genét Simone, I felt as if I had just spent months living in the small remote village of Shishmaref, Alaska right along with her. That’s how thoroughly entrancing the author’s writing is. I could completely envision the village, the scenery, the…

Barbara WilkovFebruary 7, 2024

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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

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

From Carnage to Triumph: A Brutally Honest Tale of International Adoption

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

Former NASA Director of Mission Operations Sends Your Leadership Skills Skyrocketing

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

“The Ruining of Lemus Daniel:” Misadventures of One Fast-Living Father and His Son

Modernism, Madness and the American Dream

Legendary Entertainment Executive Alan Shayne Chronicles Coming of Age in Memoir

An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

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

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

Riveting Memoir Reveals Lifetime of Lessons from Teacher’s Time in Remote Alaskan Village

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