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Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis Who sold the first hamburger ever? Backed by more than 300 historical footnotes, this account of the birth of the burger takes you on a journey down a delicious rabbit hole where you’ll discover the real hamburger history. It’s the mystery behind something that has touched us all […]
Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband’s death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families. When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle […]
Book Title: Barbwire, Brothels and Bombs in the Night: Surviving Vietnam Author: Connard Hogan Publishing Information: Authority Publishing, 2023 Link to Buy Book: Amazon Synopsis Drafted into the army at the age of twenty, then sent to Vietnam, Connard Hogan finds himself immersed in toxic masculinity and the unpredictability of warfare. He endures the constant […]
Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis What did Al Capone, Babe Ruth, and Coco Chanel all have in common? Al Capone understood that working men just wanted to enjoy a beer after a long day at work…and that working women wanted exactly the same thing. Babe Ruth understood that people wanted a show, not […]
Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis A courageous and poignant memoir of one young man’s daring escape from Cambodia’s genocidal regime Forced from his home by the Khmer Rouge, teenager Mae Taing struggles to endure years of backbreaking work, constant starvation, and ruthless cruelty from his captors–supposed freedom fighters who turned against their own […]
Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis Andrew Saltarelli’s Joycean tour de force, Leaving Home, is a meditation on our hunter-gatherer predecessors and what we now must learn from them. He calls his genre-defying book a “poetical argument.” It is more—a journey both back in time and inward to our core, to the place of […]
Congratulations on your bronze book award! Synopsis The Azerbaijani attack on the de facto independent Republic of Artsakh (formerly the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) in September 2020 shattered the illusion that this conflict is “frozen.” The forty-four-day war in 2020 was the bloodiest outbreak of violence over the separatist region since the conflict began in the late […]
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization By Peter Zeihan Reviewed by Peter Clarke The future, according to global analyst Peter Zeihan, is going to be bleak for much of the world. In his 2022 book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning, Zeihan argues persuasively […]
Nonfiction Book Award Status: GOLD Synopsis When a famous bridge is scheduled to be torn down and replaced, people from all over gather to honor the beloved landmark. But to one woman, once a little girl, it’s more than just a bridge. It’s a friendly face and comforting structure she grew up caring about. When the […]
Nonfiction Book Award Status: GOLD Synopsis Harriet Tubman is known in history for her many courageous actions on the Underground Railroad leading dozens of people to freedom. But how did a little slave girl who never learned to read or write grow up to become a respected and legendary leader who served so many throughout her […]