by Howard Leighton | Feb 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater, History, War & Military
This is a memoir of one man’s experience during the Vietnam War, beginning approximately April of 1966 and ending April of 1975 with the fall of Saigon. It is a beautifully told story by a cameraman with 10 years of experience in Japan who wanted to become a...
by Katie Richards | Jan 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military
A Crime in the Family is Sacha Batthyany’s telling of a massacre of Jews during the Holocaust, one horrific act among many, that was carried out with the knowledge and complicity of the author’s aunt – a member of the old Hungarian aristocracy....
by L Ruby Hannigan | Jan 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
Dorothea Wollin Null was a young six-year-old German girl who lived happily with her family when her world, as she knew it, drastically changed. It was 1943, and she lived in the city of Stettin, Germany when the bombs landed on her very street and her family fled...
by Howard Leighton | Dec 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, Health, Fitness & Dieting
After a period of multiple months of new onset, unexplained hip and back pain, Teva Harrison discovered a painful lump in her breast. Within two weeks, at the age of thirty seven, she knew she had stage IV metastatic breast cancer. With the initiation of treatment,...
by Whitney Smyth | Dec 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Nature, Outdoors & Animals, Sponsored, True Crime
Author D.B. McCrea worked as a game warden for more than twenty years, and his memoir The Forgotten Lawmen Part 1: The Life and Adventures of a South Dakota Game Warden is a wonderful opportunity to take a peek into a little-understood career. This first book covers...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Dec 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Children's
All Barbie lovers out there will learn about Barbie’s famous creator in this short story! Ruth Handler was the creative and artistic inventor of the Barbie doll. Her motive for this invention was her young daughter, Barbara, who had outgrown her baby dolls and...