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These Is My Words
Fiction
Ann Ronald

These is My Words

These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 Arizona Territories Nancy E. Turner, author of These is my Words, turns a scattering

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Fiction
Sunny Solomon

Point of Honour

For those readers who love historical fiction and especially stories from Regency England, look no further. Madeleine E. Robins has written in Point of Honour

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These Is My Words
Historical Fiction
Sunny Solomon

These is My Words

These is My Words has been out since 2008, so my wholehearted two thumbs up for this book may seem a day late and a

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

Blood & Beauty

Blood & Beauty retells the story of the Borgia family’s rise to power at the height of the Italian Renaissance. The novel begins on August

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British Authors
Ann Ronald

The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests Sarah Waters’ NeoGothic ingenuity astonishes me. With every novel she writes, she tweaks my inner Charlotte Bronte, my inner Emily Bronte, my

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In Dependence
Reviews
Ann Ronald

In Dependence

IN DEPENDENCE The title of Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s novel, In Dependence, captures the thematic subtleties presented in its pages. Is twentieth-century Nigeria seeking independence, or

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The Boxcar Children Beginning
Children’s early and middle readers
Sunny Solomon

The Boxcar Children Beginning

The Boxcar Children, No more parents – guilt-free! Do you remember Gertrude Chandler Warner‘s book The Boxcar Children? Remembering it because you bought it for

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Historical Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Birth of Venus

A pattern is emerging.  I seem to be revisiting authors I’ve already reviewed for “Bookin’ with Sunny.”  Now I’m going back to their earlier books

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

In the Name of the Family

IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY I am a great fan of historical novelist Sarah Dunant.  When I wrote a “Bookin’ with Sunny” review of

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radio girls
Fiction
Ann Ronald

Radio Girls

RADIO GIRLS and the early days of the BBC Sarah-Jane Stratford blends facts with fiction in Radio Girls, a novel describing the earliest days of

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Biography
Ann Ronald

One Glorious Ambition

One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix An author of biographical fiction makes a number of critical decisions. The more that is known

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Reviews
Ann Ronald

Night Watch

Night Watch presents an intricate literary puzzle, where multiple characters and their lives interlock together, creating an unexpected back-lit photograph of London in the 1940s.

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