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The Kindest Lie
The Kindest Lie
by Nancy Johnson
The Kindest Lie (1/16/2022)
I loved this book! It had everything you’d want in a book, great characters, interesting subjects, important topics, suspense and joy.
I highly recommend this wonderful book and I hope we’ll see many more books from this author.
Take My Hand
Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Take My Hand review (9/21/2021)
Excellent writing, painful true subject matter. Slavery in America is a fact and the history of this country’s founding. White Americans all need to know this fact and accept it. This is a powerful book and I highly recommend it.
The Sunset Route
The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
by Carrot Quinn
Average (7/14/2021)
I truly wanted to like this book, and parts of it I liked very much. However I felt like it jumped all over the place and I had a difficult time staying interested.
The Woman Before Wallis
The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal
by Bryn Turnbull
The Woman Before Wallis (7/15/2020)
This was a really fun read. I'm fascinated by the Royal family and the Vanderbilts. I love all the dishy intrigue, scandal & secrets and this book is packed full of it all.

I'd never heard of Thelma, but I'd read about Gloria and little Gloria. Of course, I was familiar …more
The In-Betweens
The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
by Mira Ptacin
American Spiritualism Camp (9/29/2019)
Fascinating. A whole world that I had no idea even existed - American Spiritualism as a religion - complete with a campground in Maine that has been in existence non-stop since 1878.

I received this book free from BookBrowse, as an early release in exchange for writing a …more
Ordinary Girls
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
by Jaquira Díaz
Powerful memoir (9/29/2019)
I was fascinated to read about this woman's life growing up first in Puerto Rico and then in Miami. I knew very little about the area in Miami where Jaquira Diaz and her family lived. The Miami I knew of was the place of extremely wealthy, the place where rich people spend …more
Patsy
Patsy: A Novel
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn (7/2/2019)
Patsy is an interesting book and extremely timely in this age where many families are fleeing their poverty and violent countries to seek asylum in the United States.
Patsy felt she had a better chance of making money for herself and her daughter if she went to America. …more
Sounds Like Titanic
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (1/2/2019)
Sounds Like Titanic is a fascinating memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman. At the opening it appears to be a straight forward memoir of a young woman moving to New York City to go to college. She did not realize how much she would need to cover the expensive education at …more
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya (2/15/2018)
This is the true story of two sisters who escape the Rwandan genocide and eventually reunited with their family in America on the Oprah show. The author, Clemantine Wamariya, reveals how she and her older sister, Claire traveled across the continent of Africa, facing …more
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