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Five Days in November by Lisa McCubbin Hill, Clint Hill

Five Days in November

Lisa McCubbin Hill, Clint Hill

4 hours • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
nonfiction history politics emotional medium-paced
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace

Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

William E. Wallace

328 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
nonfiction art biography history challenging slow-paced
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker

Alice Feeney

11 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
fiction crime thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson

We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport

Deborah Hopkinson

5 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
nonfiction history middle grade emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

The Fountains of Silence

Ruta Sepetys

12 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
fiction historical young adult dark emotional informative slow-paced
Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War by Ray Lambert, Jim DeFelice

Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War

Ray Lambert, Jim DeFelice

7 hours, 39 minutes • missing pub info (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
nonfiction autobiography biography history memoir emotional medium-paced
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

Robert Kurson

12 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
nonfiction history science adventurous emotional fast-paced
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Peach Blossom Spring

Melissa Fu

387 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan

Once Upon a Wardrobe

Patti Callahan

292 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
fiction historical emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani

The Good Left Undone

Adriana Trigiani

448 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0oceanwriter's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced