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The Volcano Daughters
The Volcano Daughters: A Novel
by Gina María Balibrera
The journey of two El Salvadoran sisters before and after the time of The Massacre (9/9/2024)
The Volcano Daughters begins in El Salvador in the early 1900’s during the dictatorship of president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Actually his name isn’t even worth mentioning as in the story, he is simply El Gran Pendejo or The General. The story opens just after …more
There Are Rivers in the Sky
There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
What if water had memory? (8/21/2024)
“Water remembers. It is humans who forget.”

The earth is a closed system, therefore the total of premoridal waters that have ever existed, still exist in one form or another. Life in its most basic form is transformed in an everlasting cycle of life, death and renewal. Elif …more
By Any Other Name
By Any Other Name: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
The plight of women writers, no matter the era (8/21/2024)
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You don’t have to be a Shakespeare scholar to throughly enjoy Jodi Picoult’s latest, By Any Other Name. When I was a college student many moons ago, I learned that there were scholars who challenged that William Shakespeare was the sole author of the works …more
All the Colors of the Dark
All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker
Epic drama you won’t soon forget. (6/22/2024)
I can’t say enough about Chris Whitaker’s new release - All the Colors of the Dark. It is so many things - quietly beautiful and deep, haunting, dark, bright and hopeful. It’s an unputdownable coming of age tale, a buddy story, a serial killer mystery, and an epic drama …more
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel
by Bushra Rehman
A coming of age story in 1980’s in a New York multicultural neighborhood. (12/6/2022)
Narrator: Bushra Rehman
Length: 9 hours, 22 minutes

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion is a beautifully written, character driven, coming of age story. Razia is a young first generation American daughter of Pakistani immigrants. In snatches of memory we witness the girl grow up …more
The Family Izquierdo
The Family Izquierdo: A Novel
by Rubén Degollado
Perfect Read for Hispanic Heritage Month (9/14/2022)
The patriarch of this tight knit but imperfect family is on his death bed. The family Izquierdo reflects on the past that has made them who they are, the present which at times seems clear but incomprehensible, and of their hopes for future generations. The book is told as …more
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