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Fiction
The Lines Between Us
Rebecca D’Harlingue’s The Lines Between Us is a historical novel with a dual storyline. Employing both narration and diaries and letters written by various characters, the author recreates two time periods, moving seamlessly between seventeenth-century Ana and Juliana and twentieth-century Rachel. In 1661 Spain, Ana begins a fruitless […]
Reviewed by: Linda Bridges
Disposable Souls
Some novels forever change a reader’s awareness of the world around her. Disposable Souls is such a story. I will never see the photo of a missing woman or child nor read headlines about human trafficking in the same way. Inspired by true events, Kellie Fuller writes a […]
Reviewed by: Barbara Heming
Memoir and Autobiography
The Absent Mother: Memoir of a Foster Child
One inexplicable act by Paula Shaffer’s mother left an indelible scar on her life. In her memoir The Absent Mother, Paula Shaffer is pictured with her older brother Bobby, her hero: two Black children, holding hands and smiling. But there were few smiles after she and Bobby were […]
Reviewed by: Janilyn Kocher
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, coming of age, Family relations, Good Books
Tags: Author of Color, coming of age, Family relations, Good Books
Nonfiction
Write Now, Here’s How
Write Now, Here’s How by Linda M. Hasselstrom belongs on your shelf right next to books by Anne Lamott and Julia Cameron. The opportunity to review it was one of those life coincidences. It found me. I needed to read it. I had stopped writing. Since you’re reading […]
Raising Anti-Racist Children: Answering Questions from my White Friends
On Day One this year, teachers of preschoolers or kindergarteners at parochial schools just might want to send home a copy of Alicea Jones’ Raising Anti-Racist Children in their students’ backpacks. In this small booklet, parents will find a clear definition of racism as well as chapters on […]