The Help was an insightful, sometimes disturbing look into a time and place now history. The characters carried the story and brought up emotions that are unforgettable. It's a good read from a past best left in history.
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film-a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't-nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's…
This book, although written many years ago, was fascinating into the author's belief (it's non fiction) that John Wilkes Booth didn't die as history says. He escaped and lived a long life under an assumed name. I want to believe it could be possible but the author makes it clear that he does believe it, that he knew the man who was once John Wilkes Booth. It provided detailed history of the time and a very personal look into what might have been.
The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth is a book written by Finis L. Bates that explores the controversial theory that John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, did not die in a shootout with authorities but instead escaped and lived out the rest of his life under a false identity. The book presents evidence and eyewitness accounts to support the theory that Booth was able to flee to Texas and later to Enid, Oklahoma, where he died by suicide in 1903. Bates, a lawyer and historian, spent years researching and gathering information to support his…
A delightful read and historically accurate. The fictional heroine lives and moves in what was a very real world during the Revolutionary War. The author brings that time to life with detail and precision. It was a book that kept me reading to see what happened next.
A vivid, propulsive Revolutionary-era thriller with the spy-craft verve of the streaming hit TURN: Washington’s Spies and the electricity of 1776’s New York that Hamilton lovers will recognize, this story is inspired by the lone female operative in Washington’s spy ring.In occupied New York, a schoolteacher with everything to lose turns information into a weapon, threading between Redcoats and rebels as plots against Washington gather steam. After rogue Redcoats assault her and strip her family’s Long Island farm, Abigail Trench fights to survive in New York City—tutoring in a high-ranking British officer’s Water Street household by day, navigating taverns, informants,…
Three years after Maggie Pierce survived the wreck that claimed her husband's life, she has built a new life, but she’s neither thriving nor happy. Neither is Creed King, a bull riding cowboy and handyman with baggage of his own. She’s urban, and he’s as country as cornbread, but once they meet, the bond between them is strong. Decisions loom large and events will strengthen their relationship or destroy it. If they want to move forward, they’ll have to do it together.
