Blog - Nonfiction

Somebody’s Daughter

written by Ashley C. Ford, narrated by the author – book 42 of 2021 I was nothing and nobody cared what happened to nothing and everything happened to girls who […]

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Love and Fury

written by Samantha Silva, Book 37 of 2021 “You say that I am hard on all women. But no harder than I am on myself. I want a serious and […]

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Ariadne

written by Jennifer Saint, Book 33, 2021 Clever and passionate women who scrubbed floors and tended fires, and wove cloth, and pounded soiled linen on the banks of the rivers […]

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Rebel Ideas

written by Matthew Syed, Book 32 of 2021 Companies founded by immigrants grow faster and survive longer. Immigrants make disproportionate contributions to technology, patent production and to science. Matthew Syed […]

Blog - Fiction

Land of Big Numbers

by Te-Ping Chen, Book 9, 2021 “He’d seen the village transform itself over a lifetime, just as he, too, was going to transform himself with an invention the likes of […]

Blog - Fiction

The Divines

written by Ellie Eaton, Book 8 of 2021 “What am I supposed to tell him? That since becoming a mother I exist in a state of perpetual unease? That the […]

Blog - Fiction

The House on Mango Street

written by Sandra Cisneros, Book 2, 2021 “Friends and neighbors will say, What happened to that Esperanza? Where did she go with all those books and paper? Why did she […]

Blog - Fiction

Dune

written by Frank Herbert, Book 1 of 2021 “There is no escape —we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” Frank Herbert, Dune I am going to be real honest […]

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Deacon King Kong

written by James McBride, Book 45 of 2020 “If I didn’t have Jesus and his cheese, I’d kill somebody. That’s what Jesus did for me 67 years, he kept me […]