Tag: #WWII

“Collector of Burned Boo..

Posted July 4, 2025 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 16 Comments
“Collector of Burned Books” by Roseanna M. White … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     There’s a giveaway for a print copy of The Collector of Burned Books by Roseanna M. White, courtesy of the publisher. (US ONLY!) Enter by using the Rafflecopter link at the bottom of the post. (Contest ends July 11, 2025.) If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for […]

“The Winter Rose” ..

Posted January 14, 2022 by Leslie in Uncategorized / 22 Comments
“The Winter Rose” 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 gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy […]

“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 Woman with the Blue..

Posted May 11, 2021 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 0 Comments
“The Woman with the Blue Star” by Pam Jenoff

Welcome to Takeover Tuesday! About the book…   The Woman with the Blue Star Pam Jenoff On Sale Date: May 4, 2021 9780778389385, 0778389383 Trade Paperback $17.99 USD, $22.99 CAD Fiction / Historical / Jewish 336 pages   From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely […]

“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 […]

“The Curator’s Dau..

Posted March 26, 2021 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 22 Comments
“The Curator’s Daughter” by Melanie Dobson … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!   If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information.    About the book… A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of World War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and—decades later—a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940: Hanna Tillich […]

“The Girl from the Chann..

Posted February 2, 2021 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 4 Comments
“The Girl from the Channel Islands” by Jenny Lecoat

Welcome to Takeover Tuesday!     THE GIRL FROM THE CHANNEL ISLANDS  Author: Jenny Lecoat ISBN: 9781525806414 Publication Date: February 2, 2021 Publisher: Graydon House Books   Summary… An extraordinary story of human triumph against impossible odds   The year is 1940, and the world is torn apart by war. In June of that year, […]

“The Refrain Within̶..

Posted September 29, 2020 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 9 Comments

Welcome to Takeover Tuesday!     If you are the randomly chosen winner, I’ll contact you.   Book blurb… To save a life, would you betray everyone you love? Hungary in 1944 is a dark place. The Nazis have invaded and turned the country upside down, their evil making its way into every life. Clarinetist […]

“If I Were You” by..

Posted July 21, 2020 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 20 Comments

  Welcome to Takeover Tuesday! If you are the randomly chosen winner, I’ll contact you. Blurb… From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award–winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel of sisterhood and self-discovery set against the backdrop of WWII. 1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a […]

“The Black Swan of Paris..

Posted July 2, 2020 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 0 Comments

  THE BLACK SWAN OF PARIS Author: Karen Robards ISBN: 9780778309338 Publication Date: June 30, 2020 Publisher: MIRA   About the book… For fans of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris comes a thrilling standalone by New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards about a celebrated singer in WWII occupied France who […]