The Book: The Savior, by Eugene Drucker
The Story: WWII is wrapping up and Gottfried Keller, a young German violinist, is kind of in a crappy situation. He was exempted from service in the war, so instead he’s been given the job of playing violin for all the wounded soldiers. They pretty much hate him and [...]
The Book: The Doctor and the Diva, by Adrienne McDonnell
The Story: Sometimes I avoid certain historical fiction only because I feel like it tells the same story over and over. This story, I have to say, was totally unique and unlike anything I had read before.
It is the early 1900’s and Erika (an opera singer [...]
The Book: A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
The Story: It’s early-ish 1900’s and Ralph Truitt puts an ad in the paper looking for a reliable wife. He gets a lot of answers, but one of them really strikes him. Through letters and pictures, he and Catherine Land decide to get married. We meet both of [...]
The Book: The Preservationist, by David Maine
The Story: You know this one, I’m sure. Noah builds a boat. Noah gets the animals in two-by-two. Big flood comes and washes everything away. Noah & his family are the only survivors. They re-populate the Earth. There ya go.
This book bounces from perspective to perspective: Noah, his wife, [...]
The Book: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus
The Story: I guess that when the government was trying to “figure it all out” with the Native Americans, they had a big get together where they were discussing what could be done to foster peace between the two groups. One of [...]
The Book: Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
The Story: While he was still living and working in Oak Park, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to build a house for Edwin and Mamah Cheney. It didn’t take long at all for Frank and Mamah to realize that they had a lot in common and start to fall [...]
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
I really, really want to like this book. I have had a thing for Frank Lloyd Wright since we studied him in a class my junior year of high school. I only know a small amount about his personal life, so I was really intrigued by this book since it came [...]
The Book: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, by Robert Alexander
The Story: This is the story of the last weeks of the Romanov family, told through the eyes of Leonka, the kitchen boy. When they were moved to the “House of Special Purpose” during the Revolution, only 5 servants went with them [...]
The Book: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, by Kelly O’Connor McNees
The Story: Most fans of Little Women know at least a little bit of Louisa May Alcott’s history. Her dad was part of a pretty influential group in Concord, but seemed a little nutty about transcendentalism. She had three sisters, who she kind [...]
The Book: Impatient with Desire, by Gabrielle Burton
The Story: Like most people, I had heard of the Donnor Party. I knew that they were in wagons on the way out west, got trapped and ended up eating each other. That is exactly where my knowlege ended.
This book is the story of how this party of [...]