Gambling and weddings: two dominant reasons to visit Las Vegas. While we’ve heard plenty about the gambling casinos and the stories that surround them, not much has been written about the wedding chapels that dot the area, inviting couples of all shapes, sizes, ages, and...

By Any Means Necessary: Veterans Talk Torture in the War on Terror by John Tsukayama is about the darkest part of human nature at its worst: war. The men interviewed in this book have all been involved in a direct act of violence and torture...

Academic works by Julius Bailey, Ph.D., are notable for their flawless integrity, impeccable thinking, accessibility for the non-academic, and an irrefutable blending of stark objectivity with engaged passion, flavored always by an overriding sense of humanity and compassion. Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith, the most...

The Clean Body by Peter Ward charts the history of personal cleanliness in the western world from the seventeenth century on, and it takes us through the homes and bathhouses of France, Germany, Italy, England, Austria, and North America. We know that today’s often excessive...

Well-researched and professionally written, Directory of Federal Prisons: The Unofficial Guide to Bureau of Prisons Institutions by Christopher Zoukis is an eye-opener, a book that presents the reality in the different prisons, both state-owned and private, across the country. In this book, the author doesn’t...

Slave to the Dream: Everyone's Dream by Gaylan D Wright is an autobiography that gives a powerful social commentary on the American dream. A state trooper examines his years of service for eighteen years and asks very pertinent questions on leadership and management, proper training...

God’s Cook Book - 1 Recipe 4 All is a work of non-fiction that focuses on a powerful message of Christian living and was penned by author Pastor Donatien. The author himself has been a senior pastor in Madagascar’s social and religious movements, based in...

New Yorkers: A Feisty People Who Will Unsettle, Madden, Amuse and Astonish You is a work of non-fiction written in the style of a memoir, and was penned by author Clifford Browder. Part travel guidebook and part nostalgic memoir, this excellent read is for anyone...

Urban Playground: What Kids Say about Living in San Francisco by Katie Burke is a non-fiction book about fifty children ages five to nine who are growing up in San Francisco. For the first five children, the author asked questions about the makeup of their...

Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News by Elizabeth Geitz is the kind of book that keeps you engaged whether read in one sitting or one chapter a day. Every lesson addresses the deepest truths that most of us have never bothered to contemplate...