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  • Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer the wartime I love a World War II story about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/25 Edition

    of Natalie Haynes's A Thousand Ships , a woman-centered retelling of events surrounding the Trojan War Samantha is a scholarship MFA student at the progressive Warren University in New England.

  • Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

    memoir details the former American intelligence officer's true story of her family during the Cold War Army Intelligence Officer to lead intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War For more nonfiction spy stories about the Cold War, check out two great books by Ben McIntyre, the gripping Sonya and a book I loved even more, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

  • Review of Skylark by Paula McLain

    fiction, which comes to life through incredible details of life in seventeenth-century and early World War

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/27/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amy Harmon's Revolutionary War-set historical fiction about a young As the Revolutionary War looms, Deborah's large frame allows her to pass as a male and join the Continental

  • Review of Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howard

    Niall Howard's debut is a noir story about the underbelly of life in a post-World-War-II circus, with

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition

    listening to The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin, charming historical fiction set during World War 01 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin The Last Bookshop in London no interest in), Grace heads to her deceased mother's old friend in London to take refuge as World War The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Sports Nonfiction

    , and they can order almost anything they don't have in stock. 01 When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen In When the Game Was War, Rich Cohen shares the gritty back story of the 1987 NBA Global Color Line, about the world's first Black heavyweight boxing champion. 05 Freedom to Win: A Cold War

  • Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads

    my full review of Just Mercy. 03 The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War is a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and the twists double agent for Britain’s MI6, to be appointed Resident in the KGB—and to ultimately help end the Cold War He does an excellent job of immersing the reader in Cold War-era mindsets, priorities, and sometimes

  • Review of The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan

    gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War The Martels run west with the Nazi wolves--finding themselves caught between two ruthless, warring armies fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Last Green Valley, World War II-set historical fiction by Mark tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War The Martels run west with the Nazi wolves, finding themselves caught between the two ruthless, warring fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition

    Be Right Here by Amy Bloom Gazala must be crafty, humble, and alert to get by as a Jew while World War

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly West Virginia Mine Wars presents a historical novel centering around the real-life events of the 1920 and 1921 West Virginia Mine Wars a Lebanese-American doctor (inspired by Taylor Brown's great-grandfather); Big Frank, a black World War

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Click here for my full review of The Humans. 03 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin This World War II-set novel is a love letter to books, to looking out for others, I love a World War II-set book, and I adored The Last Bookshop in London. If you like World War II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/25 Edition

    Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic

  • Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a training college for wartime #1) by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war But the war is raging, leadership is clearly keeping secrets, and working with the ruthless, deadly dragons

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Tessa Harris's recently published World War II-set story Beneath 01 Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris In the newest World War II-set novel by Tessa Harris (author If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 02 The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

  • Review of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

    But when she dives into the book, wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the

  • Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

    There's enough strength, redemption, and beauty amid the World War II suffering to give you warm fuzzies pulling together the Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War then reading Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch last week, I was reminded of Bohjalian's captivating World War tough sometimes--the book is about refugees trying to evacuate west across Germany at the end of World War There's enough strength and redemption and beauty amid the pain and suffering to give you warm fuzzies

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition

    During a con she accidentally summons a djinn warrior, Dara, and the two must flee across the desert Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival

  • Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a magical wardrobe is the only way she can reach him. The gods' war provides the structure for the book's main conflict, but the story feels primarily focused on everyday, regular-human wartime concerns--with an unlikely-feeling god-war and magical letter-sending

  • Review of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

    Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic

  • Review of Boys I Know by Anna Gracia

    Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements

  • Review of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

    The world is unraveling on the cusp of World War II, and three strong women will be tested beyond anything they imagined before the end of the war and the end of the book. My book club read this refreshing twist on one of my favorite historical fiction book topics, World War The Light After the War is another World War II title I recently really liked.

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music

    most popular performers on the planet--and along the way created the background soundtrack for the Civil

  • Review of Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros

    Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War College, but a real-life

  • Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

    It felt conceivable that an unorthodox melding of priorities and futures could occur between the warring

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition

    Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars reading Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre's nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War reading The Invisible Woman, historical fiction from Erika Robuck based on the life and work of World War behind-the-scenes peeks at Cold War intrigue from Ben Macintyre. Here, Fisher considers: the phenomenon of Star Wars, which drew her into its unprecedented whirlwind

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition

    of more and more powerful people, including the king--who is desperate for an advantage in Spain's war

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition

    about her great-great-aunt, an American who led a powerful underground resistance to the Nazis in World War great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups of World War An American PhD candidate in Germany as World War II unfolded, Mildred witnessed the emergence of Nazi

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition

    ) by Rebecca Yarros Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/12/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading John Boyne's novel told in two timelines, World War II and present-day

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition

    to try to avoid coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm listening to The Librarian Spy, World War this link for my review of Andrew Sean Greer's Less. 03 The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin As World War

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us

  • Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

    I loved this post-World War II book about bravery and rural life for middle-grade readers. Betty moves to town and begins to push people around, cruelly setting her sights on Toby, a local World War I veteran who hasn't been the same since the war. Rural life just after World War II, a godawful bully, an odd but lovely area wanderer, a sometimes claustrophobic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition

    widowed swordswoman, and a street-smart young man searching for his disappeared friend just might spark a war

  • Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

    Before the war, she had spied against fascists and anti-communists, Chinese, Japanese, and German; during the Allies; after it, and henceforth, she would be spying against the West, the new enemies in a Cold War Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy is made up of vividly recounted behind-the-scenes peeks at real-life Cold War intrigue from the talented author Ben Macintyre. revelations about clandestine operations and the workings of the Soviet spy network during the Cold War

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/9/24 Edition

    Lost Queen #3) by Signe Pike I loved the first story in this series, The Lost Queen , which offered warriors When book three begins, the story's key characters have been reunited, but the warrior Artúr is myst There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: a noblewoman

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    dark secrets, zany hijinks, and redemption; Beyond That the Sea, historical fiction set during World War relationships, found family, growing up, and balancing two lives, all set against the backdrop of World War That, the Sea tells the story of two families on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean during World War Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements

  • Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition

    #mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. do more: she wants to help the British Control Commission rebuild what they can in Germany after the war --and maybe even help them prosecute war crimes. World War II historical fiction, a tough female protagonist, a mission of uncovering war criminals in For my full review, see Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/23/24 Edition

    But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story.

  • Review of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

    of more and more powerful people, including the king--who is desperate for an advantage in Spain's war

  • Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh

    The story's later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated

  • Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

    It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition

    Quinn's newest historical fiction, based on a real-life Russian bookworm turned sniper during World War Quinn Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is Kate Quinn's most recent historical fiction, a World War

  • Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart

    In 1942, as World War II disrupts the world, Violet is stuck in her family's ramshackle estate when she

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    She is made to be magically "obedient" to her mother, and as such she is incapable of warning others personal and societal circumstances in mid-1800s London and imagining his efforts to teach thievery to his wards the place and time, exposes Victorian London's stark class contrasts, and presents the filthy rabbit warren In Patrick Ryan's literary fiction title Buckeye , which begins before World War II and spans to the war existence in which the population has been cut by more than half, inland seas spread across the

  • Review of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

    Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center of many scenes surrounding the Trojan War listened to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric version of events surrounding the Trojan War

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