Books have always had an appeal to them. Back in the ancient era, they were the best way to get …

Books have always had an appeal to them. Back in the ancient era, they were the best way to get …
Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. The books featured during Banned Books Week …
I recently spent a little over a week with no television and no internet and only a burner phone with limited minutes and no data. I was almost completely cut off from the outside world.
Last updated on September 2nd, 2019 Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship. The books …
This book is a must read it will give you a deeper more meaningful understanding of slavery beyond that of what you’re taught from a history book. It is one of the only books I have found that tells the story from the perspective of the women both slave and “free”. It’s a very powerful book and I am glad that after my mom finished it she recommended it to me.
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Last updated on August 17th, 2017I grew up loving books, real books, with their smudged ink on dog-eared pages held …
Virgie’s tale is one of self-reliance and fortitude, overcoming obstacles, and making a life out of nothing. Born to parents who had their own demons to deal with, Virgie had to survive abuse, starvation, and foster care as well as the issues of the day poverty, racism, and segregation. Weedmonkey is a true story about an Appalachian girl who survived and I am so glad to have read her story.
Nikki Giovanni gave words to my reality like no other poetry had ever been able to before. She was real, not some romantic figure locked in her room dreaming of love. She was living life and talking about what it meant to live life as a woman. She was writing all those …
Last updated on May 14th, 2017