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...
Category: Nonfiction
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. —-JILLISBLACK I had never heard of @Jillisblack before someone displayed this book...
Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for nonfiction, was published in that year by Liveright/W.W. Norton...
The End of Bias by Jessica Nordell
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias, by Jessica Nordell, was published in the U.S. in 2021 by Metropolitan Books (a division of Henry...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
When I was a kid, I drove my mother nuts. I began each day with questions I believed critical to life and limb and needed to be answered immediately. I continued...
