By Bob Cherny on November 16, 2011
Eleanor Roosevelt’s impact on current American culture is easy to underestimate. This book puts her back in her rightful place in her historical era as well as pointing out the initiatives she started that continue to this day. In spite of the power of her words and the strength of the coalitions she assembled, the battles she fought continue to be fought.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Robert H. Cherny | Tagged Ann Atkins, eleanor roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt's Life of Soul Searching and Self-Discovery, flash history, flash history press |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 14, 2011
How could anyone not want children? If you’ve ever rolled your eyes and chose not to answer that question when you were confronted with it because you didn’t really want to have to face the never ending debate that most certainly will follow, no worries. Sylvia D. Lucas as answered it for you in her latest commentary now available on Kindle: No Children, No Guilt. Sylvia begins Chapter 1 with a simple list of some reasons why some women don’t want children:
Posted in Opinion, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged childless women, no children, no guilt, sylvia d. lucas |
By Gail Bradney on November 10, 2011
The Shaman and the Ironman—it sounds a bit like a pair of superheroes. But when shaman-healer Brant Secunda and six-time world champion triathlete Mark Allen teamed up to write their newest title, Fit Soul-Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healther, Happier You, they really did create something extraordinary.
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged BenBella Books, Brant Secunda, Fit Body, Fit Soul, gail bradney, Mark Allen |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 7, 2011
It’s Flu season again! That time of year when most of us get a yearly shot at our workplace or local pharmacy. That time of year to invest in extra Clorox wipes, Purell, and any other disinfectant that claims to fight viruses. That time of year to pull out the ole chicken noodle soup recipe from Mom’s recipe box, which you only make at this time of the year anyway.
Posted in Self-help/Motivational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged acupressure, cold, cold season, cupping, flu, flu season, heat therapy, home remedy, home remedy for cold and flu, oriental medicine, remedy for cold and flu, soup therapy, tom ingegno, treating the cold, treating the flu, you got sick |
By Peter Hassebroek on October 26, 2011
Joel Friedlander is a well established authority in the self-publishing world and the force behind The BookDesigner website. His old-school self-publishing efforts, before Print On Demand, led to his becoming a provider of customized self-publishing services—a book producer, to use his term. Much of his new book is culled from blog posts of the past years, with an emphasis on the why of self-publishing more than the how.
Posted in Non-Fiction, Reviews, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged Book Designer, book review, Joel Friedlander, non-fiction, print on demand, publishing, Self-Publishing |
By Jaime Hypes on September 15, 2011
Craig Machen is a bad boy, or was a bad boy (if you can ever really shake that persona). It’s not entirely his fault, though. Rather, it is a result of a series of unfortunate life circumstances that led him to be self-destructive. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and strippers. ‘Still Life With Brass Pole’ has it all- in excess. It is a drug and alcohol-induced road trip on which Machen takes the reader in this coming-of-age memoir.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Jaime Hypes | Tagged coming of age memoir, craig machen, drug alcohol memoir, still life with brass pole |
By Peter Hassebroek on June 24, 2011
Against the intense drama of ilms like Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Deer Hunter, and so on, Frank Jolliff’s memoir, 365 and a Wake-Up, paints a comparatively benign picture. That contributes to both its strengths and its drawbacks.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged book review, draft, frank jolliff, memoir, vietnam |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 15, 2011
Larry Jacobson has sailed around the world! And I don’t just mean that in a literal sense. He actually did it. From 2001 to 2007, Larry and a small crew set out on a journey around the world on a beautiful sail boat he named Julia, after his Mom. His book, The Boy Behind the Gate, tells his story.
Posted in Shannon Yarbrough, Travel | Tagged larry jacobson, sail around the world, the boy behind the gate |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 8, 2011
As I think back to what I learned from reading S. Stanley’s memoirs and contemplate how this review should begin, I recall a commercial for Google Chrome which highlights Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Organization, providing positive and encouraging messages for gay youth. Several videos in the series were posted by gay seniors doting that “It gets better with age!” Truer words were never spoken when it comes to describing Gordon’s autobiography entitled My Two Wives and Three Husbands.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged gay memoir, it gets better, joe henry, my two wives and three husbands, s. stanley gordon, theater memoir |
