History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography  Publisher: Basic Books Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 353 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt.         One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name.               In The Cleopatras , historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander th...

Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of King Henry VIII Author: Linda Porter Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography  Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: 2024 Pages: 418 Source: Personal Collection  Synopsis: The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536-37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Her life had been dramatic even before she became queen and it would remain so after Henry's death. She hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, and died shortly after giving birth to her only child in Sept...

The Murderous Misses of Concord (Concord Mystery #1) Author: Elizabeth Dunne Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery & Suspense Publisher: Level Best - Historia Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 258 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: In Concord, Louisa May Alcott farms pigs after success with Little Women, but as New England's freezing winter approaches, death isn't far away. Concord's Misses, armed with wit and elegance, money and secrets, are present when Miss Emily Collier dies at her forty-second birthday party. Louisa is embroiled in the intrigue. They will lie to her, set traps, and blackmail to avoid justice. And Louisa is now an outsider in what was once her home. To test her mettle, local Justice of the Peace Captain Briers, a man compromised by lust for one of the Misses, enlists her to bring order to the twisted loyalties, land feuds, and secrets fuelling a seditious desire for revenge not seen in Middlesex County since the witch...

Kill Her Twice Author: Stacey Lee Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Suspense Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 400 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl .        LOS ANGELES, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically everyone, especially the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu when they discover a body one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills home where she lived after her fame skyrocketed.       The sisters suspect Lulu’s death is the result of foul play, but the police don’t seem motivated to investigate. Even worse, there are signs that...

  Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe  Author: Denny S Bryce and Eliza Knight Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 386 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe.  One woman was recognized as the premiere singer of her era with perfect pitch and tireless ambition.        One woman was the most glamorous star in Hollywood, a sex symbol who took the world by storm.        And their friendship was fast and firm…      1952: Ella Fitzgerald is a renowned jazz singer whose only roadblock to longevity is society’s attitud...

Jackie Author: Dawn Tripp Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Random House Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 497 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention.       The world has divided my life into three:       Life with Jack       Life with Onassis      Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.        My life is all of these things, and it is none of these things. They continue to miss what’s right in front of them. I love books. I love the sea. I love horses. Children. Art. Ideas. History. Beauty. Because beauty blows us open to wonder. Even the beauty that breaks your heart.        Jacki...

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age Author: Kathleen Sheppard Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Book Release Date: 2024 Pages: 310 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork for Egyptology.      The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration.      ...