It is July 1853 and the plucky young Elisabeth (known as Sisi), Duchess of Bavaria lives happily with her family in the wild countryside.
The Witness Wore Red
Every once in a while, I come across a book that is so gripping that I can’t put it down.
My Name is Mahtob
When I was in high school, I became fascinated by Betty Mahmoody’s autobiographical work Not Without My Daughter. In reading that particular book until it literally fell apart, I found a strength in the author that I admired exceedingly. I tried to look at the situation through an objective lens and to take everything in a fact-by-fact basis.
The Taming of the Queen
The thirty-one-year-old Kateryn Parr is recently the widow of John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer and she has come to the royal court.
The Nightingale
It is present day Oregon and an elderly widow lives alone. While we are not told her name, we find that she has just recently sold her house and that she is going to be placed in an adult care facility at the behest of her son, Julien.
The Midwife’s Revolt
Lizzie Boylston, our heroine stands on the threshold of her home as she watches her husband, Jeb, depart for war.
The Curiosity Keeper
Camille Iverness lives with her father in a curiosity shop [Iverness Curiosity Shop] on Blinkett Street in London.
The Miniaturist
The year is 1686 and Petronella Oortman has arrived in Amsterdam, the glittering utopia city with pomp and splendor.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
We have all seen that mysterious painting, the one known as “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” the seventeenth-century masterpiece of Johannes “Jan” Vermeer. One can even go so far to say that “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is “the Dutch Mona Lisa,” as some have taken to calling it.