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Book Review: Living Without Reservations: A Journey by Land and Sea in Search of Happiness by Barbara Elaine Singer
Living Without Reservations is a highly readable memoir of travel and learning to live life at its fullest.
Read More »Book Review: Don’t Cry, Daddy’s Here by Brinda Carey
A poignant and brave account written by a victim of incest.
Read More »Book Review: Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Murder and mutilation in Peking.
Read More »Book Review: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
In all modesty, Anna Quindlen has nothing to be modest about.
Read More »Book Review: Way Down: Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors, and More by Jerry Scheff
Without descending into "tell-all" sensationalism, Way Down is an entertaining and informative memoir about Jerry Scheff as a working musician.
Read More »Book Review: Fug You – A History of the Counterculture by Ed Sanders
Fugs leader still recalls life in the radical underground during the sixties.
Read More »Book Review: More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie: My Life as a Nurse Paramedic by Sherry Jones Mayo
More Confessions balances humor and trauma in a real-life portrait of Emergency Services workers.
Read More »Book Review: The Commandant: An Account by the First Commanding Officer of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoess, ed. by Jürg Amann
Condensing the autobiography of the commander of Auschwitz into a 16-page "monologue" doesn't make the horror any less.
Read More »Interview With Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, Authors of The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie, Part 1
"Our heart is in the book as we wrote it and it shares the personal details of journey."
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