Melanie Benjamin
California Golden
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“Never fall in love with someone who doesn’t need you,” the father of preteens Mindy and Ginger Donnelly tells them in 1957 as ...Read Review
The Children’s Blizzard
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The Children’s Blizzard is the story of the Blizzard of 1888, which swept across the Great Plains with no warning and killed hundreds ...Read Review
Mistress of the Ritz: A Novel
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Melanie Benjamin has a wonderful track record of finding lesser known characters and stories from history and bringing them to life in fiction. ...Read Review
The Girls in the Picture
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In 1914 the word “movies” was new, and “movie studios” were just a collection of barns. But already one person was showing exceptional talent ...Read Review
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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In 1950s New York City, the newspapers’ society pages were full of pictures and stories of the high and mighty women married to ...Read Review
Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
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This collection of ten stories is remarkably varied, though they all speak of the same date and place in history: September 21, 1945 at Grand ...Read Review
The Aviator’s Wife
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Anne Morrow leads a charmed, privileged life, and all her dreams seem to come true when she marries America’s aviator hero, Charles ...Read Review
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
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Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump – better known to the Victorian world as Mrs. General Tom Thumb – stood only thirty-two inches tall, but she is ...Read Review
Alice I Have Been
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This literary novel, set in the early 20th century with flashbacks to the mid-19th century, is the fictionalized life story of the ...Read Review