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Jessica Brockmole

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, History

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I have been enamored with history ever since childhood. Enthusiastically playing The Oregon Trail in the school computer lab, exploring museums and living history sites, devouring Sunfire romances, and watching Back to the Future, I hoped that I too would find a time machine someday. Indeed I have found a way to time travel—by researching the past that fascinates me so much. Writing historical fiction and academic historical nonfiction has brought to life that childhood desire to explore the world, past and present.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 20,631 ratings · 3,451 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Letters from Skye 3.91 avg rating — 16,924 ratings — published 2013 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War by Heather Webb (Goodreads Author), Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author), Beatriz Williams (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 1,488 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Edge of Summer 3.91 avg rating — 1,361 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Woman Enters Left 3.66 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Something Worth Landing For: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War 4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole (Goodreads Author), Elle Newlands (Narrator), Katy Townsend (Narrator) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragmentos literarios Otoño 2013 by Reyes Monforte, Jessica Brockmole (Goodreads Author), Fernando García de Cortázar 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

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“You're my breath, my light, the one my heart flies towards.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

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“... that a letter isn't always just a letter. Words on page can drench the soul.”
― Jessica Brockmole, Letters from Skye

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“He saw the delicate blades of grass which the bodies of his comrades had fertilized; he saw the little shoots on the shell-shocked trees. He saw the smoke-puffs of shrapnel being blown about by light breezes. He saw birds making love in the wire that a short while before had been ringing with flying metal. He heard the pleasant sounds of larks up there, near the zenith of the trajectories. He smiled a little. There was something profoundly saddening about it. It all seemed so fragile and so absurd.”
― Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory

tags: war, wwi

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“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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“That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.”
― Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory

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