Tag Archives: Non-fiction

Leader, Not a Boss: Start Leading Today: A No-Nonsense Guide for New Managers – Benjamin Babic

(reviewed by John Heilman) Leader, Not a Boss is great for new managers. Although the book doesn’t break new ground, it is a well-organized primer on effective management practices. The author uses his own experience managing teams in sales and … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2023!

(by JD Jung) We at UnderratedReads wish all our readers a safe and Happy New Year filled with health and love throughout 2023. We have discovered wonderful books during 2022, and since we only post reviews of books that we … Continue reading

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Virginia Bader: A Collage of Memories of The First Lady of Aviation Art – Jill Amadio

(Reviewed by Christopher J. Lynch) #CommissionsEarned We often take things for granted in this world. Younger folks assume that smart phones and the internet were always in existence. I too, thought that the specialized world of aviation art had always … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Small Moments: A Child’s Memories of the Civil Rights Movement – Mary M. Barrow

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) #CommissionsEarned I just discovered a treasure that you might not find if you’re depending on the mainstream bestsellers list for reading recommendations. I can’t say enough good things about Small Moments by Mary M. Barrow. Small … Continue reading

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Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker – Maggy Krell

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned “While a commercial sex transaction may seem consensual on the surface, the lopsided power dynamic, the history of trauma and abuse, and the lack of options often make the consent illusory. And sex without consent … Continue reading

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Wishing you the Best in the New Year!

( by JD Jung) We at UnderratedReads wish all our readers a safe and Happy New Year filled with health, love, and truth throughout 2022. We have discovered wonderful books during 2021 to help us get through these trying times. … Continue reading

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An UnderratedRead Revisited: Serial Killers: Horror and Murder: Scary and True Stories of the Most Terrifying Serial Killers the World has Ever Seen! – Frank C. Chastain

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Don’t be fooled by the book cover! You may think it was taken right out of a tabloid headline. No, Serial Killers takes a mostly objective look at some of the world’s darkest and most notorious … Continue reading

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I Don’t Share Cheesecake: …because my life is too good to share with just anybody – Stephanie Mills

(Reviewed by Christopher J. Lynch) If you were to say that I was a huge consumer of female self-help books – or any self-help books for that matter, you would fail your polygraph test miserably. So when I picked up … Continue reading

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How to Remove a Brain: and other bizarre medical practices and procedures – David Haviland

(Reviewed by JD Jung) So why would anyone want to remove a brain? Author David Haviland answers the “why” and the “how” in this informative and entertaining book. Haviland also shares with us a gross method of contraception in ancient … Continue reading

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From Hollywood to Holy Wars: Hounding celebs, dodging bullets, raising a family abroad – Cherie Hart

(Reviewed by Heidi A. Swan) From the first page, I was captured by this autobiography. Ms. Hart has been writing most of her life and it shows. Like her assignments which traveled the globe, Ms. Hart’s prose deftly jet sets … Continue reading

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