tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46997445375505323062024-03-14T01:09:21.842-06:00Historical Readings and ReviewsHistorical fiction and history book reviews, upcoming releases, ebook deals, and moreHistory Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.comBlogger404125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-87311270213798915082021-01-17T20:16:00.001-07:002021-01-17T20:16:24.389-07:00Review: War Lord (Saxon Tales #13) by Bernard Cornwell<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xvgL3vcHL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xvgL3vcHL.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>The 13th and final installment of the book series that inspired the TV show, The Last Kingdom, is a sad but necessary conclusion to such a great and epic tale. Uhtred is now in his 70s, and while that's not impossible even for the era (average life expectancy if one survived childhood in the Middle Ages was in the 60s), it is starting to get a bit unrealistic, especially as a warrior who still engages in combat. For the last few books, I've been wondering how long Cornwell could really stretch this out, but now that it's finally come to an end, I will miss it, of course. I think that's why I took so long to finish it, I didn't want it to end.<p></p><p>Uhtred's epic journey was such an enjoyable way to detail the turbulent establishment and unification of the country of England and it's monarchs and leaders who made it happen, starting with Alfred the Great, all the way through the reign of his grandson, Athelstan. While Uhtred's relationship with each of them was always rather grudging at best, I think he secretly wanted to believe in Alfred's vision, and it also brought a lot of humor to the series. </p><p>In some ways, I wish the story could continue, following succeeding monarchs, perhaps through Uhtred's son's voice, but I know it wouldn't be the same. All good things come to an end, and this was a fitting and worthy ending to Uhtred's story.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gWpPJlhipsA/UugyzpKlZWI/AAAAAAAAJAI/wVTJyE0ASP8D7gTxYJrssWsfkXcBGtb-gCPcBGAYYCw/s128/4-5star.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="20" data-original-width="128" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gWpPJlhipsA/UugyzpKlZWI/AAAAAAAAJAI/wVTJyE0ASP8D7gTxYJrssWsfkXcBGtb-gCPcBGAYYCw/s0/4-5star.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53694781-war-lord" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br />History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-45333016320161132412021-01-14T15:19:00.001-07:002021-01-14T15:19:30.200-07:00February 2021 Releases Part 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/515h-RrkFXL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/515h-RrkFXL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: February 2, 2021</p><p>Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right.</p><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54067528-the-nature-of-fragile-things?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=PcJFKkN9LB&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41eos1ya65L.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="324" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41eos1ya65L.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Longest Echo: A Novel by Eoin Dempsey </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: February 9, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Occupied Italy, 1944. In the mountain regions south of Bologna, Liliana Nicoletti’s family finds escaped POW James Foley behind German lines. Committed to the anti-Fascist cause, they deliver him to a powerful band of local partisans. But when the SS launches a brutal attack against the Resistance, Liliana’s peaceful community is destroyed. Alone and thrown together by tragedy, James and Liliana fight together as Monte Sole burns. Forging an unbreakable bond, they know their only hope of survival is to make it to the Allied lines.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54837684-the-longest-echo?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=QhqzHpC6MF&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41996A0SAxL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41996A0SAxL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Comes the War (Eddie Harkins Book 2) by Ed Ruggero</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: February 9, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>April 1944, the fifty-fifth month of the war in Europe. The entire island of Britain fairly buzzes with the coiled energy of a million men poised to leap the Channel to France, the first, riskiest step in the Allies’ long slog to the heart of Germany and the end of the war.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56090133-comes-the-war?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=fCFZJ93Ji2&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bOP49YmUL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bOP49YmUL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: February 9, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>France, March 1944. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore—she never wanted the debutante ball or silk gloves. Instead, she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved second home is thrust into the dark days of war, she leaps in headfirst.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53926341-the-invisible-woman?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=kL7hSTsXYm&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Kcs7YctVL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Kcs7YctVL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: February 9, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into Paris, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44022382-the-paris-library?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=loTTdMBPGR&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41phHaw8rGL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41phHaw8rGL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Dangerous Women by Hope Adams</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: February 16, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Nearly two hundred condemned women board a transport ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. From debut author Hope Adams comes a thrilling novel based on the 1841 voyage of the convict ship Rajah, about confinement, hope, and the terrible things we do to survive.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53430026-dangerous-women" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-75617909919723891652021-01-03T18:08:00.000-07:002021-01-03T18:08:21.436-07:00January Historical Fiction Releases Part 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41QjYc8arRL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41QjYc8arRL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Find Me in Havana: A Novel by Serena Burdick </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: January 12, 2021</p><p>Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration—from Havana to New York’s Copacabana and then Hollywood—becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film.</p><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55251445-find-me-in-havana?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=OR1xbI52jb&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41D3eLyOkXL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41D3eLyOkXL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Children's Train: A Novel by Viola Ardone (Author), Clarissa Botsford (Translator)</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 12, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Though Mussolini and the fascists have been defeated, the war has devastated Italy, especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta in Naples, surviving on odd jobs and his wits like the rest of the poor in his neighborhood. But one day, Amerigo learns that a train will take him away from the rubble-strewn streets of the city to spend the winter with a family in the north, where he will be safe and have warm clothes and food to eat. </div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56332227-the-children-s-train?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=F9MoHIVNUW&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TlRjX-fQL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TlRjX-fQL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 12, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special place.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>In this sweeping novel reminiscent of Kate Morton’s The Lake House and Kristin Harmel’s The Room on Rue Amélie, Julia Kelly explores the unexpected connections that cross time and the special places that bring people together forever.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54598758-the-last-garden-in-england?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=NQp0KIiTbo&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51F5nMXzjcL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51F5nMXzjcL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The City of Tears: A Novel (The Burning Chambers Series Book 2) by Kate Mosse </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 19, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change the course of history.</div><div><br /></div><div>Within days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the street, and Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds . . .</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49215588-the-city-of-tears?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=HlLFXWG2jg&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51tW3IhQyuL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51tW3IhQyuL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">A Thousand Ships: A Novel by Natalie Haynes </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 26, 2021 </div><div><br /></div><div>In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.</div><div><br /></div><div>From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54627213-a-thousand-ships?