Category Archives: Historical

A Distant Melody

Allie Miller is an average-looking young lady with a beautiful heart. Unfortunately, Allie has never measured up in the eyes of her beauty queen mother. Allie so desires her mother’s approval that she will do anything to gain it, including marrying a man she doesn’t love. While attending the wedding of a friend, however, Allie…

The Mapping of Love and Death

I love a good British mystery novel. And a good British mystery novel set in the fascinating time period following the Great War, World War I, well, all’s the better. A good British mystery novel with rich historical detail, not to mention a good British mystery novel with a smart sleuth who also happens to…

Claude & Camille

Picture a group of men sitting at a cafe table in Paris in the second half of the 1800′s, smoking, laughing and discussing their desires to someday get their work noticed by the art world, and it could be historically accurate to label those men as Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Manet, Bazille, and my personal…

Songbird Under a German Moon

When WWII ended in 1945, much of the world breathed a sigh of relief. Many families were thrilled to know that their husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers would be coming home. Many soldiers, however, had to stay in Europe to stabilize the war-torn region, and Germany was under the military control of the Allies. In…

Her Mother’s Hope

I love Francine Rivers and I’ve loved every one of her books that I’ve read. I first read A Voice in the Wind, immediately followed by An Echo in the Darkness (if you’ve read those two, you can understand why I said “immediately”; if you haven’t, go read them and find out for yourself). The…

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Whether you regularly review books or not, we want to find bloggers with active online communities who want to read and review Fireworks over Toccoa. Click on the title to read my full review that posted

Sons of Thunder

In the past few years, I have read several books by Susan May Warren, and they have all been enjoyable, light-hearted, and funny reads. In her new novel, Sons of Thunder, Susan May Warren delves into the world of historical fiction, and her story captured my attention from the first page (for those of you…

A Wish After Midnight

Fifteen-year-old Genna is too smart, too dreamy, too tall, too dark, and too much of a loner. Like most fifteen-year-old girls, she’s trying to figure out who she is and who she wants to be. Also like most fifteen-year-old girls finding a boyfriend gives her some self-confidence. Like Gemma, Judah is different. He’s a rastafarian,…