In The Bright Freight Of Memory by Greg Fields, the Cooneys' path had remained the same since their ancestors had immigrated from Ireland. Hard labor and lots of drinking. Michael Cooney had grown up with an abusive alcoholic father, and due to his circumstances, he...

To Snare an Heiress by Evelyn King is the first book in the Gaol Manor series. This is a historical romance novel set in the Regency era, where the fiercely independent Mab Dubarry is determined to avoid marriage at all costs. After her father arranges...

The Path Beneath Her Feet by Janis Robinson Daly, the second book in the Path series, is set in the 1930s-40s. Fifty-seven-year-old Eliza Edwards cannot find a position appropriate for her experience as a medical doctor. Olga Povitsky, Eliza's friend and partner, will join a...

The Orchid: The Secret Code of Modern Goddesses by Rocio Aquino and Angel Orengo offers a transformative journey that brings readers to a point where they can say: “You are complete. You are not alone. You are love.” The Orchid is a serene retreat founded...

The Mountain Whippoorwill (Or, How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddlers' Prize) is a folktale originally written by Stephen Vincent Benet and retold by John McEuen, with illustrations by Jas Ingram and Buddy Finethy. The story follows Hill-Billy Jim, a young man born in the...

Stehekin Wilderness Ranch brings together several older and younger adults one summer. As they each go about their duties providing pleasurable adventures and food for visitors, readers are treated to descriptions of arduous hiking trails and forest surrounds. One can almost feel the silence and...

Tears of the Titans is a conceptual exploration that holistically focuses on the accomplishments of the historical greats and events of magnitude across centuries. Written in the first person, it is a compilation of highly informed speculation about titanic decisions considered through the lens of regret....

Past loves and present connections are entangled in The Pursuit of a Duchess by Linda Rae Sande. Philip, the Earl of Crawford, wants to court Lady Amelia but feels his suit could be rejected by Amelia’s brother, Alfred, Duke of Weston. Michael, Marquess of Fenwick,...

Everything that happens in Justin Kurian’s The Canticle of Ibiza does so in an ever-present miasma of the mystical. Set, as the title suggests, on the enchanting isle of Ibiza in the late 1980s, this fascinating novel focuses on John, a recently divorced and recently...

Sarita Shantay is a government agent tasked with a unique assignment. She must get a secretive scientist to relinquish his hold on a new technology that will change the future of humanity. Scientists have christened this new technology, The Scotty, because it can transform matter...