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SmPhBtJV99&rank=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-83103335249534612502020-12-31T14:51:00.000-07:002020-12-31T14:51:01.454-07:00January 2021 Releases Part 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41oMcXHxWUL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41oMcXHxWUL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War by Jennifer Robson </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: January 5, 2021</p><p>It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive—to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53018165-our-darkest-night?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=N46C6tnvdV&rank=1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div>(Full description at Goodreads)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51nip5014UL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51nip5014UL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 5, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army—swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals—have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yet people soon forget that freedom is bought with blood.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54369397-the-gates-of-athens?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3UtxanoK2j&rank=1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514npSCeoRL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/514npSCeoRL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Children's Blizzard: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 12, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats—leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard blew in without warning. Schoolteachers as young as sixteen were suddenly faced with life and death decisions: Keep the children inside, to risk freezing to death when fuel ran out, or send them home, praying they wouldn’t get lost in the storm?</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54353280-the-children-s-blizzard?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=BrFp0YAqyB&rank=1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51yBsI4R3dL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51yBsI4R3dL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 12, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.</div><div><br /></div><div>She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55033388-the-yellow-wife?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=onuDHSkVuI&rank=1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div>(Full description from Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41k2YUxqlHL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41k2YUxqlHL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Glamour Girls: A Novel by Marty Wingate </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 12, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Ever since she was 10 years old, Rosalie Wright's eyes have been on the skies. But at the age of 18, on the verge of earning her pilot's license, the English farmer's daughter watches her dreams of becoming an aviatrix fly away without her. Britain's entry into World War II brings civilian aviation to a standstill. Then, Rosalie's father dies, leaving her, her mother, and her brothers to run the farm.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54340584-glamour-girls?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=E87L563TsP&rank=1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div>Everything changes when she learns that the Air Transport Authority is recruiting women pilots to ferry warplanes across Britain to RAF bases.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bUUKEIgxL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bUUKEIgxL.jpg" width="128" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Lana's War: A Novel by Anita Abriel </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: January 12, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Paris 1943: Lana Antanova is on her way to see her husband with the thrilling news that she is pregnant. But when she arrives at the convent where he teaches music, she’s horrified to see Gestapo officers execute him for hiding a Jewish girl in the piano.</div><div><br /></div><div>A few months later, grieving both her husband and her lost pregnancy, Lana is shocked when she’s approached to join the resistance on the French Riviera.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56201842-lana-s-war" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-46175323557299251582020-12-11T14:02:00.001-07:002020-12-11T14:02:00.739-07:00December Releases Part 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41vaAxkpkZL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41vaAxkpkZL.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Angel of Waterloo by Jackie French </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: December 1, 2020</p><p>She was Henrietta Bartlett, a surgeon's daughter, a survivor of the Napoleonic Wars. But now the battlefield is just a blood-soaked memory, and Hen dreams of peace, a home, and a society that allows women to practise medicine.</p><p>On the other side of the world, the newly founded colony of New South Wales seems a paradise. But Europe's wars cast long shadows ...</p><p>(Full description at Goodreads)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56139848-the-angel-of-waterloo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41udU5pc2FL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41udU5pc2FL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Mermaid from Jeju: A Novel by Sumi Hahn </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 8, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>In the aftermath of World War II, Goh Junja is a girl just coming into her own. She is the latest successful deep sea diver in a family of strong haenyeo. Confident she is a woman now, Junja urges her mother to allow her to make the Goh family's annual trip to Mt. Halla, where they trade abalone and other sea delicacies for pork. Junja, a sea village girl, has never been to the mountains, where it smells like mushrooms and earth. While there, she falls in love with a mountain boy Yang Suwol, who rescues her after a particularly harrowing journey. But when Junja returns one day later, it is just in time to see her mother take her last breath, beaten by the waves during a dive she was taking in Junja's place.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49050944-the-mermaid-from-jeju" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+aDJqoyKL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="334" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+aDJqoyKL.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Chanel Sisters: A Novel by Judithe Little </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 29, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Antoinette and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they’ve grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51085433-the-chanel-sisters" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ZOt51aabL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ZOt51aabL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel by Marie Benedict </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 29, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car — strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54508524-the-mystery-of-mrs-christie" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41aU4IvrU2L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41aU4IvrU2L.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The War Widow (A Billie Walker Novel) by Tara Moss </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 29, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Sydney, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, for her the heady postwar days are tarnished by the loss of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she's determined to take control of her own future. So she reopens her late father's business, a private investigation agency, and, slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51631880-the-war-widow" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-43782556672478033642020-12-08T14:01:00.003-07:002020-12-08T14:01:53.927-07:00December Releases Part 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51yOnv9f3TL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51yOnv9f3TL.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Forgotten Orphan by Glynis Peters </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: December 1, 2020</p><p>Abandoned when she was tiny, Maisie Reynolds was separated from her twin brother and forced to grow up in Holly Bush orphanage – a place where she has never known love or kindness.</p><p>But with the world at war and Hitler’s devastating bombs coming ever closer, fate has other plans for Maisie and a secret from her past changes everything.</p><p>When she meets handsome Canadian paratrooper, Cam, Maisie learns that love might not be lost to her after all – but not before her past life and D Day bring a tragic twist to her happiness.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52033925-the-forgotten-orphan" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41GNLohgplL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41GNLohgplL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Germania: A Novel of Nazi Berlin by Harald Gilbers </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 1, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Berlin 1944: a serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi party. But according to one eyewitness account, the perpetrator is not an opponent of Hitler's regime, but rather a loyal Nazi.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54006779-germania" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51GLUo6vP8L.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51GLUo6vP8L.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Arctic Fury: A Novel by Greer Macallister</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 1, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge.</div><div><br /></div><div>A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition willing to publicly support her sit in the front row. There are only five. What happened out there on the ice?