B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / enemies to lovers / murder mystery / shipboard6 Comments
Elaine Tracy wins a luxury cruise to Las Palmas for her fiancé and herself. They quarrel, and Elaine breaks off the engagement but decides to go on the cruise alone. Attractive and unattached, once on board she inevitably draws a certain amount of masculine attention and for her the holiday ... more >
B Reviews Category / Book Reviews1960s / Auschwitz / Australia / bookseller / family relationships / Historical / Holocaust / Hungary / Jewish characters / older woman/younger man3 Comments
Can one unlikely bookshop heal two broken souls? It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can’t make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he’s ever met–she’s passionate, brilliant, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown’s first bookshop. Despite the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / 1970s / activism / non-fiction / prisoner of war / Vietnam / War / Military2 Comments
The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / astronaut / Fly Me to the Moon series / forced-marriage12 Comments
Houston, Texas, 1965 When an accident rocks the American Space Department, threatening the race to the moon, the agency is determined to eliminate distractions, including those in the bedroom. Astronaut Dean Garland, on track to become the first man to walk in space, is fine with putting a temporary hold ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1960s / astronaut / Fly Me to the Moon series / Marriage-in-Trouble / military hero / novella1 Comments
Houston, Texas, 1965 Margie Dunsford relishes her role as the leader of the astronaut wives. With her children away and her guests canceling, she faces a terrifying prospect: an entire Thanksgiving weekend alone with her husband. Mitch knows the fire has gone out in his marriage, but he fears if ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / 1970s / 1980s / autobiography / female writers / feminism / Hollywood / non-fiction / television / widow4 Comments
Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings, she was literally “the only woman in the room.” In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered ... more >
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