by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life....
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review
Summary: A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to...
by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 24, 2020 | Biographical Fiction, Book Review, Historical Fiction
Summary: The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the...