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Catherine Richmond Author Of Two Hearts One Piano

From Catherine's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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I grew up during the Vietnam War. I knew female nurses served in the war zone, but I didn't know there were female reporters on the ground too. Here is their story.

Author Dorothy Love brings 1968 Vietnam to life. Journalist Tallis searches for a big story and for her missing friend. She finds the country ripe with soldiers, doctors, reporters, and locals - all distinctive and suspect. Yet even in the desecration of war, there is beauty, friendship, and love.

If Kristin Hannah's The Women left you wanting more, this is your story!

By Dorothy Love ,

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1 author picked A Season In Saigon as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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"Thoroughly engrossing and atmospheric....A Season In Saigon is a winner." Midwest Book Review1968. When an honest mistake shreds her professional reputation, fashion writer Tallis Reed buys a one-way ticket to Saigon, determined to salvage her career and to make a difference by reporting the war's hidden stories. But in a wary city teeming with refugees and orphans, soldiers and spies, truth is elusive and danger is an ever-present shadow.The last thing she expects is to fall in love with Nick Landry, a doctor volunteering in a remote provincial hospital. Ruggedly handsome and intensely private, Nick has come to Saigon for…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Catherine Richmond Author Of Two Hearts One Piano

From Catherine's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Catherine Richmond Why Catherine loves this book

Five women, friends since college, pack secrets and wounds from a previous trip, and hit the road. I want to call friends and plan out our own drive, but first...I need to read this story again! I have to figure out how this author wove all the threads together to build such suspense!

By Jennifer Klepper ,

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1 author picked The Last Road Trip as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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"Accomplished achronological storytelling with a fabulous final twist."—Kirkus ReviewsTwenty years after tragedy tore them apart, four sorority sisters still can’t say no to sweet Mary Blake Bulloch. Reeling from a public divorce, Mary Blake rallies the group to complete a long-ago road trip cut short by scandal, betrayal, and the death of a Texas oilman’s son.Time hasn’t healed all wounds. Helen's hiding a crumbling marriage. Charlie's haunted by a deathbed promise. Annesley's harboring life-changing news. And Lisa knows her decades-long silence about what really happened that fateful night could cost her everything—and everyone.As the women pick up where they left…


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