Category: Reviews

What happens to our dreams when we are awake? We remember our dreams, but do our dreams remember us? There is one dream that remembers. At night, Góreck comes to life in Nico’s dreams. A life full of color, fantasy, and adventure. In this dream, Góreck and Nico are best friends. When Nico is awake,

In 1924, the lives of three women intersect. Bea and Alice have known one another for years and come to New York from New Orleans to open a dress shop together, but their relationship will change drastically when Catherine Berrill enters the shop to buy a dress, bringing a connection to Bea’s past that will

Briata Catullus, one of the infamous Golden Eagles, is fated to seize the crown from a sovereign. Or so says the notorious prophecy that has haunted her entire existence. Banished from the Western Court the day after her birth, Bri has endeavored to do everything in her power to prove fate wrong. In the aftermath

Priscilla Tempest, an attractive Canadian twenty-something, is head of the press office at The Savoy, London’s most prestigious hotel. Her penchant for landing in the bad books of the hotel’s snobbish general manager is magnified a thousand times when the arms dealer found dead in River Suite 705 turns out to be Priscilla’s date from

Outside of the current English monarchs, the Tudors appear the most often in printed works. It is extremely difficult for any authors to explore areas that have not already been covered though Sarah Gristwood makes a valiant effort in exploring how the Tudors used courtly love and politics during their time. This book explores the

I’d like to start this review by saying that I am probably not the intended audience for this book. I was raised Christian (Catholic, if specificity is needed) but in an environment that was relaxed enough that I could easily slip into an agnostic adulthood. My interest in religion is largely intellectual and aesthetic. I

Bear has a very nice garden. He has lots of pretty flowering plants. A new plant grows in his garden that doesn’t seem to want to bloom. Bear takes very good care of his new plant. He makes sure it has plenty of water. He makes sure it gets plenty of light but protects it

The Underground Railroad was a covert system that assisted African Americans in fleeing from their bondage in the antebellum Southern United States. William Still, born to a free family in New Jersey, moved to Philadelphia and worked for the Anti-Slavery Society. Still understated his own importance in the machinery that gave shelter, food, and funds

Any child can tell you what a hat is. Except that a hat isn’t always what we think it is, and a head isn’t always the place for a hat. One might need hats for the tips of their fingers. And finger-tip hats can be many things—raspberries, tortellini, or other fun things. If it’s cold

As two young siblings head off to school for Picture Day, Mama’s empowering message follows them: “My kind, beautiful girls. Remember, you are strong and smart. You can do and be anything!” Once she arrives, Faizah’s teacher asks what kind of world her students would like to live in. They respond creatively: an “ice cream