When a couple suffers an unimaginable loss it can either break them & their marriage irrevocably or bring them together even closer than ever before.

Yasmen & Josiah are the perfect couple that promised “until the wheels fall off”. But when they lose the unimaginable Yasmen breaks in every way possible & their marriage does to. But they have so much together; children, a business, history, & a deep love. Can their story really end?

This a great nonfiction narrative, African American history book that demands to be read, that we should all know about. The story of a slave couple that escape from the south to north in plain sight, out in the open! I highly recommend it!

The story of Isobel, a Scottish stitcher that immigrates to the United States. She has synesthesia which is a blending of the senses - hearing music and seeing colors in your mind is an example of synesthesia.

She has an affair with Nathaniel Hawthorne and from that inspires the character of Hester Pryne from The Scarlet Letter A.

All I gotta say is, UGH!!! MEN!!!

This is an adult read!🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
I loved the MexAme history. You might have heard of the “bracero” program, but have you heard of the traqueros? Mexican workers that built the railroads in the US. Eventually, MexAm family settlements formed throughout the Midwest because of the railroad.
This goes into how these families held on to their culture & heritage. This is little known MexAm!history that BUILT THIS PROSPEROUS COUNTRY!

The title alone caught my eye but the story captured my heart. #readwithPRIDE🌈
Because coming out is a personal experience & sometimes happens over & over again & sometimes can be difficult & uncomfortable & heartbreaking & yet sometimes it can be easy & welcoming & just as normal as you introducing your hetero love to your parents. I wish the later was the norm for all. That‘s why this book is needed. Live your life out loud, Yami! 🌈🙌🏻

#readwithPRIDE🌈 book for #pride2022!
Because coming out is a personal experience & sometimes happens over & over again & sometimes can be difficult & uncomfortable & heartbreaking & yet sometimes it can be easy & welcoming & just as normal as you introducing your hetero love to your parents. I wish the later was the norm for all. Unfortunately, it‘s not. That‘s why this book is needed. Live your life out loud, Yami! 🌈🙌🏻

A psychologically haunting, spooky, creepy read. It‘s being compared to or likened to MEXICAN GOTHIC but I have to admit I loved this one more. I hated being scared but I was definitely entertained. If you like haunting, spooky reads this one is definitely for you! I really like the juxtaposition of religion and curanderismo, something we talk about in MAS class and we, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, live daily. I find that duality fascinating.

This is the story of 2 teens who discover the power of friendship, feminism, & standing up for what you believe in, in the midst of a dress code rebellion.
At first I thought this was going to be a full on rebellious read about archaic, sexist, conformist rules pitting teens against adults. But I was delighted (and enlightened!) to read that it was a thoughtful story of different perspectives.

What an epic voyage of a read! A literary fiction adventure read filled w/adventure, mystery, friendship, love, & forgiveness!
It‘s the 1930 and 4 children run away from the Lincoln School for Native American children. I was rooting for them to just make it to their destination & finally find the peace & love & HOME they are searching for.

Welp, if you ever go missing don‘t call me for help or expect me to figure out the mystery because I‘ll lock up the wrong person certain they‘re the right person and you‘ll still be missing. I am definitely not a detective, mystery solver, BUT I do looooove a good mystery and this was a twisty, twisted good tale! AND it‘ll be a HBO film soon. So you know the drill, READ IT before you SEE IT! 📖🔜🎬🎞🍿

Well that was a fast paced, twisty thriller of a read! MUCH better after that other read I hated.
So many people missing to figure out I had no idea where this would all end up which made it an unputdownable read!

A slow burn thriller with diverse characters about a black father and a white father whose sons where married and murdered in cold blood. When the case goes cold the fathers take it upon their hands to find out who the killer is.
“Folks like to talk about revenge like it‘s a righteous thing but it‘s just hate in a nicer suit.”

I love a good memoir!This is an inspiring & must-read memoir of a transformation thru literature & debate from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator-all by the age of 27! What an amazing story! What an amazing b educator! 5🌟 #favoriteread2021

Do we really need another Cinderella retelling? YES! So much YES when it‘s Julie Murphy writing a contemporary rom-com with a plus-size main character at the center of a super cute love story! I laughed. I sighed in relating way too closely. I loved all of it!

