Tag: #historicalfiction

“Waiting for Christmas&#..

Posted October 4, 2024 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 10 Comments
“Waiting for Christmas” by Lynn Austin … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along to the publisher.   About the book…   Christmas is descending on New York’s Fifth Avenue, and for the first time in her privileged life, Adelaide Forsythe won’t be swept up in it. She couldn’t […]

“Truth Be Told” by..

Posted June 28, 2024 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 12 Comments
“Truth Be Told” by Patricia Raybon … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along to the publisher.   About the book…   Denver’s newest detective. A garden’s deadly secrets. On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain is mingling bravely at a high-class political fundraiser in […]

“When the Flames Ravaged..

Posted March 22, 2024 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 8 Comments
“When the Flames Ravaged” by Rhonda Dragomir … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along to the publisher.   About the book… Will Faith Perish in the Big Top’s Flames?   Evelyn Benson’s husband perished in the Bataan Death March but not her faith. The World War II Gold Star […]

“The Wings of Poppy Pend..

Posted September 22, 2023 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 20 Comments
“The Wings of Poppy Pendleton” by Melanie Dobson … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.   About the book… In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a […]

“The Girl from the Paper..

Posted August 11, 2023 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 18 Comments
“The Girl from the Papers” by Jennifer L. Wright … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.   About the book… Inspired by one of America’s most notorious couples, Bonnie and Clyde, Jennifer L. Wright delivers a riveting tale set during the public enemy era of the Great Depression. Beatrice Carraway has […]

“Ladies of the Lake̶..

Posted July 28, 2023 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 22 Comments
“Ladies of the Lake” by Cathy Gohlke … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!   If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.   About the book… After two young women’s deep bond is torn apart, what will it take to bring them together again? In The Ladies of the Lake, the beloved author of Saving Amelie and Night Bird Calling returns with […]

“The Year of JubileeR..

Posted June 2, 2023 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 6 Comments
“The Year of Jubilee” by Cindy Morgan … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!   If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.   About the book… The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s. The Mockingbird family has always lived peacefully in Jubilee, Kentucky, despite […]

A Hundred Crickets Singing by ..

Posted May 20, 2022 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 16 Comments

Welcome to Friday Reads!   You can enter by using the Rafflecopter link at the bottom of this post. (Contest ends May 27, 2022.) If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.   About A Hundred Crickets Singing… In wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the […]

“Chasing Shadows” ..

Posted June 18, 2021 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 14 Comments
“Chasing Shadows” by Lynn Austin … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!   If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information.    About the book… For fans of bestselling WWII fiction comes a powerful novel from Lynn Austin about three women whose lives are instantly changed when the Nazis invade the neutral Netherlands, forcing each into a complicated dance of […]

“The Last Bookshop in Lo..

Posted April 27, 2021 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 0 Comments
“The Last Bookshop in London” by Madeline Martin

Welcome to Takeover Tuesday!   The Last Bookshop in London Madeline Martin On Sale Date: April 6, 2021 9781335284808, 133528480X Trade Paperback $16.99 USD, $21.99 CAD Fiction / Historical / WWII 320 pages   About the Book… Inspired by the true World War II history of the only bookshop to survive the Blitz, a sweeping […]