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Sugar and Snails by Sarah Tsiang and Sonja Wimmer My Review A novel twist to a classic rhyme. Who says that little girls are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice?” Or that boys are made of “frogs and snails and puppy dog tails?” What if girls were made ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsDoctor / non-fiction / nurse / War / Military / world warComments Off on REVIEW: Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne by Martin King
A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth. Untold millions who saw and read Band of Brothers can finally know the whole story of what happened to American soldiers and civilians in Bastogne during that arduous Winter of 1944/45. In the ... more >
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The Korean War destroyed their plans, but the battle at home may shatter their hearts… Laura Beth Walters fell in love with Joe McCall when she was six years old. Now she counts the days until Joey graduates from college so they can marry and begin their life together. But ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / First-Person / Historical / Historical fiction / journalism / London / War / Military / World War II9 Comments
An irresistible debut set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist— a warm, funny, and enormously moving story for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girls. London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / doctor hero / dysfunctional family / England / fairy tale retelling / family relationships / France / Historical / Netherlands / painter / War / Military1 Comments
Her life is the inspiration for the world’s most famous story. Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican Navy / England / Historical / inspirational romance / Royal-Navy / Sunrise at Normandy series / War / Military / World War II4 Comments
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a “Wren” in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France–including those of her own family’s ... more >
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