Biographical Archives

5-STAR REVIEW: FINDING MARGARET FULLER by Allison Pataki

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 20 March 2024

Publication Date: March 19, 2024 A “sweeping” (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America’s forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation—from the New York Times bestselling author of The...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THAT DICKINSON GIRL by Joan Koster

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 8 March 2024

Forgotten Women: Book 1 Publication Date: November 15, 2022 She's going to be the greatest orator of the Civil War. Eighteen-year-old Anna Dickinson is nothing like the women around her, and she knows it. Gifted...

5-STAR REVIEW: DISTANT SECRETS by Richard L Cole

Biographical Amy Wilson - 11 May 2023

Publication Date: February 14, 2023 Do you ever wonder who you really are? Richard Cole was front page news a few weeks after his birth in 1944, but this was something he never...

4-STAR REVIEW: HER LOST WORDS by Stephanie Marie Thornton

Historical Fiction JoAnne - 27 March 2023

Publication Date: March 28, 2023 1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the...

5-STAR REVIEW: By Her Own Design By Piper Huguley

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 7 June 2022

Publication Date: June 7, 2022 The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE LAST QUEEN By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Biographical Amy Wilson - 10 May 2022

Publication Date: May 10, 2022 WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! LONGLISTED for 2022 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD! She rose from commoner to become the last...

INTERVIEW: With Award-Winning Author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 9 May 2022

Today we welcome award-winning and amazingly talented author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni to answer our probing question about her upcoming novel, The Last Queen, releasing tomorrow! Delivering a book with such rich historical...

5-STAR REVIEW: BOOTH by Karen Joy Fowler

Biographical Cheryl Holt - 5 May 2022

Publication Date: March 8, 2022 From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the...

4 STAR AUDIO REVIEW: BREAK SHOT: MY FIRST 21 YEARS by James Taylor

Biography/Memoir Jen K - 28 February 2022

Publication Date: January 31, 2020 Narrator: James Taylor "I’m James Taylor and I’m a professional autobiographer," says the celebrated folk singer at the start of this tender audio memoir. Through decades of music...

BOOK BLAST: SALVATION by Avery Caswell Plus Giveaway!

Biographical Dayna Linton - 8 October 2021

Publication Date: September 15, 2021 No one ever talks about what happened … Summer 1971, Del Munro, a single mother of four, is struggling to make ends meet when Mother Franklin, a traveling evangelist,...

4-STAR REVIEW: SALVATION by Avery Caswell

Biographical Amy Wilson - 8 October 2021

Publication Date: September 15, 2021 No one ever talks about what happened … Summer 1971, Del Munro, a single mother of four, is struggling to make ends meet when Mother Franklin, a traveling evangelist,...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE LIMITS OF LIMELIGHT by Margaret Porter

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 4 October 2021

Publication Date: September 14, 2021 Pretty Oklahoma teenager Helen Nichols accepts an invitation from her cousin, rising movie actress Ginger Rogers, and her Aunt Lela, to try her luck in motion pictures. Her...