by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2022 | All Kinds of Lives, Max Reviews, Shilpa Reviews, YA, YA Fiction
All Kinds of Lives (July 2022) by Shilpa Jacobie and Max McConnell
by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2022 | Fiction, Staff Review
Ray is a talented young black musician who inherits an old violin from his grandmother. The violin turns out to be a very rare and priceless instrument. He is well on his way to achieving international success when the violin is stolen. The suspects are many,...
by envisionmg | Jul 25, 2022 | Angelina Recommends, Audiobooks
By: Hallie Rubenhold Narrated by: Louise Brealey Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins “Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine,...
by envisionmg | Jul 22, 2022 | Jim Recommends
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism When I was working my history degree way back in the mists of time I took a class on the history of feminism. The class was very interesting and at one point the professor made a...
by envisionmg | Jul 20, 2022 | Shilpa Reviews
Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman Nominated for the MCBA 2023, this middle grade historical fiction book is based on the Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine (then part of the USSR). It’s a glimpse into life under a communist regime and also sheds light on...
