Have you ever chosen a book from the title and the cover's art work alone? Well, that is how I chose this one. I had no idea what the story was about when I began. Now that I have finished it, what I take away is how the people we meet have the power to completely change the direction of our li...
This story, of historical fiction,was written about the cruise ship S.S. Kroonland on a 9 day voyage from Antwerp to Ellis Island (near New York), near the turn of the 20th century, a little before the time of the Titanic.The German author found her inspiration from a newspaper clipping about a b...
This book is one of the most beautifully write, lyrical novels I've read in a long time. Binkert has a way of making the characters come alive that is so rare in modern writing. She delves into the era of the Titanic, but does so in a way that is new and fresh. The novel is based on a real wom...