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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

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

, 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading Now I'm reading Down Comes the Night, a young adult fantasy story featuring magical healing and warring ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women in the wars That We Knew--featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War

witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during World War

Brooks-Dalton This gorgeously written postapocalyptic climate-fiction story offers up a future in which civilization The shadow of real-life global warming and weather changes add to the power of the story, and the touch

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

I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists, and especially female pilots I sometimes think that I'm about to max out on World War II historical fiction.

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

Sara Nović is also the author of Girl at War and the illustrated nonfiction work America Is Immigrants

Sheriff Brody Dern must face his own postwar demons when he confronts a Native American World War II

There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: Elvar, But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story.