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Queens of London is fascinating historical fiction that explores the gritty underbelly of post-World War In post-World War I London, female lawlessness in the form of the Forty Elephants gang of women, an offshoot story with a speculative twist, set against the backdrop of the trudging, brutal destruction of World War brother Freddie in the confusion, relentless mud, and grim destruction of the Great War. The slog of fighting and of the horrifyingly deadly war is conveyed with vivid, crushing, uncomfortable

ICYMI: Shattuck offers faulted protagonists and a fascinating, complicated set of factors in her World War Jessica Shattuck's The Women in the Castle felt different to me than many of the other World War II books They're trying to cobble together their lives during and after World War II, and the tone and the angle For more World War II stories, check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II and search the blog for many other World War II titles.

Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire. 02 The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn The war debut is a doorstop of a book at 558 pages, and the story sweeps through time from the 1920s to World War She trains as a psychologist, with a wartime interlude as a nurse, before turning her keen eye for detail

In Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, she shares the story of a real World War II figure, a Russian “Because people love war heroes…but even in my own beloved homeland, war heroes are supposed to be clean This time she tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female Later in the war, on a trip to America to boost support for the Russian fight against the Nazis, Mila

There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: Elvar,

historical fiction story in two timelines, one on The Titanic and one centering around a female spy in World War for her family, works aboard The Titanic, while the later timeline takes place in the time of World War

Now I'm reading The Circus Train, Amita Parikh's upcoming novel set in a 1920s circus world as World War Circus Train, a young woman with circus in her blood struggles to find her place in the world as World War An encounter with an orphaned boy leads to a treasured friendship, but as World War II builds around The first stirrings that will lead to World War I are taking place around the edges of her world.

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour In the newest World War II-set novel by Tessa Harris, it's 1930, and Jewish ballet dancer Lilli Sternberg It's action-driven World War II intrigue, and it's a quick, compelling read. If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II.

I was interested in both of Martin's World War II storylines. As World War II explodes, Ava is safe and cozy in her job at the Library of Congress. But a surprise job offer from the US military leads her to Lisbon--opening her eyes to wartime difficulties truth behind what ends up being a shocking surprise to Ava late in the book regarding others' true wartime might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War

You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs circumstances to become a bounty hunter seeking out those who bet illegally on the worldwide phenomenon Warcross Warcross is a teen dream: the intersection of immersive video gaming (à la Ender's Game) and romaaaaaantic I've been putting Marie Lu series (Legend, The Young Elites, and Warcross) into my son's hands for years

I do love historical fiction, and my World War II focus has been pushing out all others in my book club you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War traces the inspiring events from her mother’s incredible experiences before, during, and after World War ; in Naples as they adjusted to post-war floods of food, fashion, and joy; as they found themselves in For my full review, please see The Light After the War. 03 The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd This

Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital full review of White Houses . 03 The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason The Winter Soldier  is a World War Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe. The details of World War I injuries and methods of treatment were fittingly grim and sometimes gruesome , but Mason's writing is beautiful and evocative, conveying the cold and brutal nature of war and loss

caused by nefarious magicians) and a less-than-promising beginning (Robin Blyth's first day in his civil

From captivating natural landscapes to striking wartime images, from bustling city scenes to quiet moments Only Woman features unknown and famous women who are astronauts, conductors, writers, railway workers, civil

Webb's historical fiction novel about a female gang and a female police officer clashing after World War listening to Shark Heart: A Love Story as an audiobook. 02 Queens of London by Heather Webb In post-World War

recent Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 01 Miss Graham's and provides fascinating details of life in Germany at the end of World War II. has a degree in German (and, more importantly and unbeknownst to her, an old connection to a hunted war The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. peeks at real-life Cold War intrigue from the talented author Ben Macintyre.

witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during World War Kuang is also the author of Babel and The Poppy War trilogy.

We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein Grodstein tells a poignant, powerful story of the Warsaw begins, it's November 1940, and Adam Paskow is one of the thousands of Jews newly imprisoned in the Warsaw In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer the wartime I love a World War II story about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War

memoir details the former American intelligence officer's true story of her family during the Cold War Army Intelligence Officer to lead intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War For more nonfiction spy stories about the Cold War, check out two great books by Ben McIntyre, the gripping Sonya and a book I loved even more, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War The Martels run west with the Nazi wolves--finding themselves caught between two ruthless, warring armies fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Last Green Valley, World War II-set historical fiction by Mark tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War The Martels run west with the Nazi wolves, finding themselves caught between the two ruthless, warring fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War

