Cuddle up with a good book, a blanket you make yourself, and a glass of Beringer White Zinfandel!  The No-Sew Fleece Throw is so easy to make that you'll be enjoying it in no time.  Historical fiction paperback books include:

• "Dreaming for Freud" by Sheila Kohler - Dreaming for Freud paints a provocative and sensual portrait of one of history’s most famous patients.
  In the fall of 1900, Dora’s father forces her to begin treatment with the doctor. Visiting him daily, the seventeen-year-old girl lies on his ottoman and tells him frankly about her strange life, and above all about her father's desires as far as she is concerned. But Dora abruptly ends her treatment after only eleven weeks, just as Freud was convinced he was on the cusp of a major discovery. In Dreaming for Freud, Kohler explores what might have happened between the man who changed the face of psychotherapy and the beautiful young woman who gave him her dreams.

• "Leaf of Freedom" by Helen Hickok - Carol lives with her mother and Civil War veteran grandfather on a small farm which her grandfather had carved from the wilderness. Though her family is poor, Carol is rich in spirit and thought, and deeply senses her 1920's rural environment and community. Carol interacts with many other characters in the story, but is also introspective, loves to read, and fantasizes a glamorous life beyond her world. Eventually she realizes that her real dream, however, is to become a teacher. The reader will share many fun times and exiting adventures as Carol grows, chapter-by-chapter, from a little barefoot girl of 10 into an able young woman of 17. So too will the reader share her challenges, and a few heart-wrenching conflicts which Carol must face and conquer along the way toward her dream.

• "Enter Pale Death" by Barbara Cleverly - One morning before dawn in the stables of her country estate, Lady Truelove meets a violent death in an encounter with a dangerous horse. This appears a gruesome accident. But Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play—a misgiving he is struggling to separate from his personal grievances toward Sir James Truelove, who is Lady Truelove’s widower and the influential patron of Dorcas Joliffe, whom Joe one day hopes to marry.  Joe enlists old friend and former constable Lily Wentworth to trail James, but as the investigation yields surprising secrets about one of England’s most powerful families, Joe discovers how little he knows about not only the gilded lives of the moneyed, but also his relationship with Dorcas. Is Joe prepared to risk a future with the girl he loves to uncover the truth behind Lady Truelove’s death?

• "The Winter Guest" by Pam Jenoff - Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation. The constant threat of arrest has made everyone in their village a spy, and turned neighbor against neighbor. Though rugged, independent Helena and pretty, gentle Ruth couldn't be more different, they are staunch allies in protecting their family from the threats the war brings closer to their doorstep with each passing day. Then Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village, wounded, but alive. Risking the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam—a Jew—but Helena's concern for the American grows into something much deeper. Defying the perils that render a future together all but impossible, Sam and Helena make plans for the family to flee. But Helena is forced to contend with the jealousy her choices have sparked in Ruth, culminating in a singular act of betrayal that endangers them all—and setting in motion a chain of events that will reverberate across continents and decades.

• "Wax - Pearl Harbor Changed Everything" by Therese Ambrosi Smith - A combination coming-of-age story and mystery, following Matilda Tilly Bettencourt as she struggles against traditional expectations of women in the 1940s. Smith follows young, beautiful Tilly Bettencourt from the moment she makes the life-changing decision to leave her family and join the war effort as a metal welder. Settled across the country, Tilly begins a lifelong friendship with her roommate, Doris, and their neighbor, Sylvia. Doris soon discovers that she is an heir to a piece of property close to Tilly s hometown. After the war is over, the roommates reunite to start a candle-making business on Doris inherited property. Unknown to Tilly and Doris, however, is a secret past that binds the girls families and threatens their dreams. An act of arson that destroys the girls business finally forces the secret to light. Together, Tilly, Doris and Sylvia struggle to realize a life outside mainstream expectations for women in the 40s. 

• "The Major's Daughter" by J.P. Francis - Camp Stark is under the command of Major John Brennan, whose beautiful daughter, Collie, will serve as translator. Educated at Smith and devoted to her widowed father, Collie is immediately drawn to Private August Wahrlich, a peaceful poet jaded by war. As international conflict looms on the home front, their passion blinds them to the inevitable dangers ahead.