Book Review: Medusa’s Sisters
Medusa’s Sisters is the retelling of the Greek myth of the gorgon sisters. More specifically, this is the story of Stheno and Euryale.
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12 Books Releasing in September
September has a lot of great new book releases from true crime to historical fiction, to apocalyptic novels. Here’s what is on my radar this month.
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Take My Hand: A Look into Forced Sterilization of Poor and Marginalized Groups
“Take My Hand” is a historical fiction novel loosely based on the 1973 Relf v. Weinberger case where two sisters, ages twelve and fourteen, were sterilized without their consent in Montgomery, Alabama by a federally funded agency.
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Looking for Your Next Book? Try Book of the Month
Do you ever wonder what you should read next? There are so many titles to choose from, but what book should you get? Have you seen the prices of books? No wonder why Amazon is putting bookstores out of business… Wait…maybe I went too far. Let me take this back a little. A few weeks…
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Book Review: The House at Saltwater Point
Just in time for the Fourth of July holiday is a new novel from Colleen Coble called “The House at Saltwater Point.” [Due out July 3, 2018] This is book two in the Lavender Tides series. You don’t need to read The View from Rainshadow Bay to get a sense of what is going on, because…
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As You Wish
Due to be released on January 2, 2018. Imagine on your 18th birthday you can make one wish and it will come true. What would you wish for? That is the question Eldon is faced with as he approaches his wish day. He has no idea what he wants to wish for. His mother wants…
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
From the author of Salvage the Bones comes another great American novel set in the rural south of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where young Jojo lives with his grandparents and baby sister. His white father (Michael) is locked up in the state penitentiary. His mother (Leonie), a drug addict and sometimes mother, is absent…
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The Last Namsara
Due to be released on October 3, 2017. Asha is the Iskari – bringer of death to dragons. As daughter of the dragon king, she hunts down dragons and tries to extinguish the old stories, the poisonous tales that killed her mother. As a child, Asha told the stories to dragons until her mother died….
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow is the Next Harry Potter
I was growing tired of reading about everyone’s problems. It got to the point where book after book I reviewed were about people with very deep issues. I needed a break from these real life stories, so I went through my stack of October releases and pulled out a very special book from the pile,…
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Stay With Me
Stay With Me is one of the most phenomenal books of 2017. Written by Ayobami Adebayo, this debut novel takes us to Nigeria where we are introduced to Yejide and Akin. Yejide and Akin are happily married, but are missing one thing…a baby. Akin’s mother begins to pester the couple about an heir before bringing…
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Miles Morales
This book is due to be released on August 1, 2017. This is by far one of the best stories I’ve read this year. I gave it 5 stars because this is more than just a Spider-Man story. This is about a kid facing adversity, just like every other kid out there. He may have…
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The Burning Girl
This book is due to be released on August 29, 2017. A coming of age novel set in Royston, Massachusetts. Two girls, Julia and Cassie, grow up together in this small town. Julia is from a good, middle class family, while Cassie is from the other side of town. Having known each other since nursery…
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Everything Everything
Imagine living your entire life inside of your house, never able to leave because you are sick. You don’t have friends, because you can’t play with other children for fear they may make you sick. This is Maddy’s world. The only people in her life are her mother, her nurse and her tutor…no one else….
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Silence
Christianity in Japan is all but wiped out. Two young Portuguese priests venture to Japan to find their teacher, only to be met by Christians who hide their religion. If they are discovered and do not denounce their faith, they are killed. As they go from one village to another in search of their teacher,…
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A Man Called Ove
Things aren’t going so well for Ove. He lost his wife and all he can think about is joining her in death. As handy as he is, he really sucks at dying. Every single attempt is foiled right as the world comes at him to let him know that he is not alone. Right when…
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Saving Fish From Drowning
Once upon a time, when Amy Tan was in New York City, she found herself caught up in a torrential downpour. She took refuge in a private library at the American Society for Psychical Research where her intuition brought her to the story of Bibi and her tale, “Saving Fish from Drowning” began to unfurl….
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Book Club: A Man Called Ove
Hello, everyone. It’s time to discuss the first official book club selection for 2017: A Man Called Ove. Even if you haven’t finished reading the book, feel free to come back here and post your thoughts either here or on the Facebook page after you’re done. Let’s start off… The Book Club Questions What did…
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The PW Book Club 2017
The PW Book Club is going to be a little different this year. I’ll be sharing Amazon Kindle First’s selections and sharing which book I chose, but separately from the book club. The 2017 book club itself is going to be based on five selections of books you can purchase now. Those books are: Here…
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PW Book Club: Anat Talshir’s “About the Night”
Hello everyone. I hope you enjoyed this month’s book club read. I know I did. This month’s read, “About the Night,” had us diving into a love affair between an Arab and a Jew right before the wall in Jerusalem went up in 1947. Two newlywed lovers are forced to find ways to secretly see…
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Kindle First July Selection: Midair
I apologize for the late selection for this month’s Kindle First selection. I celebrated my 40th birthday on July 1st and then went on vacation…just a staycation and a break from everything work related. But enough about that…about this book. This month’s selection is “Midair” by Kodi Scheer. “I had a secret: I wanted to…
