Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
A respectful and solicitous guidebook that offers something for everyone. Are you a content person, or do you constantly find yourself dissatisfied with what you have and who you are? Do you have purpose in your life or are you endlessly searching for something? Have you considered that maximizing your own potential, working to become […]
Amy’s genuine and relatable account will bring you to tears and move you to action. We have to eat to live, but not everyone has a healthy relationship with food and eating. Food: Eat with Ease Every Day by Amy Freinberg-Trufas is one woman’s honest memoir detailing the journey from obesity, isolation and self-loathing to
The excelling value of wisdom is incontrovertibly argued. If asked to define wisdom, you might think it an easy task. Wisdom includes the ability to utilize knowledge and understanding. Applying wisdom can help avoid problems and dangers, can provide a springboard for problem-solving, and can make us more empathetic humans. But these ideas just scratch
A delightful and rewarding pursuit for pianists everywhere. 12 Grand Waltzes is a diverse collection of piano music suitable for intermediate to advanced musicians, although even beginners will enjoy the evocative melodies and lilting tempos. Available in paperback or in a highly visible and easily usable digital format, Dersom’s original music is a delightful and
Darkness and light fuse together in the fiery account, When To Run, Born Scared by Stephanie King. Part maddening and part saddening, King lays out the incessant traumas and periodic triumphs in a tortured life. With a racist, heartless father, an equally sadistic older sister, and a loving mother that lacks the courage to stand
A fascinating exploration of the connection between science and theology. In the early 17th century, the Galileo affair created a significant rift between science and religion. In time, this gap slowly filled in as religious views conceded to mounting scientific evidence. The chasm, however, was torn wide open once again upon Charles Darwin’s publication of
Will keep you interested and emotionally invested until the very end of the bittersweet journey. Scott Gould is extremely candid and refreshingly honest in Things That Crash, Things That Fly. “Until then, I’d never lived in a precise moment I knew life had changed, but this was one.” He doesn’t beat around the bush or
Always trying to make the best of less than ideal circumstances, Tyrel Nelson shares a collection of heartwarming stories in Those Darn Stripes. Recent and distant memories fade into pleasant ramblings as Tyrel gets out of his own head and lets his mind wander, giving readers a backstage pass to his three decades of life.
Plotkin is as credible of a writer about bonds and bondsmen as you could hope for. When you were a child playing board games, it was as simple as rolling doubles or using a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card to be released from jail. As an adult living in the real world, the situation
The pinnacle of self-improvement books. Do you find that you have trouble fitting into society’s mold? Or, more to the point, do you know deep down that you really don’t want to? Have you often thought of yourself as ‘other’? If you’re struggling with your otherness and have the persistent feeling you could be so
Nelson takes literary snapshots of his life and shares them with readers in full color. While spending a year abroad teaching English to students in Ecuador, Tyrel Nelson documented his experiences and now shares them in this lively book of memoirs. The content of Stories from Ecuador, however, is scarcely about the rewarding process of
A beautiful journey, absolutely worth every second. Everybody loves a great found-family novel, and it is so much better when the story isn’t fiction! When Love Sticks Around is a stirring collection of essays about growing up in the Midwest in the 80s and 90s. Danielle experienced a childhood not uncommon for her time, filled
A brilliant and thorough exposition that is sure to spark debate. With a title that is sure to draw ire in the hearts of millions of golf fans, authors Aaron S. Bayley and Luigi Di Serio quickly set the tone in this thorough reference work that seeks to categorize and rank many of your favorite
Brutally honest, poignant, painful, but ultimately uplifting and hopeful. Music has the special ability to resonate with humanity as a beautiful borderless language, one that can be shared across an endless variety of locations and circumstances, and one that possesses a gravity all its own. Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation
The perfect rhyming story to help young children just starting to read. Max Goes to Town pairs the innocence and charm of a book written for children with the authenticity of a true story, Cynthia L. Clark breaks from her more suspenseful novelization to a genre where the feeling and plot of an entire story
One of the most authentic autobiographies told in verse. White Knuckle grabs readers by the throat and forces their naive eyes wide open to gaze upon what passed for a childhood for Steven Bruce. Offering a chilling look at “the anxious fever of a typical day,” readers will not soon forget the nightmarish memories that
When asked who the greatest baseball player of all time is, many would answer Babe Ruth, and understandably so. With 714 home runs to his name and seven world series championships under his belt, Ruth certainly made a grand name for himself. However, had he not had a manager that let him switch positions and
An eye-opening travelogue you don’t want to miss. Sometimes the journey is the destination. For Susanna Oreskovic and her nature-loving team, they plan an ambitious adventure, recreating an authentic climb from the 1920s with a perilous, yet breathtaking journey to the ultimate destination, the so-called Mystery Mountain. With the goal of literally walking in the
This common sense approach to mental prosperity is deceptively simple. “There is no doubt that happiness is all around us, if we give ourselves the opportunity to see it.” Isn’t this true? Circumstances vary wildly from one person to the next, but if we commit to the right perception of ourselves and our unique situations,
Money makes the world go round—at least, that’s how it’s always been. But is there a better way? Is it possible for capitalism to exist in a world where greed doesn’t reign supreme? Where some people live lives so lavish they can literally throw money away while others constantly struggle just to keep a roof
A solid philosophy and approach to leadership. “From the indigo, an even deeper blue.” How can something such a deep hue of blue, indigo, bring forth something bluer? How can we as individual leaders in our communities, our workplaces, and among our peers become even more skilled in our roles? This is the thrust of
Be transported back in time in this nostalgic backstage glimpse at an iconic folk trio. Music has been evolving for as long as there has been music. In fact, it’s difficult to remember or imagine a time when a cheeky song lyric might be met with as much scorn as the gyration of Elvis’ hips.
Filled with vulnerability and raw honesty. It is with a keen sense of surreal recollection that many glassy eyed folks recall exactly where they were when the Twin Towers came down. I was driving my son to school and the sky was so blue that… I was on my way into the office and I
Explore is a collection of 17 syllable poems set up in the style of a guessing game. Dan Absalonson has taken the traditional Japanese art form and transformed it into an easily digestible group of poems that fit together like a colorful puzzle of the earth. The division of topics is systematic, ranging from letters
