“The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure” offers readers a fascinating tale. It wanders from field to field, holding readers at each long enough to maintain interest and wanting more, yet compelling them to move to the next. It is history at its…
Mount Watatic Reservation
Ashburnham, Mass – After a week of grey skies, the sun came out today and temperatures climbed. Schools are closed for Martin Luther King Day, so we needed to take advantage of it all. Daddio and the twins agreed to…
Tsarina Review in NRC Handelsblad
As I wrote here, The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure came out in the Netherlands in November. It has a different title and a different cover, but it’s the same fascinating story. And the Dutch are loving it. Most recently, the book received a four-star…
Pandemic Ski Trip – 2
Gilford, New Hampshire – The twins’ best friends are moving to a different state. This is devastating to all of us, as this family is part of our so-called “bubble” and their kids – also twins – have been my…
Dynamic Book Nerd’s Review of Tsarina
In her review of the Tsarina’s Lost Treasure, the Dynamic Book Nerd writes that she “could not put this book down…. The authors did an incredible job setting up the importance of the treasure and then exploring the various power dynamics…
Pandemic Ski Trip – 1
Henniker, New Hampshire – This could be the year that the twins learn to ski. I mean, really learn to ski. We’re not doing any other traveling this winter, so my goal is to transition pandemic field trip to pandemic…
The Nutcracker, Revisited
Somerville, Mass – We have not been home for Christmas in three years, since we were in Costa Rica last year and Italy the year before. It feels strange, not just to be home, but to be stuck at home…
Favorite Books of 2020
Boston.com readers picked their favorite books of 2020 and guess what’s on the list? I swear that neither my co-author or I nominated The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure for this list. THANK YOU to whomever did! At the very least, we…
Tsarina Review in All About History
We are thrilled to see this five-star review of The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure in the British magazine, All About History. Want to read the Tsarina review in All About History? Click here and scroll to the last page…
The Sunken Treasures of the Vrouw Maria
The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure is now available in the Netherlands! The Dutch book has a different publisher (Ambo Anthos uitgevers), a different cover AND a different title (and a different audience, so I guess that makes sense). The title is De verzonken…