What Is This Book?

[chonies]

Jul 1, 2019 23:05:04 GMT -4 @stargirl said:

Here's one: it was published probably around 10 years ago. Non fiction. The author found some old letters that her grandmother had written as a young woman in the early 1900s, maybe the 20s, when she and her best friend decided to go West and teach in a small school in a pioneer type town. They came from wealthy or at least comfortable backgrounds, but had an adventurous streak. They taught the year through, had some romantic escapades, then came home and got married. IIRC, her friend married a man they met while traveling on the train to this small town.
Anyway, the author was totally intrigued by the letters, did some sleuthing, traveled to this town (probably in the 90s), met some people who had known her grandmother, etc. I think she met the widow of a man who had proposed to her grandmother, or a similar situation. Anyway, she took all the info and wrote it into a book. It popped into my head recently, and I'd love to track it down and reread it.

It sounds like Nothing Daunted.

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Yes, that's it! Thank you, chonies!!

[PearlySweetcake]

I'm looking for a children's/YA mystery novel. There's a missing treasure, and the only clue is an older relative who died muttering "Roses and oak leaves". Turns out the treasure is paper money, and it's sewn into a quilt, and the pattern is...roses and oak leaves. Anyone have any idea? The Googles do nothing.

[ladyboy]

Trying to remember a book/author I'd found ages ago, and it was old then, probably from the 30s-ish. I'm very vague on the details but I think it may have been a mystery, with maybe a lesbian main character (or at least lesbian themes throughout). I've googled a bit but none of the titles/authors that come up are ringing a bell. It was funny and well done, and I kept searching for more by that author for years, and now I've forgotten her name! (Yes, I think it was a woman author.)