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The War That Saved My Life

Thursday, July 14, 2016

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.  Oh how I loved this book.  My copy did not have the Newberry Medal on it — how glad I am to see that Bradley won a Newberry Honor for this sensitive, clever, adventurous, real, and riveting book.  Ada and her little brother Jamie are sent to the country by their […]

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How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

by Moustafa Bayoumi.  True stories of young Arab Americans and their experiences in the US.  All from New York, all from immigrant families.  A few really shocking stories, and all disturbing for the common theme among them — Arab Americans not feeling a part of and recipient of the American life that I do. Made […]

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The Bones of Paris

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Written by Laurie R. King, author of the wonderful Sherlock Holmes / Mary Reynolds mysteries that began with the Beekeeper’s Apprentice.  In this the second and most recent of the Stuyvesant and Grey novels, we meet Harris Stuyvesant, former FBI agent turned private investigator, who is looking for an American woman gone missing in the […]

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Orphan Train

Monday, July 4, 2016

Oh I loved this book! What a great way to spend July 4.  Niamh loses  her family shortly after arriving in New York from Ireland and is loaded onto the Orphan Train of 1929 to find a “home” in Minnesota.  In 2011, Molly is in her 9th foster home and serving community service hours by […]

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All Our Names

Monday, July 4, 2016

Isaac, refugee from war-torn African country, and Helen, socially isolated social worker in Midwestern town, meet and embark on what seemed to me like a relationship destined for failure.

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The Myth of the Muslim Tide

Monday, June 27, 2016

A really EXCELLENT book.  Thoughtful, curious, without obvious bias, researched.  I was especially convicted by the parallels he drew between current fears about Muslims and the same fears that used to exist about Catholics.  Oh, if only our country’s history curriculum was more robust.  Why aren’t my kids learning about this stuff.  History matters. Context […]

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