</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54433051-the-arctic-fury" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41qzq6tjJKL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41qzq6tjJKL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Dead of Winter: Three Giordano Bruno Novellas by S. J. Parris</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 1, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Naples, 1566. During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order—despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult questions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Assisting in the infirmary, Bruno witnesses an illicit autopsy performed on the body of a young woman. Her corpse reveals a dark secret, and Bruno suspects that hers may not have been an accidental death.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54773290-the-dead-of-winter" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41TMZq66QjL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41TMZq66QjL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Under a Gilded Moon: A Novel by Joy Jordan-Lake</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: December 1, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American “royalty,” is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The country’s grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kerry MacGregor’s future is derailed when, after two years in college in New York City, family obligations call her home to the beautiful Appalachians.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52128630-under-a-gilded-moon" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-10703091844622228372020-11-09T12:30:00.000-07:002020-11-09T12:30:06.002-07:00November Releases Part 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hWZgNeotL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="336" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hWZgNeotL.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Sea Gate by Jane Johnson </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: November 17, 2020</p><p>After Rebecca’s mother dies, she must sort through her empty flat and come to terms with her loss. As she goes through her mother’s mail, she finds a handwritten envelope. In it is a letter that will change her life forever.</p><p>Olivia, her mother’s elderly cousin, needs help to save her beloved home. Rebecca immediately goes to visit Olivia in Cornwall only to find a house full of secrets—treasures in the attic and a mysterious tunnel leading from the cellar to the sea, and Olivia, nowhere to be found.</p><p>(Full description at Goodreads)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53955872-the-sea-gate" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Id2p4jcUL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Id2p4jcUL.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The German Nurse by M.J. Hollows</h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 18, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Guernsey, 1940. As war storms through Europe, Churchill orders the evacuation of all military personnel from the island. Boats ferry soldiers and vulnerable young children to England, leaving their parents and loved ones behind to face the invading German army on their own.</div><div> </div><div>One of the few remaining policemen on the island, Jack must protect not only his friends and family, but also the woman he loves: Johanna, a Jewish nurse from Germany, whose secret faith could prove fatal to them both.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55577505-the-german-nurse" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xvgL3vcHL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xvgL3vcHL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">War Lord: A Novel (Saxon Tales Book 13) by Bernard Cornwell </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 24, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series.</div><div><br /></div><div>England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea – and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty and sworn oaths, the warrior king Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg faces his greatest ever battle – and prepares for his ultimate fate…</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53694781-war-lord" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51p6TVGS5LL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="338" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51p6TVGS5LL.jpg" width="135" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Dark Tides: A Novel (The Fairmile Series Book 2) by Philippa Gregory </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 24, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy—his son and heir.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50277441-dark-tides" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51fIRDvFdDL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="328" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51fIRDvFdDL.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Secret Agent by Elisabeth Hobbes </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 27, 2020</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Dropping silently behind enemy lines, Sylvia Crichton, codename Monique, is determined to fight for the country of her birth and save it from its Nazi stranglehold.</div><div><br /></div><div>As one of the dancers at the nightclub Mirabelle, Sylvie’s mission is to entertain the club’s German clientele and learn their secrets. In a world of deception and lies, she can trust no one. Not even Mirabelle’s enigmatic piano player Felix… a part of the resistance or a collaborator?</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55823650-the-secret-agent" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-31612680292701401492020-10-19T15:02:00.003-06:002020-10-19T15:02:55.837-06:00November Releases Part 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51l6UtpYfrL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51l6UtpYfrL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Lady Brewer of London: A Novel by Karen Brooks</h3><p></p><p>Release Date: November 10, 2020</p><p>1405: The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Anneke Sheldrake suddenly finds her family bankrupted when her father’s ship is swept away at sea. Forced to find a way to provide for herself and her siblings, Anneke rejects an offer of marriage from a despised cousin and instead turns to her late mother’s family business: brewing ale. </p><p>(Full description at Goodreads)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53595605-the-lady-brewer-of-london?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=pVTL8Lgpej&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bHfZmTUHL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bHfZmTUHL.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">In the Lion's Den: A House of Falconer Novel (The House of Falconer Series Book 2) by Barbara Taylor Bradford </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: November 10, 2020</p><p>James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. With Malvern's daughter Alexis running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to return, James' ascent to head of the company seems inevitable. But even a charmed life like James' is not without its setbacks.</p><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49003548-in-the-lion-s-den?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=zWoxOKk3qA&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+cBtpEh5L.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+cBtpEh5L.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Tsarina: A Novel by Ellen Alpsten </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 10, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treachery of his only son has driven his father to an appalling act of cruelty and left the empire without an heir. Russia risks falling into chaos. Into the void steps the woman who has been by his side for decades: his second wife, Catherine Alexeyevna, as ambitious, ruthless and passionate as Peter himself.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53523634-tsarina?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ojRe1keICT&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51t0nUPTyEL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51t0nUPTyEL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Glimmer As You Can: A Novel by Danielle Martin </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 10, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1962. In the middle of Brooklyn Heights sits the Starlite: boutique dress shop by day, underground women's club by night. Started by the shop's proprietor after her marriage crumbled, Madeline's social club soon becomes a safe haven for women from all walks of life looking for a respite from their troubled relationships and professional frustrations. These after-hour soirées soon bring two very different women into Madeline's life--Elaine, a British ex-pat struggling to save her relationship, and Lisa, a young stewardess whose plans for the future are suddenly upended--irrevocably changing all three women's lives in ways no one could have predicted.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55132716-glimmer-as-you-can?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=DdNXhuRwR4&rank=1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41dlTgOJj5L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41dlTgOJj5L.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Forgotten Sister by Nicola Cornick </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: November 10, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1560: Amy Robsart is trapped in a loveless marriage to Robert Dudley, a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Surrounded by enemies and with nowhere left to turn, Amy hatches a desperate scheme to escape—one with devastating consequences that will echo through the centuries…</div><div><br /></div><div>Present Day: When Lizzie Kingdom is forced to withdraw from the public eye in a blaze of scandal, it seems her life is over. But she’s about to encounter a young man, Johnny Robsart, whose fate will interlace with hers in the most unexpected of ways.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52878051-the-forgotten-sister?