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...

It's now almost 100 years since the Unsinkable Titanic sunk. This book is based on some true rather sad facts of what happened on this doomed cruise. The story opens with Tess Collins escaping her job, supposed to be a seamstress, but is more of a...

In 1910, before World War I, the Germans plans were to build a railway connecting Berlin to the Persian Gulf. But the British wanted to block those plans, so they send out army officer Lord Leighton to spy on the progress of the Baghdad Railway...

It is 53 A.D. in ancient Italy where a landowner, Gaius Petronicus, harvests his olive oil and vineyard crops and goes off to sell them in the nearby town of Nolia. He entices young Justa, a girl dressed as a boy and forced into slavery,...

The Hounds of Samaria by Nigel Patten takes place in Crete during World War Two. George Ghikas has Greek ancestry, so the British army sends him behind enemy lines on occupied Crete with orders to organize partisan groups in the White Mountains. Before his posting,...

The Spruce Gum Box is author Elizabeth Wilder's debut novel and she has tweaked the imagination of readers with interest in the cultural and historical development of the state of Maine. Set by the Aroostook River in a disputed area bordering Nova Scotia, a...

In The Ghost of Bud Parrott, author Judson Hout has created a memorable glimpse into past Southern culture. Bud Parrot is a young Black man who has always worked in the cotton fields of Jackson County, Arkansas. He fashions a better life for...