Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who watch or work or weep this night, and give your angels charge over...
Category: Nonfiction
We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet
“In the beginning,” Lydia Millet writes in We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, “we gave names to every creature that we found … home was a garden, then—a garden...
And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events and All The Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket. In “And Then? And Then? What Else?” he...
The Life of Crime by Martin Edwards
I love mysteries and crime fiction. I love reading them and reading about them. In this book, “Martin Edwards has drawn on his experience as an award-winning novelist to capture the...
Lost Son by Brett Forrest
Lost Son is a nonfiction investigative mystery/thriller in which national security reporter Brett Forrest describes his efforts to find out what happened to a young man named Billy Reilly who was...
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
This year (2023) marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and there is no better way to learn about this event than to read A Stranger in Your...
Don’t Think, Dear by Alice Robb
Alice Robb has created a fascinating, insightful journalistic exploration that I promise will hold your interest whether ballet appeals to you or not. I have never been a fan of ballet...
South to America: Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
It happened not long after I made the South my home. I joined others in my book club for a meal at a local restaurant, a break from discussing assigned novels....
Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
Individuals with disabilities and those who love them constantly deal with scenarios like the one introduced at the beginning of this essential book. Chloé Cooper Jones writes: “I am in a...
Unfollow Me by Jill Louise Busby
Essays on Complicity Truth fights for itself. If you are open to it, it will use you as a weapon. Jill Louise Busby I had never heard of @Jillisblack before someone...
