The world’s largest book fair, Frankfurter Buchmesse, once again opened its doors from October 15–19, 2025, in Frankfurt, Germany, welcoming dreamers, storytellers, and innovators from across the globe. Known as the beating heart of the publishing world, this grand event gathers more than 7,500 exhibitors from over 100 countries, with an expected 280,000 attendees and 10,000 media professionals. It’s not just a fair — it’s a global celebration of literature, culture, and creativity.
This year’s fair raises the bar even higher, offering more than 4,000 seminars and roundtable discussions that spotlight the evolving future of books and storytelling. From bold new voices to literary legends, the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 remains the ultimate hub for discovering stories that inspire, unite, and challenge perspectives.
Adding a splash of cultural pride, this year’s Guest of Honour — Philippines — brings its vibrant literary tradition and storytelling heritage to the world stage. With colorful themes of faith, family, and identity, the Philippines’ participation breathes new life into this year’s fair, reminding everyone that imagination knows no borders.
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As the fair celebrates another successful year of bringing together the brightest minds in publishing, Citi of Books proudly joins the festivities at the 77th Frankfurter Buchmesse, showcasing inspiring titles from its talented authors. Among the featured works in the Book Gallery is Poverty to Prosperity: The Path Forged by a Poor Boy by Lowell Swartz, a candid, hard-won memoir that traces one man’s climb from a one-room shack during the dawn of World War II to life as an officer in the US Navy.
Lowell Swartz is a US Navy veteran whose life story anchors this memoir. He writes from lived experience and family memory, piecing together events that begin in a cold December shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and continue through military service and the personal setbacks and second chances that shaped his career. The author worked with Fulton Books for publication and has shared that his sources include memory, family accounts, and historical references.
Poverty to Prosperity opens in a fragile one-room shack, with holes in the walls, on a December day soon after Pearl Harbor — a sharp, immediate setting that frames the stakes and scarcity the author faced from childhood. The narrative is an autobiographical arc of grit, clear goals, and the occasional intervention of fate. Swartz shows how determination and opportunity—sometimes arriving in miraculous, unexpected ways—combine to lift a life out of hardship. The middle of the book covers years of hard work and service, including Swartz’s experiences in the Navy and the personal, career, and historical moments that both test and define him. Then, when a devastating setback appears to end the journey, the story pivots: fate returns in a second intervention that restarts the path to success, giving the memoir its emotional and thematic center.
A lesson to take from this book is a clear, unvarnished lesson in perseverance: steady ambition combined with disciplined work, practical choices, and a readiness to seize unexpected opportunities can turn the bleakest starts into meaningful success. This book is for readers who like honest, grounded memoirs—veterans and their families, readers of working-class autobiographies, and anyone looking for a real-world story of grit, second chances, and consequence.
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