Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel, a historical novel by Linda Bennett Pennell, gives a new twist to the famed organized crime figure. The action is not in Chicago, but in the Sunshine State. Pennell intertwines two stories, one in the present and the other...

For all of his claims of being a simple man, Aulus Veridius Scapula is an integral part of the machinery that formed the Roman Empire under Julius Caesar in this engrossing fictional account by Fredrik Nath. A former legionnaire who then spent time fighting in...

And the Wind Whispered by Dan Jorgensen contains several scenes that are so exciting that they become almost impossible to put down. The discovery of a dead man’s body in a cave by a trio of young reporters gets the ball rolling. Later there is...

Anti-Nazi Task Force Adventures: Search for Jewish Families Stolen Art Collections (Mill Park Mystery Series) (Volume 2) by Mr. RG Bud Phelps is a thriller about a quest for treasure and distributing it to the right people. The book is part II of the Mill...

A Derry Tale by John Boyle is the tale of young John’s Catholic childhood and growing up years in 1950s Northern Ireland. It begins with his memories of being the youngest, the baby, in a very large family of sisters and brothers. School days, friendships,...

A Very Good Life by Lynn Steward chronicles a tumultuous period in twenty-nine-year-old Dana McGarry’s life that begins the day after Thanksgiving, in November, 1974. Dana’s a bright and well-liked public relations junior executive at B. Altman, a high-end department store in Manhattan. She’s been...

A Casualty of Grace is an historical fiction novel written by Lisa Brown. It was 1895, and Oliver and Simon were on an ocean voyage to a strange land and an even stranger future. Everything in their lives had changed when first their father died...

Wow! I just put down Apprenticed to Anubis, the new book by author Kathrin Bruckmann, and I must say, it was quite a fantastic read! Set in ancient Egypt, the story follows Hori, a young man who has just graduated from medical school. When he...

A Widgie Knight and Zoe’s Journal: Intertwined Souls Series Shorts, Volume 1 is an historical family saga novella written by Mary D. Brooks with illustrations by Lucia Nobrega. The Intertwined Souls saga is set in the mid-20th century in the aftermath of the Second World...

In author Clare Flynn's A Greater World: A Woman's Journey, the reader is invited into the world of Elizabeth Morton. It's 1920, and Elizabeth's father wants her to move across the world to marry a man she's never met. At first she refuses, but after...