Before Pearl Harbor: China, FDR and the Plot to Bomb Japan by Michael Lemish is a well-researched and lucidly written account of a historic moment in WWII. The author opens this narrative by offering readers a glimpse of an ordinary day in Pearl Harbor, early...

Nostalgia is the main underlying theme of Barry Silverstein’s Boomer Brand Winners & Losers: 156 Best & Worst Brands of the 50s and 60s which is full of well-known products from that era. The author has chosen known brands from a variety of categories, with...

Bertha: Shine Like The Dawn by Lisa M. Hutchison is a dive into the Germany of the mid-1800s through to the mid-1900s. Bertha, the title character, was a real person; the great-great-grandmother of the author and a woman who struggled through and dealt with the...

For a delightful look at the products and mores that shaped the lives of the boomer generation, you can't do much better than Boomer Brands by Barry Silverstein. For those of us who grew up in the fifties and sixties, these were the things that...

Black Divinity: Manifesto of the Black Theocracy by Tony Saunders is the third edition of the author's Black Divinity books, offering a peek through the window of New York City street culture for those of us on the outside who have little to no understanding...

Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight by Paul Sanders recounts the true account of the trial of Michele Anderson for the murder of her parents, brother, sister-in-law, and her young niece and nephew. The murders took place in 2007 but it was not until eight...

Best Friends is a nonfiction memoir written by Yvette Nachmias-Baeu. Beth had originally been Yvette’s sister’s friend, but somehow the two young women discovered that they were, indeed, kindred spirits. Each had an abiding interest in the arts and chose a creative life over a...

Whether your interest is China in the 1930s and 1940s, the industrial cooperative movement, the role of foreigners in relief and development work in Asia, or just a very good biography about an ordinary but extremely talented and courageous Englishman who did extraordinary things in...

Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920s by Victoria Pope Hubbell, Ph.D. is a historical, nonfiction narrative that considers one of the questions about the Ku Klux Klan that has never been properly considered by any author. Every time people read about the...

Growing up in Upstate New York, S. Brian Willson was everything his community expected of him. He was tall, athletic, patriotic, and a good student who would stand up for what was right. Blood on the Tracks is the poignant story of what happened when...