Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls is a history lesson and a good read all wrapped up into one fat, but not too fat, book. She takes us back to World War II, just at the part where things heat up. Caroline, a New York socialite with a family heritage of helping the unfortunate, works at the French consul, hurrying up visas for panicked people [...]
Continuing with Mormon authors this week, I present The Rules in Rome by A.L. Sowards. The story begins when a pack of Allied soldiers ambush a German officer’s car bounding along the road in Italy. As the men examine the dead officer now slumped in the seat, they notice how thoroughly he resembles one of their own, Bastien Ley. Daringly, Bastien assumes the dead [...]
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