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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Book Review
The core message of this well-researched book is that the often invisible, race-centered policies of the US government, state/local governments, and private enterprises, hurt not only people of color but all Americans…
Dust Child Book Review
Set in both wartime and 2016 Vietnam, Dust Child by Que Mai Phan Nguyen brings readers into an immediately captivating tapestry both heart-wrenching and hopeful of the experience…
The Lost Apothecary Book Review
Sarah Penner’s debut novel The Lost Apothecary is a wonderfully original story with compelling characters and plot twists, set in two different time periods. Modern-day aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell is in London alone for her tenth wedding anniversary…
Monday’s Not Coming Banned Book Review
Monday’s Not Coming is a YA novel that dives right into the murky question of what happens when a child, particularly a Black girl, disappears. When Claudia’s best friend Monday doesn’t show up on the first day of school…
The Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt plunges into the modern third rail by looking at how morals divide people primarily in religion and politics. By morals, he doesn’t mean a particular set of morals, but of individual and group moral parameters and values…
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Book Review
Twenty-something Cushla straddles both Catholic and Protestant as a parochial school teacher living in a somewhat mixed town outside Belfast. She’s dedicated to her young students, especially a young boy from a mixed Catholic/Protestant family who is under threat from all sides…
About Kristine
Kristine Madera is a #1 bestselling Amazon author, novelist, hypnotherapist, and pro-topian with a passion for helping people better themselves and the world. Informed by global travel, teaching abroad, and a stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Kristine believes that everyone plays a part in imagining and creating our collective future.
Volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta inspired her novel, God in Drag. She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE
