The Hired Girl, written by Laura Amy Schlitz
When you're a poor girl who's overworked by your mean father on the family farm, but you're also a girl who loves to read and dream and whose deceased mother challenged you to make a life for yourself, you find a way. The story reminds me a bit of Anne of Green Gables in that it has a young girl living with a family not her own, learning a new way of living. A girl who's a dreamer, but also driven, and a bit of a spitfire who constantly finds herself getting into fixes because she's not awesome at thinking past the moment.
*****
The Memory of You, written by Catherine West
A love life that fell apart, a grandfather with a health scare, and a business-minded dad who she's never good enough for combine to send a young woman off to the winery of her childhood. Painful memories of the past, practical issues in the present, and multiple strained relationships all have to be faced in order for everyone to move forward in a healthy manner.
*****
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions (A Kopp Sisters Novel, book 3), written by Amy Stewart
Based on the Kopp sisters of the early 1900s, as well as several headlines from that time period, the third book in this fictional series finds work and home colliding for Constance Kopp as her younger sister runs away from home. She and her older sister don't always agree on how to handle the situation, but she's trying to treat her family situation in the same level-headed manner she does the other young women she's working with at the jail.
*****
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit (A Kopp Sisters Novel, book 4), written by Amy Stewart
As always, Constance Kopp is advocating for female inmates who have not been treated fairly, specifically one who has been admitted to an insane asylum, as well navigating relationships with her sisters and a community that isn't entirely supportive of having a female deputy. Throw in the fact it's an election year and everything becomes more complicated. This fictional story is based on real people and headlines from the early 1900s.
*****
The White Darkness, written by David Grann
Henry Worsley, a descendant of Frank Worsley, a polar explorer who had traveled with Ernest Shackleton, was a respected man of determination, perseverance, and strong leadership. Reaching the South Pole was a monumental accomplishment for the younger Worsley, but it wasn't enough. His next goal was to walk across Antarctica by himself.
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