Red Rain Lara Bernhardt Publication date: August 30th 2022 Genres: Women’s Fiction A bittersweet story of friendship and overcoming grief from a critically acclaimed author. Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn’t have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she’s been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she leaves it all behind and volunteers to teach English to schoolchildren in India. Ten thousand miles away, she connects with fellow volunteers and finds purpose in teaching. Until one by one the girls in her classes stop showing up. Then she meets Mukesh, an Indian man with a heart for invention, who may be the only one who can help her students. This is her chance to impact real change, even if that means trusting new friendships and her own instincts. It turns out, there might be strength in asking for help, and embracing a painful past may clear the way for a brighter future. Sometimes in the da...

Review: Our Stories, Our Voices - Anthology - Various Authors - January 2019 For many Americans, not just the females who are talked about and spotlighted in this anthology, there are a few dates that have stuck in their minds from incidents like the KKK lynchings in the 1950's/1960's, Oklahoma Bombing, Kent State Ohio, September 11th, 2001, Deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King and last but not least the elections of 2016 when Donald Trump won out over Hilary Clinton. Each of these events has played a part in some of the authors' lives who have featured in this essay. We also have edgier topics from sexual harassment, rape, and homosexuality. Our Stories, Our Voices is a collection of essays / short stories from female authors who are prominent in YA fiction talking about their experiences and what they have had to overcome in a world of white superiority, a world where men were told it's ok to have sex with females as they are asking for it. Over the past ten years o...

The Matriarch is the thrilling first novel in the Women of the Dust dystopian romance series. If you like enemies-to-lovers, dynamic couples, and empowered feminism, then you’ll adore Annabelle McInnes’s gritty tale. Author: Annabelle McInnes Title: The Matriarch Series: Women of the Dust Book 1 Release: October 12th Genre: Dystopian Romance Pages: 358  Cover Designer: Lana from Bookcoverology.com Available now - 99c Sale! Amazon US:  https://amzn.to/2GAU2oQ All other links:  https://books2read.com/u/3GdkOL Her citizens are oppressed. His society is diminishing. In a frantic bid for survival, can their fiery union save their peoples? On a scorched and barren future Earth, Yolanda is her people’s only hope. As Matriarch of an all-female nation, the battle-hardened commander fights an impossible war while desperately seeking a way to stop her subjects from dying of thirst. But when the enemy king is beheaded by his own warrior son, she’s offered a truce that will...

Review: The Price of Silence - Staci Stallings - April 2018 Clearing my kindle, I was scrolling through the kindle and I came across The Price of Silence by Staci Stallings and it had a thriller aspect to the book and so I decided to give it a go. I didn't have any expectations as to such for the book but OMG this was an amazing and powerful read. It even left me at the end going WOW as it packed a punch. This book starts with Robyn Lockhart's parents getting a divorce and moving from a small tiny Iowa to a new town which is a large city with her mother. When Robyn arrives at school, her eyes are opened wide and she feels sucked into a massive sea of students as her old school only had about 150-300 students altogether. During her first class, she meets a great teacher Mr. Tucker who runs the journalism class and newspaper club. He will become a great mentor to Robyn during this novel. She also makes new friends Kat and her boyfriend Chad and Sean Hudson. Duri...