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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

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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

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

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

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

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Benjamin Franklin’s Revolutionary Ruse Revealed in “Somersett”

A new work of meticulous historical research advances the theory that Benjamin Franklin, using the freeing of a British slave as the catalyst, orchestrated a little-known yet elaborate scheme to impassion revolt throughout the colonies against England and in effect spark America’s fight for independence. In Somersett: Or Why and…

K.L. RomoJune 30, 2020

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One Lawyer’s Fight Against Corporate Greed

It’s an old adage that the only ones who really win lawsuits are the lawyers. Maybe it’s because they are part of a system tilted more toward rewarding the ancillary participants, hired hands and corporate interests than the vulnerable, innocent victims who are smothered by the process. That’s not lost…

Jim AlkonJune 21, 2024

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“Shenanigans: A Memoir” Details Hijinks and Hilarity Along the Road of Life

—∞— “Kenigsberg’s world … is one where the ordinary is never more than a few steps from the oddball.” —David Guarino, former correspondent, San Antonio Express-News “Easy and enjoyable to read, Abby’s story is a rare and refreshing glimpse into the life travels of one bright, sassy and determined woman.…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 7, 2021

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A Professional’s Effort to Curb the Crisis of Functional Illiteracy in Children

When I was a child, I could play the piano by ear. If I could whistle a tune, I could play it on the piano. My parents recognized this and got me taking lessons at a young age. I was pretty good. Grownups were really impressed. This kid’s going places,…

Jim AlkonJanuary 10, 2023

Better Self Nonfiction

A Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help Others Tell Theirs

She will never forget walking into that setting and seeing GRAY — walls, carpeting, draperies, and folding chairs positioned around gray oblong tables. “Everything looked gray,” says Addario, “even the people.” In her mind, contracting cancer isn’t about dying, it’s about living, “and nobody was living in that room,”…

Carole ClapsMay 18, 2021

Nonfiction

In a Dehumanizing World, Simply Being Human is Heroic

“In a world as dehumanizing as ours has become, simply being a kind, honest and loving person, a man or woman of integrity, has become a measure of heroism – and at a time when norms of civility are being routinely quashed, it may be the only measure that matters.”…

Jim AlkonApril 3, 2019

Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

Learn to Turn Adversity into Opportunity from the Man Who Gave Us Chicken Soup for the Soul

Those are nice words to live by, especially if it works and your destiny turns out to be fulfilling and rewarding. People probably view Mark Victor Hansen’s destiny as a successful one, having sold more than half a billion books as co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. It’s unlikely,…

Jim AlkonSeptember 7, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

A Guide to Finding Community and Support with “My Trans Parent”

There are 1.4 million people in the U.S. who identify as transgender, and then millions more family and friends who are coping/embracing/struggling (check one) with how this defines themselves and their families, and what it means to them. Yet while there are millions affected, how often would you think every…

Jim AlkonOctober 12, 2020

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Mike Murphy’s Memoir Showcases a Too-Short but Exceedingly Well-Lived Life

This is the extraordinary true story of the last six months of the life of Margot Murphy after a nine-year battle with cancer, written by her husband. Unflinching in its honesty and transparency, Living in Color: A Love Story, in Sickness and in Health by Mike Murphy is a riveting inside…

Judy MorenoOctober 18, 2021

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

An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

Benjamin Franklin’s Revolutionary Ruse Revealed in “Somersett”

One Lawyer’s Fight Against Corporate Greed

“Shenanigans: A Memoir” Details Hijinks and Hilarity Along the Road of Life

A Professional’s Effort to Curb the Crisis of Functional Illiteracy in Children

A Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help Others Tell Theirs

In a Dehumanizing World, Simply Being Human is Heroic

Learn to Turn Adversity into Opportunity from the Man Who Gave Us Chicken Soup for the Soul

A Guide to Finding Community and Support with “My Trans Parent”

Mike Murphy’s Memoir Showcases a Too-Short but Exceedingly Well-Lived Life

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