https://youtu.be/J1X0Y8p8ia0 Books That Make You Rock ‘n Roll Back to the 50s We often see the past through a nostalgic lens, fondly recalling the good things while periodically forgetting the difficult times we had as a nation and society. Take, for example, the 50s era of rock and roll—some of the most revolutionary and influential … Read more
https://youtu.be/HJxOZl_CUNE Books That Make You Fill Your Cup Life can be overwhelming, and it often feels like our cups are never full enough. Tashina Anderson Place, the award-winning author of Fill Your Cup: Discovering the War Between Life and Faithfulness, joins us to discuss how we can take control of what fills our cups. Using … Read more
https://youtu.be/hxJa88rG8tU Books That Make You Be a Better Manager Leading others, managing a team—how can you go from being a wide-eyed novice to a sought-after leader that people want to work for? And more importantly, how can you move from being a “worker” to a facilitator of an energized, synergized team? Dr. Dominic Mcloughlin’s multi-award-winning … Read more
https://youtu.be/RMutSp4cBGY Books That Make You Go Back in Time to 1940s Oklahoma Books with a strong sense of place, time, family, home, and all the love, laughs and drama that go along with it, are the ones that make us wanna curl up on the porch rocking chair and sip a sweet tea while reading. … Read more
Books That Make You Relive Video Rental Stores, and 90s Cinema Scott Ryan, a pop culture historian and expert on the entertainment industry, has turned his sights on the 1990s in his latest work, The Last Decade of Cinema, a provocative book of dozens of essays looking back at twenty-five movies that defined the century’s … Read more
Books That Make You Understand Anything Is Possible—Even in the Face of Hopelessness At age sixteen, Payam Zamani’s parents paid smugglers to get him to safety across 1,500 miles of desert so he could flee brutal religious persecution in Iran. Not much later, he arrived as a teenage refugee in America, armed with only a … Read more
https://youtu.be/GA9XPTjfsaE Books That Make You Meet a Princess Who Just Might Save YOU Adventure beckons. Immerse yourself in a new, fantastical journey alongside a rebel princess chasing her destiny—one who hardly needs to be saved. Debut author S.G. Blaise’s The Last Lumenian is a coming-of-age tale of the chosen one, Lilla, as she battles outdated … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvBRTRkOW4 Books That Make You See the Future—As It Pertains to AI in Livestreaming and Digital Media Livestream events like The BookFest, for which Books That Make You is a presenting sponsor, are becoming more and more popular. The pandemic pushed us into a digital landscape, and that momentum remains strong. A leading figure in … Read more
Books That Make You Think About What It Means to be Human, and to Write Like so many arts, writing has been a talent and skill—emphasis on skill, since lots of folks still think that writing is merely natural talent or that storytelling is easy, and reserved for humans since time immemorial. No other being … Read more
Books That Make You Go on a Conscious Adventure with Your Kid—or the Kid In Your Life When we’re children, whimsical storylines can open our minds and hearts, and inspire us. Nowadays, however, that sense of wonder seems more vulnerable than ever, as our society puts so much emphasis on structured learning, timelines, the screen … Read more