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My Life, My Ethiopia
Mary Tadesse’s memoir entitled My Life, My Ethiopia illuminates the life of one of Ethiopia’s greatest women leaders. Born into a family that valued education, she was selected to travel and study abroad for the purpose of advancing not only herself, but the entire country, upon her return. […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Review of the Month, War and its effects
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Review of the Month, War and its effects
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Fiction
The List of Last Chances
The List of Last Chances is a sweet novel about two women travelling across Canada from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia. They’re not a couple; in fact, Ruthie just became uncoupled when her partner Jack chose another woman. Kay March, seventy-two, is a widow and her son […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness recounts Renée K. Nicholson’s journey to become a professional ballet dancer, as well as the early retirement she was forced to take after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (R.A.) at the age of twenty-one. Rest assured, you don’t have to […]
The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church happened over 50 years ago. I probably learned about it from a spread in Life magazine. I knew nothing, though, about a fifth girl who witnessed the bombing, lost her sister, became blind in one eye, and lived to tell […]
