My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me by Jason B. Rosenthal

July 06, 2020

I may have mentioned this before. When my husband, Jim, died, my mother gave me the best advice I received. She said, “Your life will be different, but it can be just as good.” Jason B. Rosenthal came to that realization as well, that life can go on. He...

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

April 12, 2020

Bess Kalb, an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live! turns to a beautiful, sometimes moving, story of her relationship with her grandmother, Bobby Bell, in Nobody Will Tell You This But Me. She compiles records of their phone calls, stories told by other...

Hill Women by Cassie Chambers

February 15, 2020

Part memoir, part family history. Whatever you want to call Cassie Chambers’ book, Hill Women, it’s a beautiful story told with love, respect, and pride. While the subtitle is “Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains”,...

Ten Years a Nomad by Matthew Kepnes

August 25, 2019

I was never the kind of traveler that Matthew Kepnes was. He was a backpacker who traveled the world for ten years, drinking and partying. But, Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler’s Journey Home is worth reading even if you’re not the type to appreciate a...

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

January 30, 2019

Think carefully before you spit into that test tube for Ancestry.com or any of the other genealogy sites. Dani Shapiro took it all lightly, but she was traumatized by the results. She writes of it inInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. ...