Category: Book/Author Highlight

• Book Highlight: Unsung Heroines of the Holocaust

  This is an important book. Discounting the rise of ahate crimes that you can see every day on the news, but survivors of the Holocaust are slowly dying out. It is an event that shouldn’t be forgotten and I certainly think people will remember but hearing and seeing witness account do stick more. This book…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 30, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #holocaust, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #sarahsilbersteinswartz, #unsungheroinesoftheholocaust, #womenshistory

• Author Highlight: Greg Weisman

  I’m pretty sure Greg Weisman can do it all from television to comics to novels, all while splciing and mixing sci-fi, myth, Shakespeare, mystery and more. Clones, convulated Xanatos gambits, magic and technology tend to be staples of his work.

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 27, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #badguys, #clangathering, #comics, #dccomics, #gargoyles, #gregweisman, #growingup, #macmillan, #rachelreads&reviews, #rainofghosts, #slavelaborcomics, #spiritsofashandfoam, #trainingday, #YA, #youngjustice

• Book Highlight: Girls Who Run the World

  While everyone knows the big names, Tesla, Musk, Bezos, women have been inventing and leading just as long. After all women were the ones who invented the washing machine, Monopoly, windshield wipers, the list goes on. But you can read a history book if you want to learn more. Knapp is seeking to put a…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 22, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #dianaknapp, #girlswhoruntheworld, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #women'shistory

• Book Highlight: Girls Who Green the World

  For those who are spiralling into eco-depression and feel that the news is an endless drain of hurricanes, corporate pushbacks and more. But have no fear, Kapp interviews and thirty four women who have been discovering and creating new sustainable technologies and businesses to help save our planet.

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 13, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight, Uncategorized

  #dianakapp, #ecoactivism, #enviromentalactivism, #girlswhogreentheworld, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #thirtyfourrebelwomenouttosaveourplanet, #womenshistory

• Book Highlight: Extraordinary Mothers and Daughters

  This is the perfect book for Mother’s Day as if the title wasn’t clue enough. The beautiful collages by Natasha Cunningham highlighting black and white portraits overlayed with flowers adds to the theme. Split into six chapters by Emily Freidenrich shows the warmth, love and osmetimes complex bonds of twenty five famous mother-daughter figures even…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 4, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #chroniclebooks, #emilyfreidenrich, #extraordinarymothersanddaughters, #natashacunnigham, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews

• Book Highlight: Young, Fearless, Awesome

  This delightfully inspiring book encourages kids to chase after their dreams and break boundaries no matter their age through the stories of these icons. Some you probably know like Anna Frank and Greta Thunberg but it also features some new ones like Samantha Smith who wrote to a Soviet leader and became a peace ambassador…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 5, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #activists, #middlegrade, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #sourcebooks, #stellacaldwell, #twentyfiveyoungpeoplewhochangedtheworld, #youngfearlessawesome

• Book Highlight: Paperbacks from Hell

  It’s spooky season so my big suggestion for getting your horror fics is to delve into the horror history of the 70s-80s with Grady Hendrix’ Paperbacks from Hell. Clearly written by a fan who knows his horrors and pulps, Hendrix’ tone is full of vivid narrative energy. Whenever I read I feel like I’m on…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 1, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #gradyhendrix, #horror, #nonfiction, #paperbacksfromhell, #quirkbooks, #rachelreads&reviews

• Book Highlight: The Wonders We Seek

  The Wonders We Seek: Thirty Incredible Muslims Who Helped Shape the World by Saadia Faruqi and Aneesa Mumtaz is an informative book that does exactly what it says in the title.

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 22, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #aneesamumtaz, #harpercollins, #muslimhistory, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #saadiafaruqui, #thewondersweseek, #thirtyincrediblemuslimswhohelpedshapetheworld

• Author Highlight: Ann M. Martin

  Ann M. Martin has shaped so many lives with her children and young adult fiction ever since the 80s I believe. The first Martin classic has lived on in pop culture with reboots and reprints is The BSC-The Babysitter’s Club!

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 20, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #acorneroftheuniverse, #annm.martin, #bsc, #comingofage, #heretoday, #mainstreet, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic, #thebabysittersclub, #thedollpeople

• Book Highlight: Every Body Looking

  This has some commonalities with Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X following a girl’s coming of age story featuring first gen problems in verse form. However, Ada’s story takes a different track. Her name in Igbo means “first child” befitting how she shoulders the expectations and pressures of everyone else, trying to be a good Catholic…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 17, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #candiceiloh, #comingofage, #everybodylooking, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA