JaneH180 rated The Signature of All Things: 5 stars
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
" A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times …
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JaneH180 rated A Free Man of Color: 4 stars
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly (Benjamin January, #1)
A lush and haunting novel of a city steeped in decadent pleasures . . . and of a man, proud …
JaneH180 rated Flood of Fire: 4 stars
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh (Ibis Trilogy, #3)
"The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of …
JaneH180 rated Doc: A Novel: 4 stars
Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell
Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the …
JaneH180 rated In the Heart of the Sea: 4 stars
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales in the South Pacific …
JaneH180 rated The Color of Water: 4 stars
The Color of Water by James McBride
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her …
JaneH180 rated My War Experiences in Two Continents: 3 stars
My War Experiences in Two Continents by S Macnaughtan
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 – 24 July 1916) was a Scottish-born novelist. During the outbreak of the First …
JaneH180 rated The Liars' Club: 4 stars
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art …
JaneH180 rated Girl Who Wrote in Silk: 3 stars
Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
Inara Erickson's discovery of an elaborately stitched piece of fabric in her deceased aunt's island estate leads her to the …
JaneH180 rated My Dear Hamilton: 4 stars
My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in …
JaneH180 rated Ribbons of Scarlet: 4 stars
Ribbons of Scarlet by Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, and 2 others
A story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do …
JaneH180 rated Two Old Women: 3 stars
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River …
JaneH180 rated The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr: 3 stars
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr by Susan Holloway Scott
Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves together carefully researched fact and …
JaneH180 rated As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me: 4 stars
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me by Josef M. Bauer
Originally published in 1955, As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me has seen international success ever since. It has …