A fictionalized account of the Wars of the Roses beginning at the Battle of Tewkesbury largely from Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond’s, point of view. Christopher Urswicke and Reginald Bray, retainers of the countess, work to help Margaret shield her son Henry Tudor from the triumphant Yorkists who are out to annihilate anyone that could […]
Book review: “Uneasy Lies the Crown” by Tasha Alexander
In this, the 13th installation of the Lady Emily mystery series, Colin makes it to the bedside of Queen Victoria who gives him a cryptic message shortly before her death. She passes soon after, making her eldest son Edward VII. On the day of Victoria’s funeral, a man is found dead in the Tower of […]
Book review: “Treacherous is the Night” by Anna Lee Huber
Anna Lee Huber, author of the Lady Darby mystery series, returns with book 2 of her WWI Verity Kent series (book 1’s review can be found here). Now reunited with the husband she once thought lost in the war, Verity Kent begins the monumental task of rebuilding her marriage and putting the war behind them […]
Book review: “Summer I Met Jack” by Michelle Gable
*This review originally appeared in the Historical Novels Review and can be found online here. Alicia Darr arrives in America, a displaced person hoping to find a new life after the war. Her cultured, privileged childhood in Poland is but a distant memory, and she finds part-time jobs to make ends meet. When a roommate asks her […]
Book review: “Daughters of the Winter Queen” by N. Goldstone
*This review originally appeared in the Historical Novels Review and can be found online here. Elizabeth, Louise, Henrietta, and Sophia were the four daughters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I of England, and granddaughter of the executed Mary, Queen of Scots. Members of a family of thirteen children, their childhoods were largely defined […]
Book review: “Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind” by B. Lipska
Director of the NIMH brain bank Barbara Lipska, PhD shares her harrowing journey through recurrent melanoma, this time in her brain and lungs. Already a breast cancer and melanoma survivor, Dr. Lipska is incredibly fit physically, has a loving, stable home live, and thrives in her new position as curator of human brain specimens that […]
Book review: “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis
In “Girl, Wash Your Face”, TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis gives girls, women, mothers, entrepreneurs, working mothers, stay-at-home mothers, and everyone in between a breath of fresh air. Brutally honest, hilarious, and deep on a visceral level – this is female empowerment at its very best. Here, Rachel outlines the top “lies” we women have somehow […]
Book review: “Victoria The Queen” by Julia Baird
Julia Baird has written a fresh and eminently readable biography of Victoria R.I. Here, Ms. Baird recaps the familiar milestones and major relationships of Victoria’s life, but also presents a novel take on many of the most repeated stories and characteristics that were first attributed to Victoria by her male biographers and then parroted innumerable […]
Book review: “Just Sit” by Suky and Elizabeth Novogratz
In my effort to review more books that are good for your body as well as your mind and soul, I read this delightful book on how to get started on daily meditation practice when you feel like a meditation flunky. And believe me, I’ve felt like a meditation flunky for quite some time! This […]
Book review: “Rules of Magic” by Alice Hoffman
In this prequel to “Practical Magic”, readers are taken into the childhood of “the aunts”: Francis and Jet. Born in New York City, Franny is red headed, tenacious, and serious, while Jet is lovely, quiet, and shy. Their mother Susanna has raised them and their brother Vincent to be as normal as possible, but it […]
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