Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson is $2.99! Full disclosure, I used to work at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, but not while this book was being worked on in my department. I know Kennedy history is a huge interest for some people, though readers warn this particular biography is pretty depressing.
They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference.
Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters. And yet, Rosemary was intellectually disabled — a secret fiercely guarded by her powerful and glamorous family.
Major new sources — Rose Kennedy’s diaries and correspondence, school and doctors’ letters, and exclusive family interviews — bring Rosemary alive as a girl adored but left far behind by her competitive siblings. Kate Larson reveals both the sensitive care Rose and Joe gave to Rosemary and then — as the family’s standing reached an apex — the often desperate and duplicitous arrangements the Kennedys made to keep her away from home as she became increasingly intractable in her early twenties. Finally, Larson illuminates Joe’s decision to have Rosemary lobotomized at age twenty-three, and the family’s complicity in keeping the secret.Rosemary delivers a profoundly moving coda: JFK visited Rosemary for the first time while campaigning in the Midwest; she had been living isolated in a Wisconsin institution for nearly twenty years. Only then did the siblings understand what had happened to Rosemary and bring her home for loving family visits. It was a reckoning that inspired them to direct attention to the plight of the disabled, transforming the lives of millions.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Midnight Raider by Shelly Thacker is 99c at Amazon! This is a historical romance with a heroine who dresses up as a highwayman. Helloooo, catnip! Some readers could not get behind the hero, but loved the heroine. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads and was originally published in the early 90s. Have you read this one?
He’s secretly a highwayman. So is she.
In London’s most glittering salons, she is lovely young widow Lady Elizabeth Barnes-Finchley. But by night, she rides as highwayman Blackerby Swift, seeking vengeance against the man who took from her all she once loved. Then a pistol shot on a moonlit heath brings her face-to-face with a rival highwayman: Marcus Worthington, darkly handsome, lethally dangerous–and determined to stop her.
A fallen-from-grace earl with a nefarious reputation, Marcus wants vengeance against the man responsible for his father’s death and his family’s ruin. Elizabeth is a clever, daring, enchanting obstacle in his path. The two outlaws reluctantly agree to join forces against their mutual enemy, but the odds are against both of them surviving the dangerous partnership–and falling in love was never part of the plan.
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The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell is $1.99! If you like historical fiction with a dash of fantasy, Cornwell comes highly recommended. This is also the first book in his Saxon Stories series. Readers warn that Cornwell’s books are addicting, but some found the book to be unbalanced: heavy on action but light on character development. Any Cornwell readers in the Bitchery?
In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England—and the course of history—depended upon one man, one king.
From New York Times bestselling storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a rousing epic adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love, and battle as seen through the eyes of a young warrior who straddled two worlds.
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The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty is $2.99 and a women’s fiction novel! Readers described Moriarty’s characters and writing as charming and entertaining. However, fans of Moriarty’s books have mentioned that this one is one of their least favorites. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodeads. If you’ve read this one, tell us what you think!
Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one she let get away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie’s house on Scribbly Gum Island — home of the famously unsolved MunroBabymystery.
Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger, while dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it’s about time she started making her own decisions.
As Sophie’s life becomes increasingly complicated, she discovers that sometimes you have to stop waiting around — and come up with your own fairy-tale ending.
As she so adroitly did in her smashing debut novel, Three Wishes, the incomparable Liane Moriarty once again combines sharp wit, lovable and eccentric characters, and a page-turning story for an unforgettable Last Anniversary.
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Shaking my fist that the Liane Moriarty book isn’t discounted in Australia and still cost $9.99. Particularly as she is a local author.
I recommend Big Little Lies if you can get it!
Bernard Cornwell’s Fallen Angels was phenomenal. I think originally published under a pseudonym.
Yes, I am most definitely a Bernard Cornwell reader. The Saxon series, which, by the way, he has renamed the Last Kingdom series is fantastic. Furthermore, I highly recommend the BBC eight part series The Last Kingdom, an adaptation for television of the first two books The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman. I would be remiss if I didn’t add that the actor who plays the main character Uhtred is really quite something in ALL the best possible ways!
Another Cornwell shout out for his trilogy about Arthur. I adored those books.
I just wrote up a review for “The Last Anniversary” and I think I summed it all up as proof that bad books can happen to good writers. Sigh….