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Books Posted onNovember 2, 2016

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

Rating: 3.5 of 5 Synopsis: “When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still…

Books Posted onOctober 19, 2016

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Rating: 4.5 of 5 Synopsis: “When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of…

Books Posted onMay 31, 2016

We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

Rating: 4 of 5 We Love You, Charlie Freeman is a story about a Black family who moves from the city to the boonies in…

Books Posted onMarch 17, 2016

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Rating: 4.5 of 5 One of the best memoirs I’ve read! Woodson lays bare her childhood, her dreams, her soul and she does so freely,…

Books Posted onFebruary 25, 2016

When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe

Rating: 5 of 5 At its core When the Elephants Dance celebrates the audacity of the human spirit in the most horrific, dehumanizing situations. It…

Books Posted onFebruary 12, 2016

The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria

Rating: 3.5 of 5 Synopsis: “A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women… Telling the parallel stories of Amina’s polygamous marriage and Pakistan’s…

Books Posted onFebruary 6, 2016September 28, 2019

I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

Rating: 4 of 5 I still remember like it was yesterday the first time I heard Nina Simone: 1993, I was fifteen and watching the…

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