"How two sisters created their own health spas on a budget! K.I.S.S.E.S. Keep It Simple Sisters Economy Spa" by Diane Dolphin Torres and Susan Dolphin Johnson is a very nice and enjoyable book. It is utterly different from anything I have read on the topic....

The Journey of the Most Liberated Woman in America by Barbara Williamson is the autobiography of a woman who founded Sandstone Retreat. The organization, which existed for five years in California starting in the late 1960s, was a place for men and women to live...

Big Lies is a remarkable nonfiction piece of work written by a psychiatric and palliative care nurse who has been suffering from three neuro-systemic diseases, chronic fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia, for the past 60 years. It answers the most profound questions that remain a...

Fallen Star: A Return to Self Through the Eight Limbs of Yoga by Molly Chanson shares the compelling story of how the practice of yoga ultimately helped to bring healing and contentment to Chanson’s life. The author seamlessly incorporates information about the eight limbs of...

Cathy Dimarchos collects eight successful women's journeys to being true to their actual selves and defying gender stereotypes and expectations. These ladies have distinguished themselves as being exceptional in their quest to forge their own path and establish a reputation. Every one of them shares...

Enough: A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood by Amelia Zachary is a deeply personal, profoundly moving, and ultimately joyful journey through one woman’s battle with mental illness and life in general. Amelia was an overachieving, young Muslim girl, growing up in Kuala Lumpur and...

Athena in the Icebox by Demi K is the continuation of a series of memoirs that champions the young, rebellious teenager from New England, Athena Angelopolous. Of Greek extraction, Athena, or Tina as she prefers to be known, is running from her abusive and controlling...

I was wrong about my first thoughts of The Appomattox Generals: The Parallel Lives of Joshua L. Chamberlain, USA, and John B. Gordon, CSA, Commanders at the Surrender Ceremony of April 12, 1865, by John W. Primomo. I thought this book would compare and contrast...

Addicted to alcohol at the young age of 15, Wally Eaglesham was saved from an early demise by joining the Royal Australian Navy. Though the army's institutional discipline helped him control his wild side considerably, it failed to eliminate his love for adventure and risky...

Sue Tidwell and her husband's first memorable experience in Africa involved a species that not many would look forward to seeing in their motherland continent: tsetse flies. Getting attacked by possibly infected tsetse flies was one of the many surprises that lay in store for...