A wonderful anthology that gives just a small glimpse of a variety of views about what it means to be Mexican American. Short stories, memoirs, poems, and comics that explore the rich and diverse Mexican American identity. My favorite story was “Yoli Calderon and Principal Hayes by Angela Cervantes. My heart went out to Yoli Calderon! 💗

My kids have a guncle. He‘s a crotchety, I-love-you-but-don‘t-break-anything, annoyed at anything genX, millennial, & definitely genZ guncle but he‘s ours & we love him. 😂
This is the story of Gup (gay uncle Patrick) and it is about love and loss and family! 💗

TJR does it again! In the acknowledgments she writes to her daughter, “ I may mess up sometimes. And I will not be perfect. But I will stand by your side, w/my hand out for you to hold, for as long as you‘ll have me. I‘m yours.” That pretty much sums up this story beautifully.💗

At first, I felt horrible for cackling out loud at this lady‘s terrible family and way of upbringing but the way she puts it you can‘t help but laugh.
She was raised by her grandparents that were really done with raising kids. Her grandmother was an eye-rolling, foul-mouthed, loving yet uncompromising kind of person that reminded me of being raised and loved my Archie Bunker. 🥴
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We need criminal justice reform. Now. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #5starread

I know this is a work of fiction but I also know there are many stories like this and other stories yet to be told that are very much real and sadly nothing fictional about them. And still so many other stories that will never be told because they‘re lost in death somewhere in the middle of the desert. I hear you, Pulga. I hear your scream & that of all those just wanting a chance at the best and beautiful life that we all want.
#favoriteread2020

To go back and unlock the memories and experiences that you locked away and shoved into oblivion in order to survive and then write it all down and share it with the world takes nothing but courage. What an amazing piece of writing; a healing piece of work. If you love to read memoirs, if you love to read poetry, if you love to read books written in verse, READ THIS BOOK. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #favoriteread2019 #5StarRead #SummerReading

What a beautiful delicious love letter and testimony love transcending all obstacles.
The way she describes the food and recipes made me a) HUNGRY and b) feel the love between the two in the midst of all the ingredients and sautés.

Another side of the WWII story I love to read so much. A story of friendship tested and torn apart due to blind allegiance. This read really takes you into the Nazi party brainwashing of the youth using fear mongering and the degrading of an entire group. But it also tells the story that not everything is so black and white. There are so many colors to the same story and the same character and hate is a powerful contaminant to all sides.

Oh my goodness what a master storyteller! I wish I could tell just one story in my life the way he does so perfectly. This truly is a beautiful love letter to his mama! #memoir #BookRecommendation

this book was an amazing run of all the feels there are to feel. To begin with the voice was perfection for me. It‘s exactly my kind of self deprecating, sarcastic humor style that I imagine myself writing in. If you love Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis you‘ll love this book. It was charming and witty. It was sad yet hopeful. It was a thoroughly enjoyable book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #favoriteread2019

‪“With love and a sprinkling of cinnamon” take this book & read the next great book by @AcevedoWrites With a main character that loves to cook & recipes throughout the book I am reminded of my all-time fave read, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. 5⭐️ #favoriteread2019‬

Such an incredible and heartfelt story about immigration and wanting and fighting for that piece of the American dream. Reyna Grande tells an amazing story of perseverance and tenacity to accomplish her dream of becoming a writer. I could relate to her relationship with her mother.

It‘s a disturbing and terrifying dystopian future in which the nazis have taken over after the latest presidential election and all Muslim Americans are interred in camps, or prisons, but in the midst of all the anger and fear is a flame that burns with hope and love and resistance. The flame flickers under the oppression yet grows into a rebellion. Layla is the resistance. #favoriteread2019

This was a beautifully written story of a Mexican-American family. Nothing extraordinary, just family. found myself thinking of my own family and it‘s many characters both here in the US and in Mexico and how the miles may separate us but our love for each other keeps us close. Urrea is amazing storytelling and I both love and am jealous of his creative abilities.

I have never loved or been affected by a graphic novel as I have by this one. Such an honest story about family, love between generations, war, refugees and the heartache they endure and overcome.

