book review
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Thank you to MacMillan Publishers and NetGalley for my advance reader’s copy. All opinions contained herein are my own. In 1780, the triangle/slave trade between the coast of Africa, the US and Caribbean, and England was well-established. Britain maintained a number of forts or at least fortified locations along the western African coast where their
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“They say that when I was born, all the wild geese flew down from the sky, and the fish sank beneath the waves, having forgotten how to swim. Even the lotus flowers in out gardens quivered and turned their heads away, so ashamed they were of their own diminished allure in my presence.” I thoroughly
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The stories that are familiar will always be our favorites. This was another HRCYED challenge pick for me as it was a 2025 Booktube award winner (top 3). I will be honest and say I probably would not have picked this title up without the nudge of the challenge but I’m so glad I did!
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From the founding director of the Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum comes an unforgettable narrative of medicine, courage, and innovation that speaks to both history enthusiasts and medical professionals. This definitive account shows how the medical crisis at Gettysburg continues to influence how we treat mass casualties and train combat medics today. This book, which focuses
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A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. It’s 1915 and Adelaide Henry has decided to leave her parents’ farm in southern California and head north, to claim a homestead of 100 acres,
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When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Pulsing with suspense and intellect while blending nonfiction and fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths
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In this epic and immersive Viking-inspired romantic fantasy, a woman fleeing a ruthless assassin accidentally joins forces with a group of mercenaries and must use all her cunning to escape with her life—and heart—intact. The Road of Bones is the first in the The Ashen series by Demi Winters. This was my November 2024 BOTM
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The Light of Days by Judy Batalion is a nonfiction title that does a deep dive into the history of Jewish women resistance fighters in Poland during World War II. The author pored over stacks of first-person accounts from the survivors or histories told by family and friends after the war was over. The woman
The Emporium of Forgotten Threads 