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D-Day Girls
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose
Courageous Women of WWII (3/14/2019)
Sarah Rose has written a compelling, exciting account of female spies who were vital to the success of the D-Day Invasion and ultimate defeat of the Nazis. Rose personalizes the women (and a number of their male counterparts) and details their exploits in a way that makes …more
The Affairs of the Falcóns
The Affairs of the Falcóns
by Melissa Rivero
Realistic Story of an Undocumented Family (12/10/2018)
Rivero writes compellingly about the experience of a family living in the United States without documentation. Her prose conveys the constant stress and instability that comes from living in the shadows and she creates sympathetic characters. I found the story engaging and …more
The Last Year of the War
The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner
A Beautifully Written War Story (11/3/2018)
I was completely absorbed by this historically accurate novel about a young German American girl's experience during World War II and after. It explores issues of injustice, the hardships of war, and feelings about "place" with an engaging story and well-developed …more
Red, White, Blue
Red, White, Blue
by Lea Carpenter
Beautiful writing, opaque content (7/29/2018)
I enjoyed the writer's flowing style of writing, but I found the tale a bit hard to follow and unnecessarily dense. Yes, I know it is a story about spies, but it seemed so roundabout that it distracted from my enjoyment.
Vox
Vox
by Christina Dalcher
This Could Really Happen! (4/30/2018)
I found Vox to be a riveting, tension-filled read about the United States after a presidential election has put fundamentalist religious ideologues in power. Women's rights are eliminated and they are relegated to the sole roles of wives, mothers, housekeepers. How to …more
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Elizabeth Weil, Clemantine Wamariya
A Riveting Account of the Aftermath of War (2/25/2018)
Clemantine Wamariya is an important writer who painfully, yet masterfully, exposes the atrocities of the Rwanda genocide and the effect on her and her family. She gives the reader glimpses, vignettes, of her life before the war, of her and her sister's ordeal for seven …more
The Chalk Man
The Chalk Man
by C. J. Tudor
An Engaging Story (11/26/2017)
C.J. Tudor grabbed my attention in the first pages and didn't let go until the last page. She creates vivid, fully developed characters and masterfully transports the reader to their town. The chapters alternate between the events of 1986 and 2016, and the author writes so …more
The People We Hate at the Wedding
The People We Hate at the Wedding
by Grant Ginder
A Complicated Family (4/10/2017)
For the most part I appreciated the stories and perspectives of the characters and how circumstances, family dynamics and personalities led each of them to where they found themselves. The wedding event brings everything to a head. After some drama there is a bit of …more
The Barrowfields
The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
An Engaging Novel (3/8/2017)
I thoroughly enjoyed this beautifully written and engaging story and I was drawn into the world Phillip Lewis creates. A stunning debut novel that explores a families' bonds and a man's devotion to literature. I had a hard time putting it down and wanted more when it ended.
Edgar and Lucy
Edgar and Lucy
by Victor Lodato
Dark, Strange, Haunting, but Beautiful and Uplifting Too (12/15/2016)
Lodato is a lyrical writer, handling dense subject matter with the deftness of an expert. This is a long epic, but it engaged me, probably because each of the characters was so richly developed and treated with a gentleness and kindness by the author. I thought I had a bird' …more
Rise
Rise: How a House Built a Family
by Cara Brookins
A Rewarding Read (10/5/2016)
An excellent writer has penned an intimate, compelling story of her and her children overcoming traumatic domestic abuse by, incredibly, building a house from the ground up. Who knew that details of construction could be so riveting? Brookins makes them fascinating as she …more
Les Parisiennes
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
by Anne Sebba
Interesting topic, Disjointed writing (8/12/2016)
I was excited to read this book when it arrived, and although it contains very interesting historical information, it is written in a very disjointed manner. Seriously, it needs some serious editing. It turned into a slog of a reading project although this topic should have …more
The Dark Lady's Mask
The Dark Lady's Mask
by Mary Sharratt
An Engaging Story about Shakespeare (2/14/2016)
This was a very readable and engaging novel. The author vividly creates the time period, presents lively characters, and weaves a plausible story about Shakespeare's collaborator.
The Widow
The Widow
by Fiona Barton
Intriguing style, engaging psychological study (12/7/2015)
Ms. Barton has written a very readable, credible story that captures the reader from the first page. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the same set of facts and circumstances from the viewpoints of multiple characters so that I had some understanding for each person's motivations …more
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