Synopsis: “She revolutionized fashion and built an international empire . . . all on her own terms. Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her sisters are sent to a convent orphanage after their mother’s death. The nuns of the order nurture Gabrielle’s exceptional sewing skills, a talent that would propel the willful young woman…
Blurb: 4* – I Really Liked It! – The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is gorgeous, lyrical, yet brutal and intense. I truly understood what life was like in the 1960’s for the Prices, a missionary family living in the Congo in the 1960’s. I pick up these books set in other cultures to get a true sense of…
Synopsis from Goodreads: “Baby Rocket” is the name of a child who, in 1966, was abandoned by her suicidal mother and later found by a policeman in the seat of a children’s rocket ride on Cape Canaveral. The novel is the story of this child’s (Clementine Dance) adulthood discovery of an abandonment she does not…
Synopsis from Goodreads: “London 1957. In a bid to erase her past and build the family she yearns for, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious British diplomat, Lucien Grainger. When he is posted to New Delhi, into the glittering circle of ex-pat high society, old wounds begin to break open as she is…
Synopsis from Barnes & Noble: “Written by Norbert L. Mercado, the author takes us on a journey of possibilities about the tragic story of the last Romanov family – that of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra – after the end of World War I and the Russian Revolution.” My Thoughts The Kindle version of this…