“It’s amazing the number of people who still contact me and tell me about the positive influence my father had on them. They know what his life was all about. I wish that there was some way to let today’s generation know that his... Read More

"Autumn Winds Over Okinawa, 1945", by Pelham Kenneth Mead III, is a book in search of a genre. As presented, it is difficult to tell whether the volume is a memoir or historical fiction. Mead is a retired doctor and the son of the... Read More

"Centerville", a quiet novel by Karen Osborn, begins with a terrific bang, the shockwaves from which touch every part of the story until the very end. On an idyllic Saturday afternoon in 1967 in this pleasant Midwestern town, the lives... Read More

As a sports biography, Dave Bing: A Life of Challenge, by Detroit sportswriter and columnist Drew Sharp, is well-researched and well- written. As the story of a black family living in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth... Read More

Richard T. Icci, author of The Legal Lampoon: A Practical, No-Nonsense Guide for Anyone Interested in Becoming or Hiring a Lawyer, is a cynic about the legal profession. Icci is also an experienced lawyer practicing in New York and... Read More

In any high school, no matter the size of the student body, it is nearly always a small group of students who serve on all the committees, get elected as class officers, and are considered the “insiders” by just about everyone who... Read More

Joe Famularo’s Viva La Cucina is organized much like any other cookbook. There are chapters devoted to the usual courses of an Italian meal, beginning with antipasti and ending with desserts, along with a short chapter on what Famularo... Read More

It is popular these days to write a book claiming that this system or that institution is broken. Often times these revelatory books are delivered in shrill and accusatory language. The writer identifies the bad guys and offers draconian... Read More