Category Archives: adult
The Berlin Project: An Alternative History of World War II – Gregory Benford
It is 1944, the Manhattan Project has been underway for several years, and the goal is finally in sight. Little Boy is ready to be dropped on the enemy. With any luck, Berlin will soon be rubble and Hitler turned … Continue reading
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See
Li-yan often helps her mother, the village midwife. As tradition dictates, she will fill the role someday. High in the mountains of Yunnan, the Akha, an ethnic minority, seem to be living in an earlier century, not in 1988. Their … Continue reading
The Moon and the Other – John Kessel
Against all odds, Erno lands on his feet. He’s been exiled from his home in the Society of Cousins. He’s been living at the bottom of his new society. And suddenly, he is offered success beyond his wildest dreams. The … Continue reading
In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel – Jacqueline Winspear
As the wireless crackled to life, conversation stopped and tension mounted. Maisie waited in the drawing room with her best friend, Priscilla, and Priscilla’s husband and boys. It was Sunday, September 3, 1939, and they were all prepared for what … Continue reading
Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History – Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
Who knew that the history of printing could be so much fun. In the introduction we are reminded that humankind is full of idiots and this book reinforces the idea. Rebecca Romney is a rare book expert often called upon … Continue reading
The Mountain of Kept Memory -Rachel Neumeier
Oressa has learned her lessons well. Has learned to be meek and obedient around her father, has learned about all the hidden doors and passages in the palace, has learned to listen secretly to all the meetings her father has … Continue reading
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter -Cassandra Rose Clarke
When Finn first arrived, five-year-old Cat knew he was different. She suspected that he was a ghost and was afraid of him. But he was kind and gentle, never got angry with her, so she decided he was the sort … Continue reading
A Trail Through Time: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book Four – Jodi Taylor
It looks like Max and Leon are really dead. (Well, Leon is alive in another universe.) Without the primary protagonists a fourth book doesn’t look all that interesting. I’m just not in the mood to really care about some other … Continue reading
Faithful – Alice Hoffman
Shelby can’t forgive herself. After all, she was driving. She was the one who slid on the ice and wrecked the car. She was the one who should be in a coma instead of her best friend. Shelby was in … Continue reading
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales – Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (Editors)
The little match girl goes pyrotechnic, while the princess on the glass hill has a female companion, and don’t even ask about the big, bad, wolf. This is another out-of-the-box collection of reimagined fairy tales written by multiple award winning … Continue reading
Napolean’s Last Island – Thomas Keneally
One day when Betsy Balcombe was thirteen, her accustomed life changed forever. That was the day she learned that the Great Ogre of Europe, England’s enemy, Napoleon himself, would be residing on their island, St. Helena, forever. And in the … Continue reading
Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto -Tilar J. Mazzeo
There were false identity papers for all of the children, but some of them needed more. They needed to be more Polish, less Jewish, needed golden curls, needed to stop speaking Yiddish, needed to forget their real families. Only Irena … Continue reading
Three Sisters, Three Queens – Philippa Gregory
Princess Margaret is so full of her importance. She is so much more grown up than her 5-year-old sister, Mary. She is so unwilling to befriend the bride of her beloved brother, Arthur, as only a girl can be who … Continue reading
I Will Send Rain – Rae Meadows
One year in the life of a small farming family in the Oklahoma Panhandle during the beginning of the Dust Bowl is the focus of this short novel. Amidst the descriptions of dust storms, grit and desolation, the reader is … Continue reading
The Story of Egypt: The Civilization that Shaped the World – Joann Fletcher
This is a long book, it has to be. It spans 4,000 years. It’s not just names and dates, but filled with real people, like the royal manicurists Niankhnum and Khnumhotep, whose house was decorated with vignettes of their lives, … Continue reading
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