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- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Lauren Goff's novel The Vaster Wilds begins in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s. fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s historical significance, and potential power of being linked to dragons, It's also a steampunk, mid-1800s
- Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
British Isabella Bird explored the wild, rugged western United States in the late 1800s, and she journeyed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition
Women in the 1200s aren't given much freedom, and she must wrest her power from her father, her husbands
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition
Bird Isabella Bird was a British explorer of the western United States in the late 1800s, and she journeyed
- Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Lauren Goff's novel The Vaster Wilds begins in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s. fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s It's also a steampunk, mid-1800s Nordic setting for some radical rethinking of nonsensical, destructive As Lauren Grodstein's We Must Not Think of Ourselves begins, it's November 1940, and Adam Paskow is one
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition
I'm listening to In Memoriam as an audiobook. 03 Grey Dog by Elliott Gish It's 1901, and Ada Byrd has
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition
Newman's nonfiction book about motherhood, Waiting for Birdy. 02 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Greta sits in her 1700s
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
06 Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a gothic story set in 1700s It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà.
- Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Talented needleworker Isobel and her husband leave Scotland for America in the early 1800s.
- Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Greta sits in her 1700s Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York transcribing sessions for a local New Age
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures her a revered role in a counterculture 1950s Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s She grew up in a cold, strict British boarding school in the early 1800s.
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s She grew up in a cold, strict British boarding school in the early 1800s.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/3/22 Edition
Hester, talented needleworker Isobel Gamble and her husband leave Scotland for America in the early 1800s
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
Turner’s book These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (despite the title, which
- Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt
and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women might do or say in the year 1400
- Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
In the mid-1600s, the family living in The Bridge is readying for a royal visit, but there seems to be
- Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas
Plateau on foot, and making first ascents in Chad's Ennedi Desert and Antarctica's Queen Maud Land. 05 1000 by Michael Ochs This book is a few years old, but the collection of cover art from albums from the 1960s through 1990s highlights an often-overlooked art form perfect for music lovers. perusal for the vinyl lover in your life. 06 The Only Woman by Immy Humes The Only Woman is made up of 100
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
some one of these but striving to be the other--striking out into the West in the first half of the 1800s
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New
- Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
Greta sits in her 1700s Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York transcribing sessions for a local New Age
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New
- Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
British Isabella Bird explored the wild, rugged western United States in the late 1800s, and she journeyed aspect of the novel is based on the true story of the destruction of the town of Iola, Colorado, in the 1960s In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
duology; Retribution Rails is the second. 02 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Greta sits in her 1700s Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York transcribing sessions for a local New Age In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year
and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women might do or say in the year 1400 Now Zott is a chemist in 1960s California on an otherwise all-male staff at Hastings Research Institute
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women might do or say in the year 1400
- Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Talented needleworker Isobel and her husband leave Scotland for America in the early 1800s.
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
some one of these but striving to be the other--striking out into the West in the first half of the 1800s
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
(I didn't love that one quite as much.) 02 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901