If a Poem Could Live or Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love Author: Mary Calvi Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: 2023 Pages: 320 Synopsis: A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary . Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published― If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy. Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and
The Secret Book of Flora Lea Author: Patti Callahan Henry Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Atria Books Release Date: 2023 Pages: 364 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis : When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed. In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone—a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own. But the unthinkable happens when young Flora suddenly vanishes while p