Howard Cosell was one of those personalities who was either loved or hated. Loud, smart, unattractive, and possessing a distinctive (and according to detractors, most grating) voice, he was, nevertheless one of the most influential... Read More

In the gritty debut from Xavier Richard Wright, How I Became the Most Hated Man in America: Prelude to The Most Hated Man in America, the author recounts the highs and lows of his childhood and adolescence living in the housing projects... Read More

Fans of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts cartoons will remember Schroeder, the Beethoven-obsessed character who kept a bust of the composer on his piano and never let the feminine charms of Lucy interrupt his playing. John E. Klapproth is like... Read More

In Jus Tuf Luk: A Life in the American Century, author Jerry T. Lewis takes the reader from the birth of his parents in the late 1800s to his own birth in 1929 and through to the present time. Though he tells his story in the third... Read More

Jean Marcel Nicholas, or Johnny Nicholas, left a haze of contradictory stories behind him. What’s known for certain is that he was born in Haiti in 1918, arrested by the Gestapo in Paris in 1943, and served as a slave laborer and then... Read More

Call it an $11,400 bottle of beer. And it wasn’t even fun, or worth it. But, “I,” the subject and narrator of Destination Tent City, AZ, is still paying legal and other related fees, literally and mentally, because she made the... Read More

In "Masks of Demons" Yiannis Laouris has written an account of his transformation from a doctor, scientist, and entrepreneur on Cyprus to an active participant in the effort to establish peace between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots and... Read More

Buster the Ferrari Basset is one more entry into today’s crowded category of dog stories. However, this book has some qualities that differentiate it from the standard dog tale. For one thing, Walt Appel’s reminiscence is not just... Read More