Rating: 4/5 I read this nonfiction graphic novel in just one sitting at the library. I happened to pull it off the shelf while the students were playing on the computers, and was immediately intrigued. This is designed to be a handbook for how to handle abortion. Hayes writes of multiple women’s experiences and perspectives.
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Worth a read, if you like the Holmes stories and are looking for a quirky twist on the originals
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey This is a difficult book to rate. It consists of several essays, loosely arranged around a year’s time, although Abbey actually spent 2 seasons in Arches National Park. The topics vary from folk tales to his musing on wilderness to more impersonal information. But this
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/desert-solitaire-a-review/Review: Southern Spirits (Books 1-3)
Synopsis: New York Times bestseller Angie Fox celebrates 5 years of the USA Today bestselling Southern Ghost Hunter series with a limited edition boxed set of the first three stories in the series, along with never-before-seen additional content, including deleted scenes, original art, an inside look at the characters, and a behind-the-scenes peek at how…
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🔥🔥 AVAILABLE NOW 🔥🔥 Did you #OneClick Just Friends by Charity Ferrell yet?! Don’t miss Rex and Carolina’s story! BOOK BLURB Someone should have warned me about falling in love with my best friend. Carolina Little did I know when Rex came to my locker attempting to bribe me, that he’d turn…
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Rating:4/5 Beyond Trans is a very specific and timely look at gender as a classification and discrimination. Heath Fogg Davis shares personal stories and narrative style research from several people with regards to ways in which their gender identification has limited or inhibited their ability to move through the world. Many of the people involved
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/beyond-trans-does-gender-matter-heath-fogg-davis/Review: The Vision by Heather Graham
Synopsis: Can you afford to believe everything you see? Can you afford not to? When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Marie Josephine off Key West, it seems like any other dive—until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the water. A dead woman who opens her eyes and looks…
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Synopsis: A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/review-been-there-married-that/Bento for Beginners – Chika Ravitch
If you are interested in creating Bento Box meals then this is a great book to start with the recipes are easy and the explanations and history are easy to read and understand. I would definitely recommend this book to anyway the recipes alone are easy to make and taste great
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This book if a great beginner’s book with very clear instructions and explanations so you can learn the basics of pouring as well as details on the tools and materials you will need. There are also additional tutorials once you are comfortable with the basic techniques so even those who are a little more advanced
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Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy #1) By Amélie Wen Zhao YA Fantasy In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural—dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret. Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her
Read More from: https://bbmorgan.com/2020/02/18/book-review-blood-heir-by-amelie-wen-zhao-5-5/Crush the King – Jennifer Estep
The third in the Jennifer Estep Crown of Shards series a great ending to the current series arc but hopefully not the end of the series. While this one could act as an end, I can see many more options for future books and hopefully we will get many more books
Read More from: https://booksinbrogan.com/blog/2020/02/17/crush-the-king-jennifer-estep/Review: Faithful As She Fades
Synopsis: Faithful As She Fades is the first-person account of Robert Fischbach’s heartbreaking journey as a caregiver to his longtime beloved wife throughout her relentless battle with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Having vowed to her that he would refrain from putting her in a facility, Bob found himself as the sole caretaker (until well into his…
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I am giving away three different books. One winner will be chosen for each book. Three different winners for this giveaway event. In order to win one of the three books, you must do all of the following. I will randomly choose three people. You will need to follow this blog: urbanbookreviews Subscribe to…
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/book-giveaway-2/The Only Rose and Other Tales: A Review
The Only Rose and Other Tales by Sarah Orne Jewett. This is a collection of four short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett. “Aunt Cynthy Dallett” is about two friends to go to visit an elderly friend living in the mountains. “The Only Rose” is a story about a woman who can’t decide which of her
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/the-only-rose-and-other-tales-a-review/Guest Post from Author, Rita Woods
There are many endless ways for writers to tell a story. For that group of writers, who are fascinated by the stories that comprise our past, that is doubly true. These stories that make up our history can be told by simply stating the facts, or at least stating them as perceived by the writer,…
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Interesting title, interesting read…….. **** When I review a nonfiction book, I look for how well it is written, how well the author knows their subject, and what did I learn that I did not know. Usually, this is … Continue reading →</a
Read More from: https://gutreactionreviews.com/2020/02/13/a-higher-loyalty-truth-lies-and-leadership-by-james-comey/A Lens Without A Face by Maddisen Alexandra
An extraordinary gifted poet….. ***** Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings…” In this sense, Maddisen Alexandra is a true poet. In this collection of 101 poems, she invokes emotion and thought in the reader in a way … Continue reading →</a
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This review appeared earlier, but I am sharing it again while I am recuperating. Enjoy. The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks and the Case of the Plagiarized Text by A.B. McKillop Themes: intellectual rights, gender roles, marriage, women’s rights, suffrage, sexism, free love, Canadian history, publishing, fame Setting: Toronto and London, early 20th
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/the-spinster-and-the-prophet-a-review/Review: Fallen by Rebecca Zanetti
Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti delivers a pulse-pounding new read filled with her trademark edge of your seat action in the latest book in her Deep Ops series… Too quiet. A talented hacker who got caught, Brigid Banaghan is now forced to work with a secret Deep Ops unit. But she won’t…
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