Monthly Archives: January 2016
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
During the close of WWII, Europeans were frantically trying to get out of the way of the advancing Russian troops. Rape, pillage, torture. Masses were making their way north to the Baltic Sea to board the evacuation ships. A former … Continue reading
Front Lines – Michael Grant
What if women were included in the armed forces during World War II? This is the premise behind this vivid portrayal of army life during WWII. The first part of the book focuses on several women and what led them … Continue reading
Arcadia – Iain Pears
Henry Lytten, an Oxford don, is writing a fantasy novel. As he writes, his gentle pastoral world emerges. Meanwhile a few hundred years in the future, Angela Meerson has discovered a portal to another world and uses it. Thus, the … Continue reading
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia – C.W. Gortner
Small pieces of paper fluttered down on the people massed in the piazza before the Sistine Chapel. Twelve-year-old Lucrezia heard her aunt read one aloud “We have for our Pope, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia of Valencia, known as Alexander Sixth”. Lucrezia … Continue reading
The Impostor Queen – Sarah Fine
A careful balance of ice and fire magic has protected the Kupari people for generations through the queen, who reigns until the magic kills her. Upon the queen’s death, the girl in training becomes the new queen when all of … Continue reading
Midnight in Broad Daylight – Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
The Fukuharas were living a comfortable, middle class life in a small town near Seattle even though Katsuja and Kinu, who were born in Japan, were denied the opportunity to become American citizens and denied the opportunity to own property in … Continue reading
Passenger – Alexandra Bracken
Etta comes from a line of time travelers. But she doesn’t know it. She was raised by her somewhat aloof and eccentric mother. Etta is a violin prodigy and on the night of a major debut, during her solo, a … Continue reading
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas – Alison Weir
Lady Margaret Douglas was the daughter of a queen, a granddaughter of a king, the niece of a king (Henry XIII), the mother of a king, the grandmother of a king. She was an important Tudor, a royal Tudor, a … Continue reading
The Children’s Home – Charles Lambert
Morgan has been grotesquely disfigured in an accident and has become a recluse, heir to a fortune but never leaving his estate. Cared for by his housekeeper, Engel, his doctor is his only friend and his only link to the … Continue reading
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