NENEH CHERRY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY weaves a fascinating tapestry from her distinctive life: her joys (love, family, friends, art, nature) and her sorrows (losses, deep grief, addiction). Like a heart-to-heart with your coolest friend. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-threads-neneh-cherry/1144788315?ean=9781982161040

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A DEVASTATINGLY WITTY, DEFIANTLY unorthodox, and uncompromisingly Black and queer look at popular culture and how it can shape lives. Laughs and insights on every page. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rage-lester-fabian-brathwaite/1144045970?ean=9780593185087

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"With the new year comes new #Jewish #books we’re excited about, and 2025 is promising quite the eclectic collection. From #literary #novels to #memoirs to historical #fiction to poetry to reported biographies, there’s really something for everyone on this list. We’ve loaded this to lean heavily toward the first half of the year (even including a few titles that are already available because they came out last week!), but if you’re into this collection, we’ll be sure to put together more reading lists for your enjoyment all year long."

https://www.heyalma.com/27-jewish-books-were-excited-about-in-2025/

AN INTENSE, THOUGHTFUL MEMOIR from Glory Edim of Well-Read Black Girl speaks powerfully to the impact of books in shaping lives, and in particular to the inspiration she and others have drawn from the works of Black women authors. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gather-me-glory-edim/1140956760?ean=9780525619796&aug=1

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What a way to wrap up 2024!

‘Freeing Teresa’ wins the 2024 Best of the Year Award from the Outstanding Creator Awards and…

28 more awards!!

Congrats to Teresa Heartchild, who is loving all the accolades. Congrats to all 13 actors who brought the book to life!

See all 29 awards on www.freeingteresa.com

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THE IMPOSSIBLY TALENTED LACI MOSLEY—comedian, actor, and podcaster extraordinaire—has written a smart, funny book intertwining her own experiences of everyday cons and fraud with some of the top crimes she has covered on the Scam Goddess pod. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/scam-goddess-laci-mosley/1144547292?ean=9780762484652

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She deepened Germany’s economic dependency on China and its energy dependency on Russia while abandoning nuclear power; she underinvested in German security and defense; she delayed long-overdue domestic reforms and investments in areas such as education and infrastructure; and her migration policy sowed the seeds for the success of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany.
#memoirs #Germany #Europe #BookReview #Ordoliberalism #politics #history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/29/angela-merkel-freedom-memoir-review/

Listen up! Wowzers, I've done 10 #podcasts in 2024!!
From Activism Begins at Home to Sisterly Love and Siblings as Krazy Glue, here's the Inside Scoop on #FreeingTeresa.

https://freeingteresa.com/the-inside-scoop-on-freeing-teresa-video-and-audio-interviews/ #socialjustice #downsyndrome #memoirs #awards #dysfunctionalfamilies

The Ten Best #Books About #Food of 2024

Travel to the #American South, #Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best #cookbooks, #memoirs and historic deep dives

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-ten-best-books-about-food-of-2024-180985539/

When I was a kid, a very reliable way of making a bit of side income around my hometown was collecting bottles. You'd walk around the streets, lurking for improperly disposed bottles, ideally beer bottles that were called Cheburashka, and picking them into a bag. Then you would bring them home, wash and dry. The bottles had to be shining clean (no leftover glue) and pristine (no cracks). It is hard to find the exact details, but it seems one empty bottle would cost about $0.02. That was enough to buy Turbo chewing gum. Ten bottles would give you a small loaf of bread or a highly desirable and non-recyclable plastic bottle of Sprite. Apparently, collecting bottles was common for decades in the late USSR and early post-USSR.
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"#FrenchBoy tells the unique story of an expatriate community, one which was initially French, then became French-Canadian, then Franco-American, and today, perhaps just American."

#FrenchCanadians in America with #DenisLedoux

https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/french-canadians-in-america-with-denis-ledoux/

#CanadiensFrançais #FrancoAmericans #FrancoAméricains #FrancoAméricanie #FrancoAmerica #LaGrandeHémorragie #AmériqueFrancophone #NouvelleAngleterre #assimilation #livres #books #mémoires #memoirs @DoomsdaysCW @bookstodon

Jerry Waxler, an author, teacher, and a professional counselor writes about Freeing Teresa:

“When Cain was ejected from the Garden of Eden, he asked a rhetorical question, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’
“If you have ever wondered about how much of your own comfort and convenience to sacrifice for your brother or sister, …read this book.” ~ JERRY WAXLER

https://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/siblings-disagree-family-feuds-in-memoirs/
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