Social Issues Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/social-issues/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 16 May 2026 15:11:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Social Issues Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/social-issues/ 32 32 38398750 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/05/yesteryear-by-caro-claire-burke/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/05/yesteryear-by-caro-claire-burke/#comments Mon, 18 May 2026 16:16:56 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19609 Natalie is a God-fearing women living a righteous life on a massive cattle ranch in Idaho. She is a loving wife and mother to five happy, healthy children with a sixth on the way. That she monetizes her life and that it might not be as “real” as she portrays it is the crux of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/05/yesteryear-by-caro-claire-burke/feed/ 3 19609 Heart, Be at Peace https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/heart-be-at-peace/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/heart-be-at-peace/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:15:20 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19294 Two five-stars in one week?! What’s going on over here at The Gilmore Guide? Well, the reviews have been pretty few and far between this summer so I felt like giving everyone another outstanding reading option was the least I could do.   I’ve been enthralled by Irish authors for years now and one of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/09/heart-be-at-peace/feed/ 6 19294 Snake Oil: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/snake-oil-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/snake-oil-a-novel/#respond Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:35:47 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18844 Three women, one company. Set in the wellness industry Snake Oil is about the woman who starts the company and two of the women who work for her. At opposite ends of the spectrum, one is a fervent believer in the company’s mission while the other avidly opposes it, but needs the paycheck. When the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/snake-oil-a-novel/feed/ 0 18844 Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/black-and-blue-by-anna-quindlen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/12/black-and-blue-by-anna-quindlen/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:07:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18825 I’ve been trying hard to stick with reviewing more comforting reading, but I had a chance to delve into a favorite author’s backlist and took it. I’ve been an Anna Quindlen fan for years and recently decided to try her second novel. Published in 1998, Black and Blue is one woman’s story and the lengths […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/swift-river-a-novel/feed/ 0 18661 Those We Thought We Knew https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:34:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18076 The residents of Jackson, a quiet county in the North Carolina mountains, are happy believing racism is largely in their past. Until that is, reality intervenes in David Joy’s new novel, Those We Thought We Knew. Joy uses the perspectives of three local characters: two white law enforcement officers and one Black woman to strip […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/feed/ 0 18076 Juno Loves Legs https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/juno-loves-legs/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/juno-loves-legs/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:09:18 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17735 With a personality as incendiary and out of control as her flaming red hair, Juno bursts onto the pages of Juno Loves Legs like a wildfire. She and Legs, her best friend, live in a housing estate in Dublin and in an abbreviated 300 pages the novel follows them from childhoods where even home isn’t […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/juno-loves-legs/feed/ 2 17735 The Woman They Could Not Silence https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/the-woman-they-could-not-silence/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/the-woman-they-could-not-silence/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:13:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16410 The general consensus among people who know me is I don’t need more reading that could make me angry. This might be true, but as history is written by the victors and the victors for centuries have been men we all need to read nonfiction that challenges the prevailing history. This was the case when […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/01/the-woman-they-could-not-silence/feed/ 4 16410 We Are Not Like Them: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/we-are-not-like-them-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/10/we-are-not-like-them-a-novel/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2021 04:49:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16181 I’m a fan of diverse reading. There are so many places I’ve never gone and experiences I haven’t had in real life. Visiting them in the pages of a book helps expand my horizons and opens my mind in ways it wouldn’t be without reading. Sadly, there are issues happening right here in America that […]

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