Unlocking Worlds: A Reading Companion for Book Lovers Published by Griffins Wharf ISBN 0983644616 (ISBN13: 9780983644613) Book Description Award-winning writer and teacher Sally Allen knows that good books don’t just draw us in; they talk to us, shape us, and transport us to times, places, and minds different from our own. In Unlocking Worlds: A Reading Companion for Book Lovers, Allen deftly weaves personal stories with fifteen thematized, annotated, and illustrated reading lists for what to read next. By sharing some of the treasures in her library and the secret lives they reveal, she gives us permission to embrace the…

Today I’m super thrilled to have Guilie Castillo, a fellow blogger and dog lover I connected with two years ago via the Blogging From A to Z April Challenge, grace this blog today. Guilie is a Mexican export who transferred to Curaçao “for six months”—and, twelve years later, has yet to find a reason to leave. Her work has been published online and in print anthologies, such as Pure Slush’s 2014 A Year In Stories and gorge. She has just written her first book, ‘The Miracle of Small Things‘(Truth Serum Press, Aug 2015) is about a Mexican tax lawyer, Luis…

Book Title: Jesusita by Ronald L. Ruiz Category: Adult fiction, 275 pages Genre: Literary Publisher: Amika Press Book Description Jesusita is the story of immigrants—legal and illegal—trying to survive in California in the years after World War II. Jesusita, alone and impoverished, struggles to keep her four young children together. Though she finds support from Padre Montes at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church, her faith won’t solve her problems, especially those with her daughter, Paulina. Far from home, Filipino laborers are denied by law any contact with white women. Angie, the young daughter of an illiterate and unmarried mother, knows only…