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Dirt Creek
Dirt Creek: A Novel
by Hayley Scrivenor
Dirt Creek, by Hayley Scrivenor (3/14/2022)
Dirt Creek is a crackin' whodunnit, a guaranteed page turner. Set in dry rural Australia, a small town that has superficial similarities to Jane Harper's The Dry, but this is a darker tale. A 12 year old girl has gone missing on the way home from school with her friends. …more
True Crime Story
True Crime Story: A Novel
by Joseph Knox
True Crime Story, by Joseph Knox (11/18/2021)
I have just finished reading True Crime Story. Gripping! It is set at Manchester University in Northern England, and starts innocuously enough with a student disappearance just before the Christmas holidays. Not necessarily a major crime, and the Police are informed, but …more
The Temple House Vanishing
The Temple House Vanishing
by Rachel Donohue
The Temple House Vanishing (4/19/2021)
Temple House, a Catholic Boarding School for Girls; an isolated location by the sea, dangerous cliffs, lashing waves, a perfect setting for a psychological thriller, with a touch of the Gothic. What happened all those years ago, when scholarship student Louisa disappeared …more
Big Girl, Small Town
Big Girl, Small Town
by Michelle Gallen
Big Girl Small Town (10/24/2020)
The Big Girl is Majella O'Neil, and the Small Town is Aghybogey, on the Irish border, where the Troubles are in the past but there is still plenty of tension. Majella lives with, and takes care of, her alcoholic mother, and she works in the town Fish and Chip Shop, the …more
A Girl is A Body of Water
A Girl is A Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
A Girl is a Body of Water (7/21/2020)
The family dynamics laid out in this book would be a challenge to the world's wisest and most experienced Agony Aunts. Set in Uganda in the time of Idi Amin, although this book is not about him, it is a coming of age story with a difference. Kirabo, our heroine, grows up …more
Travelers
Travelers: A Novel
by Helon Habila
Travelers (5/20/2019)
All over the world there are displaced people on the move. This is the story of a group from Africa trying to find a place for themselves in Europe. The main protagonist already has a place. He is privileged, an educated Nigerian in Germany with his American wife, who …more
D-Day Girls
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
by Sarah Rose
D-Day Girls, by Sarah Rose (3/19/2019)
No matter how much reading you have done over the years on WW2, there is always something new turning up. D-Day Girls is an account of three women active in the French resistance; their recruitment and training, their experiences ranging from romantic to brutal, and the …more
At the Wolf's Table
At the Wolf's Table
by Rosella Postorino
At The Wolf's Table, Rosella Postorino (10/16/2018)
A World War Two novel, 1943 , a small town in Eastern Germany, home to Hitler's hideaway in the forest. The SS conscripts ten local woman to act as his food tasters, and this is their story, necessarily a rather grim story. We only get to know one of them, Rosa, who has …more
Fly Girls
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
by Keith O'Brien
Fly Girls (6/6/2018)
Amelia Earhart is a household name, but there were others from the same time period, other women pilots just as deserving of lasting fame as she was. Fly Girls is the story of five of these women. It was the twenties and thirties, the beginning of the aviation industry in …more
A Place for Us
A Place for Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
A Place for Us (3/18/2018)
This is a tale of an immigrant family, Muslim parents and US born children; their challenges, difficulties, disappointments and successes. It is not really a story about Islam, more about family dynamics, and with few minor changes it could apply to any religion. Well …more
The Milk Lady of Bangalore
The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure
by Shoba Narayan
The Milk Lady of Bangalore (12/5/2017)
If you are looking for an informal tutorial on the Hindu religion, in particular the significance of the cow in every day life, this is for you. Written by an ex-pat returning to India with her family after 20 successful years in the west, it is endearing, and very funny in …more
Young Jane Young
Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
Young Jane Young, Gabrielle Zevin (7/10/2017)
Washington DC, a Congressman, an Intern, a blog that refuses to die, and comes back to haunt. The story is largely moved along by dialogue, sometimes funny and witty, sometimes bratty, sometimes warm and human, but ultimately for me, rather irritating. People just don't …more
The Tea Planter's Wife
The Tea Planter's Wife
by Dinah Jefferies
The Tea Planter's Wife (7/18/2016)
The Tea Planter's Wife is above all a romance, backed up by dark deeds, misunderstandings, mystery, more misunderstandings, deceit, more misunderstandings, heartache and betrayal, shameful secrets, more misunderstandings. All this in an exotic setting, a tea plantation in …more
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper (3/29/2016)
This book is a romantic mystery, not of course a criminal mystery, but it definitely deserves the description "cozy". Our protagonist, Arthur, is a widower, his long term conventional, comfortable, and loving marriage to Miriam having ended with her death a year ago. He …more
Circling the Sun
Circling the Sun: A Novel
by Paula McLain
Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain (5/19/2015)
This book will be read by two different groups of people, those who have never heard of Beryl Markham, or who know very little, and those who have read all her books, plus all the biographies that cover her life in total detail. For this latter group the book is redundant. …more
Lusitania
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by Greg King, Penny Wilson
Lusitania (1/3/2015)
We all know about the Lusitania, at least we thought we knew. Exactly what you know probably depends on how old you are and where you were educated. This book fills in all the gaps, it is packed with historical facts, but is very readable, not dense like so many textbooks. …more
Last Train to Istanbul
Last Train to Istanbul
by Ayse Kulin
Last Train to Istanbul (10/4/2013)
This is a cracking story. Starting out, the prose seems a little stiff, formal, the dialogue a bit stilted, but as the plot progresses you simply cease to notice. A World War Two escape novel with a twist, Selva and Rafael, a Muslim and Jew, who marry in the face of …more
Eighty Days
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by Matthew Goodman
Eighty Days (1/24/2013)
One of my favourite genres is non-fiction about women in history who achieved great things at a time when it was difficult for them to do so. I thought this would be a grand adventure in that category. It tells the story of a two directional race, one woman going west and …more
King Peggy
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
by Peggielene Bartels, Eleanor Herman
King Peggy (12/21/2011)
When I finished reading King Peggy, my first thought was this book would make a great Disney movie. For me it was rather a chore to finish, which is a pity because our heroine, Peggielene Bartels, is an amazing woman who took on a daunting task with determination, her story …more
The Weight of a Mustard Seed
The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
by Wendell Steavenson
Thr Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson (2/22/2009)
This is a very sad book, no happy endings here, but all Americans, and Brits, who have ever expressed an opinion about the situation in Iraq, should definitely read it. It is not a political book, no editorializing here, just a detailed history of the country through the …more
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