Born of Lebanese parents and having spent most of her formative years in Jordan from the 1960s through to the early twenty-first century, Amal Ghandour was part of a generation that saw and experienced the unsparing tide of Arab politics and its unhappy consequences. Amal’s...

The Backpack Years: Two Memoirs, One Story by husband and wife authors Stefanie and James Wilson is the story of two young people from different sides of the Atlantic who meet and fall in love in Australia while they were both on their overseas experience....

The Journey of the Most Liberated Woman in America by Barbara Williamson is the autobiography of a woman who founded Sandstone Retreat. The organization, which existed for five years in California starting in the late 1960s, was a place for men and women to live...

The Lioness Never Cries by Kamal Malaker is an autobiography that chronicles the life of a doctor who qualified in Calcutta, India, and made his way to Sierra Leone to work as a physician during the 1960s. The era and setting portray the way of...

The concept of the existence of life on earth often triggers a myriad of not only tenets, impressions, and perceptions, but also heightened sentiment among human beings. The arguably insufficient knowledge from our universe about life does not do much to help answer the prevailing...

The Wonder of Jazz by Sammy Stein begins with the history of jazz in New Orleans, mentioning Ragtime, Dixieland, and the complex influences of international music. The author then attempts to define jazz according to structure, improvisation, and relationship to other genres, while also discussing...

Stuart Nagero’s Truth is Indestructible is a non-fiction memoir chronicling horrifying experiences in his wife’s life and his reactions to them. The author‘s wife, Vidhi, belongs to an orthodox Indian household. Her world turns upside down when her cousin, much older than her, begins to...

In The Girl Who Loved Elton John and the Little Boy on the Moon, Tina Jenkins has written a most wonderful book through the eyes of the person whose life it is. Writing a book like this takes the art of understanding and insight to...

The Alpha Female Files by Jessica Burner Lee is a non-fictional memoir that feels like it should be a headline in a newspaper. It’s a sidewinding, blindsiding journey of a young woman who finds out that her husband and the father of her children, a...

Thangkas are a rare form of fabric wall hanging depicting sacred figures of Tibetan Buddhism. Using a little-known technique called Tibetan applique, these detailed images are created by sewing together pieces of colorful silk. Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is one of few Westerners who has mastered this...