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La Brea Tar Pits: The Undercover investigation

Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits by Joyce Uglow

November 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the text was a bit academic, it also has some poetic tone to the writing of Stuck! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits. Joyce Uglow presents the theme of death in the tar pit in a tasteful manner. Overall things are well done, educational and adapted for multiple ages. Perhaps it is not the “best book ever,”  but it is a solid science book. Uglow and Valerya Milovanova (the illustrator) created a younger looking (at first glance) story about how things over the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Fossils, Joyce Uglow, La Brea Tar Pits, nature, science, Valerya Milovanova

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:530 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Fossils, Joyce Uglow, La Brea Tar Pits, nature, science, Valerya Milovanova ·
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Makes You Wanna Holla

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

November 5, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16 bingo Rage New Orleans East is a section of town, within the city’s borders, that is nothing like the rest of New Orleans.  It was reclaimed swampland, drained by a couple of Texan developers in the 1950s for the city of tomorrow.  New Orleans was booming at the time, with a massive NASA plant building the Titan rockets.  (Made sense – there was a harbor and it was halfway between Houston and Cape Canaveral.)  New Orleans East was supposed to draw in all the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:34 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously ·
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For everyone who was born before us, your story matters.

Back Then: A queer journey back in time by Ralf König and Łukasz Majcher

November 5, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Read what the old gay uncles and lesbian aunts have to say in colorful picture stories. And let’s all continue to fight together so that this will never happen again. ― Ralf König, Back Then: A queer journey back in time CBR16 Bingo: Pride I picked this up a couple of months ago at a literary festival. Other than Heartstopper and other Alice Oseman books, I’ve never bought graphic novels or comic books. One of the illustrators was selling this book as well as her […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: AIDS crisis, Berlin, cbr16bingo, East Germany, growing up/coming of age, LGBTQIA, Ralf König and Łukasz Majcher, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:85 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: AIDS crisis, Berlin, cbr16bingo, East Germany, growing up/coming of age, LGBTQIA, Ralf König and Łukasz Majcher, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s ·
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Stunning

Dear Moon: Inspiration from the Beautiful Wisdom of the Qur'an by Zayneb Haleem

November 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Dear Moon: Inspiration from the Beautiful Wisdom of the Qur’an by Zayneb Haleem knocked my socks off! It is one of the most beautifully created books I have seen this year. I cannot stop saying the word Beautiful to describe it.  It is a beautiful book of inspiration that is breathtaking. It is beautifully poetic. You might not be Muslim, but the messages are for everyone. It was not until college that I realized how the religious text and/or meanings were so similar when it […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: inspirational, Islam, Islamic, Koran, quran, Sacred Writings, Zayneb Haleem

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:525 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: inspirational, Islam, Islamic, Koran, quran, Sacred Writings, Zayneb Haleem ·
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“With the mystery genre booming in print and on screen at present, I have had no problem satisfying my cravings for crime.”

Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers by Marta McDowell

November 4, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Are you in the mood for a light and breezy book about how gardens and gardeners feature in crime and mystery writing? If so, I have the book for you. I am not a gardener, in fact my great grandparents who ran a greenhouse would be shocked at my inability to understand the finer points of plants and their needs and five years of working on a living history farm did not improve the situation. But it did introduce me to the author of Gardening […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: a little murder, cbr16bingo, Earth Day, Gardening, Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta McDowell, read harder challenge

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:46 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: a little murder, cbr16bingo, Earth Day, Gardening, Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta McDowell, read harder challenge ·
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Who Wants to Be the Next Caliph?

American Caliph by Shahan Mufti

November 3, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Simmering political, religious, and racial tensions combine and erupt in three sieges led by the same strange Muslim group around Washington, DC after a years-long lead-up. I’m new to Washington DC, and still learning my way around the place as a city where people actually work and live divorced from the role that it plays in the United States’s government and politics. Part of that process has been learning more about the city’s history. Like with many things about DC, I had never heard of […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Islam, Non-Fiction, Religion, Shahan Mufti, true crime, United States, Washington DC

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:102 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Islam, Non-Fiction, Religion, Shahan Mufti, true crime, United States, Washington DC ·
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