Reviews

Who She Is

By Diane Byington - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Fifteen-year-old Faye Smith is the new girl—again—starting a new school in central Florida, where her parents have gotten jobs working in ...Read Review

In Harm’s Way: JFK, World War II, and the Heroic Rescue of PT 109

By Iain Martin - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young AdultNonfiction

For future president John F. Kennedy, the night of August 2, 1943 would cement his future as a war hero and leader. It would also ...Read Review

Love & War

By Melissa de la Cruz - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

In this sequel to Alex & Eliza, Alexander Hamilton has married Elizabeth Schuyler. It’s 1781 and Alex, anxious to be part of the ...Read Review

A Gathering of Ravens

By Scott Oden - Published 2017

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

A Gathering of Ravens creates a rich, grim fantasy world made from Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic myth, with strands of Tolkien. Obscure names ...Read Review

Kiss of the Spindle

By Nancy Campbell Allen - Published 2018

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

The titular Sleeping Beauty in this fairy tale retelling set in the steampunk version of Victorian England is Dr. Isla Cooper. She is ...Read Review

The Last Love Letters of Henri Fournier

By Rosalind Brackenbury - Published 2018

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Henri Fournier is pondering his life with a woman named Pauline as he travels by train to begin his military role in WWI ...Read Review

The Country Wedding

By Barbara Hannay - Published 2017

Genres:

Saga

In 1958, in a quaint church in Burralea, a picturesque Tablelands township in north Queensland, Australia, Joe, a local cattle rancher, is getting married. ...Read Review

The Lords of St. Thomas

By Jackson Ellis - Published 2018

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Henry Lord was the loving but stubborn patriarch of the Lord family in the tiny, dying town of St. Thomas, Nevada, situated in ...Read Review

The Chapman Legacy

By John Neely Davis - Published 2018

Genres:

Western

The 200-page central chapter covers the 1890s through the early 20th century. Young Francis Chapman, a devotee of Western pulp novels, travels to ...Read Review

The Subway Girls

By Susie Orman Schnall - Published 2018

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This fast-paced novel takes readers to 1949 New York City, where young women angled to get into typing pools at prestigious firms and dreamed ...Read Review