Not very enjoyable.

A teenage boy from India, whose family is moving to Canada, is the only survivor of their ship's sinking. Finding himself on a lifeboat with a lion, a hyena, and a wounded zebra, the story is a tale of survival, cleverness, and belief in God. Highly recommended.

Amazing book that speaks to women to take back their rights from the men in their lives. To speak up for themselves even when they die… the audio book was wonderfully done. Highly recommend ????

This book begins with a very heavy and shocking moment and it never lets off the gas. A court room thriller, the ending will stay with me for a LONG LONG TIME!

This was a quick novella at the end of one of the author's books that I just finished reading. It was a great story and makes me look forward to reading the next book in this series.

Catherine Ryan Hyde is one of my favorite authors, but I found it very difficult to get into this book. I put it down several times and went on to read other books before finally finishing it. It's about a journalist, Amelia, who is a recently divorced mom of Jaden, a seven year old boy. She takes him to Mexico to track down E.L. Swann aka Ella, who wrote a very famous novel 30 years before and then vanished. The book is about Amelia and Ella's relationship and Ella's relationship with Jaden whom she sees as her muse. I did not find the novel as complelling as Hyde's other works, such as Michael Without Apology.

A non-Jewish British journalist, who has covered the MidEast extensively, is outraged by the extensive anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations that took place immediately after the atrocities Hamas committed on Oct 7, weeks before Israel began its counter-offensive in Gaza. Interviewing people on all sides, he warns about the "theology" of terrorist groups and the impact they are having -- and the dangers they pose -- to Western societies. Powerful reading; MUST reading for all Americans.

This novel is based on the life of an actual woman who, in 1676, was taken from her strict Puritan home by local Indians. She learns about the vast differences between the two cultures, and adapts to life as a slave to a female sachem. She later returns to her husband. Will she resume her former life as the wife of a Puritan minister? It is a fascinating read, bringing up much information about the times that I was not aware of. I very highly recommend this unusual story.

This book, while a bit slow, had a great ending. The ending is something I never could have predicted and the whole book I continued trying to figure out what the twist would be. I enjoyed that the book felt so captivating and real.

In the book WHISPER SISTER by Jennifer S. Brown I learned that the term Whisper Sister was used in the Prohibition era for a female bartender- when legally there were no bars or the need to tend them. The main character arrived from Eastern Europe as a young child, not happily I might add. Her father secretly runs an illegal bar. As luck would have it, her father is arrested and sent to prison. Someone had to keep the family afloat and she steps in to do just that ... This coming of age in American story is set against the backdrop of the Jewish immigrants of the lower East Side in New York. An interesting story with lots of local color and interesting historical fiction thrown in. The end was somewhat predictable, but an enjoyable story non the less.