Category Archives: Historical Fiction

Review: Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Knopf (June 4, 2013) ISBN-10: 0307962792 Source: Publisher Paris is currently occupied by the Germans. New York’s Mayor La Guardia believes he can make the city the new fashion capital of the world. Mignonne Lachapelle is … Continue reading →

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Review: A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 039916216X Source: Publisher It’s Memorial Day weekend in 1938. Following family tradition, Lily Dane has left her life in New York and returned with her family to the oceanfront community of … Continue reading →

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Review: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0061950726 Source: Publisher Molly Ayer is in foster care, about to “age out” of the system. When she steals a book from the library, she’s forced to do community … Continue reading →

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Review: The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (May 7, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 9780399161469 The year is 1923. As a typist in a New York City Police Department precinct, Rose Baker can seal the fate of an individual within a … Continue reading →

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Review: The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Jenn

Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Harper (March 5, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062184849 Source: Publisher Ashaunt Point, Massachusetts has been a quiet, relaxing home to generations of the Porter family. When the Army arrives in 1942 using the Point as a look-out for … Continue reading →

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Audiobook Review: The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Jenn

Listening Length: 14 hours and 3 minutes Version: Unabridged Publisher: Hachette Audio Release Date: January 15, 2013 Source:Personal copy Throughout our country’s history, there have been over two dozen Presidential assassination attempts; only four have been successful. Now, an killer is attempting … Continue reading →

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Review: The Secret of Nightingale Palace by Dana Sachs

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (February 19, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062201034 Source: Publisher Anna is shocked when she receives a phone call from her grandmother, Goldie. The two haven’t seen each other in five years after Goldie … Continue reading →

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Review: A Future Arrived by Phillip Rock

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (February 5, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062229354 Source: Publisher The final installment of the Passing Bells trilogy begins in the 1930s, the Jazz era ending and a period of uncertainty as the younger … Continue reading →

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Review: Circles of Time by Phillip Rock

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (January 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062229338 Source: Publisher In the sequel to The Passing Bells, the world is forever changed after the Great War. Invisible boundaries between social classes has vanished as … Continue reading →

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Review: The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Jenn

Paperback: 544 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (December 4, 2012) ISBN-10: 0062229311 Source: Publisher It is the summer of 1914 and Abingdon Pryory, home of the Greville family, has yet to be tainted by the war that rages through the rest of Europe. The … Continue reading →

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