All of Colleen Hoover books are pretty much perfection for me. They‘re my favorite type of reads...tortured, impossible, yet oh so romantic love stories. But this one, oh my geez, this book was a twisted, hot mess of a story that was creepy AF! I still don‘t think I came away with the truth!!
This was totally unputdownable keeping me up all night to read it a day. Definitely one of my top faves for 2019! #favoriteread2019 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was an extremely difficult read but an important one we should all read. Crimes and atrocities against women happen every day in many countries and the crimes and unspeakable acts forced upon the Yazidi women and girls are unimaginable and not widely known. Until now. Until Nadia Murad persevered and managed to survive her horror. She is an amazing woman and I am in awe of her strength.

The sun does shine for Mr Anthony Ray Hinton but, damn, he sure had to go through a lot of darkness to enjoy that sun.

Thank you and Gracias @AmericaFerrera for a beautiful reminder that my life between two cultures is just as worthy, important, and TRULY AMERICAN. #favoriteread2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #mexicanamerican

I loved Jon Stewart. In my mind he was the only host for The Daily Show and was a little, ok a lot, hesitant to give Trevor Noah a chance. After reading his memoir it‘s so clear that he is the only one that could take the reins. His entire life, from birth to culture & heritage, has been about politics w/humor, unabashed logic, & matter-of-fact WTFness. It‘s definitely one of my #favoriteread2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well, get your tissues and your hold-me-I‘m-so-sad blanket because this will tug at your heart and squeeze out all your tears. If you loved Room by Emma Donoghue then you‘ll love this heartbreaking story about a 1st grader that survives a school shooting. The story of how his family deals with the aftermath of this destruction is just terrifying to read because, sad to say, we all know it can happen at any school these days.

Dear sweet, broken yet strong Essie. You, and many like you with your same exact story, deserve a better world.
Another great, fast read. Would love to see more from this practicing Doctor turned author.

I devoured this book! It was hilarious! I found myself screaming I KNOW, RIGHT?! so many times but I also found myself reflecting, WELL THAT‘S AN INTERESTING WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS. It‘s definitely a #favoriteread2018 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Wow. 😳

You know when you pick up a book just on a whim and you give it a chance and it turns out to be something pretty amazing? Yeah, that‘s what this little gem of all the feels was for me. I 💗 Tiffany Sly!
#summerreading2018

Wow. Just wow. What a range of emotions when things aren‘t that easy.

If you have a teen daughter that thinks she‘s in love, or is looking for love, give her this book. Better yet, read this book WITH her and DISCUSS all the signs of what a bad romance is. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #favoriteread2018 because it‘s such an important topic!

Smart, funny, embarrassing, true to life heartbreaking, and in the end, STRONG. I loved it!

This is a story of an extraordinary man with an unbreakable hope. This is a story of two ordinary people living in an extraordinary time filled with pain and devastation, deprived not only of their freedom but their dignity, their names, and their identities. I say this every time I read a book set in a concentration camp, I just cannot imagine having the strength to surviving, to endure, and to forgive. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I thought I was ready for this book. I thought my heart was filled with enough happiness to read through this one. I was wrong. How foolish I was to think my heart was healed and strong to not cry in the middle of room with a book in hand and still cry some more as I drove in traffic thinking of the painful words written.

‪It‘s always a good day when you get #bookmail! My advance copy of #BringMeBack is here and I‘m ready for it!

Such an important read and discussion to have with our kids. It‘s perfectly written for middle grade. We live and learn and do better. Always do better.

please don‘t let the title discredit this read or think of it as just some “smut” lit because it‘s actually a really good diverse read...with some fun, naughty stories sprinkled throughout! Yes, it‘s got some hot scenes but there‘s also a mystery! You take a peek into the lives of Punjabi widows and what they have to live through as discarded pieces in their communities. It‘s a fun, fast read. Relax a little and read it! I highly recommend it!!

This poor girl went through so much with her family and I sense she is still tortured by the demons that are her family ties. I hope one day she is truly freed of all that guilt and pain.
This is an incredible memoir. Heartbreaking but interesting and incredible.

My #1 favorite read for 2018. What an epic adventure, filled w/courage & fear, to right the wrongs of the magical, mystical world of Orïsha! I‘m telling you, I have so much love for Zélie & Amari and this book!!!!! I want the adventure to continue and I need book 2 in my hands now! ?? Bravo, Tomi Adeyemi!!! BRAVO!!! ?? #favoriteread1018