
Allison Pataki
Contributor at Freelance
Bestselling Author of ‘The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post,' 'Finding Margaret Fuller,’ 'Beauty In The Broken Places,' 'Traitor's Wife,' 'Sisi' &more Visit:
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Jul 31, 2024 |
zip06.com | Allison Pataki
Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki Literary fiction lovers will love this captivating novel about Margaret Fuller. She was one of the Concord, Massachusetts, transcendentalists along with Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorn, and Alcott. This book is full of drama, romance, and history as beautiful, strong-willed Margaret writes her way through Boston, New York, and Europe. She was an activist for women and an advocate for humanity.
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Jul 5, 2024 |
sacbee.com | Susan Elia MacNeal |Shauna Robinson |Sarah T. Dubb |Allison Pataki
With the summer holidays in full swing, it’s the perfect time to pick up a new book. FIRST Book Club is here with a plethora of recommendations for the week of July 5 to July 11, with historical mysteries, romantic comedies and family sagas dominating the list. FIRST is particularly drawn to The Last Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal, her anticipated new title that tells wraps of the Maggie Hope series in an epic fashion.
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Apr 5, 2024 |
shelf-awareness.com | Damilare Kuku |Charlie Stephens |Gina Chung |Allison Pataki
In this week's newsletter, we review Nigerian author Damilare Kuku's debut, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, a story collection featuring a dozen "rollicking, riotous stories" of "mad men and women getting out--and even," as well as Swedish novelist Lina Wolff's "magnetic fever dream" The Devil's Grip, a fast-paced story about "a woman pushed to the edge of sanity." Plus, we look at the "empowering picture book" Piper Chen Sings by Phillipa Soo, the award-winning performer who originated...
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Mar 29, 2024 |
keysweekly.com | Marie E. Benedict |Heather Marshall |Allison Pataki
First LadiesBy Marie BenedictMary McLeod Bethune descended from parents who had once been enslaved. She was born free as the 15th of 17 children in a rustic log cabin in South Carolina. When a teacher in her small country schoolhouse witnesses Mary’s abilities, she helps her obtain a scholarship for higher education. Ultimately Mary establishes a school for girls (later renamed Bethune-Cookman University) in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Mar 21, 2024 |
bookreporter.com | Allison Pataki
You have heard of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. You probably have read their works of Transcendentalism, either as a school assignment or to explore their ideas about self, insight and nature. But have you read about or even heard of Margaret Fuller? Fuller was the author of several books in the mid-19th century and worked as a journalist, editor and book reviewer in New England, New York and Europe.
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