Pretty Progressive has featured two of Austin Macauley’s titles in a recent article “The 7 Feminist Books to Read in 2019”. Melissa & Kasho and The Land of Sunshine and Hell are the two books being featured and are being praised for their individuality and content. Melissa & Kasho is a book about a girl who is introduced in the beginning of the book as a shy teenage girl, lost in a high-class society and is sexually abused which drags her into the depression. That is when she connects with Kasho, a man who shares similar values and has an alike soul with which she connects but Kasho isn’t present physically on Earth and has pieces of ideas that match with Melissa’s and this empowers her to build her own potential. Camilla Chance has written many books which includes the record-breaking Wisdom Man, which has been translated into five different languages. She always writes something empowering for women and something that brings positivity in the readers’ lives. The Land of Sunshine and Hell is a book about a girl who is petrified and lost. These words describe how Maxene felt at the age of seventeen when she and her boyfriend told his parents about her pregnancy. In 1964, the topic of sex was not considered appropriate to be discussed at home or at school and children were left in dismal. The Vietnam era was the time when there was no such thing as legal abortion. This is where the tough journey of hiding the reality began. Maxene was sent far away to get rid of her child and move on with her life. Maxene Dell Raices lives in Alpharetta, GA with her husband and they have two sons, two daughters, and seven grandchildren. She has done her masters’ degree in Adult Communication from the University of Toronto and bachelors’ in English and minor in Education from the State University of New York. Her professional practices include being a high school teacher, HR manager, and senior account executive for many human resource consulting firms in the US and Canada. Click here to check out the Pretty Progressive blog feature. (at # 3 & 4).