Discovered this book to be surprisingly heartwarming and interesting. I found myself growing attached to the characters and looking forward to the "knitting circles" at Hennie's house. The intricate stories interwoven with Hennie's and Nit's lives were at times humorous and at others tragic. Sand...
I liked reading the background stories of each individual character in this book -- the skeletons they had hidden and the theme of the white snow in the Denver Rockies. It was snow that killed but also snow that symbolized purity in spite of the "sins" of each character. I like how it was the s...
I was interested to read this book because it was history that actually started its trek from Iowa City. Mormons starting out on a trail similar to the Oregon trail, except this was the Martin hard cart trail. (Pushing all of your belongings in a cart, the people being the oxen).It took 75 pages...
The premise of this book held a lot of promise, but the most interesting part was the author's notes on the historical reference at the end. I stuck with it but honestly, nothing changed as far as our knowledge of the mysteriously killed girl and why she turned to a life of prostitution. The rea...
This was a pleasant read I'd give 3.5 stars. It tells the story of Eliza Spooner whose husband, Will, has joined the Kansas Volunteers to fight the Confederates in 1864. Eliza is sure he will return home and must meanwhile keep the farm going. When a friend named Missouri Ann learns her husba...
If you like books that take place back in 1864, this is the book for you! The Quilt Walk is a historical fiction book. I really enjoyed this book because the author put great detailing in everything and overall, it was an amazing book. Emmy Blue is a young girl who lived in Quincy, Illinois. Her ...
An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions...During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes...
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and ...
Natchez, Mississippi, in 1933 is a place suspended in time. The silver and china is still dented and cracked from Yankee invaders. And the houses have names...and memories. Nora Bondurant is running away--from her husband's death, from his secrets, and from the ghosts that dog her every step. Whe...
Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge. Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie's savvy and wary eye. I...
Very entertaining and human. The Persian Pickle Club is a quilting/sewing club in Kansas during the great drought. The members are almost all farm wives, struggling through with not very much. There is a party line, but not everyone is on it and just a few have cars. Queenie Bean is one of those ...
No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious hus...
“I’M disappointed with Tomi,” Mrs. Glessner told Mom and Pop not long after school started in the fall. Tomi was in the ninth grade; Mrs. Glessner was her teacher again. She had come to the Itanos’ apartment one afternoon to talk about Tomi’s behavior. Pop frowned as he glanced at Tomi. She was s...
The general view in Georgetown was that the girl had a rabbit’s chance of marriage. Some people found her attractive in an odd sort of way—distinctive, at any rate, with her strange coloring. But although she looked much like her mother, Pearl did not have those qualities that Nealie had possesse...