Gale Zasada is a retired paraprofessional librarian with a B.A. in Humanities/Computer Studies. She worked for over 30 years for a suburban public library system in central Maryland. She has many years of experience with readers’ advisory and book reviews. She currently lives in southern Nevada with her husband. Visit her review site, The Brown Bookloft.
Summary: Jasmine Bai, a university student, leaves the relative security of her uncle’s house in Chungking to find her parents in Nanking. It is 1937 and the Japanese are reported near the Republic of China’s capital. Having already ravaged Peking and Shanghai, the Japanese army is headed to Nanking. Jasmine fears for the safety of
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Summary: Butte, Montana, 1895-1917. An explosion following a warehouse fire killed dozens of men and women, orphaning their children. With nowhere else to go, the children crowd into the already full Polly May Home for Kids. Miss Anderson did her best to feed and clothe the children but love and affection were in short supply.
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Summary: In a Dubai nightclub, a blond American journalist named Kathryn meets Rashid Siddique, a darkly handsome Pakistani man. Each is looking to step out of the proscribed boundaries of their lives. As their lives and passions rapidly interweave, they try on each other’s customs to see how well they fit. After Kathryn experiences fasting
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Summary: It’s good to live in a community where people watch out for each other — except when they scrutinize you a bit too closely. Nick Marhoffer and his wife, Marcy, live in Misty Hill, an upper middle-class suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Nick is a journalist for the local newspaper and Marcy works for a
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