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The Well-Read Friends Book Club- Guest Speaker-Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls Kate Moore is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls, which won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Best History, was voted U.S. librarians’ favorite nonfiction book of 2017, and was named a Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018 by the American Library Association. A British writer based in London, Kate writes across a variety of genres and has had multiple titles on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her latest book is the critically acclaimed The Woman They Could Not Silence, which, among other accolades, was named runner-up for Best History in the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards and a 2021 Booklist Editor's Choice. The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger... The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lo...

The Maid  is a compelling and quirky mystery about the death of a prominent hotel guest and the maid who finds his body. 25-year-old Molly Gray is proud to be a maid at The Grand Regency Hotel. She finds pleasure in returning hotel rooms back into states of perfection. Cleaning brings her joy, which has been lacking in her life since her Gran died several months ago. Molly enjoys her job--not only because she is good at it, but also because it allows her to be invisible, enabling her to see the guests and the workers at the Regency Grand in a different way. Molly doesn’t understand all that she sees, as she sees the world in a different way than others. I just adored Molly! I loved how Gran gave the pointers that helped her have a more simple life. There was just so much meaning behind this story. I felt that her job as a maid in the Regency Grand Hotel gave Molly a lot of confidence in herself. She loved to clean and she loved her job. In addition to Molly, there is a lovely cast ...

Definitely a long read but a fantastic story! I loved every page of this book. It's an adventure story with roots in Shakespeare and Mythology - and if you think you'd be put off by that, DON'T BE! It's wonderful. It's a tale of two brothers, one 10 years older than the other; and their "friends", some of whom walk through the story for just a few pages, but are memorable just the same. Some cause havoc. Some are meaningful and helpful in profound ways. The brothers, from Nebraska, are headed West to San Francisco to find their mom, who'd abandoned them years before - but first, they go East to New York City in the most marvelous way, full of complications, that you can imagine. #thelincolnhighway   #historicalfictionbooks   #booknerd   #historicalfiction   #amortowles   #readingblogger   #bookstagram   #bookreview   #bookrecommendations

August Book of the Month , The Radium Girls. Summary: The Radium Girls (2016) tells the tragic yet ultimately inspiring story of American female workers in the early twentieth century who endured some of the worst corporate negligence imaginable. Their incredible fight for justice and responsibility continues to be a relevant story to this day. My thoughts: I found this book very different from anything I've ever read previously. It evoked such emotion with the details it revealed throughout and was both highly readable and thrilling. These women deserve to be recognized for the huge sacrifices they made, all they asked was the same as most of us do now - a steady job with money coming in, yet, what they got turned into something else entirely. Kate Moore did exactly what she set out to do by writing a truly honest and heartbreaking tale of these incredibly brave and shining women whose lives were taken for granted by the greedy radium companies. They knew of the harm radium could ...

Whoa! I Freaking loved The Four Winds by  @kristinhannahauthor  ❤️ 📚 As soon as I started reading this book, I could not stop. We’ve been taught about the Great Depression and the dust storms that changed the lives of so many, but so much is left unsaid about how it really was. You see pictures but those are still-life moments that can’t ever describe the pain and sorrow these people went through. This book does that for you. You meet Elsa, who by the standards of that time, is not pretty or deserving of love. She has a vision of her life, but seems to be knocked down by so many who don’t think much of her, but even through those struggles, she perseveres. It shows how people are in poverty, living in makeshift tents and treated like dirt, but still show others kindness. It talks about rising up against those who want to break you and treat you unfairly. I cried reading this book and by the end, I was so emotional. This book makes you think about if you would’ve been that str...

My weekend read… The Tobacco Wives Summary: North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history. “A beautifully rendered portrait of a young woman finding her courage and her voice.”—Lisa Wingate,   #1   New York Times bestselling author Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital of the South—where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle of the crisply uniformed female factory workers, the palatial homes, and, most of all, her aunt’s glossiest clientele: the wives of the powerful tobacco executives. But she soon learns that Bright Leaf isn’t quite the carefree paradise that it seems. A trail of misfortune follows many of the women, including substantial health problems, and although Maddie is quick to believe that this is a coincidence, she inadvert...