SCCCLD Book Challenge

This book caught my eye because it was written by Margaret Truman, President Harry Truman's daughter.  She tells the story of the White ...

When Abdul Karim came from India as a servant for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, he became so much more.  Queen Victoria was a long ...

Very few books make me want to throw it across the room, burn it, then throw it again. Usually, if I don't like a book, it's becau...

I've really enjoyed this book! The author visited all of those U.S. territories that most of us know nothing about including Puerto R...

" How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot in the Caribbean by Providenc...

The Parchment Maze written by Bulgarian author Ludmila Filipova is written in the style of Dan Brown, but set in Eastern Europe.  Vera Kandi...

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is the latest nonfiction work by author Erik Larson.  In Dead Wake, Larson introduces the read...

This book moves back and forth comparing the over-the-top lavish lives of the Romanov's against the poor, starving peasantry which made...

     Inspector Gamache has returned to the village of Three Pines to try and solve a murder that hits close to home. In the beloved local bi...

     Inspector Gamache is on vacation. He has taken his wife to the beautiful and historical Manoir Bellechasse. They have gone there every ...