There's enough strength, redemption, and beauty amid the World War II suffering to give you warm fuzzies pulling together the Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War then reading Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch last week, I was reminded of Bohjalian's captivating World War tough sometimes--the book is about refugees trying to evacuate west across Germany at the end of World War There's enough strength and redemption and beauty amid the pain and suffering to give you warm fuzzies

listening to The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin, charming historical fiction set during World War 01 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin The Last Bookshop in London no interest in), Grace heads to her deceased mother's old friend in London to take refuge as World War The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop

The world is unraveling on the cusp of World War II, and three strong women will be tested beyond anything they imagined before the end of the war and the end of the book. My book club read this refreshing twist on one of my favorite historical fiction book topics, World War The Light After the War is another World War II title I recently really liked.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amy Harmon's Revolutionary War-set historical fiction about a young As the Revolutionary War looms, Deborah's large frame allows her to pass as a male and join the Continental

my full review of Just Mercy. 03 The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War is a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and the twists double agent for Britain’s MI6, to be appointed Resident in the KGB—and to ultimately help end the Cold War He does an excellent job of immersing the reader in Cold War-era mindsets, priorities, and sometimes

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Tessa Harris's recently published World War II-set story Beneath 01 Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris In the newest World War II-set novel by Tessa Harris (author If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 02 The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

Click here for my full review of The Humans. 03 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin This World War II-set novel is a love letter to books, to looking out for others, I love a World War II-set book, and I adored The Last Bookshop in London. If you like World War II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II.

Niall Howard's debut is a noir story about the underbelly of life in a post-World-War-II circus, with

, and they can order almost anything they don't have in stock. 01 When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen In When the Game Was War, Rich Cohen shares the gritty back story of the 1987 NBA Global Color Line, about the world's first Black heavyweight boxing champion. 05 Freedom to Win: A Cold War

Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars reading Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre's nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War reading The Invisible Woman, historical fiction from Erika Robuck based on the life and work of World War behind-the-scenes peeks at Cold War intrigue from Ben Macintyre. Here, Fisher considers: the phenomenon of Star Wars, which drew her into its unprecedented whirlwind

Reading Now I'm reading the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a training college for wartime #1) by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war But the war is raging, leadership is clearly keeping secrets, and working with the ruthless, deadly dragons

Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing

I loved this post-World War II book about bravery and rural life for middle-grade readers. Betty moves to town and begins to push people around, cruelly setting her sights on Toby, a local World War I veteran who hasn't been the same since the war. Rural life just after World War II, a godawful bully, an odd but lovely area wanderer, a sometimes claustrophobic

elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly West Virginia Mine Wars presents a historical novel centering around the real-life events of the 1920 and 1921 West Virginia Mine Wars a Lebanese-American doctor (inspired by Taylor Brown's great-grandfather); Big Frank, a black World War

Before the war, she had spied against fascists and anti-communists, Chinese, Japanese, and German; during the Allies; after it, and henceforth, she would be spying against the West, the new enemies in a Cold War Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy is made up of vividly recounted behind-the-scenes peeks at real-life Cold War intrigue from the talented author Ben Macintyre. revelations about clandestine operations and the workings of the Soviet spy network during the Cold War

about her great-great-aunt, an American who led a powerful underground resistance to the Nazis in World War great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups of World War An American PhD candidate in Germany as World War II unfolded, Mildred witnessed the emergence of Nazi

Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements

#mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. do more: she wants to help the British Control Commission rebuild what they can in Germany after the war --and maybe even help them prosecute war crimes. World War II historical fiction, a tough female protagonist, a mission of uncovering war criminals in For my full review, see Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook.

But when she dives into the book, wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the

Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a magical wardrobe is the only way she can reach him. The gods' war provides the structure for the book's main conflict, but the story feels primarily focused on everyday, regular-human wartime concerns--with an unlikely-feeling god-war and magical letter-sending

Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War College, but a real-life

to try to avoid coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm listening to The Librarian Spy, World War this link for my review of Andrew Sean Greer's Less. 03 The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin As World War

of more and more powerful people, including the king--who is desperate for an advantage in Spain's war

most popular performers on the planet--and along the way created the background soundtrack for the Civil

There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us

) by Rebecca Yarros Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War

dark secrets, zany hijinks, and redemption; Beyond That the Sea, historical fiction set during World War relationships, found family, growing up, and balancing two lives, all set against the backdrop of World War That, the Sea tells the story of two families on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean during World War Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements

Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center of many scenes surrounding the Trojan War listened to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric version of events surrounding the Trojan War