by envisionmg | Jan 28, 2022 | Jim Recommends, Jim Reviews
The Voyagers. The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed...
by envisionmg | Jan 26, 2022 | Jen Recommends
A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit. The...
by envisionmg | Jan 24, 2022 | Shilpa Reviews
Crow by Barbara Wright This middle grade historical fiction novel was written in 2012 and covers the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot and only successful coup on American soil. The local elected government in Wilmington that included African American Alderman and white...
by envisionmg | Jan 21, 2022 | Jim Reviews
Bright Ages is not your usual book about the Middle Ages and not just because it seeks to do away with the “dark ages” myth about the fall of Rome and the west. It’s lay out is episodic. It uses events throughout the middle ages to demonstrate how...
by envisionmg | Jan 19, 2022 | Ari Recommends
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit By Colby Cedar Smith This novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit The Spellbook of Katrina Van...
