Category: Reviews
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Top Hist Fic Picks for March 2023
March is springtime for me, the perfect time to bring new life (new books) into the world! This month we have TWO Paper Lantern Writers with new releases in their historical fiction series. Jonathan Posner’s new book, The Lawyer’s Legacy, is the origin story for one of the characters in his Witchfinder’s Well series. (March…
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A Viscount’s Vengeance
Author Edie Cay’s Regency Romance series has a new book! Pearl Arthur and Lord Andrepont are back in A Viscount’s Vengeance, and this time they are the stars of the show. Pearl is the sister of the boxer we met in the first book, product of a variety of foster homes and certainly not the…
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Ten Historical Novels Set in Libraries
February is National Library Lover’s Month. I’m a loyal Friend of the Library at my local branch, and I love libraries! It seems fitting, then, to share books that are set in libraries. There are a lot of them, though, so I’ve narrowed it down to ten historical novels set in libraries. Check out these…
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Top Hist Fic Picks February 2023
For those who think February is all about Valentine’s Day, I’ve included some romances. Looking for Black History Month reads? I’ve included some African-American titles, too. BEST COVER Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs (February 2) “A heroine with a generous spirit, an unshakable will and a dragon’s fury.” H. M. Long I love the colors…
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5 Books That Impacted My Life
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes This is the first historical novel I remember reading, and it began a long love affair with the genre. It was a Newbery Medal winner (1944) that was required reading in my eighth grade reading class. At first, it seemed unlikely that I would love it. A book published a…