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=z5RUtnnyDg&rank=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-87806656836876437722020-09-15T10:53:00.002-06:002020-09-15T10:53:48.681-06:00October Releases Part 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41C753E5lYL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41C753E5lYL.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: October 27, 2020</p><p>1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec’s fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father’s cause. So it is a surprise when she falls for James Phénix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent, as they negotiate a constant struggle between love and morals.</p><p>(Full description at Goodreads)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54011980-the-forgotten-daughter" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51D+N5F1PqL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51D+N5F1PqL.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Eyes of the Queen: A Novel (An Agents of the Crown Novel Book 1) by Oliver Clements </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 27, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>In this first novel of the exhilarating Agents of the Crown series, a man who will become the original MI6 agent protects England and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I from Spain’s nefarious plan to crush the Age of the Enlightenment.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>In this tense situation, Her Majesty’s Secret Service is born with the charismatic John Dee at its head. A scholar, a soldier, and an alchemist, Dee is loyal only to the truth and to his Queen. And for her, the woman he’s forbidden from loving, he is prepared to risk his life.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55126943-the-eyes-of-the-queen" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Bg-11aEhL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Bg-11aEhL.jpg" width="167" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Berlin Girl by Mandy Robotham </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 29, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Berlin, 1938: It’s the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling reporter Georgie Young is posted to Berlin, alongside fellow Londoner Max Spender, she knows they are entering the eye of the storm.</div><div><br /></div><div>Arriving to a city swathed in red flags and crawling with Nazis, Georgie feels helpless, witnessing innocent people being torn from their homes. As tensions rise, she realises she and Max have to act – even if it means putting their lives on the line.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54646350-the-berlin-girl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rgn1tqbFL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rgn1tqbFL.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 27, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54186496-the-cold-millions" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xGuwKubAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="327" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xGuwKubAL.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">When I Come Home Again by Caroline Scott </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 29, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1918. In the last week of the First World War, a uniformed soldier is arrested in Durham Cathedral. When questioned, it becomes clear he has no memory of who he is or how he came to be there.</div><div> </div><div>The soldier is given the name Adam and transferred to a rehabilitation home. His doctor James is determined to recover who this man once was. But Adam doesn’t want to remember. Unwilling to relive the trauma of war, Adam has locked his memory away, seemingly for good.</div><div> </div><div>When a newspaper publishes a feature about Adam, three women come forward, each claiming that he is someone she lost in the war. But does he believe any of these women? Or is there another family out there waiting for him to come home?</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55141230-when-i-come-home-again" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-90723978438810122782020-09-04T07:56:00.000-06:002020-09-04T07:56:44.313-06:00Review: The First Emma by by Camille Di Maio <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41YSTS0Ln4L.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="334" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41YSTS0Ln4L.jpg" width="214" /></a></div>Still playing catch up on my ARCs.<div><br /></div><div>Release Date: May 5, 2020<br /><div><br /></div><div>A fascinating true story about how a woman turns her husband's brewing company into an empire that survives Prohibition, after he is murdered by one of his mistresses. </div><div><br /></div><div>I knew nothing about Emma Koehler or Pearl Brewing before picking this up, but the only thing better than a dramatic story is one that's true, so I couldn't resist. It's a great story, but I think it could have been told in a slightly better way. It's as though the author attempted to tell it in dual time periods - one when Emma is elderly and hires a young woman to take notes for her autobiography, and the other as Emma's past. The problem is, we only get Emma's past as she's dictating it, so it's not always a true dual-time period story because we only really hear Emma telling us about her past, we don't get to actually see it very much. That was a little disappointing, and I felt like much of her accomplishments were brushed over, but it's still a great story about woman who wouldn't be held back by the personal tragedies that befell her. Not only did she rise above them, she became more successful and powerful than her narcissistic husband had been during a time when women didn't have the right to vote, and managed to maintain it through WWI, Prohibition, the Great Depression, and even the start of WWII.</div><div><br /></div><div>Additional dimension is added by exploring the fictional character Mabel Hartley, the notes taker. Rather than just being a means of storytelling, she provides a much needed happier ending too.</div><div><br /></div><div><font size="2">Advanced review copy from publisher via NetGalley. My opinions are my own.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br /></font></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MqeSiqGwz2M/Uj18H6tZgNI/AAAAAAAAIxc/8hfxbO_dSI8i6sa1AiDg2gBOLs5w7M3iwCPcBGAYYCw/s128/3stars.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="20" data-original-width="128" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MqeSiqGwz2M/Uj18H6tZgNI/AAAAAAAAIxc/8hfxbO_dSI8i6sa1AiDg2gBOLs5w7M3iwCPcBGAYYCw/s0/3stars.jpg" /></a></div></div><div><font size="2"><br /></font></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52874259-the-first-emma" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><font size="2"><br /></font></div></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-45657828895254010552020-09-03T11:44:00.002-06:002020-09-03T11:44:42.764-06:00October Historical Fiction Releases Part 1<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51wspyoWv6L.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="336" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51wspyoWv6L.jpg" width="172" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">When We Were Young & Brave: A Novel by Hazel Gaynor </h3><p></p><p>Release Date: October 6, 2020</p><p>China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge.</p><p>Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to Miss Kent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and safety.</p><p>(Full description at Goodreads)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51344613-when-we-were-young-brave" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51I9Qwbpq3L.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51I9Qwbpq3L.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Daughter of Black Lake: A Novel by Cathy Marie Buchanan</h3><p></p><p>Release Date: October 6, 2020</p><p>It's the season of Fallow, in the era of iron. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple--or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she's tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, though, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their foreign ways and military might, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout's young daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But this girl has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and community.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53825362-daughter-of-black-lake" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/419TppVa2RL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="315" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/419TppVa2RL.jpg" width="162" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 7, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>As the Allied forces edge closer, the Third Reich tightens its grip on its people. For eighteen-year-old Susanna Göttmann, this means her beloved adopted family including the man she loves, Leo, are at risk. His mother – Susie’s godmother – is forced to register as a Jew and wear the Star of David, bearing the resentment of the village she has always called home.</div><div><br /></div><div>Desperate to protect them any way she can, Susie accepts the help of an influential Nazi officer. It means she must abandon any hope of a future with Leo and enter the terrifying world of the Nazi elite.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54506182-letters-from-berlin" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/419fU7VyQdL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="334" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/419fU7VyQdL.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Once We Were Here: A Novel by Christopher Cosmos </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 20, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>On October 28, 1940, Mussolini provides Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas with an ultimatum: either allow Axis forces to occupy their country, or face war, and Greece’s response is swift. “Oxi!” they say. “No!”</div><div><br /></div><div>In a small village nestled against the radiant waters of the Aegean Sea, we find Alexei, the son of a local fisherman, and his best friend Costa, who were both born on the same night eighteen years earlier and have been like brothers ever since, though now, like all the other young men in their village and throughout Greece, they will leave their homes to bravely fight for their country.