The "Train Through Time" series is a five-book, time travel, science fiction-romance saga. Each of the five books in the series focuses on the story of a different, young woman who gets on a train in the 21st Century, but falls asleep and awakens in the very early years of the 20th Century, penniless and "scandalously" miss-dressed. Leggings, shorts, and yoga pants are not what ladies wore in Edwardian society. In each book, the heroine is rescued from her dilemma by a young man, but the two do not live happily ever after until overcoming some very large obstacles. Although Bess McBride makes little effort to explain the science of the fiction, her exceptional story telling talent overrides any such flaw. The time travel stories are intriguing with tons of mystery, paradox, drama, loss and period detail. You will want to read each book more than once.
A Train Through Time (Train Through Time Series Book One)
* Print Length: 200 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (December 14, 2013)
* Publication Date: December 14, 2013
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Together Forever Across Time (Train Through Time Series Book Two)
* Print Length: 174 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (December 22, 2013)
* Publication Date: December 22, 2013
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
A Smile In Time (Train Through Time Series Book Three)
* Print Length: 180 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (December 22, 2013)
* Publication Date: December 22, 2013
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Finding You in Time (Train Through Time Series Book Four)
* Print Length: 159 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (July 12, 2014)
* Publication Date: July 12, 2014
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
A Fall in Time (Train Through Time Series Book Five)
* Print Length: 193 pages
* Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
* Publisher: Bess McBride (November 29, 2014)
* Publication Date: November 29, 2014
* Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
In "Paris Time Capsule," Ella Carey tells the intriguing story of a Parisian flat that was sealed for 70 years.
In "The House by the Lake," Ella Carey rolls out a story of a "schloss" or landed estate, in the former East Germany that was almost destroyed, first by the Nazis and then by the Soviet occupation, and that has been left to rot in a village that is also dying. In telling the story of this schloss, Carey focuses on 94 year old Max Albrecht and his granddaughter, Anna, living in 2010, San Francisco. After the story breaks about a time capsule flat in Paris, opened after 70 years of abandonment, Max asks Anna to do one favor for him. He has never spoken of his past, but he asks her to retrieve something for him hidden in the schloss, his family's ancestral home.
"Picture Miss Seeton" was first published in 1968, but the setting is not the swinging England one associates with the 1960s. Instead, the interaction between the characters, as well as Carvic's description of village life, could easily be placed at any time in the 1950's. As one who enjoys to time travel while reading, I found this to be one of the book's greatest attractions.
The year is sometime in the 1960s and Scotland Yard is stumped. There is a child murderer on the loose and the Yard has no clue as to who it is or why the children are being murdered. Detective Superintendent Delphick, known as "The Oracle," calls in Emily Seeton, ("MissEss"), a retired art instructor who helped him solve a series of murders in "Picture Miss Seeton," the first novel in this series.
B.J. Daniels has a unique gift. She weaves plots within plots within plots effortlessly. If this was any other author but Daniels, the layer upon layer of plots and characters would exhaust any reader trying to keep names, dates and subplots straight. Daniels, however, has the magic touch. Not only are her books not confusing, they are addictive for readers who love meaty plots with tons of intrigue--like me.
Michael Paul Smith and Gail K. Ellison recreate, in 1/24 scale (1/2 inch = 12 inches), midwest houses, streets and life from the 1920s onward, including Smith's own childhood home. Smith also provides instructions on how to build, how to create the right mood, and how to best photograph the scene. I am a miniatures collector and creator, and I have explored this world for most of my adult life. Elgin Park astounded me, it blew me away. This is a book to spend time with, to absorb one photo and one page at a time, and to keep around for years to come. I absolutely loved it!
Imagine being a female author writing police procedural mysteries in the 1920s. Margery Allingham was born in 1904, and she wrote "The White Cottage Mystery" in 1928. She was one the most pre-eminent mystery writers during the "golden age" of detective fiction. Luckily for those of us who love classical mystery novels, Bloomsbury Reader has just reissued this book, and has plans to re-issue more of Allingham's books.
"When We Meet Again," is much more than romantic novel. I read this book in one sitting because I was captured by Kristen Harmel's profound story telling ability and exquisite use of words. The protagonist in the novel, Emily Emerson, has lost her job as a syndicated relationship columnist at a local newspaper. Daily, she deals with the pain of her father's abandonment of the family when Emily was eleven. Her father also deals with the pain of abandonment, since he never knew his father. His mother, Emily's grandmother, Margaret Emerson, raised him alone. After Emily's mother died when Emily was 16, Margaret also raised Emily.
-Trump Plaza, in Atlantic City, met its state minority contractor quota by listing Mike Tyson as a minority contractor.
Kate Waithman, a music therapist who works with children, has been a widow for 12 years. Now at age 40 she is engaged to the "perfect" man. Suddenly she starts having vivid dreams where she is still living with her husband, and they have a 12 year old, hard of hearing daughter. The dreams are so real, Kate begins a course in American Sign Language in order to better communicate with her dream daughter. Through this sign language course, she expands her music therapy to include hard of hearing foster children, and her life takes an unexpected turn.
L. Frank Baum wrote 14 novels about the land of Oz before his death in 1919. The books were so popular that sequels continued to be written after his death by many different authors. There have also been stage plays, musicals, an early silent film and, of course, the glorious 1939 film starring Judy Garland. Yet, despite all of the above, no one has written Toto's side of the story. (You remember Toto, the adorable little dog who never left Dorothy's side. Who can ever forget the Wicked Witch of the West cackling "I will get you and your little dog too"?) Until now.
In "Toto's Tale and True Chronicles of Oz," Sylvia Patience gives Toto his voice. This is his story, and it is very charming and endearing. There are no big surprises. We know he loved Dorothy and that she loved him. We also know he fell asleep in the field of poppies, that he barked at everyone and that he was terrified of the winged monkeys, (every child was terrified of them, I still get chills thinking about them). We didn't know, however, that Toto ran away from an abusive farmer as a puppy, and that he was rescued by Dorothy as she stepped off the Orphan Train in Kansas. We also didn't know that he peed on the Wicked Witch's leg and caused her to begin to melt! (Dorothy threw a bucket of water to stop the melting, and we know what happened then-she melted away completely). Some of these "facts" were added by Patience, some are in the original Baum novels, like the fact that Baum named the Tin Man, Nick Chopper, the Scarecrow, Jack Straw and the Cowardly Lion, Leo the Lion. Ms. Patience weaves all of the above, and more, into Toto's Tale, and the end result is a wonderful children's novel that will delight and enchant children and adults alike. (In exchange for an honest review, I was provided with a review copy by the publisher via NetGalley.)