by Site Owner | Jun 17, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction
A Rose by Another Name By Heather Webb Plume, $15.00, 306 pages Becoming Josephine, a brilliant debut novel by Heather Webb is a sympathetic depiction of one of history’s most remarkable women: Rose Tascher Beauharnais aka Josephine Bonaparte. Ms. Webb chose to imbue...
by Site Owner | May 21, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
By Jennifer Chiaverini Plume, $16.00, 384 pages In the spring of 1861, Lizzie – an outspoken spinster and social progressive – finds herself in the Unionist minority when her native Virginia secedes to join the rebel Confederacy. Forced to hide her...
by Site Owner | May 21, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction
Jazz and Juice in Old New Orleans By Cari Lynn & Kellie Martin Plume, $15.00, 326 pages Cari Lynn and Kellie Martin’s Madam tells the story of the rise of Storeyville, New Orleans’ notorious legal prostitution district in the days of its formation, and...