Tag: #historical

• The Dead Queens Club Review

  What do a future ambassador, an overly ambitious Francophile, a hospital-volunteering Girl Scout, the new girl from Cleveland, the junior cheer captain, and the vice president of the debate club have in common? It sounds like the ridiculously long lead-up to an astoundingly absurd punchline, right? Except it’s not. Well, unless my life is the…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 7, 2026

  Reviews

  #contemporaryfiction, #hannahcapin, #historical, #inkyardpress, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #thedeadqueensclub, #tudorera, #YA

• Top 5 Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales

  Thrilling, daring, and downright gruesome stories from American history, in graphic novel form.

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 1, 2025

  Top 5

  #alamoallstars, #americanhistory, #civilwar, #coldwarcorrespondent, #graphicnovels, #historical, #koreanwar, #lafayette, #nathanhale, #nathanhaleshazerdoustales, #rachelreads&reviews, #revolutionarywar, #theundergroundabductor, #treatiestrenchesmudandblood, #wildwest, #ww1

• Book Highlight: Before and After

  This is the amazing, heartbreaking and true story of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, a nonprofit orphanage run by Georgia Tann that was quite popular drawing support from prominant families. Celebrities like Joan Crawford and June Allyson had adopted children from the agency. But Tann had been cooking the books, destroying paperwork of its fradulent…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 26, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #ballentinebooks, #beforeandafter, #georgiatann, #historical, #judychristie, #lisawingate, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #tennesseechildren'shome, #theincrediblereallifestoriesoforphanswhosurvived, #thetennesseechildrenshomesociety

• Historical Novels

  Nonfiction Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore This book takes on what should be a more well-known historical case in the history of women’s rights and workers rights. The case of the Dial Girls who slowly poisoned themselves and the managers who tried to willingly ignore their complaints and…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 15, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #abramsbooks, #alangatz, #carolynmeyer, #charlesandemma, #christinadiazgonzales, #clarionbooks, #deborahheiligman, #diaryofannefrank, #dollbaby, #fernschumerchapman, #fiction, #groundbreakingguys, #hattiebigsky, #hattieeverafter, #herhiddengenius, #historical, #inmozartsshadow, #isitnightorday, #katemoore, #kirbylarson, #lauralanemcneal, #lauraresau, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #madametussaud, #mariavirginiafarinango, #mariebenedict, #marybloodymary, #michellemoran, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #queenofwater, #rachelreads&reviews, #refugee, #scholastic, #sourcebooks, #squarefish, #stephaniepeters, #theothereinstein, #theradiumgirls, #theredumbrella, #toddhasaklowy, #wearepower, #yearling, #yesshecan

• Women’s History Books P5

  Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics by Talithia Williams This book doves into a field that I have little interest but still holds amazing forgotten women that basically helped create theories that provide the basis for so many things we have now. Curtained into three neat chapters of The Pioneers, From Code-Breaking to…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 5, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #america'sfirstladies, #andreamurphy, #apprenticepublishing, #beverelybond, #blackgirlsrock, #feminist, #harpercollins, #historical, #inpraiseofdifficultwomen, #karenkarbo, #kathleenkrull, #powerinnumbers, #racepointpublishing, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #talithiawilliams, #thebookofgustywomen, #theclintons, #womenofthepinetreestate, #womenshistorymonth

• Women’s History Month Books P2

  Bad Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple This fun book gives a brief intro to the infamous bad girls of history from biblical figures such as Delilah and Jezebel to murderers like Lizzie Borden and Elisabeth Bálfory to possible innocents such as Tituba from the Salem Witch Trials. At the end of…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 2, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #anathologyofamazingwomen, #badgirls, #becauseIwasagirl, #brazen, #chandlero'leary, #deadfeminists, #feminist, #heidieystemple, #historical, #janeyolen, #jessicaspring, #macmillan, #nonfiction, #penelopebagieu, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #sandralawrence, #sasquatchbooks, #simon&schuster, #women's books, #womenshistorymonth

• Women’s History Month Books P1

  In honor of Women’s History Month, here are some of my favorite nonfic books about historical and some present-day role models who broke boundaries and made (underrated) history.

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 1, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #100badgirlsthroughouthistory, #abramsbooks, #annshen, #bygonebadassbroads, #chroniclebooks, #elenafavilli, #feminist, #francescacavallo, #goodnightstoriesforrebelgirls, #harpercollins, #historical, #jason porath, #mackenzi, #mackenzilee, #nonfiction, #penguinrandomhouse, #present, #rachelignotofsky, #rachelreads&reviews, #rejectedprincesses, #rolemodels, #tenspeedpress, #toughmothers, #women'shistorymonth, #womeninscience, #womenshistorymonth

• The Light of Luna Park and Dreamland Burning Reviews

  Here are two historical novels on little known events to peruse on your own time.

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 26, 2022

  Reviews

  #addisonarmstrong, #dreamlandburning, #historical, #historicalfiction, #jenniferlatham, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #putnam'ssons, #rachelreads&reviews, #thelightoflunapark