Author Julia Anderson tells her family's story in "Through Christina's Eyes". Her grandfather Walter's mother, Christina Nilsson, was born in Hagnarp, Sweden, in 1866 and left her economically struggling for a life in America in 1887. It is through Christina's telling that most of this...

It is the Civil War year of 1863 in Ellenton, Georgia, and Mary Lou Bryant is engaged to childhood sweetheart Tristan Lawrence, now a West Point graduate and off fighting the war with the 50th Georgia. Mary Lou has had her own share of tragedy,...

S. Thomas Bailey transports readers back to the time of the French and Indian War. It was a fascinating time in history. Our tale begins near Black Creek where Maggie Murray lived in the family’s small cabin. Alone Maggie ran the farm. Her husband had...

"The Liffey Flows On By" written by Niki Phillips is a well-written book with great characters spanning four generations. It is a saga of Irish brothers, their families and their friends starting in 1893 and ending in 1946. As the reader becomes acquainted with the...

Elderly Bobby Valentine has his daughter drive him back into the Spanish section of Queens. They park and eat lunch at a cafe which features Italian food and Bobby remembers when a long ago time this cafe was the Starlight Club where Mafia "made" Yip...

Gerard Le Caillec is the counterfeit consul, just one of many disguises he has held in his career in the French Foreign Intelligence Service. Quiet, unassuming and (to his superiors) utterly expendable, Gerard struggles for promotion. He is handed an excellent opportunity to make or...

Author Jack Jon has taken the tumultuous last years of the shogun empire in Japan and created a novel that students of world history will love. He creates fictional Nelson Harding, son of a New England whale ship captain, who goes to Japan, sailing on...

This is an entertaining, occasionally humorous and always delightful story of Galveston, Texas, in 1900. Before the Great Hurricane of that year tore this coastal city to shreds, Galveston was an elegant place to live and thrive, at least it was if a family was...

On October 16, 1907, J.P. Morgan received a note while attending Sunday church service. Speculators tried to take over the United Copper Company but their bid fell apart, leaving the mining company in ruins, and a bank and two brokerage houses destroyed. Morgan offers to...

It is quite obvious that author Sam Sackett has made an in-depth study of the many varied tales and ballads of the famed legendary outlaw, Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest, for he has created a first-rate fictional version of of Robin Hood that is really...