I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I remember reading a few young adult novels in my teens about musicians and they never were quite what I expected. They were usually either angsty or the author tried really hard to squeeze as many musical terms and knowledge as they could into the thinly-...
In 1854, there aren't a lot of respectable opportunities for young girls in London, so when 17 yr old parlor maid Molly loses her job she can’t face her family. She soon learns a Miss Nightingale is looking for nurses to join her in the Crimea to tend to the soldiers, and Molly decides to go. Mol...
Sasha distanced himself more and more from us, while Kobylinsky did the opposite. The colonel had become a representative of the old regime to the men, and they paid almost no attention to what he said. He became more and more friendly with us, and I began to realize that he would have liked to d...
Maxim 132 “I am expecting an important message from Paris this evening.” On her way to bed after the celebration that night, Madame de Montespan addressed the guard who stood outside the door of her apartments in the château. “It will come by messenger on horseback. Please make certain that he wi...