Lancaster Bakery: Thank You, Come Back to See Us is a work of memoir non-fiction by author Anita Hinson Cauthen. Ernest Nebraska Courtney, Lancaster Bakery’s founder, repeated on his deathbed what he always called out to customers as they left the bakery with their current...

Moo Jung Cho’s second installment, Easier to See Jeong (Love) Leaving than Arriving, collects one hundred Korean proverbs and essays and offers practical advice on social, cultural, and political matters. The proverbs encourage creativity and hard work, for example in the phrase "a mediocre carpenter...

By looking into the journey of ancient peoples and how they evolved their civilizations, The Spirit of Light Cubit aims to find messages, especially spiritual ones, that can help the present age in different ways. Author Donald B. Carroll believes there's more to humanity than...

Warhol, Dr. Seuss and the Making of America by Elizabeth Raney is a nonfiction book that captures a historical and cultural phenomenon in the United States. The author takes an incisive look at two personalities that deeply influenced the cultural trends in the 1950s and...

When I think about what women have had to go through over the centuries, I am amazed at their resilience and courage. Those women who gave their lives for a cause, however, are even more admirable. In the book Saint, Martyr, Virgin, Slave: Faith and...

Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters by Jared Knott is a mind-blowing collection of stories centering around real-world examples of the butterfly effect phenomenon. From ancient times to current events, these thirty-nine stories focus on how overlooked, seemingly insignificant details differentiate whether a ship sinks or stays afloat,...

Prisoners of war stories evoke tremendous interest and empathy with their tragedies and triumphant survival. Sally Brandle has written a fictionalized account in Sapphire Promise of Annike’s survival in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Japan overran Indonesia in 1942, interning and then imprisoning Annike...

The Great Divide: Story of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race by Howard Harrison is a compelling political book that explores the crisis that has rocked the American political landscape since the advent of Trump. Starting from whenTrump was nominated as a candidate for the presidency,...

The murder of a young girl is the start of a series of circumstances leading to the solution of three perplexing crimes from the twentieth century in the thrilling non-fiction true crime story, Encoded: Based On True Events by R.W. Gates. Growing up near the...

If you like history and/or geography, you will love The Black History Truth: Argentina by Pamela Gayle. The first part of this book is a great introduction to the land of Argentina and its history. Pamela covers the history of this South American country from...