historical fiction – Page 2 – Always With a Book

k2reader May 26, 2023

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the finished copy of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into…

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k2reader May 25, 2023

Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark #bookreview

Thank you to TLC BookTours, S&S/Marysue Rucci Books, #partner, for a finished copy of Fellowship Point in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books/ Scribner / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: July 5, 2022 Summary: Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written…

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k2reader May 21, 2023

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Riverhead Books Published: November 1, 2022 Summary: Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she…

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k2reader May 17, 2023

Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner #bookreview

Thank you UpLitReads & Berkley Books #partner, for the finished copy of Only the Beautiful in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Published: April 18, 2023 Summary: A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the…

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k2reader May 12, 2023

Homecoming by Kate Morton #bookreview

Thank you to TandemCollectiveGlobal, Mariner Books, #partner, for a finished copy of Homecoming in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mariner Books Published: April 4, 2023 Summary: Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town…

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k2reader May 7, 2023

Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Algonquin Books, #partner for the finished copy of Dust Child in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Algonquin Books / Hachette Audio Published: March 14, 2023 Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam. In…

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k2reader April 18, 2023

The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani #bookfeature #paperbackrelease

Today, I’m featuring a book that is coming out in paperback today. I happened to read this book last year when it first came out in hardcover and absolutely loved it! Adriana Trigiani is one of my favorite authors and I just adore her books and this one was no exception. You can read my review here. Thank you MB Communications for inviting me to help spread the word about…

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k2reader April 6, 2023

The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner, for the finished copy of The House is on Fire in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: April 4, 2023 Summary: The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and…

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k2reader March 31, 2023

The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you HTP Books & Park Row Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The London Seance Society in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Park Row Books / Harlequin Audio Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art…

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k2reader March 29, 2023

Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Beyond That, the Sea in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 21, 2023 Summary: A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the…

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k2reader March 29, 2023

The Levee by William Kent Krueger #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Levee in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: February 28, 2023 Summary: An audio original novella from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land, The Levee is a powerful, captivating story of a family, a storm, a complicated rescue, and the true cost of survival. It’s 1927, and the…

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k2reader March 20, 2023

Marmee by Sarah Miller #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the advanced copy of Marmee in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: October 25, 2022 Summary: From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of readers. In…

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k2reader March 8, 2023

Weyward by Emilia Hart #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Weyward in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and…

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k2reader March 8, 2023

Lessons in Chemisty by Bonnie Garmus #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book and audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: Doubleday Books / Random House Audio Published: April 5, 2022 Summary: A delight for readers of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. Chemist Elizabeth Zott…

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k2reader March 6, 2023

Goodnight From Paris by Jane Healey #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Get Red PR , #partner, for the advanced copy of Goodnight From Paris in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: In Nazi-occupied France, an American film star takes on the most dangerous role of her life in a gripping novel about loyalty and resistance, inspired by a true story, from the Washington…

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k2reader March 4, 2023

Night Flight to Paris by Cara Black #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Netgalley / RB Media , for the ALC and Soho Crime, #partner for the advanced copy of Night Flight to Paris in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Soho Crime / Recorded Books Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.…

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k2reader February 23, 2023

The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Forever / Hachette Audio Published: September 15, 2020 Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice. England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn’t be…

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k2reader February 5, 2023

Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black #bookreview #audiobook #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Soho Crime / Recorded Books Published: April 7, 2020 Summary: In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times best-selling author of the Aimee Leduc investigations…

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k2reader February 1, 2023

If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi #bookreview

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of If a Poem Could Live and Breathe in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: February 14, 2023 SUMMARY: A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee—many of them never…

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k2reader January 19, 2023

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lindbergh Nanny in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 15, 2022 Summary: Mariah Fredericks’s The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his…

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k2reader January 8, 2023

The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre by Natasha Lester #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Forever/Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forever / Hachette Audio Published: January 10, 2023 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Natasha Lester delivers an unforgettable story of an orphan turned WWII spy turned fashion icon in Paris—perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Fiona Davis. 1943. After…

