"Royal Mistress" ~ Richard III Tour by Anne Easter Smith

SUMMARY :From the author of A Rose for the Crown and Daughter of York comes another engrossing historical novel of the York family in the Wars of the Roses, telling the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the final and favorite mistress of Edward IV.Jane Lambert, the quick-witted and alluring daughter of a silk merchant, is twenty-two and still unmarried. When Jane’s father finally finds her a match, she’s married off to the dull, older...

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"World Without End" by Ken Follett ~ The Movie

OVERVIEW :Based on Ken Follett's epic novel of the same name, this eight-hour mini-series set in the Dark Ages finds England preparing for a prolonged war with France as the Black Death descends on Europe. As the war drums begin to beat, Caris and her lover Merthin defy both the church and the crown by forming a sovereign community in Kingsbridge. Meanwhile, an assassin targets the king, and a devastating development threatens to hinder the arrival...

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"The Last Runaway" by Tracy Chevalier ~ Poignant & Powerful

  SUMMARY: New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement.In New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier’s newest historical saga, she introduces Honor Bright, a modest English...

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Books In The Mail This Week! Mostly Murder...

     Happily, I received a dual book from Grand Central/Hachette Publishing called "The Abbey" and "The Outsider."  I love fast paced murder mystery/suspense and these seem to fit that bill.  This author first started out as a self-published ebook author...with over 750,000 copies of his book selling!!  Now, it's in print.  I'm so excited to read both of the books. Here's a brief tidbit on...

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"Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker" by Jennifer Chiaverini ~ Disappointing

 SUMMARY : New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the extraordinary friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who won her freedom by the skill of her needle, and the friendship of the First Lady by her devotion.In Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, novelist Jennifer Chiaverini presents a stunning account of the friendship that blossomed between Mary Todd Lincoln and her seamstress,...

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"Seduction" by M. J. Rose

SUMMARY :In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo’s beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, Hugo began participating in hundreds of seances to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with the likes of Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus—and even the Devil himself. Hugo’s transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. Or so it was believed. Recovering from her own losses,...

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"Last to Die" Rizzoli & Isles Novel by Tess Gerritsen

 SUMMARY : For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane...

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"The Uninvited" by Liz Jensen ~ Weird and Wise, Wildly Recommended!

 THE SUMMARY : A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger's...

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Weekly Book Haul~Decidedly Eclectic Group!

 This is a very strangely placed picture of my haul this week, which was a bit weak, I think.  Didn't get the ordinary heavy stack of books, but I'm not complaining since there's plenty of good stuff here for me to plough through.    And here's another view which was less satisfying to me, but which will give you a peek inside of the mess of some of the books I have stacked on my library table behind the sofa, and a...

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