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Review of Roadside

1 week ago | forewordreviews.com | Joseph S. Pete

My Journey to Iraq and the Long Road Home Dylan Park-Pettiford Lawrence Hill Books (Jun 3, 2025) Hardcover $28.99 (240pp)978-1-64160-977-7 Airman Dylan Park-Pettiford’s powerful memoir Roadside chronicles his Iraq War deployment and hard times back home. Half Black, half Korean, Park-Pettiford often felt like an outsider in Oakland. He enlisted in the air force after 9/11 and served for six years, combating racism and discrimination all the while.
Review of The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman

1 week ago | forewordreviews.com | Joseph S. Pete

Niko Stratis University of Texas Press (May 6, 2025) Hardcover $27.95 (240pp)978-1-4773-3148-4 Infusing the art with the weight of the feelings it elicits, Niko Stratis’s scintillating personal essay collection The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman surveys the last few decades of indie rock while reflecting on life as a trans woman. This confessional, clear-eyed book blends cerebral music criticism with candid memoir elements.
Book of the Day Roundup: April 14-18, 2025

1 week ago | forewordreviews.com | Kathy Young

Sylvain TrudelDonald Winkler, translatorArchipelago BooksSoftcover $19.00 (172pp)978-1-962770-22-4Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), AmazonSylvian Trudel’s novel The Harmattan Winds is an unusual coming-of-age tale imbued with undercurrents of magic, mystery, and tragedy. Hugues is an adopted orphan of unknown ethnic origins who falls under the spell of Hakébé, an African immigrant who’s steeped in his homeland’s rituals and beliefs.
Review of A Day for Leadership

1 week ago | forewordreviews.com | Joseph S. Pete

Business Insights for Today's Executives and Teams from the D-Day Battle Patrick Ungashick Fast Company Press 978-1-63908-124-0 Clarion Rating: 3 out of 5 A case study in leading organizations through stressful times, A Day for Leadership makes D-Day, and the preparations leading up to it, its central example. Patrick A. Ungashick’s rearward-gazing leadership guide A Day for Leadership derives lessons from World War II.
Review of One of the Few

1 week ago | forewordreviews.com | Joseph S. Pete

A True Account of Courage and Stepping into the Fight Robert Graham Amazon KDP (451pp)979-899241230-7 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 One of the Few is a reflective and revealing pilot’s memoir about combat missions during the Vietnam War. Fighter pilot Robert Graham’s military memoir One of the Few recounts his service in Vietnam. After enlisting when he was eighteen years old, Graham flew more than five hundred combat missions in Vietnam.
Review of Thinking Outside the Boss

1 week ago | forewordreviews.com | Joseph S. Pete

The Four Uncommon Leadership Principles to Equip Your People and Build Your Organization Oskhar Pineda Amplify Publishing (216pp)978-1-63755-710-5 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 An empathetic leadership guide, Thinking Outside the Boss covers the fundamentals necessary to keep employees happy, generate productivity, and ensure organization-wide trust and engagement.
Reviewer Danielle Ballantyne Interviews Y.S. Lee, Author of Mrs. Nobody

2 weeks ago | forewordreviews.com | Danielle Ballantyne

“It was only when I realized the great joy of Mrs. Nobody and decided to write a wild, playful adventure about the most-fun friend that the narrative really came to life.’’ —Y.S. LeeWhat do dogs and cats and little boys and girls have in common: a crazy little thing called play. What’s to be made of that fact—at a time when humans seem to have lost all semblance of their animal origins and dogs and other animals appear so different and distant from us on an intelligence scale?
Book of the Day Roundup: April 7-11, 2025

2 weeks ago | forewordreviews.com | Kathy Young

Maggie O’FarrellDaniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, illustratorWalker Books USSoftcover $9.99 (112pp)978-1-5362-4042-9Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), AmazonMoving to a cottage in the countryside unsettles a boy in Maggie O’Farrell’s fantasy story The Boy Who Lost His Spark. Jem misses the city. He struggles with school: A learning disability is hinted at, and he’s prone to fidgeting. His sister, though, is enchanted by their village’s legend about noukas, furry, impish creatures that live in the volcano.
Review of Imagine a Door

3 weeks ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

A Writer's Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing a Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey Laura Stanfill Forest Avenue Press (Apr 1, 2025) Softcover $24.00 (518pp)978-1-942436-65-2 From Forest Avenue Press founder and novelist Laura Stanfill comes Imagine A Door, an empathetic, informative guide through the world of writing and publishing. For every writer who’s ever felt stuck or undervalued, this book will act as an edifying balm.
Review of Who Killed Cock Robin?

3 weeks ago | forewordreviews.com | Willem Marx

Ron Charach FriesenPress (24pp)978-1-03-832956-1 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 About an avian community’s efforts to honor the dead, Who Killed Cock Robin? is a lovely picture book. Drawing on a classic nursery rhyme, Ron Charach’s mournful picture book Who Killed Cock Robin? follows as birds come together to perform the last rites for one of their own. A robin is shot with a bow and arrow by a sparrow.