Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman

There is a lot packed into this novel, but it is so good and for me it was a very fast read. Ruth Miner is an outcast and has the marks to prove it. The town-folk believing she a witch, has caused her to live truly in the wilderness and care for her grandmother until […]

Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg

This was a fascinating novel. I did not know much about Napoleon before reading this book, and although it is historical fiction, I learned a lot. I also really loved how the author wrote about St. Helena Island. It doesn’t sound as bad as what Napoleon had felt about it, although I guess it would […]

The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew by Denise Heinze

Personal Review: This novel really gives you a lot of historical information in the short novel it is. It was a very good read about the struggles and hardship of the people who ventured to the new world to conquer and start a new in Jamestown. A new settlement that was to bring hope, and […]

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline (ARC – Releases 8.25.2020)

I learned SO much reading this novel! I had no idea that this is what happened with women prisoners – just ship them off to Australia. A completely foreign, unknown country to them. They are sent there to with be incarcerated and if they were lucky they could get chosen for different work details for […]

Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim

Mei Ling cannot believe that today is the day that she is leaving to wed a man she has never met, and to sail to a new country. To the land of gold, California. She is sad, but this will be good for her family, this matchmaker is well known for what she does and […]

The Ship’s Carpenter by D. E. Stockman (Tween Sea and Shore #1)

Abraham, a shipwright has just been let go of his duties with the Royal Navy Dockyard in Woolwich, due to an injury to his hand. He has not been able to find steady work since and often barley finds enough carpentry work to stay fed and a roof over his head. He decides it is […]