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TLC Book Tours: All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani

It’s a tour day today, and I have Adriana Trigiani’s latest release, All the Stars in the Heavens! drey’s thoughts: All the Stars in the Heavens is the story of a young woman who’s told her calling...

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Review: Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

Alinor is poorer than poor, married, with two almost-grown children. She’s the lowest person on her village’s totem pole as her husband is missing, and everyone knows that women with missing husbands...

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Review: Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

TL;DR – Yellow Wife is the heartbreaking story of life, sacrifice, and expectations torn by the whims of fate, set in an 1850s plantation and an infamous slave jail. Read it. Pheby Delores Brown is...

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Review: The Zookeeper’s Daughter by Anna Stuart

Anna Stuart’s The Zookeeper’s Daughter is a heartbreaking tale of loss and resilience. In modern-day Berlin, Bethan Taylor has just started her new job at the Berlin Zoo. She’s excited not only for the...

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Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

I picked up The Underground Railroad for its title and subject matter, not knowing that the aforementioned railroad is a LITERAL railroad. Locomotives, with steam engines and all. So, not historically...

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Review: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Boschwitz’s The Passenger takes place after Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) in Berlin. Otto Silbermann is a Jewish businessman who’s a bit worried about what’s going to happen – whether things...

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Review: The Widows of Champagne by Renee Ryan

I’ve always been drawn to WWII stories & movies, and The Widows of Champagne is the 2nd that I’ve picked up this year. This story of 3 generations of women figuring out how to make it through the...

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Review: The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas

TW/CW: Sexual abuse, suicide I’d always known that in our not-that-distant past, women were consigned to the asylum or “mad house” by their fathers and husbands when they didn’t conform to society’s...

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Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

I picked up Dread Nation at an Audible 2-for-1 sale because I’ve been listening to audiobooks while walking the doggo, and it looked like an interesting read. Zombies? Check. Racial tensions? With a...

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Review: The Woman at the Front by Lecia Cornwall

The Woman at the Front is a historical fiction featuring a stubborn, smart, female doctor. Eleanor Atherton is a doctor in a time where women were only expected – nay, allowed – to bear children (and a...

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