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Powerful story of climate change

Dust by Alison Stine

December 2, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

There was so much of this I loved, but also this was a book that felt really slow through most of the middle. Thea is partially deaf and after her family’s home in Ohio flooded, her dad brought them to Bloodless Valley in Colorado in order to live a simple life and return to basic farming lifestyle. But there is nothing simple about living in the Valley. There’s been a drought for a long time and corporate farms keep buying the water, making it harder […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Alison Stine, alt-history, climate change, community, deaf, hard of hearing, Own voices, Speculative Fiction

LB's CBR16 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Alison Stine, alt-history, climate change, community, deaf, hard of hearing, Own voices, Speculative Fiction ·
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A porn star and a virgin walk into a bakery

Make You Mine (Running in Circles #1) by E.M. Lindsey

July 9, 2023 by carmelpie 4 Comments

CBR15Bingo: Edibles square CBR15Passport: New to me author Noah is a reluctant baker trying to keep his deceased bubbe’s beloved family bakery afloat. After leaving school to be the sole guardian and provider for his fourteen-year-old brother Adam, Noah believes he cannot survive losing another family member. As a young child, he and his family left Tel Aviv after the death of his father. Devastated, his mother never recovered and met her own tragic end. After losing his grandmother, twenty-year-old Noah makes a promise to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Ableism, adult film industry, American Sign Language, American South, ASL, bakery romance, Baking, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, deaf, deaf character, Deaf culture, deaf protagonist, E.M. Lindsey, gay romance, Jewish American, Jewish cuisine, jewish food, Judaism, ptsd

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Ableism, adult film industry, American Sign Language, American South, ASL, bakery romance, Baking, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, deaf, deaf character, Deaf culture, deaf protagonist, E.M. Lindsey, gay romance, Jewish American, Jewish cuisine, jewish food, Judaism, ptsd ·
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About That Night

Whoops baby, workplace romance, and lots of ASL

About That Night by Laura Brown

March 27, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 1 Comment

Surprise baby books are not my thing. To be honest, I don’t find much about babies romantic at all and I’m not one of those people who think HEAs have to come with a wedding and 2.5 kids. But I loved Matzah Ball Surprise so I decided to take a chance on this book, and I’m glad I did! Besides the surprise baby, it’s also got the workplace romance and forced proximity tropes. Nine-month-old Archie might be the result of a drunk hook-up with a guy […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: deaf, Laura Brown, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Romance · Tags: deaf, Laura Brown, Romance ·
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If there is a whale, there is a way

Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

Heartbeat by Evan Turk.

February 25, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was a bit disappointed with the end of Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly. I would have liked Iris (our hero of this adventure) to have done something other than what she did at the end. While it was understandable the choice she made (as her options both had valid arguments), her choice was in line with the theme of going out on a limb, out of our comfort zone and trying something new. Kelly has written a well written and fairly non-preachy […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: ASL, deaf, Environment, Evan Turk, family, Lynne Kelly, Marine Life, whales

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:57 · Genres: Book Club, Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: ASL, deaf, Environment, Evan Turk, family, Lynne Kelly, Marine Life, whales ·
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We need books like this…..

September 11, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is my Underrepresented category. You know of a minority, it is here. There are two dads in the doctor’s office. Jilly’s aunts are gay, and one is black (with two children from her previous marriage that she “called the biggest mistake of her life”). Gino speaks about the injustices surrounding the shootings of young black people. There is a black and deaf child. Jilly’s baby sister is deaf. The author, Alex Gino is non-gender conforming. You Don’t Know Everything, Jilly P!  is Gino’s sophomore […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:350 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: African-American, Alex Gino, ASL, cbr10bingo, deaf, friendship, gender, hearing, hearing impaired, Prejudice & Racism, Social Themes, Special Needs, underrepresented ·
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