Archive for Nonfiction


Traffic

February 23, 2010 posted by Bea
Tagged as: New Releases
I always have been fascinated in making processes more efficient and organized. At buffet lines, I am the one who sees that the ability to form two lines (one on each side of the table) is there, and I create that second line--cutting down the wait time for everyone in line. I am also extremely intrigued by human behavior and why we behave the way we do. When I saw the quote Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) underneath the title of a book called Traffic, I knew that was a book for...

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29 Gifts

January 20, 2010 posted by Bea
Tagged as: Authors, Nonfiction
One month after her wedding day, thirty-three-year-old Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She and her husband were planning on coming back from their wedding, having children, and living their lives as the typical married couple would do, but  this diagnosis changed her life forever. Read More »


Reading a Book by its Cover

November 23, 2009 posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Authors, New Releases, Nonfiction
Former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, hit stores this week. I haven’t read it. Very few people have so far. But that hasn’t stopped a whole lot of people from forming an opinion. In terms of content, this probably is going to be just another politician’s self-serving autobiography. But in terms of reaction, this is something different altogether. Pre-orders were so strong that Going Rogue has been on top of the major best seller lists for weeks. Thousands, literally thousands, of people sat outside a bookstore in...

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