nonfiction

The One Test That Could Save Your Relationship — and Make It Thrive

My wife and I have been married for almost 40 years. In all that time, I can count on one hand how many weekend afternoons we have spent together. She goes in one direction (shopping, show, friends) and I go in another (house projects, the dog, watching sports). I don’t…

Jim AlkonJanuary 28, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Unflinching Memoir Unlocks the Hidden Struggles of Addiction and Recovery

The doctors tell me unequivocally that if I ever drank again, I would likely not survive. I believe them. Then I drink again. This gut-punch of an excerpt comes from the prologue of Alison Ashby’s memoir, Progress Not Perfection. In just three sentences, the author shines a light on the…

Cameron KimballJanuary 28, 2025

Listicles Miscellany

Jumpstart Your Year With Samples of 8 Memoir and Nonfiction Books

Searching for a memoir or nonfiction read that will motivate, encourage, and empower your next chapter? If you’re seeking a source of inspiration as you make resolutions, reevaluate your future and embark on a journey of personal transformation, these 8 inspiring memoirs and nonfiction books have just what you need. …

BookTribJanuary 7, 2025

Business

Transform Job Loss Into a Launchpad for Success

“A cold-hearted system that doesn’t need you.” Make you feel good? It wasn’t supposed to — yet. A company, writes William Alexandre in his very informative new book So You Lost Your Job: What Next?, “does not have feelings, is never happy or sad, can’t lose or hate anyone, judges…

Jim AlkonDecember 3, 2024

Business Nonfiction

Big Laughs and Tiny Pep Talks to Tackle Life’s Everyday Struggles

Anybody can tell you “You can do it” before something like a big job interview — but what about the mundane tasks you need a little confidence boost for? In Tiny Pep Talks (Quirk Books), comedians Paula Skaggs and Josh Linden have written a new book with “bite-size” encouragement for…

BookTribNovember 18, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

How Two Friends Transformed a Bold Idea Into Aruba’s Iconic Surf Shop

There’s a basic tenet when it comes to surfing that any expert will tell you: You have to look where you want to go. Looking down – instead of ahead of your goal — nearly always guarantees a wipeout. I guess the same can be said for life in general.…

Jim AlkonAugust 27, 2024

Business Nonfiction

Mastering The Game: Wilbur Ross on Power, Profit, and Perseverance

It was one of his earliest and most unforgettable moments in corporate life. Young Wilbur Ross was closing a real estate deal with the legendary Bill Zeckendorf at the real estate magnate’s panoramic and totally circular office. Catching Ross gawking at his surroundings, Zeckendorf comes up from behind, puts his…

Jim AlkonSeptember 10, 2024

Miscellany

Strange Demographic Is Affecting Millennial Priorities

The running joke on social media is that Millennials have skipped going through a midlife crisis and have gone straight to indulging in “Grandma Hobbies.” Bird watching, gardening, reading, knitting, crocheting, building puzzles, baking, playing cards, all of the things we generally ascribe to grandmothers, are now trending among a…

Monique SnymanAugust 19, 2024

The Black Pages by Antonio Ricardo Cannady

Nonfiction Recommended

Gripping Memoir Chronicles Triumph Over Turbulent Past

According to society, not to mention his own family, Antonio Ricardo Cannady had zero chance of making something of himself. Born into an abusive household in the ghettos of Orlando, Florida, he came up in the 80s with an entire generation of poor Black kids whose lives were shaped by…

Cynthia ConradAugust 23, 2024

Miscellany Nonfiction Pop Culture

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

Book Club Network Nonfiction

From Homeless to Billionaire: 18 Principles of Success

“I am a high school dropout with no higher intelligence than you. I came to a country with no knowledge of the local language or culture. Worse, I had no money, and slept on the beaches of Phuket with a suitcase for a pillow.” Today, Andres Pira is one of…

Jim AlkonMay 8, 2019

Recommended

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

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

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Build a Fine Vessel to Sail Through Your Financial Life

Author Michael Helgesen provides the most entertaining and engaging opening to a financial book that you might ever find. Fortunately for readers, his father, Lars Helgesen, was a Norwegian Merchant Marine during World War II, and his ship was part of a convoy delivering goods and supplies from the U.S.…

Jim AlkonSeptember 19, 2022

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

The One Test That Could Save Your Relationship — and Make It Thrive

Unflinching Memoir Unlocks the Hidden Struggles of Addiction and Recovery

Jumpstart Your Year With Samples of 8 Memoir and Nonfiction Books

Transform Job Loss Into a Launchpad for Success

Big Laughs and Tiny Pep Talks to Tackle Life’s Everyday Struggles

How Two Friends Transformed a Bold Idea Into Aruba’s Iconic Surf Shop

Strange Demographic Is Affecting Millennial Priorities

Gripping Memoir Chronicles Triumph Over Turbulent Past

Howard Stern: Interviews That Define Pop Culture

From Homeless to Billionaire: 18 Principles of Success

Heartfelt Memoir Transcends Time and Loss

“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

Build a Fine Vessel to Sail Through Your Financial Life

Modernism, Madness and the American Dream

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