Category: Historical Fiction
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Review: THE OTHER ALCOTT by Elise Hooper
This was the September selection for the Salt Water Reads Book Club, and may I just say that Elise Hooper is a LOVELY person! She was present for the end of the month book club discussion and answered everyone’s questions! Summary: May Alcott is an aspiring artist, who is always living in the shadow of…
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Review: I, ELIZA HAMILTON by Susan Holloway Scott
Thank you so much to Kensington for providing me with an advance copy – all opinions are my own. Summary: Elizabeth Schuyler is the daughter of a respected general and understands how to carry herself as a soldier’s daughter. She is well-educated and accustomed to hosting dignitaries and soldiers along side her beloved parents. On…
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Review: COCOA BEACH by Beatriz Williams
This was the inaugural pick for the Salt Water Reads Book Club back in July and it was the PERFECT choice! Summary: Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I in France. She becomes an ambulance driver for the Red Cross…
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Review: BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
Summary: Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee…
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Review: THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn
“Hope was such a painful thing, far more painful than rage.” Summary: 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared…