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Category Archives: Non-fiction
I Am My Father’s Keeper: The Ten Steps to Caring For The Elderly – Dr. Patricia Hernandez Arnazzi
(Reviewed by Glenda Anderson) A frightening diagnosis: Dementia. Scarier yet: The patient is a spouse or loved one. Before your eyes is a shattered life. So, your mom or dad is suddenly behaving like a ten month-old child, only without … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs
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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Nutritional Food – Catherine Shanahan MD, Luke Shanahan
(Reviewed by Jeanne Peters RD) As a Registered Dietitian for over thirty-five years, I have read and recommended plenty of nutrition books to my clients. However, I now count this book as one of my “Top 10” nutrition books because … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Fitness
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Paris I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Ways. – Ruth Yunker
(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) “…if one comes back often enough and stays long enough, the Parisian precision, their prickliness, and the inability to play fair, will begin to matter less and less-“ Few Americans can appreciate the subtle cultural differences … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Travel
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16 Seasons in Hell: The Definitive Western Account of The WWII Campaign on The Eastern Front – Daniel Bennett
Reviewed by Glenda Anderson Daniel Bennett’s book is monumental, written with a keen understanding and insight. It encompasses a detailed research and piecing together of thousands of minutiae gleaned from histories, military documents and memoirs, affording an exceptional eagle’s eye … Continue reading
Posted in History, Reviewers' Top Picks
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Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight – Julie L. Kessler
(Reviewed by J.D. Jung) “…forgiveness led to compassion, which in turn led to empathy. Very often empathy, as hard as it may be to extend it to one who has wronged you, is the very best shield of self-protection and … Continue reading
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Dodging Machetes: How I Survived Forbidden Love, Bad Behavior, and the Peace Corps in Fiji – Will Lutwick
(Reviewed by Julie L. Kessler) Sometimes you come across a book by a first-time author that wholly by surprise thoroughly transports you to another time and to another place. And the best part is that you are able to go … Continue reading
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Apples and Oranges – Marie Brenner
It’s been reported that 52% of brothers and sisters have a close rapport, while 12% have none. Another 21% have a “borderline” relationship. The latter is how New York journalist Marie Brenner defined her relationship with her older brother, Carl. … Continue reading
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The Late Bloomer’s Revolution – Amy Cohen
Check it out! What happens when a single woman defines herself by the men she dates and her work as a television writer? You guessed it. She’s dumped and fired. Amy figured that by the time she was thirty, she … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Humor & Satire
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