#historical-fiction
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Book Review: Weyward by Emilia Hart
Published by St-Martin’s Press in 2023, Hart’s debut novel is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook, as well as at your local libraries, and through the Libby App. The saying: never to judge a book by its cover is fitting for this book’s cover, which will draw readers in with its beautiful design.… Continue reading
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Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Published by Viking in 2016, the book is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library or through the Libby App. The audiobook, read by Nicolas Guy Smith, complements Towles’s writing style, which is more of a narration of life events. Set in Moscow, Russia, 1922,… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Last Bookshop in London, by Madeline Martin
Martin’s The Last Bookshop in London, published by Hanover Square Press and Harlequin Audio in 2021, is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library or through the Libby App. The audiobook, read by Saskia Maarleveld, is lovely, portraying the enduring story of wartime loss and… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston
First published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018 and by Macmillan Audio, this book is ideal for fans of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. Brackston blends magic, romance, and a seventeenth-century mystery with her twenty-first-century everyday life. Her book is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook formats as well as at your local… Continue reading
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Book Review: Liliac Girls Woosley-Ferriday #1 by Martha Hall Kelly
Kelly’s debut novel, published April 5, 2016, is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, or audiobook formats, at your local library, or through the Libby App. The structure of the book is triple points of view alternating between the three main characters: Continue reading
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Book Review: The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Martin’s book, inspired by the true history of America’s library spies during World War II, was published on July 26, 2022, and is available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is brilliantly narrated by Saskia Maarleveld. The book is in dual… Continue reading
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Book Review: Three Sisters by Heater Morris
Three Sisters, the last in the Tattooist of Auschwitz series, was published on October 5, 2021, and is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by Finty Williams, who mimics Morris’ clinical writing style in her narration,… Continue reading
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Book Review: Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
In Morris’s follow-up novel of the The Tattoosist of Auschwitz she makes it clear that while the story is based on actual events in Cecília Kováčová ‘Cilka Klein’ life, it still a novel of fiction weaving together facts and reportage with experiences of women survivors of the Holocaust and the experiences of women sent to… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Morris’s debut as an author provides readers with the memoir of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew forcibly transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1942, and how his perseverance kept him and others alive during the atrocities and horrors surrounding them. The book is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as… Continue reading
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Book review: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s book, initially published in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle editions in 2000, became available as an audiobook in April 2024. The audiobook is narrated by Richard Poe, who brings the characters to life brilliantly in this fast-paced, science vs. religion-themed mystery thriller of a treasure hunt. Continue reading
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