Posted in audiobook, book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged audiobook, banned books, fiction, harper lee, historical fiction, historical fiction reading challenge, pulitzer prize, sissy spacek, to kill a mockingbird on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Fiction, Published 1960
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – 1961
Read Sept-Oct 2008
5/5
From the Cover:
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South — and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird [...]
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Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged fiction, historical fiction, historical fiction reading challenge, letters, mary ann shaffer and annie barrows, the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Historical Fiction, Published 2008
5/5
From the Cover:
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a [...]
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Posted in books, challenges, ebook, reviews, tagged anne of green gables, anne's house of dreams, childrens fiction, fiction, historical fiction, historical fiction reading challenge, initials reading challenge, l.m. montgomery on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables Series #5
Fiction, Originally Published 1917
E-Book from MobileRead
Read Aug.-Sept. 2008
4/5
From the Cover:
Anne’s own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be [...]
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Posted in book review, books, challenges, reviews, tagged diary, fiction, historical fiction, historical fiction reading challenge, letters, nancy e. turner, sarah agnes prine, these is my words on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine,1881-1901 – Arizona Territories by Nancy E. Turner
Historical Fiction, Published 1998
Read June-July 2008
5/5
Arizona Author Award, Willa Cather Literary Award Finalist
From the Cover:
A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author’s own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and [...]
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Katherine by Anya Seton
Historical Fiction, Originally published 1954
Read April-May 2008
4.5/5
From the Cover:
This classic novel tells the most romantic love story in British history – the true love tale of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of much of the British royal family. It is set in the vibrant 14th-century [...]
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