Tag: historic

• The Duchess: Scandalous Ladies of London by Sophie Jordan

  

  “I liked my husband well enough . . . but I like him even better dead,” says Duchess Valencia Dedham. Now a Dowager Duchess following the death of her husband (no great loss there) and the discovery of the nearest male heir means Valencia Dedham must move out of the mansion that has been her…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 5, 2024

  #books, #BookTok, Historical Fiction, Romance

  #books, Fiction, historic, London, Romance, Sophie Jordan

• Book Riot: Criminally Hot: 15 New Mystery, Thrillers, & True Crime For August 2023

  https://bookriot.com/new-mystery-books-august-2023/

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  July 31, 2023

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Amazon, Murder, mystery

  crime, historic, Historic Crime, Murder, Mystery-Thriller

• Pullman: The Man, the Company, the Historic Park by Kenneth Schoon

  

                 Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus at Indiana University Northwest, has immersed himself in the history of the Greater Chicago/Northwest Indiana area for decades, writing books starting from the area’s earliest beginnings such as “Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan” and “Swedish Settlements on the South Shore of Lake…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 6, 2021

  American History, Architecture, Barack Obama, Chicago, Historic Architecture, History, Photography

  Chicago, Florence Hotel, historic, Historic Architecture, Historic Preservation, Historic Pullman Foundation, History Press, Kenneth Schoon, Museum, Non-fiction, Pullman, Pullman National Monument

• King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World

  For her new book King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2017; $35), Joan Nathan, the multiple James Beard award winner, followed in the footsteps of Jewish traders as they circumvented the globe centuries and even millenniums ago. As they traveled, they brought the food cultures…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 30, 2017

  Author event, Authors, Book signings, Chicago, Cookbooks, James Beard Award winner, Jewish cooking

  Bookends & Beginnings, Chicago, Cookbooks, historic, James Beard Award winner, Jewish cooking, Joan Nathan, King Solomon’s Table, Knopf, Standard Club