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A Touching Book You Won’t Want To Overlook WHAT IT’S ABOUT Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid’s Tale—during World War II. In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it’s 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina’sRead More →

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Bar Harbor, Maine 1913 WHAT IT’S ABOUT An island sheltered from modern progress. Strict lines between servants and masters. Will crossing them leave her fatally exposed? Bar Harbor, Maine. 1913. Mabel Rae is smart, reckless, and naïve. So when the ambitious seventeen-year-old joins the staff at a rocky cliffside cottage, she willingly lets the boisterous estate owner’s improper advances sweep her off her feet. And the slender young woman dismisses the vulnerability of her positionRead More →

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Narrated by Emily Barrett WHAT IT’S ABOUT 1868, Morpeth. Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family’s country estate than she is in finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby. She cannot believe her luck whenRead More →

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  Giveaway and Author Interview          Book Details: ​Book Title:  Two Rivers: De Trouble I Be See by Bob Rogers Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  333 pages Genre: Historical Fiction  Publisher:  BookLocker Release date:  June 19, 2023 Content Rating: R. My book is rated R because of foul language, rape, infanticide, and homicide.        Read More →

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A Touching Story That You Won’t Want To Overlook WHAT IT’S ABOUT Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—author of the bestselling novel Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaption starring Mila Kunis—delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, includingRead More →

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Giveaway and Author Interview Book Details:​Book Title:  CONECUH (A Civil War Novel) by Herb HughesCategory:  Adult Fiction (18 +),  340 pagesGenre: Historical Fiction Publisher:  Books From The PondRelease date:  April 2019Content Rating: PG-13 + M. There is mild profanity. There is a rape scene that is handled without vulgarity.     Book Description Emily Rose roams through a country ravaged by war, a damaged land where the very grass blades drink the blood of brothers, cousins, and friends. Protected only by her wits andRead More →

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The Pryce of Murder Book 1   Book Details:   Book Title:  The Pryce of Conceit – An Historical Ghost Cozy Mystery by Kari BoveeCategory: Adult Fiction (18 +), 270 Genre: Historical Ghost Cozy MysteryPublisher:  Bosque PublishingRelease date:   May 23, 2023Content Rating:  G – Book has no bad language, sex, or violence on the page Book Description:   Someone’s trying to frame this ambitious theater performer for murder. Can she get back to her adoring public and escape the noose? 1885. ArabellaRead More →

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A World War II Novel of the Pacific by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee ABOUT THE BOOK Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise–until the morning of December 8, 1941, when news comes from Manila: Imperial Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Within hours, the teenage friends are plungedRead More →

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A Captivating Story ABOUT THE BOOK As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she’ll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry, feeling lonely and displaced, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr. and Mrs. G, and their sons WilliamRead More →

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ABOUT THE BOOK Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub!A LibraryReads Pick for March 2023! From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic DukeRead More →

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A Book About Books And The People Who Read Them ABOUT THE BOOK In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. The women she convinces to attendRead More →

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ABOUT THE BOOK WHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they’ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as aRead More →

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A Gorgeous Cover That Contains A Beautiful Family Story ABOUT THE BOOK A cherished heirloom opens up a century of secrets in a bittersweet novel about family, hard truths, and self-discovery by the author of Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish. Melanie Barnett thinks she has it all together. With an ex-fiancé and a pending promotion at a Kentucky bourbon distillery, Melanie has figured out that love and career don’t mix. Until she makes a discovery while cleaningRead More →

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Love Triumphing Over Hate Persistence In The Face of Domination The Strength of Women In The Face of Adversity BOOK DESCRIPTION Daughters of Teutobod is a story of love triumphing over hate, of persistence in the face of domination, and of the strength of women in the face of adversity. Gudrun is the stolen wife of Teutobod, the leader of the Teutons in Gaul in 102 BCE. Her story culminates in a historic battle withRead More →

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by Piper Huguley ABOUT THE BOOK Author: Piper Huguley  Narrator: Tracey Conyer Lee  Publisher: HarperAudio  Time: 12 hours 44 minutes Release Date: June 7, 2022 The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America’s most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. 1953, New York City Less than a week before the societyRead More →

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Excerpt & Giveaway WHERE DAVID THREW STONES by Elyse Hoffman Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Don’t miss the giveaway below.   About the Book Title: WHERE DAVID THREW STONES Author: Elyse Hoffman Pub. Date: September 27, 2022 Publisher: Project 613 Publishing Formats: Paperback, eBook Pages: 453 Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle “Welcome to the Brennenbach of Midnight! The Curse Hours have begun.” West Germany, 1968 When ten-year-old David Saidel’s parents are murdered, he is sent to live with his grandfather in the anti-SemiticRead More →

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Based On A Harrowing Experience ABOUT THE BOOK Published Date: Aug 23, 2022 Pages: 304 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Based on a true story, a spellbinding historical novel about the world’s first female investigative journalist, Nellie Bly.In 1887, young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down toRead More →

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An Unforgettable Story ABOUT THE BOOK Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sea Dragon Press Time: 12 hours, 18 minutes Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 15, 2022 Two women, bound together by opposite personalities, friendship, love and family—until motherhood rips them apart. From Jenni Ogden, author of bestselling novel A Drop in the Ocean (Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction) comes a compelling family saga set in the Australian tropics and spanning the 1960s to 1990s. Her mother dead from aRead More →

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Corruption, Compassion, and Hope ABOUT THE BOOK From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution—one as an employee; the other, an inmate. It’s 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the NettletonRead More →

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Excerpt and Giveaway A Faith Clarke Mystery Cry of the Innocent by Julie Bates April 11 – May 6, 2022 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis:   April 1774 – Within the colonial capital of Virginia, Faith Clarke awakes in the middle of the night to discover a man savagely murdered in her tavern. Phineas Bullard was no stranger. Faith’s late husband had borrowed heavily from the man and left Faith to struggle to pay the debt.Read More →