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k2reader January 6, 2023

If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi #bookfeature #bookexcerpt

Thank you to the St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the gifted copy. Today I am featuring a book I am really excited for that comes out in February – February 14th to be exact! If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi is a novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love and I’m so thrilled to be helping get the word out about this book. This is one of…

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k2reader January 2, 2023

The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: March 19, 2019 Summary: From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is…

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k2reader December 29, 2022

The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable #blogtour #bookreview

Thank you HTP Books / Graydon House, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lipstick Bureau in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Lipstick Bureas by Michelle Gable. Thank you HTP Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Graydon House Published: December 27, 2022 Summary: Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention…

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k2reader December 19, 2022

The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Unknown Beloved in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the print copy. Publisher: Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Published: April 19, 2022 Summary: From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression.…

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k2reader November 30, 2022

Winterland by Rae Meadows #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Winterland in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: November 29, 2022 Summary: Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps…

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k2reader November 24, 2022

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum #bookreview

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Atomic Anna in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: April 5, 2022 Summary: Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past. Three brilliant women. Two life-changing mistakes. One chance to reset…

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k2reader October 31, 2022

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio/Netgalley for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press #partner, for the advanced copy of Hester in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: October 4, 2022 Summary: A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England’s witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne?…

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k2reader October 24, 2022

Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge #bookreview #series #backlistreview

Thank you Kensington Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Murder at Mallowan Hall in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington Books Published: October 26, 2021 Summary: The first in an exciting new historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie! Colleen Cambridge’s charming and inventive new historical series introduces an unforgettable heroine in Phyllida Bright, fictional housekeeper for none other than famed mystery novelist Agatha…

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k2reader October 19, 2022

Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn #bookreview

Thank you to the author/Netgalley for the gifted copy. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: October 11, 2022 SUMMARY: Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race. At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde,…

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k2reader October 11, 2022

COVER REVEAL: The Friday Night Club by Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, & M.J. Rose

I’m thrilled to be part of this cover reveal for THE FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB by Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman and M.J. Rose. I love reading historical fiction and I have read a few books by some of these authors individually and am excited to read this collaborative piece. This book publishes May 16, 2023 and is available for preorder – see the link below. Publisher: Berkley Published: On Sale…

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k2reader October 11, 2022

Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Colburn #bookfeature #guestpost

Thank you to the author/Netgalley for the gifted copy. Please join me in welcoming Jennifer Colburn to Always With a Book. Jennifer’s latest book, Cradles of the Reich, will be published today. I’ll be posting my review of Cradles of the Reich soon, but for now, please enjoy this guest post where she discusses going down research rabbit holes. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: October 11, 2022 Summary: Three…

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k2reader October 6, 2022

The Winter Orphans by Kristin Beck #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased both this book and audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: September 13, 2022 Summary: A poignant and ultimately triumphant novel based on the incredible true story of children who braved the formidable danger of guarded, wintry mountain passes in France to escape the Nazis, from the acclaimed author of Courage, My Love. In a remote corner of France, Jewish refugee Ella Rosenthal…

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k2reader October 3, 2022

The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews #BlogTour #BookFeature

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Belle of Belgrave Square. Thank you Austen Prose for inviting me to participate. I have a book spotlight and excerpt for you today. Publisher: Berkley Romance Published: October 11, 2022 Summary: A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive…

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k2reader September 27, 2022

The Cicada Tree by Robert Gwaltney #bookreview #bookclub

Thank you to GetRedPR, #partner, for a finished copy of The Cicada Tree in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Moonshine Cove Publishing Published: February, 2022 Summary: The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence, dark obsessions are stirred, uncanny gifts provoked, and secrets unearthed. During…

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k2reader September 26, 2022

The Deception by Kim Taylor Blakemore #bookfeature #bookspotlight

Thank you to the author for the gifted copy. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: September 27, 2022 Summary: A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It’s all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell. New Hampshire, 1877. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between…

