April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and ... Read More »
Translated from the French (J’aime ma ville), I Love My City, a nonfiction STEM title, explores every facet of cities: history and evolution, planning and organization, special services, unique architecture, and diverse cultures. For example, ... Read More »
April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
In this cinematic debut poetry collection, Hannah Green features the Xanax Cowboy (XC) as the main character of a metadrama of anxiety and its effects. In Green’s impressive character study of existential complexity and ... Read More »
Before arriving at its destination of Saskatoon, Canada, Michael Afenfia’s Leave My Bones in Saskatoon has a layover in Abuja, Nigeria. There, the reader meets Owoicho Adakole, a television presenter, who is at a visa ... Read More »
April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
When Samaya’s boyfriend, Devin, unexpectedly dumps her right before the summer holidays, her volunteer summer job is out of the question (no way is she spending two months with her ex), and she finds herself ... Read More »
April 5, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
The Rainbow, the Midwife, and the Birds: 4 Dene Tales is an illustrated anthology of stories by Dene author Raymond Yakeleya. They include traditional Dene tales, personal stories from Yakeleya’s childhood, and a biography of ... Read More »
April 3, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »
March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry
In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »
March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry
The first and last stories in Steven Heighton’s posthumous collection both feature characters punching someone with unintended consequences. In the title story, which opens the book, Ray recalls his father advising him that the only ... Read More »
March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
In Lea Beddia’s Take Off!, Marissa is having a hard time in her final year of high school. She’s being bullied by her former friend, Aimee, and she needs to pull up her low grades ... Read More »
March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books