March 19, 2019 11 THE ELECTRIC WOMAN by Tessa Fontaine I love great memoirs; they offer the most profound glimpses of humanity. Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric [...]
March 17, 2019 4 “Summers of Fire” by Linda Strader Linda Strader is one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve [...]
January 29, 2018 16 The Shadows in My Heart—by Mary A. Havens How I met Oprah— “I met Oprah because I told my truth,” says Mary Havens, a survivor and activist [...]
January 18, 2018 2 Dark Chapter—by Winnie M. Li Winner of the Not The Booker Prize, Dark Chapter is a powerful, riveting, and thought-provoking novel. About [...]
November 29, 2017 0 CUT—By Hibo Wardere I was brought to tears by this powerful woman and her courageous story. Hibo Wardere is a Gutsy Goddess, [...]
August 31, 2017 2 the scorched earth—by Dora E. McQuaid The scorched earth, expanded second edition, documents Dora’s journey from victimization to survivorship, [...]