French Illusions by Linda Kovic-Skow
When I was 14 years old, my parents sent me to Ireland for 3 weeks so that I could practice the English language I was learning in school. This was… Read More »French Illusions by Linda Kovic-Skow
When I was 14 years old, my parents sent me to Ireland for 3 weeks so that I could practice the English language I was learning in school. This was… Read More »French Illusions by Linda Kovic-Skow
When she was three years old, Alison Neuman was diagnosed with dermatomyositis, a rare muscle disease that also affects her immune system. However, she did not know the name of… Read More »Searching for Normal by Alison Neuman
I have always been fascinated by how people would drop everything, and go to faraway places to look for gold in horrendous conditions. So when I was contacted by Laurel… Read More »Aunt Phil’s Trunk Vol. 1 & 2 by Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill – Review + Giveaway
Krista Bremer, a South California girl who loves surfing, has just moved to North Carolina to study journalism when she meets Ismail Suayah, a Libyan older man from a poor,… Read More »My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer
In 1993, Piper Kerman had just graduated from college when she fell for the wrong girl: Nora was an older woman who was involved in an international drug smuggling ring.… Read More »Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance journalist, and Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer, traveled to Somalia in the summer of 2008 to report on the war raging in this country. What… Read More »A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett