Link Synopsis: In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the […]
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The Other Gwyn Girl by Nicola Cornick
Synopsis: 1671 – London The Civil War is over and Charles II, the ‘Merry Monarch’, is revelling in the throne of his murdered father and […]
Read moreThe Women by Kristin Hannah
Synopsis: When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her […]
Read moreAll the Broken Places by John Boyne
“When is a monster’s child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can’t prepare yourself for the […]
Read moreOnly the Beautiful by Susan Meissner
Synopsis link (click) Psalm 139:13-14 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am […]
Read moreWhat She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Synopsis (Amazon link): Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, […]
Read moreThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
What’s the irony on the day I finally decide to write about this book that it would be announced that this story is being created […]
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In a few days, millions will be traveling the road to visit family or take a brief vacation. Teachers, who according to research makes around […]
Read moreThe Second Mrs Astor by Shana Abe
Wow! That is really all I can say! This is such an amazing (ah-ma-zing) book. It is a historical fiction novel based on the second […]
Read moreThe Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
Mother Teresa once said, “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” Reflect on that quote for […]
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