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Spared
Clementine Msengi has written a compelling autobiography that held my attention throughout. As a survivor of the Rwanda genocide (1994), she describes the ordeal—many ordeals—with descriptions of events one can only imagine. And imagine I did as she narrates: “I need to be relocated, but we couldn’t think […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Editors' Picks, Good Books, Immigrants, Review of the Month, War and its effects
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Editors' Picks, Good Books, Immigrants, Review of the Month, War and its effects
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Author Interviews
An Interview with Karen Solt
Karen Solt is a retired US Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer who served in the Navy from 1984 to 2006, prior to and during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. After hiding her sexuality from the world for most of her life, she considers herself a “Combat Hideologist” and believes […]
Interviewed by Story Circle Network
Children's/YA
Disrupted
Capturing extraordinary moments that propel reader imaginations back to a time and place within the context of personalities and spaces forever remembered is a finely tuned skill brought to the reader by author B. Lynn Goodwin in her 2024 novel Disrupted. In this book, a small group of […]
Fiction
Tiny Vices
Tiny Vices is a feisty, well-written tale of present-day adult siblings. This would be an interesting book for only children to read, as well as those of us blessed with siblings. The conflict, sibling love, marital challenges that come with middle age, and the absolute loyalty that comes […]
Inspirational
Guidance from the Universe
If the Universe is all caring why do we have pain? Why are we faced with difficulties in our human existence? In Jill Amy Sager’s book Guidance from the Universe, life for her was a struggle from day one. A physical disability which set her apart and feeling […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Infinite Paradise: Witnessing the Wild, a Memoir
“The core of living lies in what we love, and the key to knowing a place inside and out is to return to it over and over,” writes Dianne Ebertt Beeaff in Infinite Paradise. “I don’t know if it is possible to love the whole planet, but we […]
Dancing Between the Raindrops
The stated focus of this book is the journey of the author with her elderly parents dying over a two-year period. Yet there is so much more that the reader learns to appreciate. Braxton’s parents were born in the South under segregation of the Jim Crow laws. As […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Author of Color, Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Race relations
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Author of Color, Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Race relations
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An Interview with Karen Solt
Karen Solt is a retired US Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer who served in the Navy from 1984 to 2006, prior to and during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. After hiding her sexuality from the world for most of her life, she considers herself a “Combat Hideologist” and believes […]
Interviewed by Story Circle Network