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50891059-once-we-were-here" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41LMCo2seRL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="328" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41LMCo2seRL.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Death and the Maiden (Mistress of the Art of Death Book 5) by Samantha Norman, Ariana Franklin </h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: October 20, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>England. 1191. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar, England’s vaunted Mistress of the Art of Death, is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie, to carry on her craft—sharing the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers. Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. But the young woman is nearly twenty, and her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the formidable Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry Allie to an influential husband . . . if they can find a man who will appreciate a woman with such unusual gifts.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50373924-death-and-the-maiden" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-32429445068854325472020-08-14T09:24:00.000-06:002020-08-14T09:24:04.812-06:00September Releases Part 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Mf4U-1czL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Mf4U-1czL.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel by Mario Escobar</h2><p></p><p>Release Date: September 15, 2020</p><p>Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco’s parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no inkling that their ideals will endanger them and everyone they love—nor do they predict the violence that is to come.</p><p>(Full description at Goodreads)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49190108-remember-me" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5147AS75bQL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="328" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5147AS75bQL.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester </h2><p></p><p>Release Date: September 15, 2020</p><p>From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice. Set in England, 1939, Paris, 1947, and present day.</p><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50702571-the-paris-secret" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YUJLaFOBL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="328" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YUJLaFOBL.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Before the Crown by Flora Harding </h2></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: September 17, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Windsor Castle, 1943</div><div><br /></div><div>As war rages across the world, Princess Elizabeth comes face to face with the dashing naval officer she first met in London nine years before. One of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, Philip represents everything she has always been taught to avoid. Instability. Audacity. Adventure.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48910589-before-the-crown" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bewLD7uFL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bewLD7uFL.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter by Clare McHugh</h2></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: September 22, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>January 1858: Princess Victoria glides down the aisle of St James Chapel to the waiting arms of her beloved, Fritz, Prince Frederick, heir to the powerful kingdom of Prussia. Although theirs is no mere political match, Vicky is determined that she and Fritz will lead by example, just as her parents Victoria and Albert had done, and also bring about a liberal and united Germany.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53723394-a-most-english-princess" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51mR5YBYI2L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="256" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51mR5YBYI2L.jpg" width="167" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Eli's Promise: A Novel by Ronald H. Balson </h2></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: September 22, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras—Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the human cost of war, the mixed blessings of survival, and the enduring strength of family bonds.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53496912-eli-s-promise" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-81126960050825425742020-08-10T14:42:00.000-06:002020-08-10T14:42:55.311-06:00September Releases Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Qufccy6pL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Qufccy6pL.jpg" width="212" /></a></div></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;">The Paris Model: A Novel by Alexandra Joel </span></h2></div><p></p><p>Release Date: September 1, 2020</p><p>Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world’s newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst those she befriends are Pablo Picasson, Julia Childs, and the future Jackie Kennedy.</p><p>But when Grace falls in love with the handsome Phillippe Boyer, she doesn’t know that he is leading a double life, nor that his past might hold secrets and lies that will turn her life upside down.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53560871-the-paris-model" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51l88jR7fGL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51l88jR7fGL.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy by Laura Morelli </h2><p></p><p>Release Date: September 8, 2020</p><p>Milan, 1492: When a 16-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace—and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date.</p><p>Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi leader, she risks her life to recover it, working with an American soldier, part of the famed Monuments Men team, to get it back. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53751529-the-night-portrait" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><hr /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41eyfCIjpvL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41eyfCIjpvL.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">A Question of Betrayal: An Elena Standish Novel by Anne Perry </h2><p></p><p>Release Date: September 8, 2020</p><p>On her first mission for MI6, the daring young photographer at the heart of this thrilling new mystery series by bestselling author Anne Perry travels to Mussolini’s Italy to rescue the lover who betrayed her.</p><div>Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Europe, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry crafts a novel full of suspense, political intrigue, and the struggle between love and loyalty to country.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50538270-a-question-of-betrayal" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51NUM+N59kL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51NUM+N59kL.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge Book 4) by Ken Follett </h2></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: September 15, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div>It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49018093-the-evening-and-the-morning" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pQ4nI21GL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pQ4nI21GL.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Lionhearts (Nottingham Book 2) by Nathan Makaryk </h2></div><div><br /></div><div>Release Date: September 15, 2020</div><div><br /></div><div><div>All will be well when King Richard returns . . . but King Richard has been captured.</div><div><br /></div><div>To raise the money for his ransom, every lord in England is raising taxes, the French are eyeing the empty throne, and the man they called, “Robin Hood,” the man the Sherriff claims is dead, is everywhere and nowhere at once.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49247325-lionhearts" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-57334179573199328862020-07-21T12:46:00.000-06:002020-07-21T12:46:51.507-06:00Review: And They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hkKgx3cQ11c/Xxc0W96KnTI/AAAAAAAAMCY/y5BFmRUh5tUNx9mjo-cASjWBBbq3i7DGwCNcBGAsYHQ/s500/510DYPvQGqL%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hkKgx3cQ11c/Xxc0W96KnTI/AAAAAAAAMCY/y5BFmRUh5tUNx9mjo-cASjWBBbq3i7DGwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/510DYPvQGqL%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a></div><div>Release Date: March 10, 2020 (still playing catch up on my ARCs, sorry)</div><div><br /></div>This fictional account of Jackie Kennedy's life, as told through her own eyes, was pulling me in all different directions emotionally. On one hand, I could really see why she fell so hard for Jack, and even why she stayed with him through all his infidelity. On the other hand, her choice of men in general had me smacking my forehead. <div><br /></div><div>I didn't know much about Jackie before reading this. Obviously, I knew about the eventually tragic fates of her family members, and that she remarried at some point. This book really highlights how tragic her life was, and how she never really recovered from losing the love of her life, but also shows how strong she was to endure everything she did, and eventually find her own way in the world, in spite of the crappy way the men in her life treated her. Absolutely heartbreaking but also uplifting.</div><div><br /></div><div><font size="2">Advanced review copy from publisher via NetGalley. My opinions are my own.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br /></font></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N-mB27gqYIY/Uj1tsyDI3bI/AAAAAAAAIvg/2pQE-Ng2_b0z0I5wDa8aa5xXc6JNZZzoACPcBGAYYCw/s128/4stars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="20" data-original-width="128" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N-mB27gqYIY/Uj1tsyDI3bI/AAAAAAAAIvg/2pQE-Ng2_b0z0I5wDa8aa5xXc6JNZZzoACPcBGAYYCw/s0/4stars.