I am an American. To be more precise and more politically correct, I am an African-American. For the most part, this is just a phrase or term that someone else made popular and now most of us use. In truth, I know very little about...

Michael Jackson & the Music That Was by The Voice of One traces the trajectory of Michael Jackson’s career from his days as the youngest member of the Jackson Five to his tenure as the undisputed “King of Pop.” Written from an industry insider/number one...

The Forum Files: The Stories Behind The Richmond Forum by Ray McAllister is a colorful, illustrative story of how The Richmond Forum (Richmond, Virginia) came to be one of the most prestigious and highly attended speaker's forums worldwide. Just in glancing at the table of...

Prisoner 4374 by AJ Griffiths-Jones is a true story based on historical fact. The identity of Jack the Ripper has long been wondered at, and many names have found their way into the frame. For more than 100 years, Dr Thomas Neill Cream was in...

Nyarla and the Circle of Stones is the first book in The Fethafoot Chronicles by Pemulwuy Weeatunga. At the time of the big invasion by the Ghost people, Bidjigal warrior Pemulwuy of Eora Country led his clan to victory in a 12-year war against the...

Living In Spin: How Media Gurus and PR Czars Open our Wallets and Scramble our Logic is a non-fiction sociology and history of marketing work written by Neal Larson with Rebecca H. Adams, M.D. The author introduces his topic with an analysis of his own...

Then She Sang A Willow Song is an inspirational book by Gemma Benton, detailing the connection between Indigenous peoples, their land and their ancestors. The Tree of Life is a powerful symbol, as it stands for the connection of the Elements as well as the...

Jonathan McKee's 52 Ways to Connect with Your Smartphone Obsessed Kid: How to Engage with Kids Who Can’t Seem to Pry Their Eyes from Their Devices! is a long title, but the book is well worth the read for those who have children who pay...

Quotation is not something to which most people give much thought, but it is amazingly pervasive across many aspects of our lives. Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation by Ruth Finnegan is a marvelously in depth look at what quotation is,...

How to Swear & Love in Dutch is written by Ingeborg Stinissen who, while once on vacation, was asked by strangers how to say the worst swear words in Dutch. She wrote as many words as she could on a napkin, which led to the...