Review:Carine McCandless is a talented and smart up and coming writer whose first
book is a real page turner. She has a great talent for describing the
indescribable. Carine is a survivor who loved her brother endlessly. Her
brave book about growing up in chaos with older brother Chris is a MUST
READ! Her vivid recollections are captured in stunning detail. Carine is
kind, honest and fair in her memories of childhood and the events that led
up to her brother Chris' untimely death... Read more

Review:If you really want to read a tale about the very worst of US corporate practices, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the book for you! authors McLean and Elkind spare no detail of dodgy finance, sleaze, greed and ineptitude as they bring us an accurate dissection of the rise and fall on Kenny-Boy Lay and his associates.

The authors, both writers for Forbes, are well-qualified to understand their subject and present it in good, journalistic prose form. The book makes a fine double-read wit... Read more

Review:Powerful.....a world I did not know, did not understand, did not appreciate its impact upon the African-American populace. This is a MUST read.
Profound. Glad I read it, only wish I could have read it as a young man - would have given me more time to try to make a positive impact against this stain on the American story Read more

Review:James Baldwin is not bitter, he testifies to the terrible truth about his family of origin... the people of this nation who hate, mistreat and murder their brothers and sisters of color. We must confess that we are vile, disgusting offspring and beneficiaries of a power system that has favored children. If you love truth, you'll love this book. I am ashamed of my privilege. But, will I voluntarily give it up? Forgive us, Father... we know exactly what we do! Read more

Review:I've read this as part of a group discussing white privilege. I am from the west coast, white, middle-class born, upper middle class as an adult. This book is not at all my experience. It sounds more like a book for people born into the rarified, very upper-class world of the East Coast WASP. So, if you want to learn about how that group was raised in the 60s and 70s, dive right in. I found it narrow-minded, judgmental and condescending with a sprinkling of passive aggression. Which in a way des... Read more

Review:Coates' book is a public appreciation of his parents' labors to keep him alive physically, mentally, and spiritually during the crack wars that coincided with his turbulent teenage years. He makes it out. But the trail wound around some hairpin curves overlooking precipitous cliffs that stopped the heart cold. He knows how close he and his siblings came to falling over the edge. He was lucky in his all-too-human father who was always there when the principal called to say Coates misbehaved a... Read more

Review:White Like Me takes no prisoners in exposing this country's sordid racial history and its present-day vestiges, which every thinking person should realize are alive and well—thriving, in fact, under this current administration. He takes an admittedly squirm-worthy subject and makes it superbly understandable through his user-friendly, almost "folksy" chronicle of his personal life experiences of white privilege. I couldn't put this book down, which is usually not the case for me with non-fiction... Read more

Review:Good read but the chapters do not flow like I would have expected - could have done with better editing in parts, often things were explained again although the topic was introduced and explained earlier, just broke the experience. Well worth it though - I am a little OCD. Read more

Review:Received this book as an ARC for my honest review.
The book shows of the horrors that Krystyna went through during the time the Jews started to get executed and shunned. The book is sometimes hard to follow and repeats itself quite a bit. I did enjoy the pictures that were in it as you got to see the progression of Krystyna when she was little. She seemed to have been very spoiled even when all of the bad things were happening. When she would talk about them there really didn't feel to be ... Read more

Review:Peter Vronsky's fascinating book is jam packed with an abundance of cultural, psychological, sociological and investigative insights into how and why serial killers emerge. The amount of detail and in-depth exploration in this work will certainly carry a reader into the dark unimaginable inner realm of human evil. And there in an abundance of case histories (some notorious, others less so, but still unimaginably horrific and disturbing) from which Vronsky cites. However, before he journeys into ... Read more