The Coffee Pot Book Club
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The official blog of Historical Fiction author, Mary Anne Yarde, and home to The Coffee Pot Book Club. Come and join Mary Anne on the hunt for everything historical, as well as mythological. Oh, and let's not forget the odd book or two! Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy.
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5h ago
A word from Ellie
Today is an extraordinary day as author Heather Robinson grants us an exclusive glimpse inside her amazing book, Blood Moon. You definitely don't want to miss out on this book, so grab your copy today!
Blood Moon
By Heather Robinson
Publication Date: 24th March 2024
Page Length: 221 Pages
Genre: Ancient World Historical Fiction
AD80
Blood Moon continues the story of Maia Secunda, a waif of Pompeii, an enigma.
Maia, Cletus and Emrick are now fugitives of the state and must escape the guarded city walls of Roma. Capture will mean death.
Cletus would ..read more
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1d ago
The Viola Factor
By Sheridan Brown
Publication Date: 14th February 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
Pages: 231 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
"The Viola Factor" takes place at a time when the country faced division and growth after the American Civil War. Viola Knapp Ruffner (1812-1903) struggled with what was just and fair, becoming a little-known confidant for a young black scholar from Virginia. But Viola was much more than a teacher; she was a mother, wife, game-changer, and friend. With her mother's dying wish, a young woman alone, she left her New England roots. This is ..read more
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2d ago
The Embroidered Book
By Kate Heartfield
Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: HarperVoyager
Page Length: 627 Pages
Genre: Historical Fantasy
‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that’s all’
1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette.
The sisters are alone, but they are not powerless. When they were only ..read more
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2d ago
Find Me in the Stars:
a Cévenoles Sagas novel - Book Two of the Huguenot Trilogy
By Jules Larimore
Publication Date: 20th March 2024
Publisher: Mystic Lore Books
Page Length: 328 Pages
Genre: Renaissance Historical Fiction / Women’s Fiction
Separated by miles, connected by the stars, two healers forge their destinies in a quest for a brighter tomorrow.
Inspired by a true story, this refugee's tale of sacrifice, separation, and abiding love unfolds in the Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1697. A sweeping adventure during the time of Louis XIV's oppressive rule and persec ..read more
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3d ago
Flight of Dreams
By Ariel Lawhon
Publication Date: 23rd February 2016
Publisher: Anchor
Page Length: 317 Pages
Genre: Historical Thriller
On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast navigator determined to win her heart; a naive cabin boy eager to earn a permanent position; an impetuous journalist who has been blacklisted in her native Germany; and an enigmatic American businessman with a score to settle.
Over the course of three ..read more
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3d ago
Yellow Bird’s Song
By Heather Miller
Publication Date: March 19th, 2024
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 370 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rollin Ridge, a mercurial figure in this tribal tale, makes a fateful decision in 1850, leaving his family behind to escape the gallows after avenging his father and grandfather’s brutal assassinations. With sin and grief packed in his saddlebags, he and his brothers head west in pursuit of California gold, embarking on a journey marked by hardship and revelation. Through letters sent home, Rollin uncovers the unrelenting legacy o ..read more
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4d ago
The Book of Doors
By Gareth Brown
Publication Date: 15th February 2024
Publisher: Bantam
Page Length: 416 Pages
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Because some doors should never be opened.
New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her best friend, Izzy. Then a favourite customer gives her an old book. Full of strange writing and mysterious drawings, at the very front there is a handwritten message:
This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door.
Cassie is abo ..read more
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4d ago
The Lost Letters of Aisling
By Cynthia Ellingsen
Publication Date: 1st April 2024
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Page Length: 302 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rainey’s grandmother makes a startling request: Take me home. To Ireland, the country she fled post–World War II. Though they’re inseparably close, Rainey knows few of her grandmother’s secrets. Until they arrive at Aisling—the majestic estate on the southern coast of Ireland where her grandmother was raised—and Rainey discovers a collection of seventy-year-old letters in a trunk.
Dublin, 1945. The Ge ..read more
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5d ago
Say You Swear
By Meagan Brandy
Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Orion
Page Length: 528 Pages
Genre: New Adult Romance
If she isn't mine in the end, I'll still be hers.
It's torture, but it's true...
For years, I've dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant.
It didn't matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, my future was clear, and he was it.
Until suddenly, he wasn't.
Now there's a new man in my life, one who isn't afraid to go after what he wants, and what he wants... is me.
They say first lo ..read more
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5d ago
The Women
By Kristin Hannah
Publication Date: 6th February 2024
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Page Length: 472 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative paren ..read more