Marisol just landed in Cuba on a mission from her grandmother – to scatter her grandmother’s ashes in her home country. What Marisol isn’t prepared for are the revelations about her family’s history…and the heartbreak she will experience along the way. Will she find the perfect eternal resting place for her grandmother’s ashes, or will … Continue reading Next Year in Havana
Is it getting cooler yet where you are? We've seen another heatwave here which had us retreat back inside again. While I can't wait to get back outside on the hiking trails, the heatwave gave me time to read some great books this week. We are reading books by Hispanic authors in honor of Hispanic … Continue reading This Week: September 15th
Thank you to the author for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Katie Young has had quite the year. After discovering her new husband’s infidelities and losing her mother during the COVID-19 lockdown, she moved home to the Potomac shores and her childhood home in Occoquan. The past few months … Continue reading Santa Overboard
The May family is on the way to a new life in Oregon. They are leaving in a wagon train tomorrow morning - the parents and all their children, including newly widowed Naomi. But today, they are exploring town, stocking up on the supplies they will need to survive in the wilderness…and making friends. Naomi … Continue reading Where the Lost Wander
Elsa and her grandmother have a very special bond. They go on adventures around town and visit magical kingdoms in their wardrobe. They even speak a secret language only they know. But Elsa’s whole world is turned upside down when her grandmother gets sick. What if the imaginary world was actually real? What if other … Continue reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
Happy National Grandparents Day! I am so thankful for great grandparents, including a grandmother who instilled a love of reading in me. My grandmother was one of the first public school librarians in Fulton County, Georgia. She loved to read books aloud and helped me really connect with fiction through stories she created off the … Continue reading This Week: September 8th
Thomas Jefferson just acquired the Louisiana Purchase for the young United States and he needs someone to help map it out. Explorers and leaders have long wondered if the fabled Northern Passage really existed and the president has directed the men to find out, along with exploring as much of the new territory as possible. … Continue reading Lewis and Clark
Two days. 35 square blocks of businesses and homes destroyed. At least 39, possibly as many as 300, killed. 10,000 left homeless. Death in a Promised Land is Scott Ellsworth’s exhaustive look into the events leading up to, during, and after the violence over Memorial Day weekend in 1921. Later named the Tulsa Race Massacre or … Continue reading Death in a Promised Land
Ella May Wiggins is a young mother who was promised the world but really only wants enough money to put food on the table. She worked at American Mill No. 2 until a few weeks ago when she was recruited to help organize strikes and recruit for the National Textile Workers Union by using her … Continue reading The Last Ballad
Hoping you are enjoying a beautiful 3-day holiday weekend right now with lots of time to read. I'm reading through several non-fiction books this weekend for our weekly prompts. In honor of Labor Day, our reading prompt this week is "labor rights". I've read several great books about the labor rights struggles of the late … Continue reading This Week: September 1st
