BOOK REVIEW LISTINGS

I Adopted My Mom at the Bus Station

I Know

Stephen Bratcher, the author of I Know, has penned a searing, moving, and infuriating novella about being born into a desultory struggle in which escape seems impossible.  It is a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice.

The novel intertwines the lives of three distinct individuals ...

I Love My Happy Hair

Self-Love, Self-Compassion, and African-American Hair Pride

"Little Miss Linda" is an African American girl who is caught in between two worlds- the one in her head and the world outside of her mind. She is struggling to accept her hair texture. She overhears comments about her hair from those in her community. The comments ...

I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales)

I Named My Dog Pushkin, by Margarita Gokun Silver, is subtitled    And Other Immigrant Tales, and antidoted “notes from a soviet girl on becoming an American woman.” If this doesn’t entice you to read this delightful book, reading the back cover will whet your curiosity. Silver’s book is more than memoirs. She writes ...

I Remember

"I Remember" celebrates the ever-lasting love a mother has for her child and recounts moments like, "I remember when I first found out about you, I jumped high enough to almost touch the stars." Mom shares her joyous memories of those early months when, "I felt the whisper of a butterfly waving its little wings at me to let ...

Ice Out

Francesca Bodin's near-perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands
her, her husband, Ben and their four-year-old daughter, Addie in a frozen lake. Ben
gets out, leaving them behind to die.
Francesca believes she sees their dog pull Addie from the lake and drag her into
the nearby woods. Desperate to ...

If You Tame Me

If You Tame Me By Kathie Giorgio is a smart and witty story of self-discovery, evolution,  love, and spiced with a helpful, friendly ghost. The main character is Audrey. She turns 55 at the start of the story and laments about never having married or even having a special someone in her life. 

For her 55th birthday, Audrey ...

IN BLACK AND WHITE

THE BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF ONE-LINERS AND CARTOONS ABOUT LIFE IN GENERAL AND RACE IN PARTICULAR.

In Danger of Judgment

David Rabin's novel, In Danger of Judgment, is a thriller about how past events can rear their ugliness and spill into the future. In the prologue of the novel, Rabin gives an abbreviated backstory of what happened when a team of eight Special Op soldiers who were ordered to clandestinely enter North Vietnam to kill NVA soldiers ended up in a ...

In Due Time (The Full Circle Series Book 2)