Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan illustrates a jarring coming of age tale steeped in history. After a tragic incident, Esperanza is forced to abandon her family ranch in Mexico and join a farm labor camp in California. Deplorable work…
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan illustrates a jarring coming of age tale steeped in history. After a tragic incident, Esperanza is forced to abandon her family ranch in Mexico and join a farm labor camp in California. Deplorable work…
Water for Elephants is a romantic slice of 1930’s Americana. But woven between the fabric of Gruen’s big top are the gritty realities of circus life. For more stories filled with intrigue, attraction, and mystery, check out these nine novels. …
V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue builds a magical, philosophical world to enchant readers. Centuries ago, Addie made a deal with a dark being: she gets her freedom and immortality, but no one she meets will ever…
Who’s excited for more Outlander? That’s right, after a seven year wait, the ninth installment in the series: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone is hitting the shelves in November 2021! I absolutely will be telling the bees…
The Harry Potter of Christian Romance, Redeeming Love tops popularity polls regularly. Translated into 30 languages, this book has sold over three million copies worldwide. It’s a guilty pleasure, Bible retelling, tender romance and historical drama all rolled into one.…
Three shots fired in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 changed the world. President Kennedy was assassinated and there was no going back. Or was there? Stephen King’s gripping story about a teacher who goes back in time to stop…
From early anguished works to coming-out classics, the lesbian canon is rich in literary significance. At a time when there have never been so many prominent mainstream stories of lesbian love coming out on big and small screens, women have…
Kurt Vonnegut was a writer who employed a simple, straightforward style to complex issues of existence, technology, and morality. Like Ernest Hemingway, this approach was shaped by his experience as a journalist. But where Hemingway delved inward, struggling with his…
Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel The Help is a work of fiction based on the experiences of black maids in Mississippi in 1960s America. What makes this novel striking are the lives of the maids, Aibileen and Minny, so starkly juxtaposed…
We’ve recently celebrated Remembrance Day in the UK and Veterans Day in the USA, marking 75 years since the end of the Second World War. Since then, a metric tonne of books have been published about WWII. Many of them…