Category: Historical Fiction

Book Review – The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah #netgalley
Historical Fiction

Book Review – The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah #netgalley

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublication Date: 2/9/2021Pages: 464 (eBook) Goodreads Synopsis – Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the… Continue reading Book Review – The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah #netgalley

Book Review – Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter @EmilyDCarpenter #LakeUnionPublishing #bookreview
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Book Review – Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter @EmilyDCarpenter #LakeUnionPublishing #bookreview

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: Lake Union PublishingPublication Date: 10/20/2020Pages: 335 (paperback) Goodreads Synopsis – Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation—and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up… Continue reading Book Review – Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter @EmilyDCarpenter #LakeUnionPublishing #bookreview

Audiobook Review – Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter #20booksofsummer20 #historicalfiction
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Audiobook Review – Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter #20booksofsummer20 #historicalfiction

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: Lake Union PublishingPublication Date: 4/26/2016Narrated By: Kate Orsini Goodreads Synopsis – Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift… Continue reading Audiobook Review – Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter #20booksofsummer20 #historicalfiction

Book Review – The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman #20booksofsummer20 #netgalley @KensingtonBooks
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Book Review – The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman #20booksofsummer20 #netgalley @KensingtonBooks

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: KensingtonPublication Date: 7/28/2020Pages: 399 (eBook) Goodreads Synopsis – In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia’s overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat… Continue reading Book Review – The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman #20booksofsummer20 #netgalley @KensingtonBooks

Book Review – Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah #20booksofsummer20 #audiobookreview
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Book Review – Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah #20booksofsummer20 #audiobookreview

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: Brillance AudioPublication Date: 2/2/2010 Goodreads Synopsis – Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith… Continue reading Book Review – Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah #20booksofsummer20 #audiobookreview

Book Review – The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel #20booksofsummer20
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Book Review – The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel #20booksofsummer20

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: Gallery BooksPublication Date: 7/21/2020Pages: 400 Goodreads Synopsis – Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of… Continue reading Book Review – The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel #20booksofsummer20

Book Review – The Secret Wife by Gill Paul #20booksofsummer20 #audiobookreview
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Book Review – The Secret Wife by Gill Paul #20booksofsummer20 #audiobookreview

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: AvonPublication Date: 8/25/2016Pages: 417 Goodreads Synopsis – 1914Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance – and their lives – in danger. 2016Kitty Fisher escapes to her… Continue reading Book Review – The Secret Wife by Gill Paul #20booksofsummer20 #audiobookreview

Book Review – The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis #20booksofsummer20
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Book Review – The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis #20booksofsummer20

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: DuttonPublication Date: 8/4/2020Pages: 368 Goodreads Synopsis – It’s 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn’t ask for more out of life–her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura… Continue reading Book Review – The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis #20booksofsummer20

Book Review – The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
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Book Review – The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton

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Book DetailsGenre: Historical FictionSeries: NonePublisher: BerkleyPublication Date: 6/16/2020Pages: 320 Goodreads Synopsis – Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape.… Continue reading Book Review – The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton

Book Review – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
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Book Review – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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  Book Details: Genre: Historical Fiction Series: None Publisher: Harper Publication Date: 9/24/2019 Pages: 337   Goodreads Synopsis – At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is… Continue reading Book Review – The Dutch House by Ann Patchett