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k2reader September 22, 2022

The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards & Alyson Richman #bookreview

Thank you HTP Books / Graydon House, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Thread Collectors in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Graydon House Published: August 30, 2022 SUMMARY: 1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if…

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k2reader September 13, 2022

Stolen Remains by Christine Trent #bookreview #series #backlistbook

Thank you Kensington Books, #partner for the advanced of Stolen Remains in exchange for my honest review. I got the audiobook from Scribd. Publisher: Kensington Books / Tantor Audio Published: April 29, 2014 / November 30, 2021 Summary: After establishing her reputation as one of London’s most highly regarded undertakers, Violet Harper decided to take her practice to the wilds of the American West. But when her mother falls…

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k2reader September 10, 2022

The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception by Katherine Cowley #BlogTour #BookFeature

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception. Thank you Austen Prose for inviting me to participate. I have a book spotlight and excerpt for you today. Publisher: Tule Publishing Published: September 22, 2022 Summary: What is a spy willing to do when both her heart and her country are at risk? Life changes…

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k2reader September 7, 2022

The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts From a Page, St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Matchmaker’s Gift in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: September 20, 2022 Summary: From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates…

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k2reader August 16, 2022

Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and Bibliolifestyle & William Morrow Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Switchboard Soldiers in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: July 19, 2022 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I–the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down…

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k2reader August 8, 2022

Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you @GetRedPrBooks & Lake Union Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Where the Sky Begins in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Audible Studios Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: A woman’s future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New York Times best-selling author of The…

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k2reader August 6, 2022

The Heist by C.W. Gortner & M.J. Rose #bookreview #bookseries

Thank you to GetRedPR, #partner, for the finished copy of The Heist in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blue Box Press Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: To catch a leopard wear diamonds. A year after THE BAIT, Ania Throne is on the prowl. Gone into hiding, she’s planned her next move to perfection, intent on winning her dangerous game of cat-against-cat with the Leopard. But Ania doesn’t know that…

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k2reader August 5, 2022

Until We Meet by Camille Di Maio #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and BooksForwardPR & Forever Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Until We Meet in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forever / Hachette Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Summary: A poignant and pause-resisting story of three women whose lives are forever changed by war…. New York City, 1943 Can one small act change the course of a life? Margaret’s job at…

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k2reader August 4, 2022

The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackerman #blogtour #bookspotlight #excerpt

Thank you MIRA/Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Codebreaker’s Secret in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackerman – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA. Publisher: MIRA Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: A brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that…

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k2reader August 1, 2022

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased both this book and audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Berkly Books / Penguin Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Summary: Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend…

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k2reader July 29, 2022

Daughters of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and TLC Book Tours & Harper, #partner, for the finished copy of Daughters of the Occupation in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper / Harper Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Summary: Inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women. On one extraordinary day in…

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k2reader July 28, 2022

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine #bookreview #bookclub

Thank you Libro.fm, #partner for the ALC of Woman of Light in exchange for my honest review. I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: One World / Random House Audio Published: June 7, 2022 Summary: A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina…

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k2reader July 28, 2022

Amazon Original Stories: A Point in Time #bookfeature #bookreview

Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, is pleased to present A POINT IN TIME, seven historical fiction stories by seven very talented authors. One moment can make history How quickly the ground shifts beneath our feet. We make choices—in the face of love, or violence, or necessity—and the effects ripple outward. In these moving short stories, acclaimed authors examine the foundations of the past, uncovering the irreversible…

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k2reader July 27, 2022

A Letter in the Wall by Eileen Brill #bookreview #bookclub

Thank you to GetRedPR, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Letter in the Wall in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Spark Press Published: May 24, 2022 Summary: It’s 1971, and Joan Dumann fears her former business partner wants her dead—but her anxiety is less about dying than it is about feeling disrespected and invalidated. As she constructs a letter about her predicament, she revisits her past. Born…

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