A Dictionary Of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton – 292 pages Book Blurb: When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn’t believe him. Her grandson and her daughter, Yuko, perished...
Georgia by Dawn Tripp –336 pages Book Blurb: Georgia O’Keeffe is a young woman, painting and teaching art in Texas, when she travels to New York to meet Alfred Stieglitz, the married gallery owner of 291, modern art promoter, and photographer. Their instantaneous...
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman – 472 pages Book Blurb: Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy, Jew-hating streets of East London in search of a better life. But Abe’s visions of a privileged apprenticeship in the Sassaporta...
Sisi: Empress On Her Own by Allison Pataki – 464 pages ARC from The Dial Press in exchange for an honest review. Book Blurb: Married to Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth—fondly known as Sisi—captures the hearts of her people as their “fairy queen,” but beneath that...
The Dressmaker’s War by Mary Chamberlain – 314 pages Book Blurb: In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill, and dreams of a better life for herself. That life seems to arrive when Stanislaus, an Austrian aristocrat, sweeps Ada...
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave – 432 pages ARC from NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Book Blurb: It’s 1939 and Mary, a young socialite, is determined to shock her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort. She is assigned as a...