Category: Book Reviews
Review: Terra Nova by Henriette Lazaridis
Review: Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis, Pegasus Books – In 1910 a British polar expedition is in a race against a Norwegian team to be first to plant their national flag at the South Pole.
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Review: Brave Hearted by Katie Hickman
Review: Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West 1836-1880, Katie Hickman, Spiegal and Grau – Rarely do history lovers get to see the whole of an era solely through female eyes. Author Katie Hickman has taken on this challenge
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Review: Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs
Review: Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs, Simon & Shuster – Florie and Kacey bonded at high school over a shared love of the true crimes podcast Murder Me Later.
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Review: Life in Every Breath by Fatima Bremmer
Life in Every Breath:, Fatima Bremmer, Amazon Crossing. – Ester Blenda Nordström was born in 1891 in Stockholm, Sweden. The little girl was quick, smart, and mischievous. Her family despaired of ever taming her.
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Review: The Edge of Summer by Viola Shipman
Review: The Edge of Summer by Viola Shipman, Graydon House – Sutton Douglas became a successful fashion designer for a major clothing house, but deep inside her impoverished upbringing in the Ozarks never went away.
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Review: The Beach Trap by Ali Brady
Review: The Beach Trap, Ali Brady, Berkley – Young teens Kat Steiner and Blake O’Neill meet at Camp Chickawah and immediately become fast friends.
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Review: Kingston edited by Viet Thahn Nguyen
Review: Kingston, edited by Viet Thahn Nguyen, The Library of Congress – The Bicentenary year of 1976 marked Maxine Hong Kingston’s arrival on the American literary scene with the publication of her work The Woman Warrior, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award.
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Review: Loving the Dead and Gone by Judith Turner-Yamamoto
Loving the Dead and Gone, Judith Turner-Yamamoto, Regal House – Donald Ray Spencer dies in a car accident on a summer’s day in the early 1960s, a few days short of his first wedding anniversary.
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Review: The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa
Review: The Making of Her, Bernadette Jiwa , Dutton – Dublin, 1996: Joan Egan lives a wealthy but increasingly frustrating life in a posh suburb. Her husband Martin is subservient to his mother,
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Review: The Blunder by Mutt-Lon
The Blunder, Mutt-Lon, Amazon Crossing – From Mutt-Lon comes a unique and educational African novel based on an actual event, translated into English.
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