Nevermore 4-28-26 Reported by Rita
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah
O'Donnell
A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to
today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped
shape a more perfect union. Over a decades-long, distinguished career,
award-winning journalist Norah O’Donnell has made it her mission to shed light
on untold women’s stories. Now, in honor of America’s 250th birthday,
O’Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the
course of history.
A very informative book on women's history. I found it inspiring
and hopeful and thoroughly enjoyed it.
-KM 5 stars
Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story by Vicki
Myron
Abandoned in a library book drop slot in the dead of winter,
this remarkable kitten miraculously endured the coldest night of the year. Dewey
Readmore Books, as he became known, quickly embraced his home inside Spencer's
public library, charming the struggling small town's library-goers, young and
old. As word of Dewey's winning tail, or rather his tale, spread, the library
cat gained worldwide fame as a symbol of hope and proof positive that one small
cat could change a town, one reader at a time.
This story is heartwarming, delightful, sweet, and
bittersweet. -CD 4 stars
In the Fields of Fatherless Children
by Pamela Steele
In late 1960s Appalachia, many things loom darkly over June,
the Vietnam War is dividing the country, and a strip mine is eating away the
mountain at the head of the holler where she lives, threatening the natural
landscape and the only way of life she has ever known. While still in high
school, June has fallen in love. She is pregnant, and the father may be Ellis
Akers. Ellis is the son of Solomon, a mortal enemy of June’s stepfather, Isom.
The feud is so old it fuels two vengeful men with the power of long animosity
between rival families. June’s brother, Tom, leaves to enlist in the war, and
so does Ellis. Suddenly, June is on her own, at sixteen with a newborn, and is
a mother unable to protect her daughter from the wrath of Isom. Without
warning, her baby is kidnapped. Guided by her love for the generations of women
before her, but now desperately alone, June must carefully navigate the search
for her child alongside family and strangers in a wild and disappearing
landscape.
It is pretty good. I love the vocabulary. - MS
4 stars
Other
Books Mentioned
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by
Allison Pataki
Broke-Ass Women's Club by
Sharon Sala
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
An Actor and His Time by John
Gielgud
New Books
Picky by Helen Zoe Veit
T'ai Chi for Dummies by
Therese Iknoian, Manny Fuentes
A Far-Flung Life by M. L. Stedman
A Crown of Stars by Shana Abé
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by
Elizabeth Arnott
Daughter of Egypt by Marie
Benedict
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