SCCCLD Book Challenge

This story is based on the author's grandmother.  The story begins in Italy in the early 1900s.  Enza is the oldest daughter of a large ...

On November 22, 1963 President Kennedy and the First Lady travel to Dallas, Texas.  Mrs. Kennedy is dressed in the now iconic pink Chanel-st...

Book discussion started off the year with a terrific read. This book combines two factual things--the Pack Horse Librarian program of FDR...

Also by the author Jayne Castle / Janye Ann Krentz. Venetia Milton is a photographer and her family is having financial problems ever sin...

This story takes place in January 1945 in the last few months of World War II.  It tells the story of a Prussian family trying to evacuate f...

This is a story of three women, Renate Baur, Ilse von Fisher, and Ilse's daughter Ava.  The story is told from Germany in the 1930s and ...

This is a World War II story that takes place in England.  It is written with a lighter tone and humorous characters.  Mrs. Braithwaite is a...

Josef, a young man studying medicine, and Lenka, a young art student, meet and fall in love and marry in Prague shortly before World War II....

This was a book discussion read. One of Andrew Wyeth's most famous paintings in "Christina's World." Andrew spent some twe...

This is an historical fiction book based on real people and events during World War II in France.  Claude Auzello is the director of the Rit...

What an intriguing book!!  We all know the story of Anne Frank.  David Gillham takes this part of history and writes a "What if ?"...

The Stars Are Fire is a strange little book that reeled me in despite myself. I started out the book not really care much for it. I found...

This historical fiction novel takes place in 1936 in Kentucky.  The author uses a program created by President Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky ...

The Winter Guest is a fiction World War II story told in the present and the past.  Twin eighteen year old sisters are raising their three y...

This is a fictionalized story of the Lizzie Borden murders. It is told from the points of view of Lizzie, her sister Emma, the Bordens' ...

This is a story of two women in two time periods in England.  Cara Hargraves is an apprentice antiques dealer who is recently divorced.  She...

Kicked out of her parent’s home after getting pregnant by a German officer during WWII, sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to give up her baby...

This story has two themes, the civil rights struggle in Jackson, Mississippi and a family’s struggle with an aging grandmother battling...

Having 3 different authors put their voices together to create this novel was an interesting premise. I enjoyed the historical part of ...

This novel takes place in 1943 at the height of World War II in Berlin, Germany.  It tells a story of survival in a city of mostly women in ...