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• Review: Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth

  

  Description (from cover): 'The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife. Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

  

  Description (from cover): When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section o... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In My Mailbox (Mar. 24)

  

  Cute Meme hosted by The Story Siren.. Received from NetGalley: 1. Whack Job--Kendel Lynn (Elliot Lisbon Mystery #2) 2. The Midnight Witch--Paula Brackston 3. Th... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth

  

  Description (from cover): 'The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe

  

  Description (from cover): 'An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband in the Union... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Death Overdue by Mary Lou Kirwin

  

  Description (from cover): 'The case of the killer case? Ropes, revolvers, daggers, arsenic...They are the classic, go-to murder weapons, from Christie to Clue.... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Benjamin Franklin's Bastard by Sally Cabot

  

  Description (from Publisher): 'An absorbing read and compelling work of literary historical fiction, set in Colonial Philadelphia, that brings to life a... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Harlot's Tale by Sam Thomas

  

  Description (from cover): 'When a string of fallen women and adulterers are murdered, midwife Bridget Hodgson embarks on a dangerous hunt for a ruthless... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Dyeing Wishes by Molly MacRae

  

  Description (from cover): 'Kath Rutledge's grandmother left her a charming fiber and fabric shop, a close-knit group of needlework lovers, and a... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas

  

  Description (from cover): 'From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy to the seamy lives of desperate women, Fallen Women, illuminates the darkes... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In My Mailbox (Mar. 3)

  

  Cute meme hosted by The Story Siren... Received from NetGalley: 1. Murder by the Book--Julianna Deering (Drew Farthering Mystery #2) 2. Queen Elizabeth's... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck

  

  Description (from cover): 'Everything in the ward seemed different now, and I no longer felt is calming presence. The Fitzgeralds stirred something in me that... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: India Black and the Gentleman Thief by Carol K. Carr

  

  Description (from cover): 'India Black's double life operating a high-class brother and running high-stakes espionage for Her Majesty's government can take its... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The New Countess by Fay Weldon

  

  Description (from cover): 'England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne, as well as their entire regal estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Long Live the King by Fay Weldon

  

  Description (from cover): 'As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: the Dilberne fortune has been restored by the recent marriage of Arthur... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Pecan Pies and Homicides by Ellery Adams

  

  Description (from cover): 'Her Charmed Pie Shoppe is open for business, but baker Ella May LeFaye is about to discover solving a murder is not as easy as pie... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Board Stiff by Kendel Lynn

  

  Description (from cover): 'As director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island, South Carolina, Elliot Lisbon scratches her detective itch by... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: Park Lane by Frances Osborne

  

  Description (from cover): 'When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position a... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Review: The Vanishing Thief by Kate Parker

  

  Description (from cover): 'Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as an... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In My Mailbox (Feb. 3)

  

  Cute meme hosted by The Story Siren... Received from NetGalley: 1. The Mangle Street Murders--M.R.C. Kasasian (Gower Street Detective #1) 2. The French... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE