MGR July 2025 Newsletter

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July 2025
📖 Nominations for August Monthly Selection 📖
Each month Mocha Girls Read members select one book to nominate for our monthly selection. To make the nomination process easier, we will give you a theme for the upcoming month. This way we can mix up the genre, authors, & themes. All you have to do is add your book nomination to our site from 7/7/2025 to 7/13/2025. Then from 7/14/2025 to 7/20/2025, the polls will be open for voting. The book with the most votes wins!
The winner will be announced on 7/21/2025.

Theme for AUGUST
THE BEST MAN
(Any book by a Black Male Author.)

*Remember one nomination and three votes per person.*

Augustravaganza is baacckk!
Get ready, Mocha Girls, because AUGUSTRAVAGANZA! is back and better than ever for 2025! This August, we're dedicating the entire month to YOU – think fun, growth, and good vibes, all from the comfort of your own space.
We've got a fantastic lineup of activities designed to keep us connected and entertained, even when we're apart. Get ready for:
📖 Reading Adventures: Dive into new stories and discussions!🚶‍♀️ Wellness Walks: Get those steps in and enjoy the outdoors! 💡 Learning Labs: Discover something new and expand your horizons! ☕ Sip & Swap: Connect, chat, and swap some books! ...and so much more!

All the exciting details and links to join the fun will be posted right here: https://www.meetup.com/pro/mocha-girls-read

Let's make this August unforgettable!

📕 What are we reading this month? 📕
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Gracetown, Florida
June 1950
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory.

Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it’s too late.

The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.
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