Soul of Toledo by Edward Webster is set in Toledo almost 30 years before the Spanish Inquisition. The story recounts little known facts about the time when Toledo was almost destroyed by a madman and his minions. The plot centers around Viçente Pérez, a converted...

The tumultuous 1906 earthquake makes up the backdrop for the historical fiction novel San Francisco by Marian Lindner. Anna O’Malley was born into a life of privilege, her father a renowned jeweller. However, she finds the middle upper class lifestyle stifling, and her mother’s insistence...

Secrets of Sand Mountain is a coming of age novel written by Philip Elrod. Campbell Crossing is a tiny town nestled in the Appalachian Mountain Range on Sand Mountain in Alabama. Mostly it’s a farming community, and in 1944, at the time this story begins,...

In an absolutely wonderful work of fiction with a very interesting true historical basis, Scarlet Letter Lives by author Maureen K. Wlodarczyk follows the story of the owners of three copies of an 1850s release of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The books start...

In a great new book by author NuFaShe, Son of a Meddah is a wonderful read that explores a time period that many might not be familiar with, the time of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Our protagonist has a name that means "easy,"...

Solace by Angela Smith is a bittersweet romance set in Chapman Springs, Texas in 1969. Brooklyn (Brook) Williams is at a town dance with Roy Abbott, the man she’s been casually dating, when he shocks her by dropping to one knee and proposing in front...

Wow! That is what I thought after I finished reading Soul Skin: A Spirited Shaman's Journey, the luminescent novel by author Jan Porter. Following our protagonist, Navi, as she navigates a midlife crisis, this book has something for every person to connect to. Navi feels...

Second Chance Hearts is a historical romance written by Billi Tiner. Rachel had been living in an orphanage ever since her mother passed away when she was six years old. Her father was a soldier and died as a result of the war. Rachel’s mother...

Small Moments: A Child's Memories of the Civil Rights Movement is a young adult, coming of age creative memoir written by Mary M. Barrow. The family's move from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Trenton, New Jersey, was made in two separate stages. The twins, Michael, Amelia's husband,...

Shira's gift is melody - music. She has many other gifts and each one of these gifts serves her well for she is one of the chosen, one of the true believers who will journey far and endure great hardships to find her true path....