Lark Writes...on books and life

  "I gazed down the way we had come. The magnitude of the feat we had accomplished flooded in with the crisp air as I surveyed the vast...

  Plot summary:   Margaret Jacobsen's life feels perfect. She has her MBA and the promise of a dream job. And her handsome boyfriend jus...

  "Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding."  From the blurb:  "Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Gha...

  From the blurb: " Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the world against her. She was born wi...

  Georgina Pazcoguin joined the New York city Ballet when she was just seventeen. In 2013, after dancing ten years in the Corps de Ballet, s...

  Born a Crime by Trevor Noah I never fully comprehended just how oppressive Apartheid was until I read this book. Trevor Noah really opened...

 Adunni is a fourteen-year-old girl who lives in a small village in Nigeria. Her mother is dead, and her father has just arranged a marriage...

  "When I was a child, first discovering numbers, the secrets they yielded, the power they held, I imagined I would live my life unchec...