Spotlights for October 2022

 October was a busy month for new releases and I didn't write a blog for all the new books I read. But here are some spotlights for a few of the books that released in October 2022 and didn't get the full book blog treatment: 

Station Eternity- Mur Lafferty

Release Date: October 4

Rating: 📚📚📚

A science fiction spoof on the murder mysteries where there's that one person who always happens across dead bodies no matter where they go. Mallory Viridian runs away from the human race to Station Eternity to keep humans safe, only to have humans, murder, and chaos follow her to space.

The Women of Rothschild- Natalie Livingstone

Release Date: October 24

Rating:📚📚📚📚

A well-written and well-researched book on the English branch of the Rothschild family, following the women of the family (by blood and by marriage) across the 19th and 20th centuries. If you are looking for a book that covers social, political, and religious experiences of a Jewish family in England  over centuries and how change slowly happens, as well as watching how women could wield power in the shadows of a male dominated society, this is definitely a book to check out.

Murder at Balmoral- Chris McGeorge

Release: October 25

Rating: 📚📚📚

When King Eric of England dies under suspicious circumstances on Christmas, only one of the Royal family could have poisoned him. Friend and Royal Chef Jonathan is tasked with figuring out who did it before the authorities arrive in this closed room mystery whose dark side some may like, others will definitely not, and the timing of which must be under review by the publishers.

Revolutionary Samuel Adams- Stacy Schiff

Release: October 25

Rating:📚📚📚📚

A well written, well researched biography of a little known American Founding Father, Samuel Adams may be hard to pull from the shadows because he left little written work behind, but others certainly left plenty of their opinions written about him! Whether the truth behind what others believed Adams the mastermind of will probably never be fully known, this is certainly a biography every American interested in history should read.   

Brave Hearted- Katie Hickman

Release: October 25

Rating:📚📚📚📚📚

Well written and well researched, this new book explores the American West and the women who lived there. It wasn't all cowboys, miners, and outlaws- from early missionaries and pioneers in wagons to women following their mining and military husbands to the first hand accounts of Native American women who saw their lands and cultures taken away from them- this book covers the entire range of women of the early American West. Letters and diaries make it personal and touching while Hickman places people and events in historical and social context.

The Woodville Women-Sarah Hodder

Release: October 30

Rating:📚📚📚

A look at three generations of women during a century of medieval England's turbulent history. Elizabeth Woodville, her daughter Elizabeth of York, and her granddaughter Elizabeth Grey moved among the highest circles in England: queens of England and cousins to kings of England, they balanced the political storm of the Wars of the Roses and Henry VIII's court.