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The Powerful Woman Behind Winston Churchill

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Lady-Clementine-Marie-Benedict.jpg With the publication of Lady Clementine (Sourcebooks Landmark), Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman in the Room, (read our review here) provides readers a story so beautifully written and filled with historical fact and colorful fiction it becomes almost impossible to put down until the…
Carole Claps
January 6, 2020
Fiction

“Faith on Fire” During a Difficult Time in American History

I was pacing nicely through Faith on Fire: Thy Will Be Done (Gatekeeper Press), Deborah Curtin’s intriguing historical fiction novel about a family torn apart during the Civil War in which the protagonist is modeled after the author’s real-life great grandfather. I was busy seeing the pieces come together, nodding…
Jim Alkon
January 6, 2020
Nonfiction

Tragedy on the Baseball Diamond – 100 Years Later

In a beautiful historic Cleveland cemetery that includes the gravesites of President James A. Garfield, John D. Rockefeller and Eliot Ness among others, the grave of Ray Chapman, some 100 years after his death, is one of the most frequently visited. Ray in many ways was just an ordinary guy …
Jim Alkon
December 1, 2019
Fiction

Pursuing the Dragon Lady in Italy, London and Rhodesia

Louisa Treger's The Dragon Lady (Bloomsbury) offers a nuanced perspective on British and African cultures during precarious times, the 1920s through the 1950s. It’s a wonderful mystery, love story and odyssey, all rolled into one. What's even more incredible is that this story is based on a real person. Yes,…
Claudia Keenan
August 13, 2019