If you are looking to experience Nazareth without even leaving your house, look no further! Nazareth – A Fascinating City of Culture and Cuisine, by Sara Prezman and Elinor Rabin, is an amazing collection of recipes, photographs, and information. On the other hand, if you...

Defining Pearl is indeed a pearl of great price. The memoir of Pearl Matibe is written by an extraordinary woman who was a part of the political opposition to a dictator in Zimbabwe and lived to tell about it. In an attempt to define who...

Philip Roth – The Continuing Presence: New Essays on Psychological Themes is chock-full of psychological analyses of the main author Philip Roth. Sometimes life imitates art or vice versa. In the case of Mr. Roth, art really imitates life. His written works, including “I Married...

Stress Less: 10 Balancing Insights on Work and Life by Amy Freeman is a self-help book aimed at helping us create some small spaces and stolen moments so we can take a break from our busy and stressful schedules. It is about developing the ability...

I'm That Guy: Collected Columns of a Southern Journalist is the work of author Rick Outzen. His columns are organized into four sections: Storms, Service, Heroes and Mentors and Family, and are concerned primarily with life in Pensacola, Florida. The Storms section covers the four...

Rizi Savier Timane, PH.D ASW shares the story of his life with readers in An UnSpoken Compromise. Rizi was born in Nigeria as a female. Nasele was a mere eight years old when she told her father that she was a boy. Her father’s reaction...

Legend and fact intertwine tantalizingly throughout the history of what we now know as the British Isles. The story of the Kingdom of Alt Clut, what fragments survive, is populated by the likes of King Arthur, Saint Patrick, Macbeth and Old King Cole, and it...

Montreal from A to Z: An Alphabetical Guide by Laura Roberts is a collection of blogs by the author describing interesting places in Montreal, and her thought and feelings about these places. The chapters are arranged in alphabetical order and each describes a different place...

French Phrasebook for Tourism, Friendship & Fun by Mathieu Herman and Robert F. Powers is a fresh, new look at providing basic French vocabulary and phrases for anyone interested in the language. Beginning with an explanation about how to use the book, this French Phrasebook...

I selected John H. Kampmann, Master Builder: San Antonio's German Influence in the 19th Century, by Maggie Valentine, because I was intrigued by the book's description. I had simply assumed that the architecture of San Antonio, up until the last hundred years or so of...