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51049612-and-they-called-it-camelot" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a></div><font size="2"><br /></font></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-17061322672835456192020-07-15T07:00:00.002-06:002020-07-21T12:27:40.532-06:00August Releases Part 2NOTICE: Blogger recently did an interface update, and as you can probably tell, since then, images added by URL are no longer working, at least for my blogs. The URLs themselves are still working, just not on Blogger. I don't know what is causing it or how to fix it. I did report it to them so bear with me, hopefully it gets resolved. If not, I'm going to have to go through the tedious act of downloading images to my PC and uploading them to Blogger instead of adding them by URL. Seems like every time Blogger make an "update" they make it more difficult for me to maintain my blog the same way.<div><br /> <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-_WvS8Hkw7liJVesHqTKY5cEMuS-VkHFVwpmP6ZlxbrY_UvIqxRwYdj4xAml2sxla9bNRl8Uz9fVdBTrRkcN8rOe2hQXuebXfdvslw=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="330" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-_WvS8Hkw7liJVesHqTKY5cEMuS-VkHFVwpmP6ZlxbrY_UvIqxRwYdj4xAml2sxla9bNRl8Uz9fVdBTrRkcN8rOe2hQXuebXfdvslw=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story by Darin Strauss</font></div><div>Release Date: August 18, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52999297-the-queen-of-tuesday" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—was part of America’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille’s off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn’t stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.</div></div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/SdUAJ3UsXCvz7WyM3k-dF8Pa5zzIPjAIF5kpu_GFm4m5GxTj7ovua1jKjPYcC7k-eyl8YlFwRcpeYbwZaiGLG-YM6YyF2CzEOHYjzg=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/SdUAJ3UsXCvz7WyM3k-dF8Pa5zzIPjAIF5kpu_GFm4m5GxTj7ovua1jKjPYcC7k-eyl8YlFwRcpeYbwZaiGLG-YM6YyF2CzEOHYjzg=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">Atomic Love by Jennie Fields </font></div><div>Release Date: August 18, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53896310-atomic-love" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to Russia. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/9cSJubAzhPPE1Rv_DP5SUn6bdhuTUzCuxpxY07uIQxBTOIwSR6QHutgTklgGVXvOEuNOxPxa3-R84_1jldn4sxHRx3jfpKdn05JO9Q=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="321" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/9cSJubAzhPPE1Rv_DP5SUn6bdhuTUzCuxpxY07uIQxBTOIwSR6QHutgTklgGVXvOEuNOxPxa3-R84_1jldn4sxHRx3jfpKdn05JO9Q=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">The Wright Sister: A Novel by Patty Dann </font></div><div>Release Date: August 18, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54020651-the-wright-sister" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world’s first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist.</div><div><br /></div><div>An inspiring and poignant chronicle of feminism, family, and forgiveness, The Wright Sister is an unforgettable portrait of a woman, a sister of inventors, who found a way to reinvent herself.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/xNSiDe9f3v0DNQbgGukFPW0HBUwqs9WIkvET-7R3mtHcHFmzz6ntMJOh4VqCk9WBtjGJ9TMV7T27HW0euF0ThC_1BQPOUSf-fa3wvw=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/xNSiDe9f3v0DNQbgGukFPW0HBUwqs9WIkvET-7R3mtHcHFmzz6ntMJOh4VqCk9WBtjGJ9TMV7T27HW0euF0ThC_1BQPOUSf-fa3wvw=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas by Gill Paul</font></div><div>Release Date: August 18, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48925771-jackie-and-maria" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful—man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/fjr-2ZMPY4ROZ1oG5iy42e58pD9VQ6hEoMa0jR_kP0Ua9tzLPGbCzWstdY-zRKalPEAiioERKRMNcxYllfDDhAjJXdNSh49M4LaizQ=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/fjr-2ZMPY4ROZ1oG5iy42e58pD9VQ6hEoMa0jR_kP0Ua9tzLPGbCzWstdY-zRKalPEAiioERKRMNcxYllfDDhAjJXdNSh49M4LaizQ=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood by Wendy Holden</font></div><div>Release Date: August 25, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49080268-the-royal-governess" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives.</div><div> </div><div>At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths, and on joyful Christmas shopping trips at Woolworth’s. From her ringside seat at the heart of the British monarchy she witnesses twentieth-century history’s most seismic events. The trauma of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the onset of World War II. She steers the little girls through it all, as close as a mother.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div></div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-24608049371528246482020-07-12T15:06:00.000-06:002020-07-12T15:06:04.325-06:00August Releases Part 1<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/M0HJOre1eQRnfGrJ7XUSXEH1NAKYf9nSkuBb0d3gW9QtkwtDxFkKVIZvAfeMARUw9pXtx9KBw9H9cAhokwd5iBmJQHL08LrAB04_kA=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/M0HJOre1eQRnfGrJ7XUSXEH1NAKYf9nSkuBb0d3gW9QtkwtDxFkKVIZvAfeMARUw9pXtx9KBw9H9cAhokwd5iBmJQHL08LrAB04_kA=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel by Fiona Davis </font></div><div>Release Date: August 4, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48895793-the-lions-of-fifth-avenue" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div>It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club—a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Ogs2ZRLE0FeX98Vb_5xicJBLIlSTAZItXioxnoVmiGCXSsNwehqGR5a8QgYCNvW7K7FWGETqBeSvszMy8Do7mwCSADkDh-3wznzShw=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Ogs2ZRLE0FeX98Vb_5xicJBLIlSTAZItXioxnoVmiGCXSsNwehqGR5a8QgYCNvW7K7FWGETqBeSvszMy8Do7mwCSADkDh-3wznzShw=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">Bronte's Mistress: A Novel by Finola Austin</font></div><div>Release Date: August 4, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51535011-bronte-s-mistress" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson—mistress of Thorp Green Hall—has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/r0HaWBurCz99LC7ySBJ2RMpWupb5cBtwehAiNYkUuAsh6KhA6G6-gu6OML_NQEJZJvgad6U9kjggOpaIAhcJxp4XC2F0g5W7y12FoQ=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/r0HaWBurCz99LC7ySBJ2RMpWupb5cBtwehAiNYkUuAsh6KhA6G6-gu6OML_NQEJZJvgad6U9kjggOpaIAhcJxp4XC2F0g5W7y12FoQ=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">The Woman in Red by Diana Giovinazzo </font></div><div>Release Date: August 4, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49080204-the-woman-in-red" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>Destiny toys with us all, but Anita Garibaldi is a force to be reckoned with. Forced into marriage at a young age, Anita feels trapped in a union she does not want. 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When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she’s on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. </div><div><br /></div><div>But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Back in Boston, Kate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother’s papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie’s secret life in Edwardian London? </div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/DgozgNvjwEX_o5Nz3-E4LbvN4qUx78n6wCIQsaq4rxqFX-Dl59qhFk9UR7_IiHNpP1wTH1L49nDobbu9kTL0RHLff_YTWu0bLcUpqw=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/DgozgNvjwEX_o5Nz3-E4LbvN4qUx78n6wCIQsaq4rxqFX-Dl59qhFk9UR7_IiHNpP1wTH1L49nDobbu9kTL0RHLff_YTWu0bLcUpqw=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">Universe of Two: A Novel by Stephen P. Kiernan </font></div><div>Release Date: August 4, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49909955-universe-of-two" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age’s greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div><div><br /></div><hr /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/EDM8oYBWCwYD0LB2mSC4oZPjxbmxRieQApICp2bRcJMyVY-t5yBjhDgRgedvrKYeNTNHFSWuETo01oleBWS527VkQ8_0hsySzElHcQ=s500" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="330" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/EDM8oYBWCwYD0LB2mSC4oZPjxbmxRieQApICp2bRcJMyVY-t5yBjhDgRgedvrKYeNTNHFSWuETo01oleBWS527VkQ8_0hsySzElHcQ=s320" /></a></div><font size="5">The London Restoration by Rachel McMillan </font></div><div>Release Date: August 18, 2020</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48979952-the-london-restoration" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="41" data-original-width="130" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K8KT1I4hxuE/UyhfgLF_PiI/AAAAAAAAJRM/q9zHZKO5gVAiL5yBw8PQ4DAY4lgWgUZHQCPcBGAYYCw/s0/goodreads-badge-add-plus.png" /></a><div><br /></div><div><div>London, Fall 1945. Architectural historian Diana Somerville’s experience as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and her knowledge of London’s churches intersect in MI6’s pursuit of a Russian agent named Eternity. Diana wants nothing more than to begin again with her husband Brent after their separation during the war, but her signing of the Official Secrets Act keeps him at a distance.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>(Full description at Goodreads)</div>History Chickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984934236728821742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699744537550532306.post-55104186099579488522020-06-17T13:49:00.003-06:002020-06-26T12:03:44.059-06:00Review: The Forgotten Kingdom (The Lost Queen Book 2) by Signe Pike <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1580926717l/50416045._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="320" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1580926717l/50416045._SY475_.jpg" /></a></div>Release Date: September 15, 2020 <div><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: left;">The sequel to this series loosely based on Merlin from the Arthurian Legend continues with a broader view told from more than one character's point of view. If I recall correctly, the first book (The Lost Queen) is only told from Languoreth's view point, but now we get to see her brother Lailoken's and her daughter Angharad's thoughts too. It was a wise improvement, as we got to see more of what was going on beyond Languoreth's world. Interestingly, Languoreth and Lailoken's chapters are told in first person while Angharad's are in third person, perhaps because she is a child.</span><div><br /></div><div>The series takes an unusual path because my understanding of the Arthurian Legend has always been the Celts battling the Saxons/Angles, but the primary antagonists for most of the book are Christian Britons. The Angles only pose a threat towards the end. It did make me wonder a little bit "where is this going?" But when I say it's loosely based on the Arthurian Legend, I mean loosely - I mean you should throw out everything you know about King Arthur and Merlin before reading it. That's not a criticism, because this is an excellent and arguably more historical reboot, and if you're looking for a totally different take on the Arthurian Legend, this is it.</div><div><br /></div><div><font size="2">Advanced review copy from publisher via Edelweiss. 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The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal by Bryn Turnbull </h3>
