Book Reviews
Nonfiction
Fast Food Vindication
Book Reviews, eBooks, Health, IR Approved, Nonfiction •
IR Staff •
May 16, 2013
Lisa Tilinger Johansen, a former McDonald’s Corporation real-estate-executive-turned-Registered-Dietician, is out to balance the bad rap that the fast food restaurants have received from books like Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me with bite-sized portions of common sense advice about nutrition, food and eating choices. Read On
A Gender Neutral God/ess
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Nonfiction, Religion •
IR Staff •
A Gender Neutral God/ess is primarily a book about linguistics, religion and history, and the use of gendered words to describe Deity. Read On
Americashire
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel •
IR Staff •
May 15, 2013
Americashire is the story of an American woman married to a British man, who is persuaded to move to her husband’s country and finally ends up settling in a peaceful (but eccentrically British) village in the Cotswolds. Read On
Loving Andrew: A Fifty-Two Year Story of Down Syndrome
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Memoir, Nonfiction, Parenting •
IR Staff •
May 13, 2013
“Loving Andrew” is a biography of the author’s oldest son, Andrew, who was born in 1959 with Down syndrome. Read On
Two Old Fools on a Camel
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Nonfiction, Top 10 •
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Teaching Arab kids, working with crazy teachers, forming life-long friendships and being placed under house arrest, Vicky and Joe laugh and lurch through their year in Bahrain.
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Cyberslammed
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Nonfiction, Self-Help •
IR Staff •
May 10, 2013
Cyberslammed is a manual designed to help parents, school administrators, and kids deal with the risks and results of online bullying. Read On
How to Spread Sanity on a Cracker
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Nonfiction, Parenting •
IR Staff •
How to Spread Sanity on a Cracker is essentially, a virtual venting session for moms. It combines cheesy recipes with funny parental anecdotes, sent in from mothers all across the country, including potty-training stories, grocery-shopping stories, tantrum stories, stories of parents who snapped in entertaining ways, etc. Read On
Beamish Boy
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Memoir, Nonfiction •
IR Staff •
May 07, 2013
In this beautifully crafted and intricate memoir, author Albert Flynn DeSilver explores his evolution from a child neglected by his parents and abused by his nanny to a young adult in the abyss of addiction and alcoholism to a man who finds his peace and his story through his creative endeavors and ultimately his own writing. Read On
Secret Storms: A Mother and Daughter, Lost then Found
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Memoir, Nonfiction •
IR Staff •
Apr 30, 2013
After giving up her baby for adoption, a Pennsylvania debutante spends her adult life wondering what happened to her daughter…until the two reunite. Read On
Life Minus 3 1/2
Book Reviews, eBooks, IR Approved, Memoir, Nonfiction, True Crime •
IR Staff •
How exactly does someone who could pass for any ordinary office worker steal millions of dollars and gamble it all away? The explanation comes in three hundred some pages of losses, lies, and brushes with elements ranging from the IRS to Boston mobsters. Read On
