History, Books & Wine Podcast

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Heather Webb. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Hope Keeper. In 1919 Washington, D.C., Elisabeth Beaumont, a struggling jeweler, is drawn into the glittering yet dangerous world of socialite Evalyn McLean and the cursed Hope Diamond, forcing her to confront grief, ambition, and the truth behind her brother’s death.

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I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Janyre Tromp. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Scorpion Thief, a Cold War thriller weaving Egyptian archaeology, sisterly betrayal, and the global politics surrounding King Tutankhamun’s treasures. 

Paired with this episode:

Janyre: Dirty Chai Tea Latte
Eliza: 1000 Stories Cabernet Sauvignon 

Janyre's Book:

The Scorpion Thief

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I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Kayla Hardy. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Quarter Queen. Inspired by the life of Marie Laveau, a  Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth-century New Orleans to save her mother—and the soul of the city itself.

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Kayla: Les Frères Bastards 
Eliza: Butter Chardonnay

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I'm excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Allison Pataki. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, It Girl, a sweeping, sensational novel of America’s first “It Girl,” whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades.

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Allison: Mimosa & Coffee 
Eliza: Tea

Allison's Book:

It Girl

What Allison is Reading:

Daughter of Egypt

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I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Laura Vogt. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new novel, In the Great Quiet. A pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.

Paired with this episode:

Laura: Brown Sugar Shaken Espresso 
Eliza: The Velvet Devil Merlot

Laura's Book:

In The Great Quiet

What Laura is ...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Olesya Gilmore. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru, A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery. 

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Olesya: Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Eliza: Lo...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Shana Abe. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, A Crown of Stars, a sumptuously vivid and poignant account of the Lusitania’s fateful last days, drawn from the true story of an extraordinary young actress who survived the unthinkable. 

Paired with this episode:

Shana: Cabernet Sauvignon
Eliza: Whispering Angel Rosé 

Shana’'s Book:

A Crown ...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Shelley Noble. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Sisters of Book Row, a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row.

Paired with this episode:

Shelley: Montepulciano D'Abruzzo

Eliza: Seaglass, Pinot Grigio

Shelley's Book:

The Sisters of Book Row

What Shelley is Readi...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Lisa Patton. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, Kissing the Sky, a soulful, nostalgic novel about a young woman coming of age in the '60s to the blare of the music that shaped a generation. 

Paired with this episode:

Lisa: Chardonnay
Eliza: Hot Cocoa with Peanut Butter Whiskey

Lisa's Book:

Kissing the Sky

What Lisa is Reading:

Twice b...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Louise Fein. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new novel, Book of Forbidden Words. An encrypted manuscript unleashes a chain of consequences across 400 years, set in a world of banned books, fear of new ideas, and the dangers of censorship.

Paired with this episode:

Louise: Nyetimber Cuvee (Bubbles!)
Eliza: Octopoda, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon

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I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Saara El-Arifi. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, Cleopatra. Cleopatra reclaims her story in this sensuous historical epic—revealing a powerful, strategic ruler silenced by myth, misogyny, and history’s willful distortions.

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Saara: Jubel, peach beer
Eliza: Tinto di Verano

Saara's Book:

Cleopatra

What Saara is Rea...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Nancy Bernhard. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Double Standard Sporting House, a brothel nurse in nineteenth-century New York City who fights brutality in the sex trade and pioneers treatments for survivors of sexual violence. 

Paired with this episode:

Nancy: Venge Vineyards, Scout's Honor Red Blend
Eliza: Josh, Cabernet Sauvi...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Janie Chang. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Fourth Princess, a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present. Welcome, Janie!

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Janie: Club Soda...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Donna Jones Alward. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, Ship of Dreams. Aboard the ill-fated Titanic, Ship of Dreams follows two women bound by friendship and impossible choices. Hannah Martin hopes the voyage will mend her fractured marriage while hiding a devastating secret, while spirited Louisa Phillips flees a future she refuses to accept. As disas...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author, Clay Cane. On this episode we’re going to talk about his new book, Burn Down Master’s House. Inspired by true, long-suppressed histories of enslaved resistance, Burn Down Master’s Houseinterweaves the lives of men and women across the American South whose quiet–and not so quiet–defiance and bold rebellion ignite a collective uprising. Through friendship, strategic silence,...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author Stephanie Cowell. On this episode we’re going to talk about her book, The Man in the Stone Cottage, in which Charlotte Bronte and her sisters become the main characters. The book centers on the period of Charlotte’s life along with her sister Emily (who wrote “Wuthering Heights”) when they were writing and first publishing these great books and hoping to support their famil...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author Loretta Ellsworth. On this episode we’re going to talk about her book, The Jilted Countess. In the aftermath of World War II, and based on a true story, a young Hungarian émigré jilted by a G.I. persuades a Midwestern newspaper editor to help her find an American husband in this poignant novel.

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Loretta: White Wine
Eliza: Whitehaven, Sau...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author Alyson Richman. On this episode we’re going to talk about her new book, The Missing Pages. A ghost in a library. A secret lost to the sea.The Missing Pages weaves the true story of Harry Widener, Harvard’s young book collector who perished on the Titanic, with 90's era, Violet Hutchins, a grieving student working in the Widener Library. When strange occurrences begin, ...

I’m excited to be joined on the show today by guest author Debby Show. On this episode we’re going to talk about her book, Paper Roses. A sweeping, emotionally charged novel about family, inheritance, and identity. When a gifted con-artist sister’s latest scheme hits too close to home, a “good daughter” must confront buried truths about loyalty, reinvention, and whether it’s possible to break free from the past.

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