Release Date: April 5, 2022 Claire is a young woman living at home in a small town in 1960’s England. It isn’t the ideal living arrangement since she has never gotten along with her stepmother and yearns for her independence. She seeks the excitement that London offers based on stories from her older brother about the nightlife and meeting famous musicians. After a fight with … Continue reading Sister Stardust by Jane Green
Release Date: February 2, 2021 About The Book: April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to … Continue reading Book Spotlight: The Nature Of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
Release Date: February 1, 2021 Gerta Schnirch was raised by a Czech mother and a German father in Brno, Czechoslovakia during Hitler’s rise to power. She always identified with her mother’s Czech values and often clashed with her father over his Nazi ideology. The war eventually shatters her parent’s relationship and her simple childhood. As the war winds down, the political climate of their country … Continue reading Gerta by Katerina Tuckova
Paperback Release: December 8, 2020 Suzy’s Review : https://suzyapproved.com/2019/05/28/the-chelsea-girls-by-fiona-davis/ Hazel Ripley left her unfulfilling career as a constant understudy to join the USO Tour during World War II. Her new job takes her to the Old World where she meets Maxine Mead, a vivacious and outspoken actress. The two women bond over their love of theater and mutual formative experiences in Italy. Their friendship endures … Continue reading Paperback Release: The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis
Release Date: July 23, 2020 In 1942, Eva Traube was a happy graduate student working with her favorite things in the world – books. However, her quiet life in Paris is quickly turned on its head when her father is arrested along with thousands of other Jewish people living in France. This sudden turn of events forces Eva and her mother to flee to the … Continue reading The Book Of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Release Date: October 6, 2020 Virginia Desmarais’ world is altered when her husband dies of a heart attack while stringing Christmas lights. It shocks Virginia and her daughter, Rebecca as they helplessly watch him collapsing on the front lawn. Virginia has devoted most of her life to raising her thirteen-year-old daughter while supporting her husband’s career as a college professor. Virginia must embark on a … Continue reading The Wrong Kind Of Woman by Sarah McCraw Crow
Release Date: August 25, 2020 About The Book: In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to … Continue reading Book Spotlight: The Royal Governess by Wendy Holden
Release Date: March 9, 2021 About The Book: New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan delivers a breathtaking novel based on true events. It was called “The Titanic of the South”—the luxury steamship that sank in 1838 with Savannah’s elite on board. Through time, their fates were forgotten—until the wreck was found. Now their story is finally being told. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop … Continue reading Cover Reveal: Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
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