Nonfiction
Unhinged Healing - Raw Poetry For The Abused
The book that was never meant to be. In a moment of discontentment and boredom, I began to gather my poetry that was scattered across writing platforms, old journals, and forgotten documents on my Google Drive to bring some sort of organization to my writing portfolio. I realized I had a lot more poems than I thought I did. It was a joke at first. I said to my family, "Man. I didn't realize I had this many poems written. I could make a book of them." When my husband suggested actually making a poetry book to add to my portfolio with them, I almost automatically responded with: "Because I am no Poe or Emily Dickinson. No one wants to read my trash poems."
By Hope Martina day ago in BookClub
Michael Croslin
By LEAVIE SCOTT In the mid‑1970s, when hospital corridors thrummed with the hum of ventilators and rolling carts, and when the rhythm of care still leaned heavily on the instincts of nurses and physicians, a quiet revolution began to take shape at the bedside. It did not arrive with the drama of a breakthrough surgery or a headline‑grabbing drug. Instead, it came in the form of a compact, box‑shaped instrument that sat unobtrusively beside patients, its small display flickering with numbers that would soon alter the course of modern medical practice.
By TREYTON SCOTT2 days ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: The First Call was Mine by Kay Blake
Kay Blake's memoir has everything that I like about a real life recount. It has the confrontation of the past and the troubles that the person has faced; it has candour in its examination of the experiences and the resolutions reached, if that applies; it has humour, recognition, a humbleness to it and an appreciation of where that person is now and a true acknowledgement of the things that shaped them.
By Rachel Deeming5 days ago in BookClub
Out Of The Doll's House
This is such an interesting book! I’m fascinated by history but when it’s connected with women’s progress in history — I literally couldn’t put the book down. It isn’t just about the Suffragettes but goes from the Victorian Era right up to the 1980s, when the book was first published.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff11 days ago in BookClub
A Story of Norbert Rillieux
In the humid, swaying cane fields of nineteenth‑century Louisiana, a quiet revolution was forming—one that would not be fought with swords or marching armies, but with science, precision, and the relentless determination of a man named Norbert Rillieux. Born in 1806 to a wealthy plantation owner and a mother of mixed descent, Rillieux grew up witnessing both privilege and the harsh realities of life on sugar estates. He learned early that the production of sugar, though profitable, was a brutal and dangerous trade. Workers spent long hours stirring boiling kettles of cane juice, risking burns, illness, and even death as they attempted to refine the precious crystals that fueled the region’s economy.
By TREYTON SCOTT12 days ago in BookClub
Where My True Face Begins
The first chapter traces the early years of a man who has always felt out of place, shaped by solitude, intuition, and a constant search for meaning. Born much later than his brothers, he grows up between a distant father, an exhausted mother, and a childhood split between Paris and the countryside. Animals become his first refuge, music his second, and his father’s workshop his third.
By Dominique Carden12 days ago in BookClub
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow—it was a phrase Mira had first heard in a classroom where dust floated lazily in streaks of afternoon sunlight. Her literature professor had recited it slowly, like a spell, explaining how time could stretch endlessly forward, carrying both hope and despair in its wake.
By Ibrahim Shah 12 days ago in BookClub
