“Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.” In a time when bathrooms were still segregated in America, African-American women were making strides as […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
“Once you knew – really knew – of the women and children being shot in the woods, of the shower rooms constructed for the sole purpose of killing, how could you not act?” In The Women in the Castle, three women in Germany have their lives forever changed during World […]
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin. I thought I was reading a fiction book until I got to […]
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“Economics … is a science of recognizing secondary consequences. It is also a science of seeing general consequences.” In 1946, Henry Hazlitt wrote a book that will be used for decades upon decades – Economics in One Lesson. Simplifying economics into one lesson made a book that is easy to […]
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
“Mom always said that you can’t regret the things you’ve done because regret is like poison. If the decision felt right at the time, then just move on.” Cammie is down to one good friend – her mom. She can’t figure out what she did wrong – she pulled some […]
Solo Disaster by Victoria Kimble
“I had to admit, making people laugh was a lot more fun than sitting quietly at my desk.” Alex makes people laugh – often intentionally, but sometimes not. He is always the smallest kid on his Little League baseball team, but when faced with a year of being in the […]
Skinnybones by Barbara Park
“There was something the war couldn’t take from me either. The Nazis couldn’t stop the wind and the snow. The Russians couldn’t take the sun or the stars.” Nearly 9,000 souls were lost at the bottom of the sea when the Wilhelm Gustloff sank. It had carried 10,000. The ship […]
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore After visiting the Trinity site in New Mexico, I’ve been fascinated by the stories behind the people who work to create the first nuclear bomb. Many didn’t even know what they were working on, but only knew their one small part. The Radium Girls is […]
Online Book Club November Announcement (The Radium Girls by Kate ...
[sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Looking back now, I can see that all of this was God, gently, gradually, separating me unto Himself, preparing me for the life to which he had called me, and which I so wanted.” Miracles do still happen. Rita Klaus experienced one by just asking. She grew […]
Rita’s Story by Rita Klaus
“The letter could sit on a shelf, along with Isadore’s number, collecting dust, becoming less meaningful to me as the months and years went by … But my belief in fate was strong, one that I couldn’t shrug off with apprehension.” In Among the Branded, little does Stephanie know that […]