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Things We Haven't Said: Sexual Violence Survivors Speak Out - Edited by Erin Moulton

Summary: Things We Haven't Said  is a powerful collection of poems, essays, letters, vignettes and interviews writ…

Reading For Sanity's Newest Book Club Recommendations (or Summer Reads)

It's summertime folks, and you know what that means.  It's time for the ladies at RFS to hang a proverbial sign…

Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan

Summary: 7 Things to know about Willow Chance: 1. She's different (as in strange).  And a genius. 2. Almost everyt…

The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

Summary :  The Boys in the Boat celebrates the 1936 U.S. men’s Olympic eight-oar rowing team—nine working class boys wh…

Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty

Summary:  Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . .    A murder… . . . a tragic acciden…

Life is So Good - George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Summary:   In this remarkable book, 103-year-old George Dawson, a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98, r…

Forbidden Sea - Sheila A. Nielson

Summary:  A mermaid haunts Adrianne's dreams . . . is she coming to warn her, save her, or drag her down into the d…

Room - Emma Donoghue

Read Mindy and Heather 's reviews of Room . Summary:  To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world.  It's where h…