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Review of the Month
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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
Recent Reviews
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 […]
Fifty First Dates After Fifty
Fifty First Dates After Fifty is a frolicking, often racy, memoir. After a seven-year relationship ends—with a man author Carolyn Lee Arnold describes as “a happy Buddhist beach boy in his late fifties”—she longs for a new partner to fill the emotional, physical, and spiritual hole in her […]
Nonfiction
Feminist Daughters With Military Fathers
Fatima Sadiqi’s book Feminist Daughters With Military Fathers provides an amazing historical overview of the Moroccan military. Predominantly textbook in nature, it could serve as a valuable resource for college courses on Moroccan military history. Organized in five chapters, these are preceded by an introduction that clarifies Sadiqi’s […]
