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Fiona Davis’s “The Lions of Fifth Avenue:” A New York City Mystery of History

In the world’s fastest growing city, where well over a dozen daily newspapers were read by more than five million people, the year 1914 burst forth with the Great War and battles over modernism and women’s rights. While immigrants lived in stifling squalor on the Lower East Side, the lingering…

Claudia KeenanJuly 21, 2020

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1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

“The words ‘knocked up’ … signified disaster on a mythic scale, the termination of respectability, the cancellation of any claim to future success and happiness, an irreversible and public shaming.” While that phrase still carries a certain amount of stigma in 2022, particularly for the young and unwed, it doesn’t…

Chelsea CicconeJanuary 6, 2022

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Serving Girl Forges a New Life for Herself as a Noblewoman in Historical Novel “Irina”

1378, Poland. Irina Kwasniewska, a farmer's daughter and servant girl to a wealthy merchant family, is about to lose almost everything dear to her — and begin an unexpected new life. Pregnant by her benefactor's son, Berek, and turned out of her family's household for it, Irina arrives back at…

Cynthia ConradJune 14, 2021

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Love Triumphs in McBride’s Witty and Moving “Deacon King Kong”

“Deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane; McBride’s ability to inhabit his characters’ foibled, all-too-human interiority helps transform a fine book into a great one.” — The New York Times Book Review “The prose radiates a kind of chain-reaction energy.” — The New Yorker —∞— In partnership with Apple, Oprah…

BookTribJune 17, 2020

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Love and Espionage Have Explosive Consequences in “Atomic Love”

“A novel of science, love, espionage, beautiful writing, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men.” — Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House “A highly-charged love story that reveals the dangerous energy at the heart of every real connection…Riveting.” — Delia Owens, author of…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 17, 2020

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“Red-Letter Days:” A Tale of Artistic Subversion During the McCarthy Era

Red Letter Days (Berkley) by Sarah-Jane Stratford is a vivid portrayal of artistic life during the Red Scare and the challenges women screenwriters faced in the era's entertainment industry. It is also a witty and harrowing tale of intrigue, friendship and romance. Phoebe Adler is making her way as a…

Jessica McEnteeFebruary 11, 2020

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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 ClapsJanuary 6, 2020

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Breaking Out of Emotional (and Actual) Captivity

For 13 years, sisters Luella and Effie Tildon have never left each other’s side. When the unthinkable separates them, can they each survive without the other, and can their mother Jeanne overcome the grief of losing them? In The Girls With No Names (Park Row), author Serena Burdick weaves a…

K.L. RomoDecember 27, 2019

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“The Vineyards of Champagne” Is a Bubbly Historical Romance

In a second storyline, Lucie Marechal and her family lose everything with the invasion of the Germans during World War I. They build a new life in caves found beneath the Champagne Region in France. With neatly woven and suspenseful stories bridging the lives of two women protagonists who lived…

Mary Ann RyanJanuary 11, 2020

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War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Inspired by the team of women pilots who trained soldiers in the second World War, Noelle Salazar's The Flight Girls (MIRA) innovatively weaves the struggles of misogyny, trauma and platonic relationships with the paradoxical truth of war’s powerful capacity to both fracture relationships and bring individuals together. Seldom are readers…

Emily WolfeJune 26, 2019

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Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

We’ve all heard about “the luck of the Irish.” But what about their suffering? Even in Ireland, history lessons barely discuss the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. Textbooks include the blight but don't detail the suffering and anguish caused by the scourged potato crops. Omitted is the trauma…

K.L. RomoMarch 4, 2019

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Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

A fresh, new and exciting tale of espionage, The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books) by Pam Jenoff is engaging historical fiction that follows three women all at different stages in their lives but brought together in crazy twists of fate. For Grace, World War II is over (it's 1946)…

Meagan FoyJanuary 16, 2019

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“The Masterpiece:” NYC’s Grand Central as One of the Stars

Today Fiona Davis' own narrative work of art, The Masterpiece (Dutton) comes out in paperback. To celebrate, we revisit the intricate story and informative interview with the author. Today’s radiant Grand Central Terminal belies the nadir of its seventh decade when decay, crime, and overreaching developers threatened its existence. Thanks…

Claudia KeenanJuly 8, 2019

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“The Henna Artist” Paints the Challenges Women Faced in Post-Colonial India

"This vivid story is rich and complex!" —Reese Witherspoon Set in post-colonial India, The Henna Artist (MIRA), Alka Joshi’s debut novel, exposes a society hobbled by a rigid caste system, misogyny, superstition and age-old traditions. The smell of sandalwood, cooking fires, and tropical flowers wafts through it all, but…

Sherri DaleyMay 20, 2020

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This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

For the month of November, all chapters of the Girly Book Club are reading On a Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell. Here’s our review: April 15, 1912. Lifeboat 21 saves a mere 12 lives instead of the 65 it was built to hold. This is not just another tale…

K.L. RomoNovember 13, 2018

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Tall Poppy Review: Capturing a Time, an Emotion, and Your Attention

There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…

Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021

Fiona Davis’s “The Lions of Fifth Avenue:” A New York City Mystery of History

1960s Historical Fiction Holds Up a Mirror to Current Reproductive Health Challenges

Serving Girl Forges a New Life for Herself as a Noblewoman in Historical Novel “Irina”

Love Triumphs in McBride’s Witty and Moving “Deacon King Kong”

Love and Espionage Have Explosive Consequences in “Atomic Love”

“Red-Letter Days:” A Tale of Artistic Subversion During the McCarthy Era

The Powerful Woman Behind Winston Churchill

Breaking Out of Emotional (and Actual) Captivity

“The Vineyards of Champagne” Is a Bubbly Historical Romance

War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

“The Masterpiece:” NYC’s Grand Central as One of the Stars

“The Henna Artist” Paints the Challenges Women Faced in Post-Colonial India

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

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