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The Women
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Book club this year has some heavy hitting subject matter, lol. I probably would not have had this on my TBR without book club so I’m really glad that…
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His Majesty’s Airship
Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Another book club read, this one for our nonfiction club at my local library (I’m in two book clubs there and one…
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Women of the Post Review
An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps who found purpose, solidarity and lifelong friendship in their mission of sorting over one million pieces of mail for the US Army. –Storygraph My Review Simply put, this is an absolutely fantastic novel. We all know…
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And We Rise eARC Mini Review
A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. – GoodReads My Review A quick, informational and thought provoking read. The verse was easy to follow but at times I felt it could have…
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Sistersong eARC Review
GoodReads: 535 AD. In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, King Cador’s children inherit a fragmented land abandoned by the Romans. Riva, scarred in a terrible fire, fears she will never heal.Keyne battles to be seen as the king’s son, when born a daughter.And Sinne, the spoiled youngest girl, yearns for…
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The Poppy War Review
GoodReads: When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed…
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The Five Review
GoodReads: Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden…
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Children of War – Blog Tour
Synopsis: Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI. Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is a Cretan. But with the Great Powers tussling over the…
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The Pursuit of William Abbey – Blog Tour
GoodReads: A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching…
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The Immortal City – Blog Tour
GoodReads: In the heart of Venice, a woman is sacrificed to a forgotten god, sparking a mystery lost for thousands of years. Dr. Penelope Bryne is ridiculed by the academic community for her quest to find the remnants of Atlantis, but when an ancient and mysterious script is found at…
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