"Out of the Rubble" is an affectionate biography that pays tribute to a man whose sense of responsibility allowed him to flourish in the face of great adversity. "Out of the Rubble" is Alicia J. Winget’s biography of an Italian... Read More

"Raven and the Hummingbird" is a therapist’s hopeful memoir about helping a woman to heal from abuse. Therapist Renate F. Caldwell’s emotive memoir "Raven and the Hummingbird" is about treating a patient with multiple personality... Read More

Filled with acts of desperation and heroism, the exciting history book "Swift Sword" covers a military group’s struggle for survival during the Vietnam War. This second edition of Doyle Glass’s striking history book "Swift Sword"... Read More

"Into the Bright Sunshine" is an incisive biography of Hubert Humphrey, the rural Midwesterner who grew into a prominent, persuasive politician in the vanguard of civil rights. Humphrey’s Great Depression-era childhood in South Dakota... Read More

"The Forgotten Singer" tells the conflicted life story of the gifted, undercelebrated novelist Esther Singer Kreitman (the sister of I.J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer) from the viewpoint of her son, Maurice Carr. Carr’s dark, brooding... Read More

Librarian Linda Maxie’s intriguing, original reference text does an impressive job of collecting notable books about interesting people. Librarian Linda Maxie’s "Library Lin’s Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs" is a... Read More

Drawing on his letters home, "Searching for Charles" vivifies a nineteenth-century English immigrant’s new life on the Illinois prairie. Stephen Watts’s family biography "Searching for Charles" makes use of an ancestor’s... Read More

"A Slow, Calculated Lynching" is Devery S. Anderson’s biography of Clyde Kennard, whose desire for an education and opportunities led to his gradual martyrdom. Kennard was born in Mississippi in 1927; he grew up facing entrenched... Read More