The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer “Let the world read and know” I am in awe of how much information Kelly Rimmer poured through to write this book and the incredible...
Category: Historical
The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Noble
There sure are a plethora of books published on this topic including “The ‘Lost’ Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany,” “Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel,” “Noon at Tiffany’s: An Historical, Biographical...
The Snow Hare by Paula Lichtarowicz
Most of the novels I’ve read set just before, during, and/or after World War II, involve events taking place in Great Britain or Germany, so The Snow Hare, a brutal but...
Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery by Nev March
Indian American author Nev March’s debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay, is the winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and a nominee for both an...
Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson
These little nuggets of history that we don’t really talk about. We go to school, we learn all these facts….but we don’t learn these personal stories that become [the foundation for]...
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
Is it the rolling of thunder that scares you?Is it the crashing of clouds that hold fear?But all I know as I sit in a corner aloneIt takes me back to...
Repentance by Eloísa Díaz
Thank you to the individual who placed Repentance on display in the New Books section of my local library! I’m so glad I spied it and gave it a try. A...
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
When American Dirt was published by Flatiron books (a division of Macmillan), there was a storm of protest from hundreds of writers. One of their many concerns involved the discriminatory practices...
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Of Women and Salt is a work of fiction published by Flatiron Books in 2021 and authored by Gabriela Garcia (not to be confused with the athlete Gabi Garcia or the...
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
The English edition of A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Translated by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson) was published in 2020 by Ballantine Books. Born in Lima, Peru...
