B Reviews / Book Reviewsastronauts / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments
8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsCaribbean / Chef / Christmas / Contemporary / f/f romance / holiday novella / immigrants / LGBTQIA / novella / opposites attract / POC / POC author / ScotlandNo Comments
Kiskeya Burgos left the tropical beaches of the Dominican Republic with a lot to prove. As a pastry chef on the come up, when she arrives in Scotland, she has one goal in mind: win the Holiday Baking Challenge. Winning is her opportunity to prove to her family, her former ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / 1970s / Army / England / family relationships / immigrants / long separation / Malta / novella / Yorkshire2 Comments
Malta 1968: Sylvana Bonnici’s parents are dubious about her marrying Rob Denton, a British army staff sergeant, but Sylvana dreams of being an army wife and travelling the world – in mini skirts and big hats, like Jackie Onassis. Sure enough, Rob is posted to exotic places like Singapore and ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsCaribbean / Chef / immigrants / librarian / m/m romance / POC / POC authorNo Comments
No one ever said big dreams come easy For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / American historical / arranged-marriage / Civil-War / Germany / immigrants / Pennsylvania1 Comments
To help her impoverished family, Sophie agrees to marry a wealthy older man in far off America. Less than twenty-four hours after she arrives in German’s Mill, Pennsylvania, events have taken a far stranger turn than anything she could have imagined. Set in Post-Civil-War Pennsylvania, this tale of an arranged ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / immigrants / Jewish characters / Jewish-faith / New York City / older heroine and hero / turn of the 20th century4 Comments
In her warmly comical and deliciously entertaining debut novel, master storyteller Rochelle Distelheim sweeps us back to 1913 and the world of struggling Jewish immigrants in New York City’s Lower East Side. Sadie Schuster—fortyish, plumpish, a suffragette, and recently widowed—spends more time now talking to her late husband, Fivel, than ... more >