Category Archives: Non-fiction

If Life Stinks, Get Your Head Outta Your But’s: A No-Nonsense Guide to Happiness and Success – Mark L Wdowiak

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Are you stuck in your life? Are you bored with your job or want to connect with people? Do you just want more out of life? Mark L Wdowiak gives a convincing and motivational guide to … Continue reading

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Dark Chains – LaTasha “Tacha B.” Braxton

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Sometimes what we lose or do not achieve in life does not necessarily set us back. We strive forward and if in fact, we fail in receiving love, given the situation, we love back more. This … Continue reading

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Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way -Kamin Mohammadi

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “ Now that I was living without all the relics of my former identity, there was a glimmer of something new. The heady possibly of freedom.” Kamin was thirty-two and seemed to have it all: a … Continue reading

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Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles’ Guru – Susan Shumsky

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) “Merely by being in his presence, we disciples entered an utterly timeless place and rapturous feeling, and, at the same time, realized the utter futility and insanity of the mundane world.” I don’t know why I … Continue reading

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Overcoming Anxiety & Depression: A step-by-step guide to overcoming anxiety and depression, lower stress and learn how to practice self-love and self-compassion … Affirmations, Happiness, stress management) – Lydia Francis

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) This is going to be a very short review. This is a very short book! My review copy was in PDF format. Take away the title page, the index, the forward and a last “keep in … Continue reading

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Lunacy and Death: A perspective developed over thirty years of working in mental health and death investigation – Tom Dombrock

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “They plant little beasties in your psyche that love nothing more than to dart out from the holes they’ve bored into your brain, race around inside your skull, flipping switches, overturning tables, and playing the stereo … Continue reading

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Sexographies – Gabriela Wiener (translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Gabriela Wiener is not just any journalist. This Peruvian-born writer prefers to experience topics first-hand. That may even involve putting herself in extreme and often risky situations and then writing about her participation. So when it … Continue reading

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A Better Ten Commandments: A Guide to Living Life with and on Purpose – James Miller

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) I must admit I almost didn’t review this book. I was reading it and put it aside. Ironically, because it espouses tossing out the old Moses tablet-engraved rules, I thought at first that it was a … Continue reading

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15 Steps to Healthy Living: Learn how to naturally lose weight, gain energy and live a healthy enhanced lifestyle – Gordon Fimreite

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) 15 Steps to Healthy Living is a well-being, self-help book written primarily to assist people in naturally losing weight and living a healthy life by gaining the right energy. The author demonstrates 15 ways of achieving … Continue reading

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The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers – Coco Schumann (Author), John Howard (Translator)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I am a musician, a musician who was imprisoned in a concentration camp, not a concentration camp inmate who also plays some music. The camps and the fear fundamentally changed my life, but it was shaped … Continue reading

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