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Release Date: July 21, 2020<br />
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In the summer of 1926, when Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she’s immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale—even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales.<br />
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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue</h3>
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Release Date: July 21, 2020<br />
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In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police , and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.<br />
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The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel</h3>
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Release Date: July 21, 2020<br />
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Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.<br />
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The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago.<br />
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The Two Mrs. Carlyles by Suzanne Rindel</h3>
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Release Date: July 28, 2020<br />
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San Francisco, 1906. Violet is one of three people grateful for the destruction of the big earthquake. It leaves her and her two best friends unexpectedly wealthy--if the secret that binds them together stays buried beneath the rubble. Fearing discovery, the women strike out on their own, and orphaned, wallflower Violet reinvents herself.<br />
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The Grove of the Caesars: A Flavia Albia Novel (Flavia Albia Series Book 8) by Lindsey Davis</h3>
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Release Date: July 28, 2020<br />
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In the sacred grove of Julius Caesar, something deadly stirs in the undergrowth—a serial killer, who haunted the gardens for years, has claimed another victim—in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, The Grove of the Caesars.<br />
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At the feet of her adoptive father, renowned private informer Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia learned a number of important rules. First and foremost—always keep one's distance from the palace, nothing good comes from that direction. But right behind it—murder is the business of the Vigiles, best to leave them to it.<br />
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper </h3>
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Acclaimed author Elise Hooper explores the gripping, real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Perfect for readers who love untold stories of amazing women, such as The Only Woman in the Room, Hidden Figures, and The Lost Girls of Paris.<br />
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The Ringmaster's Daughter: A beautiful and heartbreaking World War 2 love story by Carly Schabowski</h3>
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Release Date: July 7, 2020<br />
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Twenty-year-old Michel Bonnet lives on the edge of the law, finding work where he can breaking in horses on the outskirts of Paris. But when the Nazis invade, Michel takes refuge as a stowaway on a rickety train bound for the rural south of France. It’s a journey that will change his life forever.<br />
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The train is property of Le Cirque Neumann – a travelling circus owned by the troubled and irritable showman Werner Neumann. Neumann offers Michel a job caring for the company’s horses – a lucky break, but with an unusual condition attached. Michel must keep to himself and never speak of what he sees behind the glittering curtain of the big top.<br />
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Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook: A Novel by Celia Rees</h3>
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Release Date: July 7, 2020<br />
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World War II has just ended, and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Somewhat aimless, bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, thirtysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission—but she is also recruited by her cousin, Leo, who is in the Secret Service. To them, Edith is perfect spy material...single, ordinary-looking, with a college degree in German. Cousin Leo went to Oxford with one of their most hunted war criminals, Count Kurt von Stavenow, who Edith remembers all too well from before the war. He wants her to find him.<br />
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Bonnie: A Novel by Christina Schwarz</h3>
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Release Date: July 7, 2020<br />
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Born in a small town in the desolate reaches of western Texas and shaped by her girlhood in an industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Dallas, Bonnie Parker was a natural performer and a star student. She dreamed of being a movie star or a singer or a poet. But her dramatic nature, contorted by her limited opportunities and her overwhelming love for Clyde Barrow, pushed her into a course from which there was no escape but death.<br />
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The Nesting Dolls: A Novel by Alina Adams</h3>
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Release Date: July 14, 2020<br />
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Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family—each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love and personal fulfillment—and how the consequences of their choices ripple through time.<br />
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The Tuscan Contessa: A heartbreaking new novel set in wartime Tuscany by Dinah Jefferies</h3>
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Release Date: July 16, 2020<br />
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In 1943, Contessa Sofia de' Corsi's peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive groves is upturned by the sudden arrival of German soldiers. Desperate to fight back, she agrees to shelter a wounded British radio engineer in her home, keeping him hidden from her husband Lorenzo - knowing that she is putting all of their lives at risk.<br />
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We Came Here to Shine: A Novel by Susie Orman Schnall </h3>
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Release Date: June 16, 2020<br />
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Set during the iconic 1939 New York World's Fair, two intrepid young women--an aspiring journalist and a down-on-her-luck actress--form an unlikely friendship as they navigate a world of endless possibility, stand down adversity, and find out what they are truly made of during the glorious summer of spectacle and opportunity...<br />
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The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton</h3>
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Release Date: June 16, 2020<br />
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After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life.<br />
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The English Wife by Adrienne Chinn</h3>
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Release Date: June 25, 2020<br />
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VE Day 1945: As victory bells ring out across the country, war bride Ellie Burgess’ happiness is overshadowed by grief. Her charismatic Newfoundlander husband Thomas is still missing in action. Until a letter arrives explaining Thomas is back at home on the other side of the Atlantic recovering from his injuries.<br />
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September 11th 2001: Sophie Parry is on a plane to New York on the most tragic day in the city’s history. While the world watches the news in horror, Sophie’s flight is rerouted to a tiny town in Newfoundland and she is forced to seek refuge with her estranged aunt Ellie.<br />
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The Black Swan of Paris: A Novel by Karen Robards</h3>
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Release Date: June 30, 2020<br />
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Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse’s position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance.<br />
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When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won’t be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion.<br />
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Her Last Flight: A Novel by Beatriz Williams</h3>
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Release Date: June 30, 2020<br />
