Poor Tom

Poor Tom by Martin Drapkin tells the story of its main character, Julius, a forty-year-old man who I would describe as pretty lost in the world. Julius is a Jewish photographer and painter, although I would not say he shows enthusiasm toward either of his professions. He also lives with […]

Stellarlune

Stellarlune is a great book! I loved this book by Shannon Messenger. My grandma and my father liked this book too. This book continues the story after the previous book. You should definitely not read this book without reading the other books in the series. The book is about a […]

Her Hidden Genius

Her Hidden Genius is another fantastic novel about extraordinary but forgotten women by Marie Benedict. Specializing in women with great impact who have been neglected by history, Benedict again sheds new light on the life of a remarkable woman. Rosalind Franklin never quite fits into the world she inhabits, whether […]

Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Food journalist Don Saladino has assembled an encyclopedic array of gripping food stories collected from around the world. The message is simple yet cautionary: by homogenizing our world’s food supply into vast monocultures of genetically programmed crops such as the cultural staples of rice, corn, wheat, and soybean, these global […]

White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female

For millennia, letters have been a powerful medium through which to express deepest sentiments and feelings about well-kept secrets. Educator and speaker Ronnie Gladden leverages the power of the missive to share complicated and sensitive emotions and unvarnished truths about the confluence of race and gender in their memoir White […]