Istanbul, 1938: Theodora has been left alone with a governess while her swashbuckling treasure hunter father goes off on a mysterious mission. Theodora seems doomed to boredom, but when her governess runs off with all her money and her old flame Huck turns up with a strange story about her father being in danger, things …
Isn't the cover pretty on this book? Well, don't be fooled, it's really Dickensian and dark. Iris dreams of learning how to paint, but spends her days with her twin sister Rose making dolls. Not just any dolls, but dolls that often look like people's dead children in a store in Victorian London that is …
It's the early 60's and two girls meet and become best friends at an elite girls school. Eve comes from old money in Atlanta, while Daniella has been raised Methodist but has a Jewish father. When they befriend one of the maids at the school who is black and plan to join a sorority together, …
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In True Freedom, Michael Dean tells the story of America in it's infancy and the events that lead up to the break with Great Britain and the gaining of independance. It follows the course of events over almost 2 decades, taking in historical figures from Thomas Young, Samuel Adams, John Wilkes and Thomas and John …
The Need by Helen Phillips Molly is a scientist and a mother of two who recently found some strange things on the site where she and her colleagues are digging up plant fossils. The objects seem everyday, but each has a slight impossible difference and none of them should be where they were found. As …
Set in 1950's Tehran and bookended with parts set in modern day America, this is a beautiful love story set in a time of political upheaval. Roya is a teenage girl who loves to step into the paper and pencil shaving secented world of the stationery and bookstore near her school. There she meets Bahman, …
When I was growing up, I think every girl was given a copy of Little Women, Louisa May Alcotts 1868 book about four sisters coming of age under their Mother or Marmee's care and wisdom during the Civil War. It was a huge best seller in it's own era and remains a classic beloved by …
Stephanie Spence's book Yoga Wisdom has so many stories in it. It celebrates the way that yoga as a practice centres us and helps us find ourselves and navigate life's darker times. The thread that holds this book together is Spence's own story. A woman who was outwardly successful, with a fabulous magazine pubishing job …
So many of my friends have come to me for dating advice over the years, and so much of what I said to them seemed shocking somehow. Women are given some really unrealistic expectations about dating, men and relationships. When I got an email from Kai Nicole about sharing her book with you, I almost …
Continue reading Relationship Advice: How to “Date Like A Woman” by Kai Nicole.
As someone who loves to read the odd True Crime book and listens to My Favorite Murder, I have of course read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Aware that he stated that his book was all true, and was explosive in it's time leading to a film adaptation as well, I was aware that Capote …
