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First on the Beach - D Day
D Day like you've never seen it
June 6, 1944 Today, June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, D Day, the invasion of France in World War 2, by 73,000 Americans, 83,000 British, 14000 Canadians, 3200 Australians, and a handful of New Zealanders like radar specialist Ned Hitchcock. An aspect of war that has always fascinated me is to look at who was first – first into battle, first to die, and what drove…
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Cinnamon Girl by Trish MacEnulty
Hippie style – https://youtu.be/jREf47BPe5w?si=yJLLeEkhFHOxs8VW Coffee Pot Blog Tour If you were around in the 1960s or 1970s, or even if you just wonder what it was like, this book is for you. It’s the ultimate hippie coming of age figuring out life book for a teenage girl of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out generation. Excellent writing. Here’s an excerpt: Cinnamon Girl by Trish…
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The River Remembers
Three women searching for life on their own terms...
Samantha Lockwood, Day Sets, and Harriet Robinson come to Fort Snelling from very different backgrounds. It’s 1835 and the world is changing, fast, and they are all struggling to keep up. After she refuses another suitor he’s chosen for her, Samantha’s father banishes her to live in the territory with her brother. He, too, tries to take over her marriage plans—but she is determined to find her…
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Did You Know... John William Boehne ?
Hear about D Day from someone who was there
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Memorial Day Tribute
Most heroes never intended to be one. They were ordinary people who volunteered at personal risk to help others in difficult circumstances.
Did you know John Thompson Prior? I have been reading about the siege of Bastogne, Christmas 1944. The many enormous sacrifices strike me with awe. There was love and humanity even for enemies. Most heroes never intended to be one. They were ordinary people who volunteered at personal risk to help others in difficult circumstances. Some circumstances seem more dramatic than others- but the…
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Memorial Day Tribute
Most heroes never intended to be one. They were ordinary people who volunteered at personal risk to help others in difficult circumstances.
Did you know John Thompson Prior? I have been reading about the siege of Bastogne, Christmas 1944. The many enormous sacrifices strike me with awe. There was love and humanity even for enemies. Most heroes never intended to be one. They were ordinary people who volunteered at personal risk to help others in difficult circumstances. Some circumstances seem more dramatic than others- but the…
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Coffee Pot Book Club Spotlight
Alternate Endings – A Short Story Anthology of Historical What Ifs by Salina B Baker, Stephanie Churchill (Foreword), Sharon Bennett Connolly, Elizabeth Corbett, Virginia Crow, Cathie Dunn, Karen Heenan, Michael Ross, and Samantha Wilcoxson We all know the past is the past, but what if you could change history? We asked nine historical authors to set aside the facts and rewrite the history…
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Godwine Kingmaker - Coffee Pot Blog
Godwine KingmakerBy Mercedes Rochelle English history changes in an instant. Wandering alone after a battle, enemies all around, a Danish Jarl (noble) stumbles out of the forest, and finds a teenage Saxon boy. This encounter between Ulf of Denmark and Godwine of Wessex, England sets the stage for years of conflict and drama. How might a mere commoner rise to become an earl, and have his line…
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Sixty-nine years
What a difference sixty nine years makes!
Today is my birthday, commemorating sixty-nine years of circling the sun. I thought it would be fun to look back at the way things were when I was born, and what happened that year. Ten events from 1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy is censured, bringing an end to his witch hunt of Communists The First Indo-China War Ends The Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of Education, stating that…
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Did you know... St. Valentine?
Did you know... St. Valentine?
Origin of Valentine’s day The origins of Valentine’s Day date back to Marcus Aurelius Claudius “Gothicus” (10 May 214 – January/April 270), also known as Claudius II, who was Roman emperor from 268 to 270. Claudius wasn’t interested in romance – instead, he wanted to make his army more efficient and ferocious. To achieve that end, he banned marriage for soldiers not already married. Claudius…
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Coffee Pot Book Club: Geometry Girls
Check out Tom Durwood's Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls, a tale of WW2 YA
Tom Durwood’s The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls Young adult fiction featuring gambling, bandits, swordplay, probability and Bayes’ Theorem. An English teacher hopes to engage students with colorful STEM adventures. “In this outstanding collection, Tom addresses the chronic problem of our young women dropping out of STEM studies. His stories lend adventure to scientific…
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A Rip in the Veil
Love, Scotland, and time travel
‘A Rip in the Veil’ is the first book in The Graham Saga, Anna Belfrage’s time slip series featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth-century husband, Matthew Graham. On a muggy August day in 2002, Alexandra Lind is inexplicably thrown several centuries backwards in time to 1658. Life will never be the same for Alex. Alex lands at the feet of Matthew Graham – an escaped convict…
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Coffee Pot Book Club: Ruby Pi and the Math Girls
Historical Adventure with the Coffee Pot Book Club
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Book Review: The River of Mercy by Paula Scott
Can Maggie build a new life from the ashes of her youth?
Small-town secrets, and forgiveness Small towns have their ups and downs – and their secrets. Maggie thought she’d escaped her growing-up trauma – a drug addict mother, an abusive stepfather, a boyfriend who dumped her for another girl, and football. But somehow, the problems of little Berry Creek seem to follow her, dragged like a ball and chain. When her son Lane seems to follow her pattern,…
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Book Review: The Lines Between US
Women's history tale of intrigue
Love, peril, and death in Renaissance Spain Spain in Renaissance times was a place of strict rules and class distinctions, with the Roman Catholic Church overseeing most aspects of life. Women in particular had well-circumscribed roles and spheres of activity, particularly among the wealthy. Losing one’s respectability and reputation was among the worst of calamities for a young woman. Juliana,…
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TheFounding 12 7 2022
Historical Novel Society Interview
Recently, Leslie, Tracey, Rebekah, Melissa and the whole HNS interview team took time to virtually “sit and chat, to interview me for my recently released novel, “The Founding”, book three of the Across the Great Divide Series. Grab your favorite drink, pull up a chair with some cookies, and listen in. Launch: Michael Ross’s Across the Great Divide Book 3: The Founding INTERVIEW BY LESLIE S.…
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