Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird – 399 pages ARC courtesy of St. Martins Press in exchange for my honest opinion Book Blurb: Though born into bondage on a “miserable tobacco farm” in Little Dixie, Missouri, Cathy Williams was never allowed to consider...
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Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland
Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland – 353 pages Book Blurb: Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old...
The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers – 288 pages Book Blurb: When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living...
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
The Indigo Girl by Natalie Boyd – Audio Book Blurb: The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his...
Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House by Katheen Grissom – 370 pages Book Blurb: This new, stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white...
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim– 229 pages Book Blurb: Growing up under the tender care of Mattie, Lisbeth adopts her surrogate mother’s deep-seated faith in God, her love of music and black-eyed peas, and the tradition of hunting for yellow crocuses in the early days...
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman
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...
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian
The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian- 336 pages ARC courtesy of NetGalley Book Blurb: When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for...
Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate by Letty Cottin Pogrebin- 296 pages Book Blurb: Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he'll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African American activist grappling...
Slave and Sister by Sabra Waldfogel
Slave And Sister by Sabra Waldfogel– 367 pages Book Blurb: Adelaide Mannheim and her slave Rachel have grown up with a shameful secret. Adelaide’s father is Rachel’s father, too. Their secret shadows their girlhood together and follows them into Adelaide’s marriage....