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In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam’s fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster, Mallory’s onetime student and flying partner. Foster’s disappearance during a round-the-world flight in 1937 remains one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries.<br />
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This is a biographical novel of the sadly short and painful life of Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem, also known as the Leper King, but as ever with Penman's novels, it's a multidimensional story told from the points of view of many fascinating characters. It perfectly balances the personal and intimate stories of the characters with the political and historical events.<br />
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So much was thrust onto poor Baldwin's shoulders from such a young age, yet he not only weathered it with more maturity than someone twice his age, he proved to be an exceptional leader, in spite of, or perhaps because of his ailment.<br />
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Agnes, Baldwin's mother, is portrayed somewhat as an antagonist, but as with all of Penman's novels, it's never that black and white. All the characters are multifaceted, with fleshed out backgrounds that make them so human and relatable.<br />
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I did feel like the plot dragged a little in the middle, but that could just be because I'm struggling with what's going on in the world and haven't been in the mood to read, plus I was sick for 4 weeks. I'd really planned to have this done before the release date.<br />
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Paris Never Leaves You: A Novel by Ellen Feldman </h3>
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Release Date: June 2, 2020<br />
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Living through World War II working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life?<br />
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Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York publishing, Ellen Feldman's Paris Never Leaves You is an extraordinary story of resilience, love, and impossible choices, exploring how survival never comes without a cost.<br />
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Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini </h3>
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Release Date: June 2, 2020<br />
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In May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide.<br />
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Mary’s shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by her eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. Although they have long been estranged, Elizabeth knows Mary’s tenuous mental health has deteriorated through decades of trauma and loss. Yet is her suicide attempt truly the impulse of a deranged mind, or the desperate act of a sane woman terrified to be committed to an asylum? And—if her sisters can put past grievances aside—is their love powerful enough to save her?<br />
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The Joyce Girl: A Novel of Jazz Age Paris by Annabel Abbs</h3>
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Release Date: June 2, 2020<br />
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For readers who adored novels like The Paris Wife, Z, and Loving Frank, comes Annabel Abbs highly praised debut novel, where she spins the story of James Joyce’s fascinating, and tragic, daughter, Lucia.<br />
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The Joyce Girl creates a compelling and moving account of the real-life Joyce Girl, of unrealized dreams and rejection, and of the destructive love of a father.<br />
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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls: A Novel by Ursula Hegi</h3>
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Release Date: June 9 , 2020<br />
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In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island’s people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children.<br />
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Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Zirkus seamstress with her grown daughter; and Tilli, just a girl herself, who will give birth later that day at St. Margaret’s Home for Pregnant Girls.<br />
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Red Sky Over Hawaii: A Novel by Sara Ackerman</h3>
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Release Date: June 9, 2020<br />
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The attack on Pearl Harbor changes everything for Lana Hitchcock. Arriving home on the Big Island too late to reconcile with her estranged father, she is left alone to untangle the clues of his legacy, which lead to a secret property tucked away in the remote rain forest of Kilauea volcano. When the government starts taking away her neighbors as suspected sympathizers, Lana shelters two young German girls, a Japanese fisherman and his son. As tensions escalate, they are forced into hiding—only to discover the hideaway house is not what they expected.<br />
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The Return by Harry Sidebottom </h3>
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Release Date: June 11, 2020<br />
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145BC - CALABRIA, ANCIENT ROME. After years of spilling blood for Rome, Gaius Furius Paullus has returned home to spend his remaining days working quietly on the family farm.<br />
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But it seems death has stalked Paullus from the battlefield. Just days after his arrival, bodies start appearing - murdered and mutilated. And as the deaths stack up, and panic spreads, the war hero becomes the prime suspect. After all, Paullus has killed countless enemies on the battlefield - could he have brought his habit home with him?<br />
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Lionheart by Ben Kane </h3>
Release Date: May 14, 2020<br />
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Irish nobleman Ferdia has been imprisoned in Wales to ensure the good behaviour of his rebellious father. But during a skirmish to relieve a castle under attack, Ferdia saves the life of the man who would become one of the most legendary warriors in history: Richard Coeur de Lion. The Lionheart.<br />
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Taken as Richard's squire, Ferdia crosses the Narrow Sea to defeat the rebellious nobles in Aquitaine, besieging castles and fighting bloody battles with brutal frequency.<br />
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The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen by Karen Harper </h3>
Release Date: May 19, 2020<br />
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1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth—“the queen mother”—shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it’s no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the “Most Dangerous Woman in Europe.” For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel.<br />
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In this riveting novel of royal secrets and intrigue, Karen Harper lifts the veil on one of the world’s most fascinating families, and how its “secret weapon” of a matriarch maneuvered her way through one of the most dangerous chapters of the century.<br />
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The Sun Sister: A Novel (The Seven Sisters Book 6) by Lucinda Riley </h3>
Release Date: May 19, 2020<br />
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Electra d’Aplièse is a woman who seems to have it all: as a top model, she has beauty, fame, and wealth. But beneath the glittery veneer, she’s cracking under the pressure of it all. The last straw comes when she finds out her father has died and she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. As friends and colleagues fear for her health, Electra receives a shocking letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother.<br />
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The City of Tears: A Novel (Burning Chambers Book 2) by Kate Mosse </h3>
Release Date: May 26, 2020<br />
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August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots.<br />
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Also in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change the course of history.<br />
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Within days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the street, and Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds . . .<br />
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The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes </h3>
Release Date: May 26, 2020<br />
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In the dead of night, a Czech farm girl and a British soldier travel through the countryside. Izabela and prisoner of war Bill have secretly married and are on the run, with Izzy dressed as a man. The young husband and wife evade capture for as long as possible—until they are cornered by Nazi soldiers with tracking dogs.<br />
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Izzy's disguise works. The couple are assumed to be escaped British soldiers and transported to a POW camp. However, their ordeal has just begun, as they face appalling living conditions and the constant fear of Izzy's exposure.<br />
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The First Actress: A Novel of Sarah Bernhardt by C. W. Gortner </h3>
Release Date: May 26, 2020<br />
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The tumultuous life of the legendary French star Sarah Bernhardt—the world’s first modern actress and international celebrity—dazzles in this stunning novel for readers of Love and Ruin and Mistress of the Ritz.<br />
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From her beginnings as the daughter of a courtesan to her extraordinary transformation into the most celebrated actress of her era, Sarah Bernhardt is brought to life by an internationally bestselling author praised for his historical novels featuring famous women.<br />
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